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Bottom of a court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Signed by him and also by Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Dating: 1127–38 …
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Legal document in which Moshe Ḥakim (חכים) receives money from Yaʿaqov, to invest in his business. The latter partner's surname may be Kohen, based on …
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Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abū l-Majd is to give someone …
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Small fragment of a legal document.
Fragment of a late legal document. A deceased person with an uncommon name is mentioned in line 3, ירוב זאקון נ׳׳ע (Yarov Zāqūn), probably as …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Top left - beginning of a legal document. Bottom right is also part …
Measures for the founding of a Jewish association in Egypt as a branch of the overarching association by the name of Kinisat Israel, and they …
Legal document from the court of Avraham Maimonides. The members of the court are listed in a neat table: Ḥananel b. Shemuel, Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim, …
IB VII, 18. Legal document. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Dating: 1120–38 CE, based on the involvement …
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Legal formularies, including for a wedding contract for people with prior divorces. There is also a section about repentance and forgiveness.
Court register fragment. Join: Matthew Dudley. Dated: Kislev 5480 (1719 CE) Verso: sale of a one-year tax-farming partnership within the Ottoman customs house of Old …
Testimony. Dated: Shawwāl [6]54/October–November 1256. In which Ibrāhīm b. Ismaʿīl is certified as a Khaybarī Jew originally from al-Jawf, and therefore entitled to privileges granted …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The people recording their testimony at the end of this court record testified [that they …
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Deed in which Abū Isḥāq Abzārī gives the Nagid Avraham Maimonides the right to buy back the burj, a tower in the ancient Byzantine fortress …
Document of sale dated 430 AH. The sale is between Bandalūs the son of Buṭrus and Baqām the son Kayl the son of Qūrīl. In …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Probably a deed of gift. Signed by [Abraham?], a descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon. …
Minute fragment from the top of a ketubba. Only a few words from the ornamental header have survived. There are also jottings in small Arabic …
Recto: Small fragment of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The one making the acknowledgment may be named Salmūn b. Isḥāq al-Māwardī.
Legal deed. In Arabic script. Dated: Jumādā II 993 AH, which is 1585 CE. A landlord, called only al-Faqīr ilā Allāh, settles accounts with his …
Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words from the dowry list preserved. AA
Verso: Beginning of a draft of a legal record in the hand of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. The testimony of a certain Mūsā. Involving Khulla …
Exemplars of legal documents or instructions for how to write them. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Deed of a sale. Dated 145[.] Seleucid, which is 1138–48 CE, which is consistent with the reshut clause invoking the Nagid Shem[uel b. Ḥananya]. …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. It appears that Meshullam takes over the responsibility for the six years of alimony payments (farḍ) to a certain female relative …
[...] Mr. Meshulam [told us]: “This
[woman] is my relative and I must [...] her. Whatever the court charges her,
I will pay it for her.…
Legal document related to Nahray b. Nissim. This record refers to the lower fragment of the two in the enclosure. it was photographed upside-down; in …
Legal deed in large square thick letters
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A woman gives to a man a gift consisting of two objects delivered …
Legal letter. Written on parchment (14 lines). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He reports that he has come up with …
Fragment of a deed of sale for a property in Fustat, in Maḥbas Bunāna. In Arabic script. Several geographical details and characteristics of the property …
Legal note in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. No date preserved, no signatures. Stating that 'her mature son' Ibrāhīm b. Rabbenu Yiftaḥ ha-Dayyan (ZL) …
Court notebook in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fol. 1v: Two entries. Location: Fustat. Both dated Tuesday, 2 Av 1438 Seleucid = 12 …
Ketubba fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A circular piece has been cut out; this is part of the …
Possibly a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
An important and extremely unusual Arabic legal/communal document using Jewish legal formulae and invoking Moses (Mūsā b. ʿImrān al-Rasūl), appointing Sahlān b. Barhūn […] al-Mumḥe …
Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 22 Tamuz 14[60] Seleucid, which is 1149 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59 CE). It is crucial to …
Court record. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1417 Seleucid, which is December 1105 CE. Location: Fustat. Describing a married woman—Mudallala aka Sitt Baghdād—depositing part of …
Small fragments from the left side of a legal document. Involves Abū l-Ḥasan.
Bill of release. Written (also validated) by Avraham b. Natan Av. Dated: 1104 or 1107 CE, with a partial year in the first line, Nisan …
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document written on parchment. Dated Ṣafar 261 AH = November/December 874 CE. This is therefore the oldest Arabic …