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Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded and damaged.
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Court record. Dating: mentions Nisan 1410 Seleucid = March/April 1099 CE (terminus ante quem). Dealing with a complicated lawsuit of a case in which Abū …
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Leaf from the court notebook. Recto: Legal record of the court of Fustat. Dated: before the middle of Nisan 1411 Seleucid = March 1100 CE. …
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Bill of divorce, badly damaged. Dating, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. A small remnant of the date is visible in line two "[ה]עשרים …
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Legal document in Hebrew, probably. Only the lower section with a partial witness signature (?___יעקב מ) is visible along with a note that may relate …
Verso: Jottings, including a legal note: "the witnesses of the document (ḥujja): the brother of the qāḍī of Bilbays known as Baraka(?) ʿAbd al-Kāfī. With …
Legal document. Testifies that a certain woman "has never received a bill of divorce." Mentions Munajjā b. Masʿūd and Abū Saʿīd the khādim, both of …
Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document, dated 7 November 1791 (10 Heshvan 5552), Cairo, for the cantor Khalīfa ʿAfīf b. Aharon and Simḥa bt. Yaʿaqov b. Barukh. …
A Karaite engagement deed recorded in the home of Shemuʾel b. Yeshūʿa Melamed (probably the brother of one of the witnesses listed). Dated Wednesday, 15 …
Recto and verso are both legal drafts, probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Verso concerns the same case as in T-S 13J4.4 (PGPID …
Small fragments, in Arabic script. Fol.3 mentions "wuṣūl", probably accounts or fiscal. Needs examination.
Legal deed in Arabic script. In which Hiba b. ʿAlī b. […], the carpenter, leases a shop from al-Ḥasan b. Makkī b. Abī al-Ḥadīd, who …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
Hiba ibn ʿAlī ibn [ ], the carpenter, leased from al-Ḥasan ibn Makkī ibn Abī al-Ḥadī…
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Draft of a legal testimony. Involves someone who lives in Damsīs, a woman named [...] bt. Ghulayb, someone who defamed her (shanaʿahā), and "standing before …
Verso: halakhic text, possibly part of a responsum, written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), dealing with excommunication and repentance. (Information in part from …
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A document that has been folded twice. The outer face (pages 1 and 4) contains legal documents relating to business partnerships; a Moshe and a …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dated documents: 1100–38 CE). The main text (not in the margins) on both sides may just …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Date missing. Husband: [...] b. Ṣadaqa. Wife: Nasāba bt. Natan(?).
Legal document. Left side only. Several names and a partial date are preserved. Needs examination.
Ketubba fragment (right lower corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Groom: Yefet ha-Zaqen b. [...] ba-Ḥavura. Witnesses: Peraḥya b. Araḥ; Yefet b. Ṣadaqa. …
Surveyor's plan for a building and parcel of land on the street of the French school in the neighborhood known as Qaṣr al-Dūbāra – Museum …
Fragment from the middle section of a legal document. Dating: refers to the middle decade of Shawwāl 508 AH = March 1115 CE. There is …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? No names preserved. Warns someone about paying something and may mention the Gaon or at least …
Qaraite formulary for a bill of debt drawn up in the city of Sh[ām = Damascus?]. (There is also some text that seems like it …
Legal document, small fragment. Possibly a deed of sale describing the location of a property.
Will of a pregnant woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Location: Cairo. Dated: Tishrei 1449 Seleucid, which is 1137 CE. …
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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Contains some typically legal phrases (mā yaswā shayʾ... mustawiya jamīʿ mā.... baʿd yamīnihī aʿnī... ʿalā... wa-jarā baynī wa-baynahū...)
The main text is liturgical. In the margin two strips from another document- a ketubba written by Mevorakh b. Natan (active 1150-1181 CE) - were …
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 …
Damaged legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). May be a power of attorney in which a lady named Akhtar(?) …
Testimony in the hand of Shelomo, dated 1 Tevet 1540 Seleucid which is December 6 1228, about the dissolution of a partnership.
Document concerning the sale of a female enslaved person named Saʿāda. Dated: 27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid, which is 5 April 1198 CE. (The main bill …
Court records. Large fragment, containing at least two distinct entries. Damaged and faded. There is a testimony that begins on line 25 of recto and …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Avraham b. Israel is the groom. The bride is Esther known as Karima d. Nissim b. 'Amram.
Dowry list, an addendum to a ketubba. ca. 1100 CE per Goitein's estimate (MS IV, 378, note 20).
Power of attorney written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First decade of Elul 1447 of the Seleucid Era (= July/August 1136 CE). Also …
Fragment from the top of a ketubba. Dated: Probably [49]49 AM, which would be 1188/89 CE. The groom is either Shemuel ha-Levi "Beḥir ha-Leviim" or …
Small fragment from the top of a legal deed with the Reshut formula for a Nagid, probably from Maimonides family, based on the titles that …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday night, 23 Tammuz 1538 Seleucid = 9 July 1227 CE. ʿIbād and her sister, the daughters of Abū l-Majd, …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: 1471 Seleucid = 1159/60, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi. Signed by Meʾir …
Court records. Dated Nisan 1093 CE. Including: (1) A case involving Yaʿaqov b. Yefet and Ṣedaqa al-[...]. 1 dinar is to be repaid by Pesaḥ. …
Lease of an apartment to a parnas as settlement of a debt, AD 1029-1031. The qodesh owes Yaʿaqov b. Mevasser (whom we shall find six …
(1-2) . . . . previously… service to the heqdēsh, will bring many advantages…
(3-4) mentioned, to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr after havin…
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Legal document, probably relating to a marriage, mentioning a menora and dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Very damaged and faded page, probably from a court record, regarding betrothal. From the various signatures preserved we can assume it was written between 1092-1132. …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Unsigned. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar (year not preserved). Location: Fustat. Replacement document for a partnership agreement between Abū l-Ḥasan Menashshe …
Fragment of a marriage contract, most likely. Sets out conditions including a menstrual purity clause and therefore probably dating to no earlier than the late …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Two fragments from the bottom. In which Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Saʿadya b. Shelomo ha-Kohen acknowledges to have …
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a settlement between an abusive husband (...lahā bi-ḍarb wa-qaṣd...) and a …
End of a legal document in Arabic script. Might be dated 29 Jumādā I 510 AH, but this is difficult to read and more or …
Small and much damaged fragment from a ketubah. Contains the immersion clause so can be dated to 1176 onwards. AA
Upper part of a deathbed will. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Many names are mentioned with missing context: Barakāt b. Ḥadīd(?); a woman who …