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Recto: Several drafts of legal documents. Item #1: Legal document regarding a business partnership (but not the original partnership agreement). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: end of …
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Margin of recto: Fragment of the Arabic portion of a marriage contract, discussing the groom's promises to the bride regarding her exemption from oaths; margin …
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Recto: record of the testimony of Zerubabel and Nisan b. David, and referring to Isaac b. Zerubabel. Late? Verso: list of the quoted authorities in …
Legal fragment (right side). Concerning a husband and his wife Rayyisa bt. Ḥalfon. One of them is from the Ibn Nuʿmān family. Location: Cairo. Written …
Excerpt of a writ written in Ramla, 1076.
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Ketubba fragment.
Deathbed will of Abū l-Baqā'. Draft: abandoned in the middle of the third line
Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated [..]24 Seleucid. Bride: [...] bt. S[...], virgin. It is a very small strip.
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Dated 6 Tishrei 5561 AM (September 1800 CE). The groom: Elya Hakohen b. Eliyyahu. The bride is Esther known as …
Probably a fragment from a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Late partnership agreement (incomplete) between Yaʿaqov Ḥassūn and [Yaʿaqov?] Zaytūn.
Order in Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥasan is to pay or hand over two dinars, 1 qirat, and 2 ḥabbas of "ḥawāʾij."
Deed of release (שטר אביזאר). The handwriting may be known. Involves [...] b. Shelomo known as Abū Saʿd and Sahl b. Ḥasan b. Salāma.
Right side of a legal document. a A barter of 2.5 pieces (thawb) of Indian red silk (ליניס/lēnīs = lānas) against two pots (burniyyatayn) of …
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Fragment of power of attorney signed by four persons including the judge Shemuel b. Saadya (in office 1165-1203) and deputy judge Jephthah b. Yaʿaqov (in …
Small fragment from a prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130/31 CE. There is an even smaller fragment …
Legal document on parchment. Trousseau list, probably from a ketubba. The left edge has been cut into a serrated pattern. There is also a small …
Fragmentary, short marriage contract from Cairo, from which most of the details are missing and which does not mention dowry. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, …
Fragment from a legal deed from Mevorakh b. Saʿadya's period (1094–1111) regarding a quarrel between Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen and Abū Saʿd b. Siman Ṭav …
Legal document detailing how Ṣāfī, the slave (ghulām) and agent of the Jewish Academy in Fustat, insulted a notable in ʿAydhāb, Ibn Jamāhīr, in the …
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IB IV, 61a. Recto: Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Kislev 4917 AM, which is November/December 1156 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). "He left it under my hand..."
Recto: Legal testimony, possibly a draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 9 Iyyar 1559 Seleucid = 3 May 1248 CE. Location: Fustat. Involves Sulaymān al-Ṣayrafī al-Levi …
Legal record (#13b). Loan contract. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Barakāt b. Abū l-Ḥasan declares that he owes 30 dirhams to Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
Legal document. Declaration made by Peraḥya b. Natan for Ḥiyya b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen concerning potential claims of the latter against the orphan son of the …
Legal document. Small fragment. Involves the garment mender (al-raffāʾ) Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar and a certain Yefet.
Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. Very damaged. Only some signatures preserved: […] ha-Levi b. Avraham, Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Mumḥe. Reused for …
Recto: part of a dowry list (bedding and copper section). Verso: copy of a ketubba, probably not related to dowry list on the recto as …
Legal fragment, probably, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Mneashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Very few words are preserved: bi-danānīr... ḥisābunā... raʾs al-māl...
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid = beginning of January 1124 CE. …
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Halakhic work, possibly a responsum, concerning betrothal and marriage. Features the proverbial Reuben and Shimon. (Information from CUDL.) Reuven engaged or betrothed the daughter of …
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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 …
Fragment from the end of a contract, followed by a whole contract, both of which are between Avraham and Shalom and witnessed by the scribe …
Small fragment of a debt contract. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. The number 140 is mentioned. The debt will be repaid in monthly …
A general prenuptial agreement in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Goitein suggests that this document was written before 1134, the year that Ṣedaqa …
Recto: Legal testimony. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Fragment (right side). The witnesses report that on Sunday, they saw a …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1213/14 CE. This commenda records court proceedings regarding a partnership; only one of the partners' names, Saadiah b. …
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Bottom of a legal document. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 504 AH = June/July 1111 CE. Appears to be a conversion certificate for a Jewish man and …
Recto is the beginning of a siddur. Verso contains legal jottings. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions Sālim b. [...] al-Ḥalabī; Sālim b. Avraham; Asyūṭ …
Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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Bifolium from Mitzrayim, 1790–92 CE, apparently from a ledger of betrothal and marriage contracts. About nine are preserved, complete with names, and trousseau lists, and …
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue a fragment of a court record. AA
Letter from Musa b Ya'qub, Tyre, to Abu al-'Ala Yusuf b. Daud b. Sha'ya, Fustat. NB shelfmark was incorrect in old PGP (Or. 1082 J42 …
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Recto: legal document; signed by [Meʾi]r b. Yakhin (ca. early 13th century). Verso: document in another hand. (Information from CUDL)
IB VII, 17. Recto: Quittance given to the carriers of goods sent from Yemen by a husband, Abū Yaʿqūb [...] b. Efrayim to his wife …
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Official record of some kind in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 742 AH ("לישמעאל"), which is 1341/42 CE. Very faded and barely legible. Mentions numerous people including Yosef …
Fragment of a legal deed. Involving Muḥsin and Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (dated documents: 1007-1055 CE), head of the Palestinian congregation …
End of damaged legal document on parchment from 11th century Fustat. Involving [...] known as al-Ṣāʾigh. Signed by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef and a certain Yefet …
Legal record (#20) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 6 …