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Marriage contract. Dated: 5579 AM, which is 1818/19 CE. Groom: Raḥamim ואפה(?). Bride: Marḥaba bt. Yaʿaqov Manīṣar (מניצר). Currencies: real, medin. The border of the …
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Fragment of a deed of release (שטר אביזאריה).
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Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dated documents: 1100–38 CE). The main text (not in the margins) on both sides may just …
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Legal document in Hebrew. A damaged bill of gift, 11th century. Might be a join with ENA NS 3.16, but it is too hard to …
Very damaged legal deed by the court appointed by the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh (1112–26). ʿAmram b. Aharon ha-Kohen appears in court, but the actual …
Verso: Fragment from a deed of betrothal (qiddushin). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: 1100–38. The marriage will take place on Shabbat …
Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 14 Sivan 156[.] Seleucid, which is 1561–69 Seleucid, which is 1250–58 CE, under the authority of …
Religious rulings – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 198) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Fragment of a legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Concerning a family dispute. A woman, Maḥfūẓa from the Ḥātimiyya(?) family, …
End of a legal document written and signed by Elḥanan b. Shemarya. Verso is blank.
Part of a decorated ketubba. Location: Aleppo. Bride: [...] bt. Menaḥem. Groom: unnamed. Dated: probably [13]19 Seleucid = 1107/08 CE. Witnessed by Yoshiyya b. Yivḥar. …
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Fragment of a legal document, mentioning the elder Abū Isḥāq probably relating to a marriage agreement. The monogamy clause is included. The bride was probably …
Karaite bill of release of a debt related to inheritance. Not dated but probably 18th century
On of relations who are ineligible to serve as legal witnesses. F. 2v contains jottings and pen trials. (Information from CUDL)
Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment, clearly in the Palestinian tradition. Dated 1034 CE (Elul 4794 AM). The groom is Yefet b. Avraham.
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Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated solely as a …
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Sivan 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. Groom: Tiqva b. Peraḥya ha-Levi. Details of the …
Legal agreement on dowry rights. Dated: First decade of Ḥeshvan 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130 CE. Betweeen Sitt al-Kull bt. Berakhot known as Naṭīra and …
Recto (secondary use): Legal agreement. Yosef b. Saʿadya al-Anṭākī stands security for Ibrāhīm b. Azhar. Mentions Nuṣayr b. Fahd. (Information in part from Goitein's index …
Court records in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, probably drafts or copies. On recto: mentions partners in silk and a quantity of qinṭārs; …
This copy of a marriage contract from a record book from the Palestinian synagogue of Fustat is written on four pages of two folios consisting …
Notice from the District Court of Qalyub for the appearance of two proprietors and each of them are Jewish individuals living in Cairo's Jewish quarter …
Ketubba, likely from Cairo given the mention of the Nile (נילוס) in the locational clause in line four and the witness signature of Yeḥezqel Ḥefeṣ …
Verso: Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: Late 13th century CE according to Lieberman, but in fact probably closer to 1230 CE (the date of recto). …
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Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Unusual format (written like a letter, with text going up the margins of recto and onto verso). Unusual hand, too (distinctive …
Legal document. Bottom part only. Unclear if any of the identifying details are preserved.
Minute fragment from a court record involving Avraham b. Nathan. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). AA
Legal document, written in Sivan, under the jurisdiction of Avraham (likely Avraham b. Moshe Maimonides, but Avraham II Maimonides also possible). Mentions a certain Shela. …
Legal record (#0). Stub. Giving only a date (Wednesday, 3 Adar [1467] Seleucid) and a name (Yaʿaqov al-Maghribī).
Fragment of a Hebrew legal document from Cairo dated 1771/2 CE ([5]532 AM) certifying that Yaʿaqov Katāḥ (?) b. Avraham ______[lacuna] and Me'ir Saporte/Saporti b. …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Possibly part of a partnership agreement. On verso there …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa.
Draft of a legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–1138 CE). Refers to 'the settlement between them with the …
Legal notes for drawing up a bill of sale of an enslaved woman named Ikhtiṣār. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: 1100–38 …
Document of divorce settlement between Karīma bt. Yosef (represented by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham al-Qābisī) and Salmān b. ʿAlī / Shelomo b. ʿEli. Signed by ʿEli …
Apprenticeship agreement. Dated: first third of Iyyar 5582 (April/May 1822 CE). Location: Cairo. David Dayyan agrees to teach Moshe al-Farūn(?) (אלפרון) "the occupation and business …
Legal document concerning the community in Alexandria sending a sum of money to help repair an old synagogue in Jerusalem. There are five signatures on …
Small fragment from the middle part of a legal document mentioning Avraham Halevi. AA
Legal documents, drafts recto and verso, in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Concerning a gift given to a young woman named …
Left lower corner of a will from Fustat. The elder daughter is in charge of the partitioning of the house. The dying man says that …
Receipt from the association "H̱ayrāt Māzūn" specializing in the distribution of bread, for receiving two loaves – March 1956 – Museum of Islamic Art – …
Betrothal register (53c according to Friedman) between Hillel b. Aharon haLevi and Tāma bt. Yiṣḥaq. One of four fragments from the court ledger of the …
Legal document. The hand of the scribe is probably known (Hillel b. ʿEli?). Fragment (long vertical strip). Involves: [Hiba]tallāh b. Mūsā; a power of attorney; …
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement between Efrayim b. Shemuel and כואנדה bt. Eliyyahu Sūsī, in a beautifully illuminated frame. The prospective bride's name is also listed as …
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Partnership agreement between Avraham Yaʿabeṣ/Yuʿbaṣ and Shimʿon ʿEzrī, duration 24 months. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated Elul 5563 AM which is 1803 CE. The partnership is …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Iyar 5602 AM, which is 1842 CE. This is a partnership agreement for a sarraflık business for …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. There are four distinct text blocks. The document on recto is extremely long and begins with announcing someone's death "baʿd …
Fragment from the bottom of a deed of sale. Mentions [...] the wife of Khalaf. Needs further examination.
Bottom of a legal document. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was active. Only signatures are preserved: [...]ram ha-Shofeṭ; …
Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated [..]24 Seleucid. Bride: [...] bt. S[...], virgin. It is a very small strip.