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Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar 14[.]3 Seleucid. The tens digit may have still been preserved at the time …
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Trousseau list. Entries include a copper vessel, a bath tub, and a female slave named Warda born into slavery (muwalladat al-jins). (Information from Goitein’s index …
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Prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Thursday, 9 Elul 1428 Seleucid = 9 August 1117 CE. The top part of the document …
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Deathbed declaration of Shelomo b. Avraham Ibn ʿEzra. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 4[.]45 AM. Maybe 4945 AM = 1185 CE. Mentions someone known as [...] …
Legal document dated but much of the date is lost. Mentions Mukarram al-Kohen (on verso, not part of the document itself). (Information in part from …
Two or three fragments of a deed of sale in Arabic, on parchment, cut up and stitched into a different configuration.
Court record, probably regarding a debt, between Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa and the banker (ha-shulḥani) Abū l-Ṭāhir Mevorakh b. Shela (appears also in ENA …
Court notebook from the year 1467 Seleucid = 1156 CE. 29 folios, ~66 documents. Also contains non-legal items. See individual PGPIDS for individual documents. "The …
Recto: note to Abū l-Maḥāsin, asking for guidance in a personal problem (probably in relation to the query on verso), which also involves the fact …
Recto: deed of transfer, in which Abū l-Ẓāhir and Abū ʿAmr give a sixth of a house to Hillel ha-Baḥur. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4992 AM …
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Legal testimony. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Thursday, 24 Shevat 1816 Seleucid = Shaʿbān 910 AH, which is 1505 CE. The document first lists the assembly …
Legal document. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the upper left corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: [..]61, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE, …
P15: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions a certain Abū ʿAlī. Likely a join with P14. T-S Misc.28.79.2 and T-S Misc.28.79.15 …
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Fragment of a late ketubah. The groom is Nissim and the bride Najma.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Two fragments constituting an indirect join. Natan/Hiba b. [...] al-Sīlqūnī (the red lead …
A document that has been folded twice. The outer face (pages 1 and 4) contains legal documents relating to business partnerships; a Moshe and a …
Responsum. Long and narrow strip of paper, containing a responsum regarding the property of orphans. It seems that the ruling is not to deliver the …
Legal document. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe; also signed by the teacher Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 4 Kislev 1437 …
Legal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed זכרון עדות. Dated: 1540 Seleucid, which is 1228/29 CE. Despite the heading, it might be a legal query, e.g., if …
Remarriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Dating: Under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39), so …
Damaged legal draft in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Written on both sides. Deed of sale for half of a …
Fragmentary bill of divorce (get). The husband name [... b.] Halfon. The wife's name 'Aziza. Signed by [... b.] Yeshu'a Hakohen and [...] b. Ishaq. …
Late Hebrew document. The bottom part is torn so no signatures or date are preserved. Dating: 18th or 19th century based on the currency. Agreement …
Fragment of a legal deed, probably regarding a partnership between Yosef and Yaʿqūb. Looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions a period of …
Arbitration after the breaking off of a betrothal. A board of arbitration, consisting of four prominent citizens, decided that the brother of the bride, Tarib …