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Fragment from the bottom of a ketubba. The bride's name is Sitt al-Thanāʾ ben(!) Elʿazar. Part of the monogamy clause is preserved. One of the …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Nearly completely preserved. In Arabic. Dated: 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 AH = 2 June 1143 CE. The declaration is made by …
Damaged and faded fragment, probably from a responsum. The text is too fragmentary, but it seems it is dealing with payment of damage. AA
Court notebook containing several documents. Dated in the first document as 21 Av 1394 Seleucid, which is 1083 CE. The document entries include: (i) Marriage …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tishrei 1465 Seleucid = September/October 1153 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Debt contract between Abū …
Upper left piece of a document in Arabic script, likely legal. Needs examination.
IB V, 47. Legal record (#65). Inheritance settlement. Dated: Middle of Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. "One of a series of documents from 1156 about an inheritance …
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Legal document (non-Geniza). Location: Amadiya. Dated: 5525 (וטבח טבח והכן ת) AM = 1764/65 CE. Certifying Maṣliaḥ b. Moshe as a kosher slaughterer. One of …
Writ of agency, probably written in Acre during the first half of the eleventh century. A woman appoints Mevorakh b. Yeḥezqel to take care of …
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Legal deed, fragment. None of the main document is preserved, but two signatures are present: the cantor Yoshiyya b. Neḥemya and Sahlān b. Avraham. On …
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Ketubba fragment. Groom: Berakhot b. [...]. Bride: [...] bt. Yaʿaqov. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Record detailing the action of a court in Fustat in preparing a claim to an estate in Aleppo, made by a man name Sālimو residing …
Lower fragment: Fragment of a legal document. Appears to be a bill of sale (bayʿ jalb) for an enslaved man (ghulām) for the low sum …
Legal records. Four pages (bifolio) in the handwriting of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: ca. 1140 CE (dated entries from Tevet 1451 to Marheshvan …
Few words from the bottom of a legal deed signed by Menashshe Hakohen.
Draft of a marriage contract (ketubba) under the authority of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to as "Nagid" (therefore post-1213 CE). There are numerous other …
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably regarding dispute based on the reference to זקני יושר
Deed of release. Yaʿaqov b. [...] releases a woman from all claims. Fragment (the beginnings of 9 lines are preserved).
Legal documents, four entries on the recto and verso. Possibly drafts from a court notebook, including one completely crossed out. Location: Cairo. Dated in multiple …
Prenuptial agreement between a Karaite bridegroom and a Rabbanite bride, stipulating a fine to be paid to the Rabbanite and Karite poor by the bridegroom …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Maybe a lease - mentions money and a period of 3 months. Needs examination.
Fragment of a legal document. Location: Bilbays. Drawn up under the authority of David Sar ha-Sarim (=David I Maimonides?). Mentions half of a house. On …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Two fragments from the right side. Concerning a release granted by a creditor to Abū …
Small fragment of a legal document. Refers to "his wife Sitt al-Maʿānī."
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has traced over every word.
Minute fragment with few words, seems to be from a ketubah.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1452 Seleucid = April/May 1141 CE. Regarding the sale of a house in Minyat Zifta costing 9 dinars. Between …
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Involves a woman "[sit]ting in the house of her widowhood"; children; and a son named Abū Manṣūr.
Settlement after marital dispute between husband and wife, safeguarding her freedom of movement. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Agreement between Ẓāfira b. …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 9 Kislev 1473 Seleucid, which is 29 November 1161 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. …
Lease of an apartment of the Qodesh ca. 1180. Abu'l-Bayan, one of the prominent parnasim of this period, leases an apartment, which is in a …
Al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Faḍl al-Parnās b. R. Aaron ha-Levi, of blessed memory, rented from al-Shaykh
Abūʾl-Bayān al-Jābī b. Elazar ha-Levi, of bl…
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Legal document from Cairo dated January 1802 CE (Shevat 5562), in which Nissim Romano acknowledges that he has received 180 silver muayyadis from the orphans …
Legal document, or accounts for the month of Jumādā I and Jumādā II. Needs examination.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo/Fustat. Dated: 14 Ḥeshvan 1849 Seleucid, which is 1537 CE. Groom: Shelomo b. Shemuel.
Two fragments from the bottom of a legal document (or draft) in Judaeo-Arabic, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Contains release …
Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a …
Karaite debt acknowledgment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 9 Kislev 5516 AM (1755 CE). Location: the home of Shelomo b. Aharon Kohen aka Shāmī (presumably in Cairo …
Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Shemuel and Sarah bt. Aharon Ḥīdīf (חידיף). Currency: esedi guruş. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 5591 AM = 23 …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Two fragments, probably an indirect rather than direct join. Concerns a guarantee …
Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Regarding a surgical operation by a physician. Nāṣir b. Jibrīl asks the Jewish physician Makārim b. Isḥāq to perform …
حضر الى مكارم بن اسحق بن مكارم اليهودى المتطبب
ناصر بن جبريل وصحبته ابنته لصلبه المسماة ستيت
وفى عينها اليسرى كمنة وسأل الطبيب
المذكور …
Nāṣir ibn Jibrīl came to Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the Jewish physician,
together with his natural daughter called Sutayt,
in whose left ey…
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Containing references to a sum of 10 dinars, a qāḍī (judge), the feast of Purim, and …
Procedure of ḥaliṣa. Two cases, one serving as model. (1) Fulāna bt. Netanʾel b. Aharon; Moshe b. Seʿadya; Moshe's brother Shelomo b. Seʿadya. (2) On …
Legal deed written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be …
Report concerning the death of a Jew named Hiba b. Wafā (or Yehuda?), who drowned in the Nile in the last tenth of Ṣafar, AH …
Two drafts of a bill of divorce (get) from Cairo for Makhlūf b. Yiṣḥaq and Zahrah bt. Yaʿaqov, probably dated Sunday, 17 December 1[8]26 CE …
Deathbed declaration of Shelomo b. Avraham Ibn ʿEzra. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 4[.]45 AM. Maybe 4945 AM = 1185 CE. Mentions someone known as [...] …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract for a second wife. Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1165–66 CE, as the reshut clause invokes the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (1160–66) and the …
Bill of divorce. Scribed and signed by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Also signed by ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yaʿish. The husband may be named Ḥal[fon]. …
Karaite betrothal deed. The groom, Ḥayyīm b. Nissīm known as Revaḥ, taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 10 years, except in the …
Bill of manumission of a slave, formulary from Siddur R. Natan of Sijilmasa, citing R. Hayya Gaon