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Recto: Large legal document. Involving Dalāl and Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham and deeds of trustworthiness (שטר נאמנות) and/or release (שטר אביזאריה). Verso: Arabic script, see separate …
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Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 24 Shevat 549[2] AM = 2043 Seleucid, which is 1732 CE. Groom: Shelomo b. Aharon b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. …
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Karaite pre-nuptial agreement. Dated Monday 17th Sivan 5524 AM (1764 CE). Location: probably Cairo, in the home of Naḥūm Kohen Gabbay. The groom is Shelomo …
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Two documents in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (fl. 1128–1164 CE) concerning houses. 1) Awaiting description. 2) The wife of Abū l-Faḍl Ibn …
Drafts of court records that were copied into the register of the court in Cairo. Regarding items sent from Salonika to Rashid and various marital …
Barely legible legal document concerning marriage. It may be a ketubba, but the legal formulae that remain are not unique to ketubbot. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in Hebrew. Dating: Late (c. 16th century?). Mentions a R. Yeshuʿa and the owner of a store (בעל חנות) among a broader legal …
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning a dowry with the value of its items. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) In the hand of Yosef b. …
Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words preserved. AA
Fragment from a legal document, maybe a deed of sale since it describes the location of a property. Mentions Fāṭima bt. [...].
Legal deed regarding the division of the inheritance in 2 equal shares. Involving someone and his wife and Maṣliaḥ and his brother Ḥalfon. On verso …
A few fragments stuck together. The main one is a piece from a document written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (dates: 1100–38). Mentions some neighborhoods …
Legal document concerning a sale, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right corner). Very faded.
One side: Testimony of Efrayim b. Ṣibyān ha-Kohen. Dating: 11th century. Describing how Yaʿqūb b. Yaʿīsh traveled in the time of the unrest and famine …
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Small fragment from a legal document. Abū l-Bahāʾ al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl owes money to his nephew Moshe and gets another 4 weeks for installments on …
Small fragment of a legal document. Dated: Ḥeshvan [...]. Location: Somewhere on the sea (כיף ימא רבה), i.e., not Fustat or Cairo– "on the shore …
Legal document from the time of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to here with the title "Nagid" therefore, post-1213 CE. The fragment comprises a few …
Iqrār (deed of acknowledgment) on verso. Poem on recto.
Fragment of a legal document. Verso mentions [Abū l-Fa]raj al-Kohen and his son. Recto mentions 100 of something.
Power of attorney granted in a divorce settlement. Dated to the 11th century (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Legal document, fragmentary, c. 16th-17th century, from Egypt, concerning a property (אלקצר, ‘hall, ground-floor building’) in the quarter סוליימאן כ[א.]שה. The principal parties are Moshe …
Deed of sale for the sale of an enslaved woman. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid, which is 31 March 1226 CE, under …
Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 1v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew with some terms in …
:(Documents 11-12) Left side of bifolio 1r
Formula of a Karaite ketubah.
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Legal document, disintegrated and shredded. Probably related to divorce.
This PGP record is for the copy of the earlier legal document embedded within T-S 28.6r (PGPID 3573), ll. 8–57. Location: Zuwaylat al-Mahdiyya. Dated: Tammuz …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Thursday, 5 Nisan 146[9] Seleucid, which is 6 March 1158 …
Legal document. Record of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Second third of Elul 1482 Seleucid, which is August 1171 CE. The mutual release of the metal …
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Legal fragment. Dated: 1559 Seleucid, which is 1247/48 CE. Involves Menaḥem Abū [...] b. Shelomo ha-Levi. There are distinct but probably related documents on recto …
Recto: Legal fragment (or formulary or draft?). In Judaeo-Arabic. The larger text block contains phrases of release (ibrāʾ) possibly on the termination of a partnership. …
Deed of sale. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi.Dated: Middle decade of Elul 1485 Seleucid = August 1174 CE. …
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and Hiba al-Kohen and a wife.
Legal document mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥalf[on], [...] b. Ḥabīb the elder, Nissim, and someone's death. (Information from CUDL.) Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Court register fragment containing the remnants of 13 documents, most of which are fully intact. Dated Tevet-Kislev 5460 AM which is 1699-1700 CE. The scribal …
Fragment of a power of attorney in Hebrew. No details preserved.
Recto: part of a ketubba for [...] bat Yeshuʿa and [...] b. Shelomo. Date not preserved. Mentions Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen b. ʿA[…]. Witnesses are [Ḥal]fon ha-Levi …
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 …
Verso: Legal note in Arabic script. The one who appoints the agent: Abū l-Faraj Shūʿā b. [...]. The agent: Zuhayr b. Ibrāhīm. Purpose: the sale …
List of synagogue honors and the amounts congregants bid for them, with numbers expressed in Indic/Arabic numerals. Names: Angelino Gallico, Avraham Sabāʿī, Binyamin Yisraʾel, David …
Part of a legal document; much of the date is lost. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The name Abū Saʿīd is …
End of a document about pledges (rahāʾin) signed by Moshe b. Binyamin ha-Sefaradi and Berakhot b. Shela ha-Kohen. The validation (qiyyum) is signed by Elʿazar …
Bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Karīma, known as al-Wuḥsha al-Dallāla (l. 18), releases Sitt al-Ḥusn (l. 21) …
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Legal document. Probably a small fragment of a deed of sale, since rights are granted for "destruction and construction." (Information in part from CUDL)
Opening line of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 46 (Document of Sale).
Legal document from the high court (al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī) in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 28 Dhū l-Qaʿda 1122 AH = 18 January 1711 CE. Judge: …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: [Fu]stat. Dated 4844 A.M. (1084 C.E.) (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 217-26) EMS
Ketubba, nearly complete. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 10 Kislev 5583 AM = 24 November 1822 CE. Between Hayyim b. Shelomo Ḥazzāq and Esther b. Eliyyahu …
See PGPID 24609: Legal document, or possibly a letter describing a legal case. Three continuous fragments from the middle section are preserved. Concerns a woman's …