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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 …
No Scholarship Records
Laws concerning the writings of legal deeds. Image not available
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Dated: probably [4]82[.] AM = 1059–69 E. Husband: Yaʿaqov b. Yosef.
A letter begging for help from a distinguished addressee, in elegant and vocalized script. The writer intends to travel but lacks a covering. On verso …
Fragment of a deathbed will. The testator is Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiel (b. Moshe) known as al-Ḥakīm, the well-known representative of the merchants. He gifts two …
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Legal fragment. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: [14]26 Seleucid = 1114/15 CE. Involves Zakkay b. Shelomo, Aharon al-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and the settling of accounts. Signed …
Small and torn fragment probably from a ketubba, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dating: Refers to the beginning of Ḥeshvan 1429 Seleucid, which is 1117 …
Fragment of an agreement specifying the conditions imposed on the slaughterers licensed by the Palestinian congregation in Fustat and signed by ha-Ḥaver b. Mevorakh, Elazar …
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One bifolium of a parchment quire containing both rabbinic passages (Berakhot 24b, 13b, and others) a and the beginning of a formulary for a partership …
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Deathbed declaration of a physician who includes in his will a gift to his wife in addition to the money owed to her as written …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. The partnership is to last one year and the parties include a woman named Sirwa -- who is to receive a …
Court records and notes in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. Dated in one entry on the verso as Tishrei 1455 Seleucid (1143 …
The Amīr Ḥiṣn al-Dawla b. Sayt al-Dawla, for two murattabs,
seven waybas of wheat. Still due to him, eight
waybas of wheat, whose cost
of 7…
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Deed of testimony. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1471 Seleucid = 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe …
Legal document in Arabic script. Mostly preserved. Dated: Rabīʿ II 535 AH = 1140 CE. Possibly a debt contract for 6 dinars. Needs examination.
Trousseau list. Written in huge letters. No numbers for the individual items, except in last line (perhaps 43 dinars). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Fragment of a legal document. Possibly the dowry list section of a ketubba.
Legal record (#16) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew.. Location: Cairo. Dated 5 …
:Right side of bifolio 2v (Documents 16-17)
Deed of sale (שטר זביני). Very damaged. Dating: early 11th century. One of the parties is David. The deed is signed by Yosef b. [...], …
Power of attorney. Location: Malīj. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Adar I 4807 AM, which is 1047 CE. In which Rayyisa bt. Manṣūr appoints her brother Asad …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Consists entirely of release formulae; no names or details preserved.
Two merchants setting out from Alexandria on a voyage to the Muslim West appoint their wives as executors and guardians of their children: (1) Yosef …
Ownership note, perhaps. "I bought this on [...] Ṭevet 1428," meaning 1116/17 CE.
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 …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Draft. Dated: 7 Tammuz 1376 Seleucid, which is 1065 CE. Husband: ʿEli b. David. Wife; Milāḥ bt. Avram. Written and signed …
Karaite bill of debt paid to Ḥilda bt. Shemuʾel Fayrūz. Dated Thursday 13 Tishrei 5459 AM (1698 CE). Ḥilda receives payment of 300 niṣf fiḍḍa …
Legal document, iqrār, in Arabic script. Involving the Christian [...]ūn b. Asʿad al-Naṣrānī al-ʿAṣṣār and Nāṣir al-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm and a cow. …
Document containing a few names: Abu al-Faraj b. Asad, Shemuʾel b. Surur. Also mentioned are representatives of the Sultan, the destruction of houses, and the …
Marital agreement between groom David b. Efrayim ha-Parnas and bride Mubāraka bt. Faraḥ ha-Kohen (maybe the same as in T-S AS 153.50 (PGPID 34983)), listing …
Late legal document in Hebrew regarding a partnership (one of the partners is named Faraj). It refers to the quppah of the synagogue of the …
Legal record (#62) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 60-62) Folio 16r
Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Groom: Faraj. Bride: [...] bt. Farjūn, virgin. Witnesses: Tamīm ha-Kohen b. Shemuel, Ṣadaqa b. [...], Hiba b. Aharon, Hillel …
Leaf from a legal register, with notes for the drawing up of marriage documents. Mentions: [...] b. Meshullam;Abū Saʿd b. Dosa and legal terms in …
Legal document on parchment. Damaged. Fragment (upper right piece). Referring to [...] ha-Levi; his travel to al-Andalus; 20 dinars; a half dinar; going with him …
Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Regarding the sale of an enslaved woman. Nāṣir b. ʿAlī b. Salmān is the buyer. Fragment (upper right corner). …
Legal fragment. Power of attorney mentioning Ibn al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Kuwayyis (see PGPID 9675), Abū l-Munajjā, Ibn Sālim al-Ṣayrafī the perfumer (al-ʿAṭṭār) in zuqāq al-qanādīl, Abū …
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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Torn and damaged fragment of a kettuba. Probably in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi (although the script is too damaged to be certain). …
Trousseau list of Sitt al-Suʿadā, written and signed by Moshe b. Peraḥya (active ca. 1220–34) and Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham. Refers to a rūmiyya (Byzantine garment?) …
A moral acceptance to keep the Torah
Legal record (#35) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
:Left side of bifolio 5r (Documents 35-37)
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū l-Faraj al-Jabīlī (or al-Jubaylī); the estate of his father; and his …
Court record in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Refers to a sick person whose will is invalid (...מרצה בטלת וציתה...) …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 9 Adar 1373 Seleucid = 21 February 1062 CE (this appears on verso). Involving Hiba b. Avraham and his …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Elul 1489 (4 September 1178). This bill of divorce is …
Legal document. Fragment from the beginning. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Mentioning the authority of the Nagid. Declaration made by a certain Ibn al-Marjānī (‘the coral merchant’). (Information …
(b) Trousseau list. Bride: Sitt al-Furs bt. Abū l-Bayān al-Jābī (cf. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/43). Groom: Al-Munajjā b. Yosef. 10 + 25. Total value: …
Recto: Small fragment containing legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentioning Yosef b. ʿEli. Verso: Small fragment of …
Legal document dated 2[.] Elul 1423 of the Seleucid Era (= 1112 CE). Mentions Efrayim ha-Kohen and Nathaniel. (Information from CUDL)