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Legal document, in Arabic script. Repurposed for a tax receipt. The document is a fragmentary marriage contract, and mentions the dower (ṣadāq), and some standard …
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Recto: Short note about a court settlement from Fustat. An uncle allows his nephew to pay him back a sum of 10 dinars in 20 …
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Bill of sale for property. Dated: Jumādā al-Ūlā 394 [Feb.-March 1004]. Parchment ; 16 lines ; 250 x 300 mm. Upper edges mutilated and several …
Legal document. it seems to be a release. Signed are Yishaq b. Mevorakh, Avraham b. Yeshuʿa, Yisrael b. Yefet, and Hayyim b. Sasson b. Hayyim …
Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for an enslaved person. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? One of the parties …
Legal document of release in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). A certain Avraham b. Shelomo Tilimsānī, acting as a custodian (apotropos) …
Verso (original use): Legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. Portions of 9 lines are preserved. Involves Mūsā b. ʿĀdī(?). Dating: Mentions the year 42[.] …
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Partnership settlement recorded in the home of Rabbi Moshe Damūhī in Cairo that bears a date in line 34 of 9 Ḥeshvan 5304 AM (1543 …
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Letter in Arabic script. Sent from al-Ramla (l. 2). Dating: likely 11th century. Needs examination. Verso was apparently not photographed. NB: Michaelides 26 corresponds to …
Recto: Court record regarding the complaint of a man that his divorced wife penetrated forcefully into his house, April 1085 CE (6 Nisan 1396). Verso: …
(1-3) On Thursday, 6 Nissan 1396 AG (=9 April 1085 CE) according to the dating to which we are accustomed in Fustat-Mitzrayim, situated upon …
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Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Recto: legal deed in which Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. […] ha-Kohen 'Sixth in the Academy' gives a house in New Cairo to Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Kohen …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a quarter-dār. Mentions "in the land of Marseilles" (מרשיל[יא), but the context is missing. Likely in the hand of Eliyyahu …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a woman named Bahiyya and a partnership (sharika). (Information in …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Consists almost entirely of legalese. Involves a parnas and his wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 23 Nisan 1434 = 20 April 1123 CE. Upper part of a …
Deed of sale issued in Jerusalem and executed in Fustat. Dated 8 Adar II 4826 AM (March 1066 CE), in Jerusalem. Sittuna bat Yefet sells …
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dealing with the settlement of accounts. Involves Hiba b. Moshe …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Netanel b. Avraham. Bride: and Ṣabiyya bt. [...]. The dignitary Neḥemya b. Avraham he-Ḥaver is mentioned. Dated: 1345 Seleucid, which is …
Minute fragment containing part of a signature (Natan ha-Kohen).
Legal document describing that Avraham b. Moshe and Shelomo ha-Kohen al-Bilbaysi dissolve their business and proposed family relations. Shelomo still owes 12 dinars, of which …
Legal record (#16) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
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Sub-leasing agreement. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 = 15 January 1106 CE. In which Musāfir b. ʿEli, the tax farmer of …
Testimony of what transpired before us, we the witnesses whose signatures are at the bottom of
this document. Thus it was: Musāfir b. ʿAlī,…
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Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document for Moshe b. Nissim Ṭawīl and Simḥa bt. [...] ha-Levi known as al-ʿAjamī, dated August 1818 CE (Av 5578). Verso: Halakhic …
Marriage contract (ketubba). On parchment. Long vertical fragment, 21 in. in height; looks like a backbone. Written and signed by the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli. …
Marriage-related document. Includes a menstrual purity clause, so no earlier than late 12th century. The handwriting is probably known.
Lease contract involving al-Khazzān al-Yahūdī, dated A.H. 569 (= 1173-74 C.E.). - needs examination.
Legal record (#61). Settlement of debt. Dated: End of Av, 1467 Seleucid. Makārim al-Abzārī b. Avraham owes 112 dirhams of overdue rent for his dwelling …
Lower fragment of a ketubba from Fustat, about mid-12th century, according to the witnesses' identity. The bride's name is Sitt al-Ahl. The signatories are X …
Marriage contract (ketubba) appearing to be between two relatively poor families, as evident by the small marriage gift of 14 dinars. Dowry provided by the …
Small fragment from a ketubah containing few items from the dowry list. AA
Recto: Draft of a will. In the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (this should be checked). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1561 Seleucid = …
Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
Legal declaration (moda'a) in which a man declares that any release or compromise he will do in the future is invalid because he is coerced …
Marriage document, small fragment.
C1: Page from a court notebook dated Thursday, 26 Kislev 1338 Seleucid (December 1026 CE). unsigned, because only one witness appeared, Eli ha-Kohen b. Yefet. …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Witness signatures partially preserved (including ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh).
Legal document, probably, in Arabic script. Fragmentary name at the bottom [....] b. ʿImrān and a date Dhū l-Qaʿda [x]26. The last line might read …
Legal document headed "memorandum of testimony" (tadhkirat shahāda). The court convened in the synagogue; present were Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Wathīq and Sulaymān al-Ṣāʾigh, who negotiated …
Fragment of a Christian marriage contract written in Arabics on parchment and dated Muḥarram 554AH. The bottom half of the contract was reused as writing …
A communal enactment (taqqana) passed by the Jewish community of al-Maḥalla, in which they pledge their loyalty to their judge Peraḥya [b. Yosef], to retain …
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Upper part of a Qaraite legal document. Dated: Tuesday, 23 Tishrei 5408 AM = 22 October 1647 CE (not 1787 CE as stated in Ktiv). …
Probably a legal query and responsum mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Deals with business matters. Almost all the names are anonymized ("fulān"). Mentions counterfeit promissory notes (wa-l-ḥujaj …
Fragment from the bottom of a document in Arabic script, probably legal. Dated probably 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 863 H.
Recto: End of a legal document, written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Shevaṭ 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/1134 CE.
Multifragment. 25 fragments, most of them legal, almost all of them in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See Goitein's index card.
Very damaged, small fragment from a legal deed regrading marriage of a freed slave girl. Few words from her dowry list are preserved.
Text with citations from halakhic sources, possibly a responsum, mentioning an orphan. (Information from CUDL)
Deed of compensation in the handwriting of Emanuel b. Yehiel concerning Sulayman ha-Kohen b. Efrayim, who engaged in dyeing silk with turquoise blue. Also mentions …
Verso: Court record in Judaeo-Arabic, presumably of the dissolution of the marriage, in which an agreement is reached concerning the contents of the ketubba. Location: …