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Legal document: Bill of sale for property to Yuḥannis ibn Saqina. Buljusuq (Fayyum), late 4th/10th c. Parchment ; 23 lines + 1 line in right …
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Marriage document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/1126 CE. The groom may be Peraḥya ha-Levi [b. …
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 …
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Possibly legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The upper section is in a neater hand and the bottom section is written more …
Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 1v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew with some terms in …
Bill of release from any claim granted by Netanʾel b. Yefet b. Meshullam Ibn Ḥirbish to Musāfir b. Shemuel in relation to the will of …
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Bill of divorce (get). All names and dates are missing. Verso: A note in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a debt of 13[...] somethings. The handwriting and format …
Responsum? Small fragment from the bottom of the page, written by the hand of Menashshe b. Ya'aqov (1116-1132. Compare with DK 187, p. 6r, where …
Recto: Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. On parchment. Referring to an agreement between [... b.] Meshullam and his wife Maymūna, possibly concerning …
Legal document. Dating: Late 18th century or early 19th century, based on the mention of Me'ir b. Naʿim. Yaʿaqov Ḥasūn attests that he received a …
Recto: part of a ketubba for Ḥusnā bat [...] and Khalaf b. Hiba ha-Levi (ליואה). Dated Thursday, 27 Shevaṭ 1[..]6 (c. 11th century CE?). Location: …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Mazara, Sicily. Dated: Sunday, 10 Sivan 4898 AM = 22 May, 1138 CE. Signed: Yosef Shemuel ha-Sofer and Moshe b. …
Fragment of an agreement specifying the conditions imposed on the kosher butchers licensed by the Palestinian congregation in Fustat and signed by ha-Ḥaver b. Mevorakh, …
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Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script, apparently the witness statements from the bottom of a deed of sale.
Recto: Beginning of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 6 Shevaṭ 156[7?] Seleucid, which is 1256 CE. (Might also be 1564 Seleucid = 1253 CE.) …
Verso: Legal formularies. In the margins of a literary text containing blessings.
Deed of sale for a residential building and its upper-story apartment in the Jewish quarter of Cairo. Dated: in the first third of Nisan 542[4] …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (1127-1138), but these identifications …
Fragment of a legal document, 6 lines, not very legible script. Indication of a default in loan repayment on the first due date (ākhiruhā yatluhu …
Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Bride: Sitt al-Kull, a virgin. Early marriage payment: 10 dinars. Grand …
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 …
Small fragment in Hebrew. Late. Containing legal phrases בפנינו אנו . . חתומי מטה יודעים ומעידים עדות . . .
Detailed deathbed declaration made by Abu al-Tahir Mevorakh b. Shela al-murid (government supplier), written by the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The testator …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Jumādā II 907. A (sale?) contract beginning with "qabaḍ al-muʿallim Aḥmad b. Yūsuf" concerning several people, one of …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, dated 1449 (= 1137/38 CE). A tax-farmer (ḍāmin), Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. ʿUlla (known as …
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Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dating: early 12th century. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. Recounts the convoluted history of the financial arrangements between …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Damsīs, Egypt. Dated: Nisan 4843 AM = 1083 CE. Groom: ʿEli b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Bride: Ḥisān b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq …
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Legal document, record of testimony (?)
A general prenuptial agreement in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Goitein suggests that this document was written before 1134, the year that Ṣedaqa …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1140. The partners (Abū al-Barakāt and Abū al-Faraj) split losses evenly but grant the active partner (Abū al-Faraj) thirteen twenty-fourths …
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Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (long vertical strip from the right side). Very similar to T-S 12.659 (Friedman, JMP, doc. 6). Groom: David. Date and other …
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Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 21 Sivan 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. Husband: ʿOvadya b. Yeshula ha-Kohen. Wife: Ghāliya bt. Hānī. …
Legal document from Minyat Ghamr concerning a debt; during the holiday of Passover 1537 sel., mid-April 1226 CE. Reshut of Abraham Maimonides. Ḥalfon b. Elazar …
Legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. One witness signature is preserved. Possibly a deed of sale, since the word "al-mushtarī" appears in l. 4.
Testimony, in Arabic script, on parchment, written in paragraphs of two lines which is a common feature of some marriage documents. Begins هذا ما شهد …
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century. Mentions 'my brother R. Moshe,' the dīwān, the dīwān taking a payment of over 3,000 of …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: Unknown. Location: Jerusalem. Groom: Avraham b. Gershom. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Mevorakh, a divorcee. See Goitein's index card for further information.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Abū l-Munā ʿUlla al-ʿAṭṭār b. Ḥasan acknowledges …
Recto: A partnership contract that is the subject of the legal queries to Daniel b. Azarya, the Palestinian gaon, edited in Gil, Palestine #395 (PGPID …
Fragment of a ketubba. In the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38), from the period of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Bride: [...] bt. Natan. On …
Bifolio. One page (the right side of recto) contains a draft or copy of an Aramaic deed of gift given to a woman named Karīma.
Legal record (#49) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 13v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 48-50) Folio 13v
Fragment from a legal document, possibly a trousseau list section of a ketuba. AA
Pen trials in various hands, including signatures, biblical phrases and a note dated Tevet 1397 (= 1085 CE) with the names Mevorakh b. Mufarrij ha-Kohen …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves an Abū l-Faraj. Otherwise consists entirely of elaborate release formulae.
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides? In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Shaykh al-Makīn is to give the beadle some sum. Very faded. T-S K25.240 consists of …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 610 or 620 AH (=1214 or 1223 CE). Nearly complete, with two witness signatures, but smudged. Needs …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give 2 dirhams to Seʿadya al-Nazir from the waqf of …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Large. Elegantly written, with moderately wide spaces between the lines. The lines initially descend and then sharply ascend at the …