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Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions a qāḍī, a Christian, and possibly 16 dinars. Quite damaged. Reused for …
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Ketubba with a valuable dowry listing gold jewellery, pearls, rubies, and turquoise, second half of the 15th century. (Corrected by comparison with photocopy of MS …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Abū l-Ḥasan Mevasser b. Yeshuʿa he-ʿAni and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Efrayim b. Yefet appear …
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Recto: Legal document. In the hand of Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Fragment (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dating: 1160–65 or 1160–69 CE, as it was …
Karaite marriage contract, dated ca. 1000. Bride: Farajiyya bt. Yehuda. Groom: Yeshaʿya b. Yiṣḥaq. The dower is made in a mixture of regular dinars and …
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Fragment of a deed of sale for real estate. In Arabic script. One of the landmarks is Ḥammām al-Dīk. Also mentions common features such as …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Written on the 11th of a month (...בשבה דהוא חדסר יומה...). Signed by someone whose signature …
Small fragment from the upper left corner of a legal document mentioning [...] the translator (המתרגם). (Information from CUDL.) In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Draft of the beginning of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar 1549 Seleucid = 22 February 1238 CE. On verso …
Legal document. Court proceeding. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Shevaṭ 1471 = January/February 1160 CE, under the authority (reshut) of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi. …
Fragment from the middle of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Settlement of a dispute between husband and wife, imposing …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reconciliation between al-Muʿallim Manṣūr al-Dajājī (same as in T-S NS 297.76?) and his wife, in which Manṣūr submits to various conditions …
Legal record (#84) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 6 Tishrei 5325 …
Upper part of a legal document. Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Mansur al-Kohen, known as Ibn Qasāsa, receives from Avraham b. Masliah and Elʿazar b. Menaḥem …
Ketubbah – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 203) – in Hebrew and Aramaic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza …
Small fragment of a legal document, mentioning a dignitary ("the Mordechai of the age"), someone's daughter, and 100 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) mentioning trade in Yemen and the government. Mentions Maḥfūẓ and Ḥasana. Probably a …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 21 Sivan 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. Husband: ʿOvadya b. Yeshula ha-Kohen. Wife: Ghāliya bt. Hānī. …
Draft of a court record involving Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yeshuʿa b. Yefet (Information from CUDL). No details about the content of the qinyan survive.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Tishrei 5440 AM, which is 1679 CE. Concerning Yaʿaqov Re'uven who had employed Yaʿaqov Maṣliaḥ b. …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Torn off. Giving a detailed account about teachers of orphans and parnasim.
Draft of a legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–1138 CE). Refers to 'the settlement between them with the …
Details of an oath to be taken by Abu al-Ḥasan Qasim as demanded by the haver Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham with regard to a consignment of …
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Fragment from a Karaite betrothal deed. The witnesses to the appointment of the bride’s agent are […] b. Khalaf and Naḥum b. Naḥum. Ca. 11th …
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Drafts of court records that were copied into the register of the court in Cairo. Regarding items sent from Salonika to Rashid and various marital …
IB VII, 3. Two merchants setting out from Alexandria on a voyage to the Muslim West appoint their wives as executors and guardians of their …
Damaged legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Regarding manufacture of wine between [...] b. Yeshuʿa al-ʿAkkāwı known as Ibn Bunān (appears also …
Recto: Bill of release. Dated: 10 Nisan 1360 Seleucid = 16 March 1049 CE. Location: Fusṭāṭ. In which Avraham b. Ṣedaqa b. Eliyya b. Yehoshuaʿ …
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Legal document of unknown nature (real estate?), written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138) or Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066-1108 CE). fragmentary and torn.
Ketubba. Groom: Sahlān b. Avraham, the leader of the Babylonian community in Fusṭāṭ. Bride: Esther bt. Yosef b. ʿAmram the judge. Location: Fustat. Dated: 26 …
Legal deed: testimony dated 1195. For further information and edition, see D. Z. Baneth, "Te'udot min haggeniza lehayye haqqehillot bemizraim" (Geniza documents on Jewish communal …
Verso: "It seems a boy made a joke. He began a marriage contract for ʿOvadya b. Aharon he-Ḥaver ba-Sanhedrin Gedola and ended with a Mi …
A Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Moshe b. Ishaq b. Avraham Hakohen and the bride is Esther known as Muhaja d. Avraham b. …
A leaf from a court register. Contains four different entries, dated to Nissan and Sivan 1409 Sel. (Spring 1098 CE). Two months after a previous …
Legal fragment written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Deed of sale with provisions about the right to buy back a house …
Legal document / ownership note for a codex of the Torah. Location: Baghdad. Dated: Friday, 13 Iyyar 1360 Seleucid, which is 1049 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic …
Verso: Note in a crude hand instructing Abū Naṣr b. Abū l-Maʿālī to immediately present before the court.
Marriage document. A badly torn fragment from the top part of an ornamented ketubah, written on vellum, contains only Biblical verses. There are several ketubahs …
Recto and verso: Draft of a legal document. Abu Saʿd al-Levi undertakes to provide his elderly father Shemuel with food and drink and the money …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, tiny fragment, perhaps marriage-related ("the conditions. . . her property. . . every Friday. . .").
4 legal records. (1) Taqwīm for the marriage between Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Maghāzilī and Niʿam bt. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥazzan. Dated: Nisan 1497 Seleucid, …
Legal document. Elʿazar b. Yefet sells to Shelomo b. Ṣedaqa his female slave named Ṭāʾūs ('Peacock') and her 10 year old son, named Mubārak ('The …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document with wide line spacing. On parchment. A ketubba? Dating: ca. early 12th century. The document is …
Financial agreement (partnership?) between Daniel b. Eliyya and Yaʿaqov b. Avraham, dated 1512/13 CE ([5]273) and citing sums in peraḥim.
Outline for drawing up a marriage contract. Ca. 1100 CE. Groom: Barakāt/Berakhot b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen. Bride: Khulla bt. ʿAmram. Early marriage payment (muqaddam): 20 dinars. …
Karaite Ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Nahum Halevi b. Aharon. The deflowered bride is Esther Dona d. Elya Halevi.
Late legal document in Hebrew regarding someone who died and left a widow and orphans, and debts and guardianship.
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated: Sunday 25 Tevet 5409. Location: Cairo. Bride: Ḥanūna bt. Efrayīm b. Aharon. Groom: ʿOvadiah b. Shemuʾel b. ʿOvadiah. The groom commits …
Guarantee for a debt. Yūsuf b. Saʿīd agrees to cede 3/4 of a house and half of a ruin situated opposite it, to the orphan …
Fragment from a book of legal formulas