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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1 Kislev 1359 Seleucid, which is 22 November 1047 CE. An undertaking by Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli b. Khalaf Ibn Zaffān …
A memorandum of testimony that was before us, we the witnesses who sign below on this
document: Toviya b. Eli b. Khalaf said in our presenc…
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Legal document/note testifying that a certain Baqā' b. al-Surūr the [indigo] merchant will operate the tax farm (ḍamān) of Tamīm, the ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya (location …
Recto: Bottom of a note from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a shipment of pearls. Verso: Legal document, perhaps a draft (no signatures). Hand of Shelomo …
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Ketubba (marriage contract). A four piece join from an early 11th century Palestinian style ketubba from Tinnīs. Groom: Mevasser b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Ḥasan. …
סט להד[ה עזיזה כלתה ברת חסאן ננ]
וחפ…
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Leaf from a court ledger. At the top of recto: Contract of debt. Abū l-Munajjā b. Abū Manṣūr ha-Kohen owes Abu al-Makārim b. Barakāt al-Khāmī …
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Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly state or legal. Mentions a qāḍī. Needs examination.
No Scholarship Records
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1441 Seleucid, which is 1129/30 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Legal record (#26b). Loan contract, addendum. Bū l-Barakāt, the creditor, makes Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf vow that he will make his repayments in front of two …
Legal fragment. Small piece from the upper right corner. Possibly a ketubba? Opens with the date (a Wednesday in the year [..]18). Location: Fustat. Not …
Legal record (#71) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: 6 Kislev 5324 …
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Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15[..] Seleucid, which is 1188–1288 CE. Probably in the second half of this range, to judge by handwriting (which …
IB VII, 20. Document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (left side). Concerning business in pepper in Yemen. Involves Seʿadya ha-Kohen, Abū l-Khayr, …
Legal document(s). In Hebrew. One side is very faded. The other side mentions: Maṣliaḥ; Moshe b. Yaʿāqov; [...] b. Natan; a punishment; a Spaniard (ha-Sefarad[i]); …
Legal fragment mentioning people such as Abū l-Barakāt, Peraḥya b. Binyamin the elder, and the elder Abū Yaʿqūb. Also mentions 3 qinṭārs of something, maybe …
Deed regarding the endowment of two houses in Fusṭāṭ as a pious foundation: ‘the little house’ and ‘the cattle house’. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God [alone … ]
This is what [ … ] bestowed and granted as a pious foundation …
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Legal record (#40) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Document #40) Folio 10r
Court document dated 15 Kislev 1469/26 November 1157 acknowledging that the court had heard the testimony of the wife of the addressee, the Shaykh Abu …
Recto: Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 17 Iyyar 5316 AM, which is 27 April 1556 CE. May be a copy or a version of a document …
Legal deed. Location: Gibraltar (גיבאלטאר). Dated: 19 Shevaṭ 5585 AM = 7 February 1825 CE. In which Shelomo Tov Elem appoints Avraham b. Yehuda (written …
Document in Arabic script, likely a deed of sale. Needs examination.
Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …
Recto: Deed of sale for the purchase by Abū ʿAlī Ḥassān b. Ibrahim b. Azhar (the Jewish moneychanger) of two houses in Fusṭāṭ from Abū …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what Ḥassān, bearing the patronymic Abū ʿAlī, ibn [Ibrāhīm ibn Azhar], the…
Dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Wife: Sitt al-Bahāʾ bt. Yakhin. Husband: Yefet b. Saʿadya. Location: Malīj. Dated: 8 Adar II 1445 Seleucid = 5 March 1134 CE. …
Karaite ketubba (marriage contract) from Jerusalem, January 1028. Bride: Sarwa bt. Ṣedaqa b. Jarīr. Groom: Ḥizkiyahu b. Benyamin. Early: 5 dinars plus 50 silver coins. …
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Recto: Legal document in the distinctive hand of Elḥanan b. Shemarya. This is a notification (moda'a) that the release that Ṣāliḥ granted a certain Nāshī …
Legal fragment (right half). Deed of sale of a house, probably from Qayrawān. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Upper right corner of an acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The muqirr is Mūsā b. Yehuda al-Yahūdī(?) al-Ḥarīrī(?). Much of what remains is his physical …
Legal document, dated 24 Rabīʿ I 997 AH = 10 February 1589 CE (not 797 AH / 1395 CE). Legal agreement between [...] b. Mūsā …
Recto: Rental contract. Small fragment from the upper right corner. The lessor is Abū l-Maʿālī Ṣāʿid b. ʿ[...]. Verso: Upper left corner of a letter …
Unidentified, dark and damaged. Might be from a legal deed of some sort.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Not completed (perhaps because of an error in lines 4 and 5). Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1552 Seleucid, which is 1241 CE. …
Fragment from a legal document, mentioning dirhams and a witness statement. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 22 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 3 March 1225 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (head of …
Legal document (maḥḍar) in Arabic script, in a very elegant chancery-esque hand. The testimony concerns the deceased Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Dimyāṭī al-Ḥarīrī. It mentions the year …
Legal records, perhaps. In Judaeo-Arabic. One record states that Ghāliya al-Ḍarīra (the blind) bt. B[...] releases someone. Another involves Nuṣayr b. Thābit and debts owed.
Testimony, deed of divorce, catalogued as a legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 808 H. …
Legal documentin the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), or maybe Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108). Involves Yiṣḥāq or [...] b. Yiṣḥaq and …
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
A magical deed of divorce (geṭ), from ʿImrān b. Mordekhay of Muʿizziyya (= New Cairo?) to Ḥabība bt. [...] followed by a spell to open …
Minute fragment, bottom part of a legal deed. Only partial signature [...] b. Nathan, is preserved. AA
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with a settlement between husband and wife and an item …
Minute fragment, probably from the middle part of a ketubah, based on the mention of דמיפטרא ביה (what that will make her divorce) which is …
Bottom of a deed of release written and signed by [Mevor]akh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (1150–81). Also signed by Shela b. Shemuel ha-Levi. Unclear if any …
Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Av 1559 Seleucid, which is 1248 CE. Husband: Avraham b. Yishmaʿel, from Cairo. Wife: Ḥana bt. Netanel, …
Legal document. Tiny fragment. Signed by Elʿazar b. Evyatar.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Involves Nissim al-Yahūdī. A sum of 143 (riyals?) is mentioned, each riyal valued …
Legal document. On parchment. Appears to be a writing exercise, because there are multiple efforts and because there are inconsistencies (on recto Abū l-Maʿānī states …
Deed of sale in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 29 Ḥeshvan 1446 Seleucid = 17 November 1134 CE, under the authority of …
Clockwise from upper left: (b) Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? At the top there is a list of names including Bū …