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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Partnership agreement. May be a join with ENA NS 77.247.
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Court record. In Hebrew. Fragment (left half only). Location: Fustat. Dated: 21 Tevet 1[3]27 Seleucid, which is 1016 CE. In the time of Efrayim b. …
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Document of divorce settlement between Karīma bt. Yosef (represented by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham al-Qābisī) and Salmān b. ʿAlī / Shelomo b. ʿEli. Signed by ʿEli …
Legal fragment in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya, mentioning Ḥananel ‘the youth’ and someone else "[ha-nadiv] ve-ha-shavaʿ R. A[...]." (Information in part …
Recto: Small fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving a woman's rights and a man's maintenance payments while he is absent. Verso: Accounts in …
One line from an incomplete court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Bill of exchange pledged for the rental of river floodland in which the amount paid is to the Jewish owner of the land – 18 …
Legal formularies and instructions. Fragment; small strip of parchment.
Legal document in Hebrew. Written on parchment. Very damaged. Dating: Likely 11th century. A case of inheritance involving Faraj, Salāma, and Maymūn (somebody's uncle?). AA. …
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Settlement of a dispute over a husband's support for his wife during his …
Opening line of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Writing exercise of legal documents. The writer copied the same part of a legal document five times. Dated: Monday, 9 Shevaṭ 1639 Seleucid = 21 …
IB IV, 6-7 (ח7). Copy of a court record from Aden. Dating: Summer 1131 CE. Concerning a controversy over Jewish communal leadership in Yemen. Goitein …
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Recto: Legal fragment involving Halil (?) al-Shayzari ha-Bursi and Yishaq and various sums of money. Verso: possibly a Judaeo-Arabic draft of a sermon (?); words …
Legal document, probably. In Aramaic and Hebrew. Dating: Maybe 11th century if not earlier. Involves someone named Yoshiyya. Extremely faded. Needs examination.
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 24 Shevat 549[2] AM = 2043 Seleucid, which is 1732 CE. Groom: Shelomo b. Aharon b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. …
Bill of divorce. Witnesses are Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel and Shelomo b. Yosef. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Recto: an acknowledgement of debt by Yosef b. Menashshe al-Ramlī, who owes 11 dinars to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef, which he will pay back …
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An engagement agreement from the 18th of Tevet. The marriage is set a month and four months afterward. The bride is represented by her father, …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 21 Elul 1418 Seleucid, which is September 1107 CE. Husband: Moshe b. Siman Ṭov. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. …
Permit from the Egyptian Jewish community for building a tomb 2.2 x 1.75 meters in size – November 14 1953CE – Museum of Islamic Art …
Marriage document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/1126 CE. The groom may be Peraḥya ha-Levi [b. …
Fragment of a marriage contract. This portion contains part of the trousseau list. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Qujandīm (קגנדים), Egypt. Dated: Thursday, 16 Av 4705 AM = 29 July 945 CE. The document records a marriage gift of …
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Recto: Court record concerning Yaʿaqov b. ʿAyyāsh, a minor reaching maturity who wishes to marry his widowed sister-in-law (in a levirate marriage), but she refuses …
Draft of a court declaration written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu regarding the estate of the late physician (al-mutaṭabbib al-ḥakīm) Ibrāhim b. Mukhtār Ibn Ilyās. He …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Upper right corner. Moderately wide spacing between the lines. Might be legal or a letter (may begin with the word …
Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 23 lines are preserved, the last of which is the signature of a witness named Muḥammad something. …
Marriage agreement between a Rabbanite husband and a Qaraite wife, with a 30 dinar fine to the poor if one transgresses the religious practices of …
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Part of a ketubba for [...] bt. Nuṣayr (נציר) and an unnamed groom. Date and location not preserved. Witnessed by Natan b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi, ʿAmram …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Sa'adya b. David b. Reuven. The previously married bride is Esther Mas'uda d. El'azar Hakohen b. Aharon. In …
Ketubba, beginning only. The scribe interrupted the draft after the date in the seventh line, probably because the day in the month is mistaken: 17 …
בסימן יפה לנו ולכל ישראל
בשעה יפה בין כאן בין . פה
במזל גבוה יהיה לנו ולכל
ישראל כין הוה במעלי
Legal document on parchment, probably a deed of sale. Concerning Abū l-Barakāt and a blind woman (al-mara al-kafīfa) and a sale. Also a woman named …
Recto: short note in Hebrew written by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq and Menaḥem b. Shemuʾel Kohen regarding the writing of a geṭ and the tearing of …
Minute fragment from a ketubah of a widow bride. AA
Bill of release from any claim granted by Netanʾel b. Yefet b. Meshullam Ibn Ḥirbish to Musāfir b. Shemuel in relation to the will of …
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (c.1181–1209).
Deposition (modaʿ) in court made by one Abū Saʿd. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tammuz/Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 1155 CE, under the authority of the Nagid …
Legal fragment In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document, bill of divorce. Location: Damietta (איכפתור). Dated: 25 Av 1477 (25 July 1166). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the …
Partnership contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions 1428 Seleucid, which is 1116/17 CE (but this is not necessarily the date of …
Legal record (#115) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Tammuz 5326 …
Legal record (#6). Divorce settlement. Dated: Monday, 20 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Abū Saʿd al-Zayyāt b. Khalīl attests, acting as agent for his sister Sitt al-Fakhr, …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Daniel b.Yosef. The bride is Esther known as Faraj d. Yeshu'a b. Ishaq. AA
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal. Dating: Ottoman-era. Mentions three qinṭārs of something. Reused on verso for accounts. Merits further examination.
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Bride is a virgin. Marriage payments: 5 + 10. Dated: 1453 Seleucid, which is 1141/42 CE, under the authority of …
Copy of a copy of a ketubba from Ashkelon, 1100.
Beginning of a court record dated Shevat 1411/ February 1100. On parchment. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Bill of divorce. Probably a draft: although it is signed, there are interlinear corrections for the date and for the husband's name, and there is …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Tammuz 1451 Seleucid = 25 June 1140 CE. …