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Segment of a court testimony. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (Date: 1100-1138). Regarding dowry arrangements after the renewal of a lost ketubba. …
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Legal document involving halloumi cheese. Dating: ca. 16th century. A. David's transcription is erroneously attached to JRL SERIES B 8194 in FGP.
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Legal document issued to Abū l-Faraj; signed by [... b. N]atan ha-Levi and Berakhot ha-Kohen b. [...]. (Information from CUDL)
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Probably a legal document on parchment. Extremely damaged and fragmentary. The first line could read as 514 H.
Copy of a power of attorney in the name of David b. ʿAmmār b. ʿAzrūn Madīnī. Location: the document itself was drawn up in Fustat, …
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Legal document. In Arabic script. May mention a Rabbanite Jew in line 6. There is at one witness signature preserved at the bottom.
Legal document dealing with inheritances, apparently of two women, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (although the hand looks very different from other documents by him - PG). Small fragment …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 1v: …
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 20 Shevaṭ 1354 Seleucid = 3 February 1043 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. …
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Document with the trousseau list for the marriage of Sitt al-ʿIzz and Yeter ha-Levi. On parchment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel. …
Decorated Karaite ketubba. The groom is Yeshu'a Halevi b. Ishaq Halevi the cantor. The bride is Ester known as Qamar d. Ya'aqov b. Avraham Halevi.
Small fragment of a legal document. Refers to someone's wife and to the death of Sitt al-Gharb. Looks like the hand of Avraham b. Natan …
Legal record (#124) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 40v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 11 Tammuz 5329 …
Legal document. Copy of a Qaraite proxy appointment for a marriage, one of only two such documents known from the geniza. Dating: ca. 1040–47 (based …
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A representative appointment deed. Deed in the hand of Ḥalfon ben Menashshe ha-Levi (there are documents in his hand from 1100-1138) in which the bride …
Draft of of a legal document in which Sitt al-ʿIzz bt. Yeshaʿyahu b. Yefet appoints 'Amat al-Qādir' Sitt al-Milāḥ Turfa as her representative with regard …
Certificate of the Qodesh. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 20 Shevaṭ 1564 Seleucid = 21 January 1253 CE, under the authority (reshut) of the Nagid David I …
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Legal document in Arabic script. A contract made before a Muslim notary, in which the proprietor of a Nubian slave promises to pay to the …
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Formulary for a marriage document. Dating: Catalogued as 17th or 18th century.
Recto (secondary use): Partnership agreement. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. The partners are Abū l-Faḍl and Avraham. On top of the Judaeo-Arabic text there are also …
Recto: Upper part of a will. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1552 Seleucid = 8 May 1241 CE. Written in the same hand as verso. The …
Small fragment from a legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Possibly a will, or simply a debt contract, as …
Fol. 2r: Legal record (deed of release). In the hand of Yefet b. David. in which Sulaymān b. Yehuda (his name is somehow connected to …
Legal documents. Dating: Ottoman-era, probably. Recto refers to a new gold denomination of currency (al-dhahab al-jadīd al-sulṭānī al-tāmm). Needs further examination.
Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated [..]24 Seleucid. Bride: [...] bt. S[...], virgin. It is a very small strip.
Legal document mentioning the elder Abū l-Man[ṣūr] and [... b.] Ṭoviyya. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract. Dating: Probably 11th century. Groom: Ṣāfī b. ʿAbdallāh, freedman of the elder Abū l-Faḍl Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Anbārī. Bride: Dhakhīra (or Dhukhayra) …
الله العمدة
ثبت في ديوان الحكم الموفق lلمعمور
..... بمال ثمنه معروف (؟)
بسم الله الرحمن …
God is the support.
It was registered in the archives of the prospering court .....
. .... mone…
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Power of attorney. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. A woman appoints the Jewish dyer Abū Saʿd b. Nājī b. Bū Naṣr as …
ابو سعد اليهودي بن ناجي بن بو نصر اليهودي الصباغ و حليته
دون الاعتدال رقيق السمــــ[ــــــر]ة واضح الجبــــ[ــــهـــــ]ــــة بها اسارير خفي…
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Un-conserved, so no numbers allocated to each fragment yet. Among the five minute frgaments in this folder there is one legal document written by Efrayim …
Fragment from a Karaite ketubba, preserving only the trousseau list. Olszowy-Schlanger (1998:378) dates the script to the early 11th century. (Information from CUDL)
Leaf from a notebook or register of some sort. The two pages are each headed "faṣl," like other documents from the dossier of the Mosul …
Probably legal document. Tiny fragment. Mentions Yaḥyā ha-[...] and perhaps [ha]-Sar ha-A[dir]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document in Arabic script. Very damaged.
IB I, 15. Three testimonies regarding collateral deposited by Yosef al-Lebdi the India trader. Lebdi owed Ḥasan b. Bundar, the representative of the merchants in …
Judicial record of a discussion on the legality of the Rabbanite synagogue in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood in Cairo (al-Qāhira), during the reign of al-Mustanṣir …
Legal document. Tiny fragment. Signed by Elʿazar b. Evyatar.
Court notebook, probably Qaraite. Many pages. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated with individual entries spanning the 1570s CE, such as 8 Tevet 5337 AM which is 1576 …
Small fragment from a prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130/31 CE. There is an even smaller fragment …
Minute fragment probably from the bottom of a legal document, signed by Avraham b. Shlo[mo]. AA
Legal document relating to a release, mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan Nānū the trader and Avraham ha-Sar. Signed by Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE). (Information from …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Avr[aham] and there is probably enough text here to determine the genre …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment.
Legal document of communal let(?), signed by [...] b. Nāḥūm, Hilāl b. [...], Thābit b. [...] and Muʿammar b. Yiṣḥaq. May be a petition involving …
Legal record, likely from a court ledger. Location: Fustat. Dated: 8 Heshvan 1473 Seleucid = 30 October 1161 CE, under the authority of Netanʾel ha-Levi. …
Bill of divorce, fragment. The husband's name is not preserved. Wife: Gharb bt. Abū l-M[...] Tamim b. Bishr. Scribed and signed by the court scribe …
Partnership agreement dated 1821 CE (Sivan [55]81) between Shelomo b. ידע (?) and Shelomo ha-Levi [here there is an unfortunately placed archival sticker] and Moshe …
Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. The scribe had a pronounced tremor, which makes the document …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Widened line spacing. Specifying the conditions for a marriage, including that "he …
Recto and verso: Court records. The entries on recto are quite faded and need examination. On verso, the first record involves Mivḥar b. Ṣedaqa and …