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Legal formulary.
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Fragment from the top of a ketubah. from the date only [..]73 is preserved.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Recto mentions: two orphans, the release of a buyer, a guarantee, Sitt al-Ḥusn, Sitt al-Nasab, …
Recto: Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Late. Mentions [...] b. al-Ashqar and a debt of 30 Venetian ducats (בנד[ק). On verso there are pen trials.
Contract of friendship between Elʿazar Maymūn and Yom Ṭov b. Sīd. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated: Sunday, 17 Tevet 5324 AM, which is January 1564 …
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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location not specified. Dated: Tuesday, 4 days into ḥol ha-moʿed Sukkot 5325 AM, which is 1564 CE. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Medina …
Legal document from Thessaloniki, dated May 1722 CE (20 Iyyar 5482 AM). Shemuel Laros aka Bekhor (בכור) declares that a certain Raḥel does not owe …
Minute fragment. Probably from a legal deed. Only few words are preserved. A house is mentioned, and the Babylonian synagogue.
Legal document. Location: Probably Minyat Zifta. Involves Abū l-Riḍā and his brother Ḥ[asan?] the sons of Khalaf ha-Levi. Signed by Sheʾerit b. Yakhin ha-Kohen; Yefet …
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Recto: Partnership agreement dated Purim 5365 (Adar 14) = 1605 CE, Cairo, between Shemuel Mosseri of Damascus and [...] (name lost to damage). The partnership …
Verso: Legal agreement in which Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī the banker agrees to pay Ḥalfon b. Efrayim 8.5 dinars every month on a debt of 15 …
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Legal document. Dated Thursday 26 Elul 1386 Sel. (September 1075 CE). There is an invocation of the Nagid Yehuda b. Seʿadya at the beginning. Yiṣḥaq …
מעשה שהיה בפנינ[ו ] אדוננו כב גד קד מר ור יהודה ראש המעולים
וראש כגק הנגיד יהו[דה ירום] הודו ויגבה . . . לי בן כבוד גד קד מר ור סעדיה זקל
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Verso: Part of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing a divorce document and the settling of the dowry with Yaʿaqov, the ex-husband. (Information from CUDL.)
Legal document(s) or formulary.
Legal fragment. Mentions a ḥerem stam and coral and various sums of money. Mentions the year 1410 Sel. (1098-1099 CE). Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel. …
Legal record (#45) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 44-46) Folio 11v
Debt contract. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First third of Elul 1446 Seleucid = September 1135 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Legal record (#86) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 29v-30r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 28 Heshvan 5325 …
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (Date: 1100-1138). Fragment (upper left corner). Probably an acknowledgment of a debt. Abū l-Khayr b. …
Legal record (#57). Settlement of dispute, outline. Belongs with #55. Stating that a contract shall be written to the effect that Sitt al-Dār bt. Natan, …
Karaite bill of release, mentions Farja[llah] Ḥakim ben Mordekhay Ḥakim and Elʾazar Rofe.
Legal document (fragment) in which Qurra bt. Shelomo, as sole heiress of her father, asks to be given 20 dinars of the 35 he had …
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Legal fragment (upper right corner). Dated: Iyyar 14[..] Seleucid = 1089–1188 CE. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Acknowledgment made by Abū Saʿd Shemuel ha-Levi. The handwriting is distinctive …
Legal record (#17a). Alimony owed. Pertaining to the first record on the facing page (Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.11, recto, a). "The maintenance (mezonot) incumbent on Bū …
Legal document, small fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE).
Verso: bottom part of a beautifully illuminated ketubba, signed by Yaʿaqov b. Simḥa. It seems to be too damaged to extract much of the content. …
Cryptic note that may be in Judaeo-Arabic, with a formal-looking layout and מצריים at the bottom left (Cairo or Egypt). This may be a small …
Legal affidavit or court record. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Middle third of Shevat 1434 Seleucid, which is mid-January 1123 CE. But this dating is not certain, …
Procedure of ḥaliṣa. Two cases, one serving as model. (1) Fulāna bt. Netanʾel b. Aharon; Moshe b. Seʿadya; Moshe's brother Shelomo b. Seʿadya. (2) On …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). On parchment. Deed of sale for a property, or maybe a lease …
Left fragment: small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138), under the authority of the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ …
Legal document mentioning Shela b. [...], Fusṭāṭ and the Gaʾon. Signed by [...] b. Ṣedaqa, Yefet b. Saʿadya and [Jose]ph b. Yefet. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document; marriage document. Three unrelated texts: Two contracts (ketubah and deed of sale) and a commentary on Genesis 12. Fol. 1: commentary on Genesis …
Recto: Legal document in the distinctive hand of Elḥanan b. Shemarya. This is a notification (moda'a) that the release that Ṣāliḥ granted a certain Nāshī …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Lower right corner. Part of one witness statement is preserved.
Fragment of a legal document, apparently a release. Date not preserved.
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Abū l-Majd is to give a certain sum …
Engagement deed and trousseau list dated 25 June 1789 CE (1 Tammuz 5549 AM) between Yaʿaqov Rosano b. Avraham Rosano and the widow Miryam bt. …
Court order forcing a husband, by threat of excommunication, to write a bill of divorce for his wife and not run away, leaving her 'a …
Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dividing up a store. No names mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index …
Legal record (#1) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 1-16 on f. 1v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Debt release …
Legal document, disintegrated and shredded. Probably related to divorce.
Legal testimony. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The case of Jayyida and the eavesdropping. See T-S AS 151.242–3 + T-S …
Legal document. Will from 1527 CE (1 Shevat 5287 AM) drawn up by Shul or Sol (Sul, Shol = שול), the wife of R. Shelomo …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Someone says "I no longer have any livelihood here" (לאן מא בקי לי ההנא מעאש) and someone responds to that and …
Replacement for a lost ketubba (אירכסא). Location: Baalbek in the Biqāʿ Valley of Lebanon (בעלת אשר בבקעת הלבנון תחת הר חרמון). Dated: 21 Av 1564 …
Legal record (#23) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
Legal or official document in Arabic script (mā taḥaṣṣala min...). There are closely related texts on both recto and verso. Dated: Looks like 14 [.] …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a dowry. Possibly also a condition ("and if there is no child").
Legal document/note testifying that a certain Baqā' b. al-Surūr the [indigo] merchant will operate the tax farm (ḍamān) of Tamīm, the ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya (location …
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