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Recto: Hebrew-Aramaic legal document, mentioning [...] b. Faraj and [...] b. ʿAmram known as Ibn Ḥadīda. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script mentioning shipments and a …
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Fragment of a ketubba. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) in an unusually large and beautiful script. The dowry includes a …
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Verso: Directive concerning a legal case in Judaeo-Arabic. "The elder Abū l-ʿAlāʾ must come, and if he is tardy, he will owe 10 (dinars?)... and …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dating: 11th century. Groom: [...] b. Ḥusayn. Bride: [...] bt. Yiṣḥaq. Marriage payments: 15 + 25. (Information from Goitein’s index …
Small fragment from the bottom of a l legal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1502 Seleucid = 1190/91 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …
Fragment from the top part of a ketubba. Dating: 12th century. Looks like the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 19 Jumādā II 638 AH = 5 January 1241 CE, recording the purchase of the same house as in …
Probably a fragment of a get (bill of divorce) for a certain Yaḥyā.
Court ledger bifolium in Hebrew. Late, mentioning the currencies reales and fiḍḍa (medin). Contains several entries, including one for an engagement (shiddukhin) and another entry …
Legal deed, apparently settling accounts at the end of a lease. Probably from a Rabbanite court. In Hebrew. Dated: Sunday, 5 Av 5404 AM, which …
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Formulary for legal deeds, with quotations from responsa (frequent quotations of Binyamin Zeʾev - 16th century) followed by or with full description of the deed. …
Fragment from the top of a ketubba. Dated: Probably [49]49 AM, which would be 1188/89 CE. The groom is either Shemuel ha-Levi "Beḥir ha-Leviim" or …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment from the middle of the top. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1438 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE, …
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. A release. Dating: Probably ca. 16th century, based on the hand. Mentions Yosef.
Legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1088–1187 CE. Involves a man and woman and sustenance/alimony payments (mezonot).
Legal document. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Unusual format. The trustee ("al-neʾeman") Yefet b. Elʿazar, who is the representative of …
Legal document. Hand of Natan b. Shemuel? Location: Fustat. Involves [Abū l-]Karam(?) known as Ibn al-Shavuy and [...] b. ʿAdiyya ha-Zaqen and a debt of …
End of a legal document. Involves Dalāl bt. Yaʿaqov. Signed by David b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen and Elʿazar b. Saʿadya. The qiyyum is written and signed …
Minute fragmקמt from the dowry section of a ketubah. AA
Fragment of a late legal document in which someone, perhaps Faraj Allāh, acknowledges an investment of Venetian gold from Sulaymān Faraḥ.
Recto: Deed of sale written by Natan b. Avraham Av. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 5 Kislev 1420 Seleucid, which is 10 November 1108 CE. Sitt …
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Small fragment containing large red letters and illumination. Likely a fragment of a ketubba (הכשרה המאו[שרת?).
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-38 CE). Fragment (upper left corner). On parchment. Opens with a string of titles very …
Minute fragment from a legal deed mentioning Qasr al-Sham'
Fragment of power of attorney signed by four persons including the judge Shemuel b. Saadya (in office 1165-1203) and deputy judge Jephthah b. Yaʿaqov (in …
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Document dated 21 December 1817 CE (12 Tevet 5578 AM) in which Mordekhai Romano details the plan for medical treatment for the children of his …
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper left corner). Regarding shares in a house which was given …
Fragment of a quittance (שטר פיצוי). On parchment. Dating: maybe 11th century.
Legal discussion on the collection of the ketubah money - needs examination. Image not available
Fragment from the right side of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a sum of 10.5 dinars. Dating: Mentions Shaʿbān [5]73 AH = January/February …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Draft, with many corrections. Concerning someone's will. Mentions Abū l-Wafā "my sister's son."
Legal document. Release. In Hebrew and Aramaic. A name appears at lower left. Dating: likely 11th century.
Legal document. In the hand of Yefet b. David. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 3 Nisan [47]88 AM, which is 1 April 1028 CE. Barhūn b. …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract on recto. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5567 AM (התקסז), which is 1806 CE. Groom: Moshe Ẓvi. Bride: Simḥa bt. Barukh. Verso is a …
Small legal or official document. Written on a small, narrow slip, with annotations in the upper margin. In some ways more resembles an order of …
Legal testimony, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Elul 1492 (2 September 1181). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
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Legal document. Bill of divorce, Cairo. Dated: 16 Tevet 1399 (31 December 1088). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Document of sale dated 454 AH. The buyers are Rabābīl’s two sons, Marqūrah and his brother, Buṭrus. The seller is Usṭūrhīwa the daughter of Qūrīl. …
An 11th-century deed of sale for a portion of a house, in Arabic script. In between a [...] al-yahūdī al-ḥarīrī (the Jewish silk trader, who …
Legal record (#106) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated [27 Kislev 5326 …
IB I, 37. Legal record (#9). Deposition in court. Bū Naṣr al-Kohen Ibn Mukhtār, Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār ('the perfumer in the alley of the candles'), Abū …
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Verso: Draft of a legal document in Hebrew from Cairo (Miṣrayim) Dated Tishrei 5583 AM (= September/October 1822 CE). Concerning a guardian appointed for a …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: last third of Tammuz 1410 Seleucid = July 1099 CE. Hiba b. Moshe …
Ketubba fragments. Lower part. One of the witnesses is Shelomo b. Yosef. There is literary text on verso.
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Lessor: "Shaykh al-Islām" ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-ʿIbādī(?). Lessee: Shemuel b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī al-Rūmī. The property is a first floor …
Legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Legal declaration in Arabic script, with a few Hebrew words (also in Arabic script) mixed in. "I have witnesses to the effect that Abū ʿAlī …
Legal document concerning a female slave, witnessed by a judge Muḥammad Mūsā, dated 28 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 810/1407.
Verso: Formulary in Aramaic for a deathbed will, dated Av 1552 Seleucid (= 1241 CE) in Fustat. (Information from CUDL)