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Segment of a ketubba (marriage contract), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–1138 CE).
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Marriage document (?). Torn and damaged fragment, barely legible. Few words can be read, such as מתקאלי, זוזי. Also the verb ויהב, which suggest it …
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Fragment of a late legal document in which someone, perhaps Faraj Allāh, acknowledges an investment of Venetian gold from Sulaymān Faraḥ.
Legal document (שהדותא. . . .). Apparently a declaration made by Ḥisday ha-Sar. Mentioning Ibn al-Kāzarūnī and 50 or [.]50 dinars. T-S NS 310.77 (PGPID …
Fragment from the center of a ketubba. (See Goitein's index card for further information.)
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Recto: Legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Involving a bridegroom and his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl. …
Legal document in a gathering of the Karaites in Cairo, mentioning the instrument of the herem to elicit information concerning a rumor some women had …
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Deed of sale or lease. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The seller (or lessor) receives 6 dinars from a woman. …
Court record. Mentions a woman who died and a dispute over an inheritance involving Abū Isḥāq Yoshiyya (the same as in T-S 12.37 (PGPID 3143)?), …
Recto: Legal document in which Abū l-Khayr b. Nājī ha-Parnas releases ʿAmīd al-Dawla Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef from any obligations for goods sold by the latter …
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Elaborate Karaite ketubba, dated both according to the creation and to the 'counting of the Greeks'. The groom Yosef b. Mordechai b. Shalom is taking …
Deed of sale of a property on recto, with multiple related addenda documents on verso. Dated 2 Muḥarram 777 AH on recto (1375 CE). In …
[ ] its witnesses ... drawn up f[or] [ ]
[ ] well-protected al-Qāhira, in Ḥārat Zuwayla, in the lane with no outlet known as the ‘bl…
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Ketubbah of [...] b. Solomon (groom). Dated [...] Sel. in Fusṭāṭ. Written by Emmanuel b. Yeḥiel, Middle of 13th century. Probably under the reign of …
Writ of agency written in Tyre, dated 18 Shevat 4771 (25 January 1011). Ḥalfon b. Moses b. Aaron (Ibn Abī Qīda), the "representative of the …
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4 legal records. (1) Taqwīm for the marriage between Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Maghāzilī and Niʿam bt. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥazzan. Dated: Nisan 1497 Seleucid, …
Part of a ketubba, mostly illegible. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Fragment from a deed of betrothal (qiddushin). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: 1100–38. The marriage will take place on Shabbat …
Recto: Legal document. Likely in the hand of Eliyyahu the Judge. Involves Yefet and al-Bahāʾ(?). Verso: Legal document likely in the hand of Shelomo b. …
Legal record (#47) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 12r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 46-47) Folio 12r
Permit from the Egyptian Jewish community for building a tomb 2.2 x 1.75 meters in size – November 14 1953CE – Museum of Islamic Art …
Fragment from a middle part of a ketubah containing section from the dowry list. AA
Rental deed. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Thursday, 22 Tammuz [5]355 AM = 29 June 1595 CE. Yaʿaqov Castro is renting to Yosef Loḥamit. Signed by Moshe …
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 …
Small fragment of a legal document. Dating: probably 13th–15th century. Mentions various sums of thousands of dinars (4000 and 7000 and 3000), [...] b. Yaʿqūb …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Involves [Aharon?] b. Shemarya ha-Kohen, [...] b. Mevorakh, and Yakhin.
Legal document, probably. Small fragment. Listing various items. Marriage-related?
Receipt for the rent of a residence valued at 88 qirsh in the waqf of Deir el Moukhalles in Cairo – 1 March 1947CE – …
Legal document mentioning Sitt al-Dār and Abū [...]. (Information from CUDL)
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Small fragment of a bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Two different hands. Recto begins with a basmala and is followed by the word thabat (inventory). …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Written on the 11th of a month (...בשבה דהוא חדסר יומה...). Signed by someone whose signature …
Al-Shaykh Abū Sahl pays his dues to ʿAlī al-Rīfāʿ on 10 Rabīʿ II 603 H. Registration mark at the top.
Minute fragment, only two words זוזי דכספא are preserved, probably from a ketubah. AA
Debt contract. Probably in the hand of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Elul 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. [Yose]f b. Elʿazar b. Mevorakh Ibn …
IB VII, 19. Court register, fragment. Upper left corner of a legal record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Dating: 1127-38, …
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Legal document. Fragment from the bottom of it. Dated: Iyyar 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Goitein concluded that the document on the other side …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Recto involves Bū ʿImrān b. Bū l-Faraj b. Mardūkh al-Ṣayrafī, then refers to an administrator of a compound (mutawallī al-rabʿ), …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: [4]76[.] AM, which places it in the first decade of the 11th century. Mentions "all of my claims in the …
Legal document, deed of acknowledgment, concerning an inheritance dispute between Jamīla bt. Lāḥiq the veterinarian and her brother. Contains three testimonies at the bottom. The …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Two fragments from the right side. Concerning a release granted by a creditor to Abū …
Verso: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dating: Mentions a period beginning Iyyar 1542 Seleucid, which is April 1231 …
Legal document concerning the financial claims of Yeshu'a Abu al-Khayr against Ovadya. Goitein describes the endeavor as "civil law" (אלחק פי מא בינהם) adjudicated by …
Two fragments of a legal document. In the handwriting of Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentioning debts, Saniyy al-Dawla (also called al-ḥaḍra al-ajalliyya al-sanawiyya) owing 87 dinars. …
Small fragment(s) of legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Fragment from the top of a legal document. Dated: Tammuz 1464 Seleucid = June/July 1153 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. …
Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Tishrei 1424 Seleucid = September/October 1112 CE. Same case as T-S …
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Tiny fragment of a legal document. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Phrases include: "...for food... and two dinars and dirhams... with them …
Legal draft, in the scribal hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Court record. Dated: 1395 Seleucid (1083/84 CE). Location: Fustat. Abū al-‘Alā ‘Ūlla ha-Levi b. Joseph …
Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1483 Seleucid (1172 CE). Inventory of the estate of the physician Abū …
Legal document (refers to itself as a modaʿ/מדע) concerning the sale of wood. The parties are Ṭahor b. [...] and Meʾir ha-Sar the doctor b. …