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Bill of divorce. Dated 13 Sivan 5505 AM which is 13 June 1745 CE. Location: Cairo. The husband's name is listed solely as Menaḥem b. …
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Deathbed will by Yefet ha-Levi. Location: Damascus. Dating: Unknown, but see verso. In which he dedicates one-third of an orchard and a house located in …
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Legal note, or less likely a letter. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). There is no formal introduction. The document has …
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Court declaration in which Moshe b. Yeshuʿa testifies to having received all due him from Abū Ghālib Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, working for him in …
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Portion of a legal document in Arabic script. Someone acknowledges a debt to someone (... wa-dhimmatī wa-khāliṣ [mālī]...) and mentions crops (al-ghullāt).
Damaged legal deeds. On recto a bill of compensation from 11th century Fustat, probably from a man to a woman. On verso another document, in …
Legal documents, possibly from a court notebook, as there are entries on both sides. Recto: Involves a man and a woman, payments received, a release …
Legal document, part of the court register in the Jerusalemite synagogue in Fustāt. A financial dispute between Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq b. Yoshia and Binyamin b. …
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1777 CE (end of Tamuz 5537 AM) in which Menaḥem Abzaradel (אבזראדיל) makes arrangements for his 7 1/3 qirats that …
1. בפנינו עדים ח׳׳מ בא היקר נשא ומאד נעלה להתהלה כה׳׳ר מנחם אבזרדיל יצ׳׳ו ואמר לנו הוא עלי עדים גמורים וקנו ממני ק…
Ketubba fragment. Likely in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel (Goitein initially thought it was his son Mevorakh b. Natan). Dating: ca. 1140 CE. Part …
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Legal deed. Abū l-Khayr Khiyār the banker receives a testimony concerning a certain Isḥāq who died 3–4 days after he had made a declaration in …
Recto: Copy of a Bill of release with several validations by the court in Fustāt. The original deed was given by Avraham b. Yeshuʿa al-Raḥbi …
A torn fragment probably from a legal deed regarding the amount of 4 ducats owed by a woman to her husband Avraham b. Ṣāliḥ. AA
(I) Legal record of a prozbul. In Hebrew. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Elul 5376 AM = 7 September 1616 CE. Binyamin b. Shoshan transfers all of …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Iyar 5602 AM, which is 1842 CE. This is a partnership agreement for a sarraflık business for …
End of a legal document. Involves Dalāl bt. Yaʿaqov. Signed by David b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen and Elʿazar b. Saʿadya. The qiyyum is written and signed …
Legal document, Mamlūk era, deed of sale, in a very faint and worn-off Arabic script. The document is dated to the last ten days (ʿushr …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a child's inheritance from a father; Sitt al-Gharb; and a sum of …
Legal document describing how a person took an oath upon the holy Torah. Abū l-Makārim is mentioned and a fine of 5 dinars to the …
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Apparently a settling of accounts between merchants. Mentions: a sum of 16 + …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 12 Adar I 1350 Seleucid = 9 February 1039 CE. The contents are difficult to understand because of the …
Fragment of a late legal document. A deceased person with an uncommon name is mentioned in line 3, ירוב זאקון נ׳׳ע (Yarov Zāqūn), probably as …
Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Sahlawayh b. Ḥayyim. Groom: Ḥesed (presumably Abū Naṣr al-Tustarī). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Fragment of a legal document. Describing the boundaries of a property. Mentioning Ibn al-Tabbān (‘the straw trader’). Mentions Ibn al-Tabbān (‘the straw trader’); the Canal …
Legal document, extremely faded, perhaps regarding the sale of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. Possibly 10th century. Information from FGP.
Deed of sale, probably. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). For "the large dār with the square …
Legal document, probably a receipt. Mentions the month of Dhū l-Qaʿda.
Conditional divorce agreement. Date: Monday 29th Tishrei 5560 AM (1799 CE The groom is 'Uziel b. 'Uziel b. Yeshu'a and the bride 'Aziza d. Yehuda …
Testimony regarding bridal consent to marriage. Two manuscripts that deal with the marriage of a bride named Karam. The two manuscripts contain the bride's consent …
Legal entries in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Entry at upper right: mentions the 17th of Jumādā, the name of a witness …
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Verso: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 23 Adar II 1540 = 20 March 1229 …
Ketubba fragment. Groom: Ḥalfon b. ʿEli. Bride: Zayn, a virgin. See Goitein's index card.
Legal document. Signed and written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 7 Av 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. Concerns the same case as …
Legal documents, one each on recto and verso. Both are from "the capital" Constantinople/Istanbul, both are signed by Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ashkenazi and Yosef b. …
Outline of a marriage document and/or dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Groom: Levi b. אמר(?). Bride: Ittifāq, a freedwoman. Marriage payments: 1+ 10. The dowry follows; the …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a sale.
Fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Probably a power of attorney. No names preserved. Moderately wide space between …
Legal document with the testimony of Natanʾel b. Tamīm concerning a signature he witnessed for Saʿīd b. Yūsuf, who releases Mufaḍḍal b. Salāma b. Saʿīd …
I, Netanʾel bar Tamīm, testify that I have guaranteed
for Saʿīd b. Yūsuf the delivery of his signed document, which
he owes to Mufaḍḍal …
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A unique legal deed: A man appoints his father to collect 200 dinars from his debtor. The groom apparently owes the same amount to his …
Small fragment of a legal document. "An event that occurred [before us witnesses]. . . ha-Nasi ha-Gadol. . . He said. . ."
Digest of a partnership contract for a period of one year between Abū ʿAlī b. David and Netanʾel b. Nadiv. Written mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, but …
Recto: Legal document. Dated: 4976 AM, which is 1215/16 CE. Under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Involving a certain Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān and Shelomo ha-Levi …
Tiny fragment from the beginning of a ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1[.]5[.] Seleucid. Very little else is preserved.
Legal document. Minute fragment, from the bottom part of a legal document, might be a ketubah. Only partial names: Yefet, […] Halevi b. Bashar , …
Legal testimony. Location: Sunbāṭ, a small town in the Egyptian Delta. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1402 Seleucid = September/October 1090 CE. Reporting that the teacher Ṣedaqa b. …
Leaves from a Qaraite book of formularies. 7 leaves (2 bifolia and 3 separate leaves). One folio contains a divorce formula, and two folios (edited …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1248-1249. Location: Fustat. This document describes a partnership in a sugar-factory. It is likely the document is a draft because …
Karaite ketubbah, in which only the introductory biblical verses are preserved: 2 Chronicles 26:5; Proverbs 18:22; Psalms 37:23; Jeremiah 7:34. On the top margin pen …
Testimony in Arabic script. Fragment (top cut off). Dated: first third of Jumādā I 528 AH = February/March 1134 CE. The bottom is divided into …