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Recto: one line from the superscription of a ketubba. Verso: probably an Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
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IB I, 3. Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. …
[Date, place, and parties.]
…Mr. Jekuthiel claimed
that he had sold to Joseph indigo from
the House of Raisins against clearing a…
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Several legal attestations in Hebrew, perhaps from a court ledger, in multiple handwritints, regarding the dispute between Yosef Kalido (?) and David Leon, who were …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Al-Ḥazzan al-Makīn (=Abū l-Majd?) is to …
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Small fragment of a legal document. Damaged and faded. Might be a bill of release. One party may be named Nissim al-[...].
Bottom of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dating; Unknown. Involves Moshe b. Aharon ha-Kohen, his brother Shemuel, their sister Sarah, and shares in a house. …
Legal document. Partnership contract. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1412 Seleucid (1100/1101 CE), the year א׳ת׳י׳ב׳ is barely visible in …
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Legal fragment, either a will or something to do with the disposition of the property of a certain Ibn al-Raqyan (בן אלרקיין) who is now …
Verso: Ketubba fragment on parchment. Dating: likely 11th century, with a partial year visible, [13]46 or [13]76 Seleucid. The dowry list is partially preserved with …
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment from the top. Mentions [...] b. Mufarrij(?) al-Isrāʾīlī.
Karaite conditional divorce document. Dated Monday 23rd Tevet, 5529 AM (1769 CE). Yosef b. Shelomo aka Maʿānī commits to issue a conditional bill of divorce …
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Ketubba fragment. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century (Goitein just writes "old.") Vertical strip from the middle. The dowry list mentions a bed of shisham/sheesham …
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Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script involving [...] b. Hārūn al-Yahūdī (and?) a supplier to the mint ([mū]rid bi-dār al-ḍarb). There are …
Ketubba for the marriage of Sahlān and his bride. Ca. mid 11th century CE. Written by Yefet b. David. Signed by Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen ha-Parnas b. …
Small fragment of a legal document. On parchment. No details preserved.
Legal document(s) or perhaps formularies. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The one on recto refers to to "pelonit" instead of …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving a certain [...] b. Ṭībān and Abū Mūsā and details concerning …
Recto: Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Alexandria. Involves Shemuʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi, who may be deceased; Yiṣḥaq b. [...]; two packages; transporting a deposit from …
Fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed referring to Mevorakh he-Ḥaver, mentioning an orphan girl, possibly concerning her marriage. May be related to …
Legal document concerning an inheritance. Location: Fustat. Dated: first third of Iyyar, 1414 Seleucid, which is 1103 CE. Labwa b. Efrayim known as Ibn al-Malaṭī …
Legal deed in Arabic script. Fragment: right side only. Looks like a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). The muqirr: Shujāʿ al-Dawla Ṭalā'iʿ b. [???]. Needs examination.
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 …
Verso: Continuation of a Judaeo-Arabic legal record. Mentions 'the ruqʿa with Yaʿaqov'; a man with the unusual name שלימון (a version of Sulaymān?); Hiba; and …
Birth records. In Italian. Dated: 1721 CE through 1743 CE.
Recto: Acknowledgment of debt. Dated: Heshvan 1440 Seleucid (1128 CE). Yeshuʿa b. Yaʿaqov (known as Sayyid al-Kull), whose father was known as Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār …
Ketubba on vellum, badly damaged. Location: Cairo ([...] ha-semukhah le-Fustat Miṣrayim in opening lines), and פה מצרים in the penultimate line. Dating: 13 Av 55[..] …
Legal document. Acknowledgement of loan. Dating: February 1135, in (new) Cairo. Document recognizing a loan of 10 dinars from Yosef ha-Levi to Yefet b. Yaḥyā …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) mentioning trade in Yemen and the government. Mentions Maḥfūẓ and Ḥasana. Probably a …
Minute fragment from a legal deed mentioning [Mo/Mena]she Halevi the elder. Might connect with T-S AS 214.263. AA
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Fragment (upper right corner). Acknowledgment made by [...] al-Lebdī. Cf. T-S 6J2.11 (PGPID 5359) …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Names: [...] b. Natan and …
Trousseau list. Groom: Ghālib b. Faraj. Bride: Sara bt. Avraham.
Ketubba (marriage contract). Fragment (last few lines only). The groom is named Yosef. Signed by: ʿEli b. ʿAmram ha-Levi (active 1049–66, not to be confused …
Fragment of an Arabic document, likely legal. The beginnings of ~14 lines are preserved.
Image not available. According to Schwab Catalogue: A communal document mentions Abu Saad ibn Hassun. AA
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Someone named Natan/Hiba makes a declaration of some kind.
Recto: deed of transfer, in which Abū l-Ẓāhir and Abū ʿAmr give a sixth of a house to Hillel ha-Baḥur. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4992 AM …
Ketubba. Location: Cairo. Groom: Natan(?) b. David. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. ʿAdaya. In the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? (Information from Goitein’s index card.)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Date: Not preserved, but it was drawn up under the authority of the Nagid David, probably more likely David I …
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Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Rubbed and faded. Probably either a legal document or a letter. For …
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: first decade of Kislev 5454 AM = November/December 1693 CE. Apparently concerning the acquisition of a tax …
Small fragment of a legal deed. Involves Abū l-Munā, a girl (ṣabiyya), and 20-some dinars.
Ketubba fragment. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī, a virgin. Location: Fustat. Date: Tammuz 14[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1099–1187, under the authority of Moshe ha-Rav ha-Gadol. …
Recto: Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Late. Mentions [...] b. al-Ashqar and a debt of 30 Venetian ducats (בנד[ק). On verso there are pen trials.
Description from T-S 12.148: Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dating: Under the authority of Mevorakh (b. Seʿadya). Mentions: Syria (al-Shām); Abū Isḥāq... Avraham known as Ibn …
Legal testimony. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Av [possibly 5348 AM?? אבנש] but the paleography appears much too early to be 16th-century. Perhaps the date is Seleucid …
Left side of an ornate ketubba fragment. Based on the names mentioned and David Ben-Naʿīm's signature, the dating is likely mid-nineteenth-century. Only the bride's first …
Verso: Statute for tenants of the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1215 (according to Gil, but his handwriting comparison may not be sound, and this document could …
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Legal record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Tuesday night, 27 Kislev 1471 = 9 December 1159 CE. The blind woman Sitt Ṣāfī …
Deposition made in court, under duress. Dating: ca. 1130s–40s CE. The issue concerns a house worth 300 dinars; 150 were paid. Then it was estimated …