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Legal record (#42) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 10v-11r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 40-42) Folio 10v
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Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …
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Legal document. Record of release. Dated: February 1172. Location: Fustat. The record, emerging from the court of Maimonides, involves Ghalīb al-Bilbaysī b. Ṣedaqa, agent of …
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Legal document. Mentions something or someone small (הקטנה) and possibly a name. Hard to discern any specific details of the case. Mentions the year 146[.] …
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Legal document. A woman named Sitt al-Kull b. Eliyya appears before the court, informing them that her husband Yakhin b. Shabbat left few years ago …
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Declaration about five generations of males and females related by ramified family connections. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 286)
Recto: Fragment from the top of a legal document. Dated: 1543 Seleucid = 1232 CE. Mentioning [...] b. Elʿazar and [...] b. Moshe ha-Sar. On …
Trousseau list to accompany a marriage contract. Groom: Abū Naṣr Elʿazar ha-Kohen b. Yaḥyā. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī bt. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Simsār. Real value: 57 dinars. …
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Lower fragment: Prenuptial agreement, draft. Late. Currency: peraḥim. The groom is not permittted to take the bride out of Egypt (or possibly Cairo), not even …
Fragment of a legal document mentioning Moshe ha-Levi.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions Abū Saʿīd Khalaf and a sum of 10 …
Decorated Karaite ketubba from Cairo. Dated: 18 Shevat 5557 AM (February 1797 CE). The groom is Nissim b. Avraham and the bride is Esther d. …
Legal document mentioning a certain Efrayim; mirrored script. (Information from CUDL)
Bill of exchange in the amount of 120 qirsh paid to Kẖawaja Mūsa Abū Hārūn – 25 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art – …
specimens of כתובה דמירכסא and שטר מסירה, followed by the heading שרח הלכות מן יבמות. The hand might be of Halfon Hakohen b. Elazar, who …
Legal document mentioning two manns of cassia (dār ṣīnī) and parties including Mevorakh, Avraham b. Yaʿaqov, and Shaʿyā b. David. Signed by ʿUlla b. Yosef …
This copy of a marriage contract from a record book from the Palestinian synagogue of Fustat is written on four pages of two folios consisting …
Ketubba fragment. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century (Goitein just writes "old.") Vertical strip from the middle. The dowry list mentions a bed of shisham/sheesham …
Recto: accounts submitted by Abū l-Barakāt Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Talmid Abu l-Faraj, headed by مملوكه שלמה אמת. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The …
Legal document. Probably a release. Fragment (left half only). In Hebrew. Dated: 52[..] AM, which is 1439–1539 CE. Involves [...] Suʿūd known as Ibn ʿIjala …
Verso: Fragment of a dowry list. Location; Cairo. Dating: 1189–1200 CE (8 Sivan 15[..] Seleucid). The recto was reused for piyyuṭ and a year (1511 …
Settlement of a complicated dispute in Fustat recording that Abu l-Ḥasan b. Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria …
Legal document in Arabic script. First two lines only.
Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Handwriting of Natan b. Shemuʾel? In which [...] Khalaf the parnas who used to be a ḍāmin (tax …
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (right side). The beginnings of ~20 lines are preserved. Refers to …
Legal document, part of the court register in the Jerusalemite synagogue in Fustāt. A financial dispute between Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq b. Yoshia and Binyamin b. …
Legal document fragment, probably late 11th century, since witnessed by Yakhin b. Netanel who also signed T-S 13J5.2 ca.1085. Other witnesses: Shemuel b. Mevorakh; Avraham …
Legal document with release formulae. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The name Menashshe b. [...] is mentioned. AA
Court record(s). Dated: 1341 Seleucid = 1029/30 CE. Needs examination.
Possibly a legal document, or something to do with an excommunication. Small fragment. ...להם אחד ולא יעאמלהם... [ול]א יכמל בהם קדיש ולא ידבח... ארבע אמות...
Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom name is Yehuda b. Yosef the physician b. Aharon the physician and the bride is Esther d. Aharon. Damaged. …
Court record of a case in which an orphan girl wishing to dispose of a piece of property that was held in trust by the …
Court record from the court of Shemarya b. Elhanan. Around 1000. A claim by Avraham b. Saʿda against his brother Ṣibyān, regarding trade in coral …
Deed of gift of part of a house. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (active ca. 1128–1164 CE). Location: Fusṭāṭ. The gift is …
Large fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Difficult hand. There is a section in the middle with the formula "wa-lā X wa-lā Y …
Small fragment from a list of court records written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Verso: Bill of sale for a slave. Incomplete and unsigned. Dated: Monday 26 Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid, which is 1091 CE. Seller: Meshullam b. Hiba known …
Legal contract concerning the synagogue of the Mustaʿrib congregation in 1544 CE (Sivan 5304 AM).
Siddur R. Nathan of Sijilmasa
Recto: part of a legal document containing the attestation of the Bet Din, in the hand of the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). One …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (upper part only). Damaged and difficult to read. Seems to be an acknowledgment by [...] b. Ismāʿīl …
Marriage contract. Location: Tiberias (here called Tiberias Colonia / טיבריא קלוניא). Dated: Thursday, 12 Sivan [4]795 AM = 22 May 1035 CE. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. …
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Two fragments of a dowry list (taqwīm). In Judaeo-Arabic. Includes a female slave named Waṣl ("Union") valued at 13 dinars. Delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar): 60 …
The wife of Ṣedaqa b. ʿEzra gives to her husband reshut over a house (which was part of her ketubba from her father's inheritance) after …
Legal document. Fragment of a beautifully written ketubba. Early style. Ca. 1080. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely legal. On parchment. Mentions "her brother." (Information in part from CUDL.)
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 …
Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). At the bottom there appear the names Mufarrij …
Late. Minute fragment from a top of a legal deed (...מעידים עדות ברורה...), mentioning אדוננו הנגיד Our Master the Nagid. AA
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: Thursday, 13 Heshvan 5311 AM, which is October 1550 CE. Witnesses: Seʿadya b. Yehuda קוננטיני and Yosef …