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Bill of divorce, fragment. Husband: Maʿānī b. Khalaf. Wife: Jamīʿ bt. Barakāt (both families are from Minyat Ziftā, Egypt). Dated: Friday, 29 Sivan 1426 Seleucid, …
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Legal document. In Hebrew. On parchment. Fragment (lower left corner). Dating: Probably 10th or 11th century. One of the parties is named Nissim b. Barukh. …
Small legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Might join with PGPID 16507. Mentions a period of two years, …
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Minute fragment from a legal deed probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138) mentioning Aharon Hakohen
Part of a draft deed of indemnity, dated 1342 Seleucid (= 1030/31 CE), in which the woman Ḥusn bt. Mawhūb, releases her husband, Netanʾel b. …
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Legal document mentioning ‘our lord, the great Nasi’ and Sitt al-Hanāʾ (cf. T-S NS 226.12 (PGPID 4242) and ENA 3778.7 (PGPID 11352)). Dating: Likely early …
Bill of divorce for Bayān b. Abu l-[...] and [...] bt. Sedaqa. Dated: 145[.] Seleucid = 1138–48 CE. Witnesses: Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver and Mevorakh …
Legal document. Mutual release upon the dissolution of a partnership in a shop. Involves Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and Shemuel. Needs further examination.
On recto there are three brief legal records: (I) The first concerns the selling of jewels owed to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Fakhr. Dated: Shevaṭ …
Marriage contract (ketubba), Palestinian-style. Bride: Dalāl bt. Yefet. The groom's name is lost. Location: Tinnīs, Egypt. Dating: probably 1085 or 985 CE.
Beginning of a court record. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 17 Tishrei 1807 Seleucid = 5 October 1495 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Yehonatan …
Small fragment from the validation (qiyyum) of a legal document. Mentions the names Yaʿaqov b. Yosef and Avraham b. Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen.
Karaite ketubbah, in which only the introductory biblical verses are preserved: 2 Chronicles 26:5; Proverbs 18:22; Psalms 37:23; Jeremiah 7:34. On the top margin pen …
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Legal document. Involving appointing an agent; Abū l-[...]; Sitt al-Kull bt. [...]; and demanding maintenance (mezonot). There are a few words in Judaeo-Arabic on verso, …
Formularies for legal documents, including for a Palestinian-style ketubba. Location: Probably Tyre. Same scribe as T-S NS 243.28. See M. A. Friedman's edition for further …
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Legal document headed "memorandum of testimony" (tadhkirat shahāda). The court convened in the synagogue; present were Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Wathīq and Sulaymān al-Ṣāʾigh, who negotiated …
Recto: Bill of divorce. Wife: [...]fiyya bt. Levi. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid = 988–1088 CE. Verso: remains of another legal deed, maybe connected to the bill …
Legal document in Arabic script. Seems like a contract of depositing a sum of money for the duration of someone's travel. On verso, in a …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237 CE. Mostly in Arabic script with a few words in Hebrew. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm is …
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 …
Document of release concerning Avraham b. Shemuel and Saʿdān b. Saʿīd, witnessed by Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) See also BL OR 5550.1 …
Legal record (#6). Divorce settlement. Dated: Monday, 20 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Abū Saʿd al-Zayyāt b. Khalīl attests, acting as agent for his sister Sitt al-Fakhr, …
Ketubba fragment. On parchment. This is the bride's first marriage. Mentions sums of 20 dinars and 40 dinars. Most of what is preserved is the …
Resposum in Aramaic, tiny fragment
Legal record (#45) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 44-46) Folio 11v
IB VII, 13. Legal document. On parchment. Cairo. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: ca. 1100-1138 CE, based on the dates when Ḥalfon …
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Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Dating: Mentions Tishrei 1520 Seleucid, which is 1208 CE. Abū l-ʿIzz acknowledges receipt …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from the beginning of a kettuba. The bride's father's name is Munajjā ha-Parnas (ZL) and the groom is Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. There is a later …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Dated: Kislev 152[.] Seleucid = 1208–17 CE (the reading of the date is probable but not definite). …
Multifragment. Fol. 1r: List of different quantities of grain in enormous Arabic script. Fol. 1v: Legal document (lower right corner) involving the sale of a …
Legal document in Arabic script. May be a deed of sale (hādhā mā ishtarā....). One of the parties is Jewish. Reused in the upper margins …
Legal document; probably a witness statement. (Information from CUDL)
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated Thursday 24 Nisan 5481 AM (1721 CE). Bride: Marḥaba bt. Yeshūʿa b. Shlomo ha-Levi ha-Rofe. Groom: Saʿadia b. ʿEzer b. Yeshūʿa …
Marriage contract in the hand of Yefet b. David. Location: Fustat (a previous PGP description said Jerusalem). Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 1341 Seleucid = 14 October …
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Marriage contract, probably. Small fragment. Large, square, elegant Hebrew letters. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century. מו]הארא ותוספת[א] ...[כל שפר אר]ג ניכסין וקנינ[ין...
Small fragment, faded and damaged. Probably from a legal deed or letter. Only a few words are legible: פידפעהא ...אלרגוע אלי...
Subsequent use: Unidentified document in Arabic script. The handwriting looks Ayyubid or early Mamluk. Needs examination.
The main text is liturgical. In the margin two strips from another document- a ketubba written by Mevorakh b. Natan (active 1150-1181 CE) - were …
Legal deed (fragment) [12th century?], calligraphic, with wide line-spacing. Approximately 250 x 450 mm at the widest points. Gift of Robert Garrett, 2953. Many other …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Tiny fragment. The neighboring shelfmark ENA 3807.8 may also be legal.
Legal document mentioning a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment, only few words are legible
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. Recto contains the lower left corner of a document, with perhaps the remnants of a witness signature at the bottom. …
Legal or official document(s) or drafts thereof. In Arabic script. There are numerous text blocks on each side. The inverse document on the recto is …
Calligraphic get (bill of divorce). Dated the 19th of Kislev 5422 AM (1661 CE). Location: Damascus. Moshe b. Avraham known as Ibrahim repudiates Malkah known …
Legal deed. Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Tishrei, year missing. Perhaps during the tenure of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya, …
Late legal document in Hebrew regarding the arrangements following somebody's death and the expenses of the mourners including an Esther and an ʿAzīza.
IB VII, 10e. Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered …
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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 …