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Responsum? Discussing legal issues with two lines in a different hand at the bottom, including a signature which includes the name Yeḥiʾel.
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Bill of rent for Shemuel Maṭāwīṭ. Dated: Sivan 53[..] AM = 1540–1639 CE. Location: possibly Cairo, the portion of the word that is visible before …
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Small fragment from the validation (qiyyum) of a legal document. Mentions the names Yaʿaqov b. Yosef and Avraham b. Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen.
Legal document. Apprenticeship agreement. Dated: Ṭevet 1462 Seleucid = December 1150 / January 1151 CE. Location: Fustat. Written in the jurisdiction of Shemuel b. Ḥananya …
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Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Recto: Acknowledgment made by Najm b. Naḥrīr the 'mawlā' of Suʿadāʾ(?) bt. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-ʿAlawī(?) b. al-ʿAbbāsī(?) and Hilāl …
IB I, 8. Court proceedings from Fustat dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' …
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Court verdict, probably from Tyre, concerning the inheritance of a woman buried in Tiberias, dated approximately 1015.
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Draft of the bottom part of a legal deed
Legal record of an inheritance, issued in the court of R. Levi b. Ḥabib in Jerusalem in September 1532 CE (3 Tishrei 5293), for the …
Arabic legal deed concerning a property – a house which includes a stable - outside the walls of Cairo, outside Bāb Zuwayla and Bāb al-Kharq. …
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Fragment from a ketubba. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Muʿizzī dinars. The bride's father is named Ḥubaysh. Reused for various jottings on verso.
Entry in court notebook (#40). Note stating that a letter shall be written to Ibn al-Zurzūr(?) Bū l-Faraj ha-Ḥazzan informing him not to raise any …
Legal notes. A list of the complaints brought by the wife of the Rayyis against her sister the wife of Ṣāʿid. There are numerous claims. …
Legal document. Dated: Av 4959 AM, which is 1199 CE. Location: Probably Alexandria, where legal documents in this period tend to be dated according to …
This fragment is actually several fragments stuck together. In the lower right corner of 'recto,' at 90 degrees to the other text blocks, there is …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Probably a bill of gift of property in Qaṣr al-Rūm granted to …
Legal deed. Opening lines only; abandoned mid-way through the fifth line. Dated: Sunday, 1 Sivan 1539 Seleucid, which is 1228 CE, under the jurisdiction of …
Legal document concerned with a house and its seller the elder [...] b. Netanel ha-Levi. Probably a draft. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/26 CE. …
Large legal document. Fragment (left side only). Written in a large square hand. Dating: Might be 11th century. Concerns a partnership in a shop and …
Legal document, probably. Faded/damaged. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sums of money, the paternal uncle of a wife, Abū l-Bahā' (or Abū l-Baqā'), and a teacher.
Legal document from Cairo, dated September 1829 (end of Elul 5589). Missing a large chunk from the upper left, but the remnant details an investment …
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 48
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Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman with the strange name of Qirā al-Lawn (קרא אללון), the widow of the late Marwān, appoints Shelomo b. …
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Ketubba (marriage contract). In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. The portion preserved here is mainly the trousseau list. The grand total of marriage payments …
Legal document in Arabic script. Perhaps an iqrār made by Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbs(?). Mentions Cairo in line 6 and may also mention zakāt …
Legal fragment in Hebrew, with some phrases in in Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic. Dating: likely ca. 16th century. Concerning a p[artnership Mentions Shelomo; ʿOvadya; [...] Ashkenazi; …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions "I, Yefet" and a sum of "an eighth of the total" and a certain quantity …
Recto: Perhaps a letter or brief legal document? Very faded. Verso: A record of the amount of money (35 silver [medin]) received from Eliyyahu Nābī(?) …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragment: only the ends of 6 lines are preserved. It concerns a settlement between two people and lists all the …
Recto looks like a draft of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso contains jottings as well as accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mentions Wednesday, 23 Nisan …
Fragment of a court register. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Entries on verso include (a) a marriage agreement between Namer …
Fragment of a legal deed. Involving Muḥsin and Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (dated documents: 1007-1055 CE), head of the Palestinian congregation …
Deathbed will of Turfa bt. Shemarya ha-Zaqen. Draft. Needs examination.
Legal document. Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan ha-Sefaradi gives to his son, Shemuel, power of attorney to sue Aharon b. Yosef (aka Hārūn b. Yūsuf), known as …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Bū l-Faḍl Shela ha-Levi.
Legal document, concerning Abū ʿAlī b. [...], a debt of 100 dirhams, and possibly the appointing of an agent. At the bottom the names: Ḥalfon …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Fragment (lower right corner). Dated: 1448 Seleucid, which is 1136/37 CE, under the authority …
Recto: part of a ketubba. The name of the bride and groom, date, location and names of witnesses are not preserved.
Beginning of a court record. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Dated: Thursday night, 14 Ḥeshvan 1578 Seleucid = 14 October 1266 CE, under the authority of [David …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has traced over every word.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Dated: 554 AH = 1159/60 CE. The calendar date might be 19 Jumādā II. (According to FGP the …
Small strip from the left side of a legal deed of an unknown nature. One of the anonymous parties if referred as 'the great minister'. …
Document of sale for real estate, a quarter of a house, between Shelomo b. Moshe and Sitt al-Hanāʾ bt. Elʿazar ha-Levi. Possibly in the hand …
Probably a court record in Hebrew. Late. The verso bears a potential filing note regarding the "case of Raḥamīm גרגיס (surname), in the matter of …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday 28 Tevet 1448 Seleucid, which is 24 December 1136 CE. Husband: Ṣadaqa …
Karaite agreement regarding payment of a debt, 19 zeri maḥbūb. Dated Monday, 1st Heshvan 5510 AM (1750 CE). Location: presumably Cairo. The two parties discussed …
Deed of quittance stating that Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Būṣīrī (בוצירי from Būṣīr in Egypt) received what was owed him by his sister’s son, Yiṣḥaq b. …
Fragment of a ketubba. Qaraite? In Aramaic and Hebrew (no Judaeo-Arabic). The signatures of the witnesses have been scratched out. On verso there is a …
Small fragments, in Arabic script. Fol.3 mentions "wuṣūl", probably accounts or fiscal. Needs examination.
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Late 13th century, based on Goitein's assessment. Groom: [...] b. Natan b. Yehuda. Bride: ʿIyāl bt. Shela ha-Rofe b. …