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Legal record (#11). Loan contract. Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Sayyid al-Kull al-Zayyāt Ibn Makḥūl and Abū ʿAlī b. Abū Saʿd attest that Sibāʿ …
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Fragment from the end of a contract, followed by a whole contract, both of which are between Avraham and Shalom and witnessed by the scribe …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document, containing only the validation, mentioning ʿEli ha-Kohen the Parnas as one of the signatories. Written and validated …
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Statement in Arabic script ("aqūlu wa-anā...") made and signed by Hiba b. Mufaḍḍal al-Mutaṭabbib. Dated: 18 Shawwāl 628 AH = 19 August 1231 CE. It …
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: …
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Fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: Mentions 525 AH and [144]2 Seleucid, corresponding to 1130/31 CE. Mentions …
Legal document in which Sar Shalom, son of Rabana Yosef, affirms that he collected his debt from the daughter of Rabbi Nahum in 1344 ED/ …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Middle third of Adar, 1430 Seleucid, which is 1119 CE. Involves Ḥalfon b. Mevorakh …
Deed of sale of a house, dated to " the second in the month of Av (may it turn) joyful", 1545 Sel. (29.6.1234 CE) . …
Recto: Legal document in Hebrew. Long but very faded. Dating: likely 11th century. Various sums of money and someone named Naḥum b. [...]on are mentioned. …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as the accounts on verso mention the ashrafī– which was first minted under Sultan …
Quittance in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Unfinished. Sumr bt. ʿEli releases any debt owed to her by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm …
Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 29 Adar 5539 AM (=Ṣafar 1193 AH), which is 1779 CE. Avraham Fayrūz b. Eliyyahu Fayrūz known as Shuwaykh makes arrangements …
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Fragment bearing the mirror imprint of a legal deed probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe. The year seems to be 1432 Seleucid (1120/21 CE).
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Wife: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Berakhot. Husband's name not preserved. Signed by Moshe b. Sadoq and the cantor Moshe b. Yehuda. (Information …
End of a legal document signed by Shlomo b. Yishay the Nasi (mid-13th century) and probably written by him. One of the parties is [...] …
Marriage contract containing a list of jewelry apparently of Syro-Palestinian manufacture, to be sold by Shemuel b. Ḥasan two months after the signing of this …
Legal record (#34) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 34-36) Folio 9r
Unusual genre of legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), stating that Abū l-Karam must pay to the orphan Abū …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 18 January 1061. Location: Fustat. This document initiates a partnership in the ritual washing of corpses. Sulaymān b. Ḥusayn and …
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Recto: fragment of a legal document. Date not preserved. Verso: quotation from a Hebrew poem by Shemuel ha-Nagid ibn Naghrela of Granada (d.1056), apparently quoted …
Petition filed by a woman asking the help of the community since her husband did not return from his travels. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand …
Marital agreement between groom David b. Efrayim ha-Parnas and bride Mubāraka bt. Faraḥ ha-Kohen (maybe the same as in T-S AS 153.50 (PGPID 34983)), listing …
Bottom fragment of a literary document, in Arabic script.
Document in Arabic script headed 'tadhkira' ('memorandum'). There is a line of honorifics for somebody.
Fragment of a deed of sale of a property, here describing the property.
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1406 Seleucid, which is 1094/95 CE. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. …
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IB VI, 5. Legal document. Record of release; partnership renewal. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Amat al-Qādir, widow of …
[............] ... גמיעה ודפ[ע ...............................]
[...]א צחאחא מנהא מאית [...........] . מר יפת .. מאיה דינאר ....
אנ. אמה אלקאדר…
[…] … in total and pa[id…]
[…] good … from which one hundred […] Mr. Japheth .. hundred dinars …
… Amat al-Qādir concerning the judgment of tha…
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in Hebrew. Mentions the name Mordekh[ay] or Mordukh in line 3. Dating: ca. 16th century.
Small fragment from a legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Possibly a will, or simply a debt contract, as …
Ketubba. Location: Cairo. Groom: Natan(?) b. David. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. ʿAdaya. In the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? (Information from Goitein’s index card.)
Legal document. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid = March/April 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Maʿānī acknowledges that he has …
Conditional divorce agreement. Date: Monday 29th Tishrei 5560 AM (1799 CE The groom is 'Uziel b. 'Uziel b. Yeshu'a and the bride 'Aziza d. Yehuda …
Recto: Legal query regarding a man who made many vows and repented of them. Verso: Appears to be the writer's notes more general notes to …
Bill of divorce, fragment. Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Involves someone named al-Sarūjī.
Small fragment of an Arabic legal document on parchment. Probably a transaction involving real estate; mentions al-makhzan alladhī. . .
Deed of sale for the purchase by Ibrahim b. Mūsā b. Ṣaliḥ the Jew of two houses and irrigated land to the north of Fusṭāṭ …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وكفى وصلواته على عباده الذين اصطفی
هذا ما اشترى ابرهيم بن موسی بن صلح الاسرائيلي من [دا اود بن ازهر …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient for, and his blessings be upon, his [servants, whom] …
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Two court records in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Recto: bill of release from Abū l-Munā …
Legal document, damaged.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Beginning of Shevat 5306 AM = January 1546 CE. Concerning financial arrangements between a wife (Siwār) and husband …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom name is Ya'aqov Helevi and the bride is Esther. Faded and damged.
Two court entries in the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver, unclear if they are related. Above, the court orders Abū l-Faraj Ibn …
Middle part of a marriage contract. Bride: ʿAzza bt. Shemarya. It is not her first marriage. Dating: Probably 11th century, based on handwriting. One of …
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya (ca. 1181–1209).
Legal document? Probably from a book of legal formulas. Very damaged. Hebrew, Aramaic. AA
Small fragment of an engagement (shiddukhin) deed. Dated: 1438 Seleucid = 1126/27 CE. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi and signed by him together with …
Marriage contract in which a widow contributes one sixth of a house from a previous marriage and stands surety for her husband in case he …
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Adar 1409 Seleucid, which is February 1098 CE. Dealing with a lawsuit of Mevasser/Bishāra b. Ḥalfon against Shelomo …
Verso: Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: Late 13th century CE according to Lieberman, but in fact probably closer to 1230 CE (the date of recto). …
Legal document dated Av 1446 of the Seleucid Era (= 1135 CE) (though the digit "6" is not perfectly clear) in the town [..]דמ (possibly …