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Bill of proxy from the leaders of Tiberias. Needs further examination. No image in CUDL or FGP as of 2026.
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Legal record (#55). Power of attorney. Extremely abbreviated. Belongs with #57 (settlement of the dispute). Abū l-Makārim b. Bū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Kirmānī appoints Bū Manṣūr …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions Ibrāhīm b. Jaʿfar الحوفي and Salām b. Manṣur. Needs further examination.
Legal deed. Dated: 4757 AM (996–97 CE). Ghulayb ha-Levi b. Shelomo, known as Salmān al-Tabīb, receives a loan from his brother Yiṣḥaq b. Salāma al-Ṭabīb …
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Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 10 Adar II 1537 (10 March 1226). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S …
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Recto: Legal document written by ʿEli b. ʿAmram. Dated: Thursday, 20 Av 1368 Seleucid, which is 1057 CE. A release for Bahiyya, wife of Mevorakh …
(1–6) ...] Mevorakh b. [Ephraim...] this Jacob and [...] dinars and [...] to the Muslim with these din[ars ...] Muslim to ʿAmram. ʿAmram saw …
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Legal document(s) or draft documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in two different sections, with a gap in between. The lower section mentions Efrayim, a power of …
Fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: [14]81 Seleucid = 1169/70 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. B, fol.2 - Bill or receipt of sale, in Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān …
Draft of one line of an opening formula of a legal deed. AA
Accounts with Coptic numerals. On margin formulae from a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Document in Arabic script, five lines preserved, possibly a draft. Contains formulae from an Islamic marriage contract (hādhā mā aṣdaqa al-Shaykh Bayān... Samawʾal...). Needs examination. …
Much damaged. Seems like a legal deed reagrding marriage, probably a ketubah. The word לאינתו is readable. AA
Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dating: one of the last days of Ṭevet 1393 Seleucid, corresponding to one of the first days of January 1082 CE. …
He who has signed at the end of this writ of testimony states that he present on the Sabbath day in the synagogue of the Babylonians—namely, [on] the…
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Recto: Legal testimony. Stating that Yeshuʿa Peʾer ha-Qahal and Bunyām b. Sibāʿ and his mother and Ḥāzim appeared and fought over 1.5 dinars that Sibāʿ …
Verso: Court record. Dated: Sunday, 12 Ḥeshvan 1461 Seleucid, which is 1149 CE. Incomplete. In which Sayyid al-Ahl testifies that he heard Abū l-Faraj ask …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 15 Shevat 5450 AM (1690 CE). Bride: Sulṭāna bt. Yosef ha-Rofe b. Elʿazar ha-Ḥazzan ha-Rofe. Groom: Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham …
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Legal document mentioning Yaḥyā ha-Levi and the elder Abū l-[...]. (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment. Dating: mentions Av 1486 of the Seleucid Era = July/August 1175 CE. Describing how after lengthy litigation it was determined that [...] known …
Fragment of a deathbed will. The testator is Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiel (b. Moshe) known as al-Ḥakīm, the well-known representative of the merchants. He gifts two …
Part of a ketubba from Egypt with no names preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Friday, 18 Tammuz 5319 AM, which is 23 June 1559 CE. Partnership in a muqāṭaʿa (Ottoman Turkish: mukata’a) …
Marriage contract in which the bridegroom promises to feed and clothe the son of his future wife, a divorcee, to let him learn a craft, …
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Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Probably from a ketubba, based on the appearance of the term "virgin."
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Names: Hiba ha-Parnas; Yaḥyā; Shelomo ha-Kohen.
Small fragment of a legal document or letter concerning a legal issue. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Mentions anklets (khalākhil) …
Recto: Legal document. Partnership record. Dated: middle third of Tammuz 1529 Seleucid = July 1218 CE. Location: Fustat. Emerging from the court of Avraham Maimonides, …
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Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Looks literary at first glance, but mentions a kharājī year (or at least something "al-kharājiyya"), which suggests something to do …
Legal document or letter, fragment, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Involves Barakāt and [...] b. Mubārak. (Information in part from CUDL) Might belong with …
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Hayyim b. Avraham. The bride is Esther d. Ya'aqov Halevi.
Engagement deed. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. A remnant of an illustrated margin is preserved. The prospective groom's name is Mordekhay b. Moshe …
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Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya (ca. 1181–1209).
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Record of purchase. Perhaps of a book to which this leaf originally belonged. It seems that al-Shaykh al-Asʿad b. al-Shaykh al-Fakhr Mūsā al-Tawrīzī purchased it …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between …
Legal document. Fragment from the beginning. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Mentioning the authority of the Nagid. Declaration made by a certain Ibn al-Marjānī (‘the coral merchant’). (Information …
Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).
Upper end of a large deed of sale in Arabic script, in which a Christian, Yuḥannas b. Andūna b. Qusṭanṭīn b. Basnada(?), sells 1 and …
Contract of friendship between Elʿazar Maymūn and Yom Ṭov b. Sīd. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated: Sunday, 17 Tevet 5324 AM, which is January 1564 …
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). In which Aharon and Ḥayyim the sons of Yisraʾel b. …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Nearly identical formulary to the neighboring document (T-S NS 224.14 + T-S NS …
Legal record (#40) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 14v-15r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Iyyar 1873 …
Mamluk era legal document, in Arabic script.
Draft of a legal document. Mentioning the death of someone's son Abū l-ʿAlā; the late Nagid; and an orphan, Saʿadya b. Saʿadya. (Information in part …
Two court entries in the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver, unclear if they are related. Above, the court orders Abū l-Faraj Ibn …
Ketubba, the signatures section is torn away. Dated: Thursday, 1 Nisan 5583 AM = 13 March 1823 CE. Location: Cairo. Groom: Yosef b. Moshe Shtiwī. …
Legal document involving a partnership between a large number of the Jewish merchants active in Egypt ca. 1800 CE: Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, Avraham Cesana …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 12 Elul 4931 AM = 15 August 1171 CE. Husband: Netanel b. Avraham. Signed by: [Meʾir b. …
Legal fragment. Dating: ca. 1046/47 CE. From the bottom of a bill of compensation, from [Ḥusn] bt. Yaḥyā to Abū Naṣr b. Saʿadya and Shelomo …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Damsīs, Egypt. Dated: Nisan 4843 AM = 1083 CE. Groom: ʿEli b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Bride: Ḥisān b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq …