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An incomplete deed of a sale of one quarter of a house by a public leader, Ibn al-ʿAjamī, to the wife of a money assayer …
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Verso: transfer of the debt detailed on recto. Dated: last third of Ḥeshvan 1441 Seleucid = November 1129 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. …
Deathbed will. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Minyat Ashna. Dated: Monday, last decade of Shevaṭ 1461 Seleucid, which is January 1150 CE, under the authority of the …
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Recto: Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1769 Seleucid, which is 1458 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Yehosef. Location: Cairo. ʿAbd …
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Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Dated: 1411 Seleucid, which is 1099/1100 CE. In which someone declares to Abū l-Faḍl Yosef something …
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Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dated Shevat 1450 Seleucid = January/February 1139 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. (This is …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Looks like it is dated 7[..] AH = 14th century CE.
Three distinct documents in Arabic script, chopped in half vertically and then probably glued together into a rotulus in order to be reused for the …
Witness signature from an Arabic-script legal document. The document itself is not preserved.
Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document dated 8 Dhū l-Ḥijja 5[4?]7 AH, which would be 1153 CE. One signature preserved. Recto: (secondary use): …
Deed of sale or gift of property. Damaged. Location: not preserved. Dating: not preserved, but 11th century seems likely, based on the uncommon formulae and …
Legal record (#60) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 21 Adar II …
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Two repeated testimonies regarding a commercial dispute which took place in Alexandria. Involves Yeḥezqel; Khalaf b. Yosef; Abū ʿAlī; and the late Abū l-Ḥasan. The …
Small portion of a marriage document listing the elements of a dowry in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: draft of a legal query to the Nagid regarding a man who has been sick for one year. Followed by a draft of a …
Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dated: 26 Jumādā II 1205 AH, which is 1791 CE. Involves Mīkhāʾīl Nāyūtī(?) al-Kātib(?) and Yaʿqūb Ḥarrāf(?). There are four …
Recto: Legal agreement between Nissim b. Ḥayyim Mosseri and Yosef al-[...] b. [...]. Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 5589 AM = August/September 1829 CE. The document …
Legal document. Concerning a woman, a vow, and a delayed marriage payment. Reused on recto for technical instructions in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, maybe magical.
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 …
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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Replacement ketubba dated 12 September 1802 (15 Elul 5562 AM) from "Kafr al-Nāqir" on the Nile. Line 6 notes that the couple's original ketubba is …
Marriage contract, template. Written in codex form. The original text is from a ketubba dated Wednesday, 21 Heshvan 5515 AM, which is 1754 CE. Groom: …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (middle of the right side). Faded and smudged. Verso blank.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document signed by Shemuʾel. Mentions garments (e.g., maʿāriq, shuqqa khām). (Information in part from CUDL)
Deed of sale of a house. Only the recto was photographed. Dating: Likely c.1170 CE, based on the reference to “our [mast]er Sar Shalom, the …
Verso: Hebrew legal document, probably from a draft or formulary. AA
Legal document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Eliyya b. Yehuda ha-Kohen; an amīr; and the term "al-mutawalliyīn." Likely an indirect join with T-S AS 168.223 (PGPID 38193).
Small piece of a Palestinian-style marriage contract (ketubba), preserving part of the volition formula and the statement of the wife's obligations. (Information from CUDL)
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment from the top. Dated: 12 Av 14[..] Seleucid, under the reshut of M[aṣliaḥ? Mevorakh?]. The groom may be Yeshuʿa b. …
Ketubba, faded, from Cairo, dated 25 March 1811 CE (29 Adar 5571 AM). Between Nissim and Esther aka Sarah, with marital payments totaling to 150 …
Bottom of a legal document signed by Menaḥem b. Berakhot and Mevorakh b. [...]. There are two undeciphered lines in Arabic script underneath. (Information in …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: 1127–38 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon …
One of two separate texts of a ketubba (marriage contract) written for the same Karaite - Rabbanite 'mixed marriage' and preserved on a single fragment, …
Copy of an engagement deed dated 1202 in Alexandria, sent to Maimonides with a query over whether the contract was legally binding, and the reply …
Recto: Legal document. Dated: beginning of Ṭevet 1457 Seleucid = December 1145 CE. In which Yaḥyā b. Ṣedaqa confirms that a house which he had …
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Legal query to the jurisconsult Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Abū l-Fatḥ (active in Egypt after 1183/84 CE) regarding liability for damaged property. The …
Legal agreement from Fustat, written by the hand of Avraham b. Aharon Ha-Mumkhe.
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Legal document explaining arrangements for the ransom of a captive. Dated 29 Nisan 5411 AM (April 1651 CE) involving Yiṣḥaq Castro and Ya'aqov al-Darqon. Location: …
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment from the lower left corner. Dated: First decade of either Adar I or Adar …
Legal document. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1425 Seleucid, which is 1113/14 CE. Sitt al-Kull bt. [...] makes a declaration of some …
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Faded/damaged.
Small fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: Shevaṭ 1[..]3 Seleucid. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Husband: Shimʿon b. Elʿazar. Wife: Sutayt bt. […].
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Sitt al-Milāḥ sells her Nubian female slave ʿAlam to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā for 23 dinars. Her …
Marriage contract involving a bride with children from a previous marriage whom the new husband undertakes to support, and mentioning 118 dinars in a dowry …
(I) Legal record of a prozbul. In Hebrew. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Elul 5376 AM = 7 September 1616 CE. Binyamin b. Shoshan transfers all of …
Agreement, possibly for the sale of land/property. The parties are Daniʾel b. Yaʿaqov and […]m b. Hille[l]. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Left part from a late legal document, in which שלמה [...] כ"ר תשובה בדוסי take upon himself to deliver the remains of five …
Draft of a legal claim issued by Avraham b. Hayyim to the Jewish court in Cairo against his partner, whose name is not mentioned, regarding …