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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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Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words preserved. AA
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Probably a legal document. On parchment. Mentioning Mufarraj b. Yiṣḥaq and Yosef b. ʿAzarya. Arabic jottings below. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Concerning a betrothal (qiddushin). Mentions the witnesses Bū ʿAlī b. al-Faḍlī (or al-Faṣlī?) and Ṭayyib al-Ṣayrafī. Early portion of 5 dinars. The transfer …
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Recto: Legal record in a court notebook. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 18 Iyyar 1409 Seleucid = 22 April 1098 CE. Regarding a financial claim made by …
Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
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Bifolium from a court notebook. Fol. 1a: End of a legal query (ll. 1–4) and complete answer/responsum (ll. 5–19) in the case of Hilāl the …
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Fragment of a beautifully written ketubba. Groom: Netanʾel. Bride: Mubāraka. The trousseau list appears to be written in rhymed Hebrew. The sum 250 dinars is …
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Deed of sale for the sale of half a house in Fusṭāṭ, in the ‘Fortress of the Greeks’ (qaṣr al-Rūm known as the qaṣr al-shamʿ). …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبیه وسـ]ـلامه
[هذا ما ا]شترى منه صفقة واحدة وعقدا واحدا جميع الحصة التي مبل…
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Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Unusually clearly written: في الحساب . . . التنجيم وفي ساىر المعاملات . . . دراهم …
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 …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Maybe a legal document on recto and records of payments on verso. But needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic on verso, the lower right corner and a partial witness signature are preserved. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Legal document. A torn deathbed declaration. The will is by a woman, for the terms used are צואתה אשר ציותה קודם מיתותה. Shemuʾel HaKohen and …
Fragment of a deed of sale. Dated: Adar II 1413 Seleucid, which is 1102 CE. for Abū(?) Yaʿaqov. Signed by [...] b. Shemuʾel and Yosef …
Bottom of a court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Signed by him and also by Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Dating: 1127–38 …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 12 Elul 4931 AM = 15 August 1171 CE. Husband: Netanel b. Avraham. Signed by: [Meʾir b. …
Verso: Upper right corner of a legal document concerning real estate. Describes the boundaries of the property, including "the land of Yosef b. Furayj." The …
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Very neat handwriting. Only the beginnings of the lines are preserved. Mentions a broker in the …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower left corner). Groom: Natan b. Yosef ha-Dimashqi. Bride: Baṭrīqa bt. Ṣemaḥ, a virgin. No details of the marriage payments or …
Minute fragment from an opening of a legal deed. AA
Collection of short responsa concerning nidda (a menstruating woman). On recto there are a few lines from Saʿadya Gaʾon’s treatise on prayers, with a colophon. …
Formula of a get (bill of divorce)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 6 Elul 5576 AM, which is 1816 CE. Groom: Refael Tortos b. Merkado. Bride: Esther Tantan (? תנתן) …
Legal document in the hand of and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt al-ʿIrāq. (Information in part …
Notice of oath written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. He states that on Monday of the week of Beshalaḥ, he took an oath that he will …
Legal document (witness statement), mentioning ‘my husband Yaʿaqov.' (Information from CUDL.) Join: Oded Zinger.
Marriage document. Fragment from a damaged ketubah. The groom is Ḥalfon ha-Kohen. The name of his father and bride are not preserved. Part of the …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Parties: Abū l-Khayr and Avraham. Dated Iyyar 4[...] AM, so prior to 1240 CE.
Legal document, possibly a partnership. Dating: the paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or early 17th-century. The document details commercial arrangments between a certain …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Abū Naṣr Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Zaqen was going to make a declaration, but …
Legal document mentioning a certain Ibn Mihnab (?) ("son of the idiot"). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to moving …
Legal document. (Information from CUDL.) No details preserved.
Legal document(s) in Hebrew. Late. Very faded, but the remnant of Anno Mundi year is visible on the verso: 53.. AM, but this reading is …
Legal document in Arabic script, maybe starting with اقر. Nearly complete. Involves several people and the receipt of money. There is a blank space on …
Verso: Legal document involving al-Rayyis Abū l-Bayān (Moshe) b. Mevorakh. Many names are mentioned. Needs examination.
Torn and damaged fragment from a court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Likely a draft as the date appears to …
Court records. Location: Fustat. Dating: c.1082–94 CE, as the reshut clause of the second document invokes David b. Daniel [b. ʿAzarya]. The fragment includes the …
Legal document (probably a formulary) for marriage conditions. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Much of the text resembles the text …
Recto: Draft of a will. In the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (this should be checked). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1561 Seleucid = …
Verso: "It seems a boy made a joke. He began a marriage contract for ʿOvadya b. Aharon he-Ḥaver ba-Sanhedrin Gedola and ended with a Mi …
Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Dated: Sunday, 7 Tishrei 1532 Seleucid = 6 September 1220 CE. (The scribe wrote …
Small fragment from the top of a legal document relating to an engagement or betrothal. ...אללה תעאלי אסבאב אלוצלה בין אבו אל . . . …
Four different documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Clockwise from upper left: (1) Thin vertical strip from the left side …
Fragment of a legal document, likely a dowry list related to a marriage agreement. In a rudimentary hand, likely Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (though …
Bill of debt, from 1519 CE– this estimate from FGP was proposed by Avraham David on the basis of the coinage mentioned: ""תשעה ושלושים אלפים …
Fragment of an unfinished marriage contract. Groom: [...] b. Yosef ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Bride: Sitt al-Adab bt. Yehuda b. Nissim ha-Sar b. Masliah the haver, the …
Legal agreement, possibly regarding a dowry, between Yequtiʾel b. Moshe and his wife Munā. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108 CE). Goitein …
Karaite agreement. No date preserved
Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed with fragmentary signature. AA