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Small fragment of a power of attorney (שטר אורכתא). Mentioning al-Iskandaranī. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Odd-looking legal document. On parchment. In Hebrew. Involving a lease (שכירות). Dated: Thursday, 16 Elul 5[2]09 AM, which is 4 September 1449 CE. Almost nothing …
Opening lines of legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE) regarding the testimony of [...] b. Avraham ha-Levi the elder. Left …
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Tyre, ca. 1079. Preserves the full name of the groom, Thābit b. ʿEli, and a notable phrase for the promise of …
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Recto: Legal document, related to the earlier document on verso (PGPID 2223). Different handwriting. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Wednesday, 27 [...] 1532 Seleucid = 1220/21 CE. …
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Recto: apparently a list of legal decisions. Verso: two unidentified lines in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information mainly from CUDL.)
Fragment of a will in which a gift is given to Abū l-Faraj, the brother, and to Abū Saʿd, of a part of a house …
Torn and damaged fragment of a kettuba. Probably in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi (although the script is too damaged to be certain). …
Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Might be sent to Avraham Maimonides. Regarding two partners who had quarreled regarding a certain …
Legal document, draft of the opening, giving only the (difficult-to-read) date. At the top is named Abdallāh the son of the brother of the Nagid …
Legal deed in Hebrew. Dating: probably 16th century (based on the handwriting of Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya). Ḥayyim b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ibn Ḥakīm and …
Legal record containing a story about Abū l-ʿIzz, the sale of wine, Abū l-Faḍl, a judge [...] b. Zekharya, a prior document which was not …
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Document in Arabic script. Probably legal, probably late. Very faded. Needs further examination.
Power of attorney written by a Muslim notary, beginning [ ]هذا كتاب وكالة كتبه يبن هتم لعـ, with اليهودي added above the missing name in …
Marriage contract for the same couple as in Antonin 637r. Begins with a clause concerning the appointment of the bride's agent, concludes with the last …
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Recto: Legal document (lammā kāna. . .) in Judaeo-Arabic in a rudimentary hand. Mentions various names. Difficult to understand any of the content.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Early 12th century. Kali bt. Yisrael (קאלי בת …
Model of "a marriage contract" – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 103) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Ketubba fragment (perhaps Palestinian) mentioning a payment of 12 zuz (in keeping with the Palestinian tradition). Signed by Elʿazar b. Yosef. Not mentioned in the …
Engagement document issued in Cairo. Dated 5604 AM (1843/1844 CE). The location "in the home of the bride" is mentioned in the lower left corner …
Ketubba. Small fragment (upper right piece. Location: probably Cairo (דסמיכא לפסטאט מצרים). A certain deceased Berakhot (the bride's or groom's father) is mentioned. AA
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥayyān(?) b. Jamāl al-Tājir makes a declaration. The Fātimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (r. 495–525 AH = 1101–1130 CE) …
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Marriage contract, possibly. Only a few words of the inscription at the top (mentioning rejoicing and the Nagid) and the first line of the document …
Qaraite legal testimony (zikhron ʿedut) dated 20 Adar 5442 (=1682 CE), written and signed by Avraham ha-Rofe ben Ṣaʿīr, one of the messengers sent from …
Late legal document (fragment only) regarding amounts owed to each other by current or former partners, Moshe Ḥaddād and Moshe b. Yehudah. Someone named Yaʿīsh …
Fragment from an agreement between husband and wife, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).
Fragment of the beginning of a deathbed declaration, issued by a court whose judges were appointed by Moshe b. Mevorakh (1112-ca.1126) and Mevorakh b. Saadya …
Bifolium from a court register. Fol. 1v: Verbatim copy (nuskha... naqalnāhā mila be-mila) of a marriage contract. Dated: Tuesday, 19 Elul 1468 Seleucid = 27 …
Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Mentions Rabbenu Pinḥas ha-K[ohen?], Nissim, the phrase פי ולאיה נטר perhaps referring to a girl or woman named Naẓar. …
Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Sivan 1394 Seleucid, which is 1082 CE. Shaʿyā b. David b. [...] makes a declaration concerning the parnas Mevorakh …
IB I, 16. Two court records regarding Moshe b. Labrat b. Moshe b. Sugmar and Yosef b. David al-Tarabulusi, from the court in Fustat. November …
בחמשה בשבה דהוא חמשה יומי בירח כסלו דשנת אלפא
וארבע מאה ותשע שנין למניינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט
מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן הוה חצר אלי…
On Thursday, the fifth day of Kislev, in the year
Mr. David b. Mr. Joseph—may he…
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Recto: Bottom part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. לך כתיר אללה תעאלי יתם עליך מא אנת פיה ויזידך מזיד כל כיר ויעינך עלי פעל אלזכיות …
Legal document. Fragment (bottom part only). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1435 Seleucid, which is 1123/24 CE. None of the substance of …
Possibly from Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document from the time of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205-1237) regarding a debt of 96 dirhams. Written by Shlomo b. Eliyyahu. Avraham Maimonides is referenced …
Legal document or documents (there is text on both recto and verso). Mentions the groom ʿOvadya b. Ḥalfon.
70 minute fragments (6 vellum; 64 paper) 47 of which are unidentified texts in Judaeo-Arabic (row 1, nos 1-2, 4, 6-8; row 2, nos 2- …
Verso: Legal fragment in what looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions [...] b. Bishāra, Abū l-Ḥusayn, and [...] b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen. Recto: …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions "my wife" and contains release formulae.
Agreement between Sitt al-Baqāʾ and her husband Tahor ha-Levi the astrologer (al-Munajjim) b. Namir concerning money owed from the ketubba. Signed by Moshe b. Yehuda …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions 1444 of the Seleucid era (= 1132/1133 CE). Involves two people reaching an agreement …
Right fragment of a marriage contract, containing high-priced items in the trousseau (dowry). Groom: Avraham. Dated [13]35 Seleucid, which is 1023/24 CE. (Information from CUDL …
Much damaged legal deed. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Might join with T-S AS 155.411.
Small fragment of a legal deed. On parchment. Dating: 11th century? May involve a woman named Maymūna. Contains some unusual formulae: או תוספתא . . …
Court record. Mentions a woman who died and a dispute over an inheritance involving Abū Isḥāq Yoshiyya (the same as in T-S 12.37 (PGPID 3143)?), …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Wife: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Berakhot. Husband's name not preserved. Signed by Moshe b. Sadoq and the cantor Moshe b. Yehuda. (Information …
Laws of writing a get - needs examination.
Legal document. Small horizontal strip from the top. Perhaps a ketubba? On recto, all that is preserved is the date: Monday, 10 Nisan 1528 Seleucid, …
Upper left piece of a legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Small fragment from the validation (qiyyum) of a legal document. Mentions the names Yaʿaqov b. Yosef and Avraham b. Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen.