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The upper part of recto is a Hebrew panegyric in praise of a scholar named Yiṣḥaq. The other text blocks are all drafts of a …
No Scholarship Records
Probably a dowry list, quite faded.
Legal document or responsum. Fragment (lower right piece). Refers to Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov and his legal adversary (בעל דינו) and appeasement. Quotes Nedarim 20b (מאן …
Fragment of a legal document. Menahem b. Shemuel mentioned. Avraham b. Shemaya and Avraham b. Natan Av are signatories, which dates this to end of …
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Legal document, a few lines of what was probably a draft, mentioning a woman selling something and a sum of 5 dinars. All the people …
Small fragment of legal document(s) or letter describing a legal case. Mentions Abū l-Karam(?).
Deed of sale for a slave. Dated: Thursday, 28 Tammuz 1571 Seleucid = 8 July 1260 CE. Seller: the Bilbaysī Mūsā b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Kohen. …
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C1: Page from a court notebook dated Thursday, 26 Kislev 1338 Seleucid (December 1026 CE). unsigned, because only one witness appeared, Eli ha-Kohen b. Yefet. …
Fragment from the top of a ketubba drawn up in Alexandria (נא אמון). Hebrew and Arabic pen trials on verso.
Legal document. Witness statement of the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan, concerning dowry payments. Mentions the name Yehuda. In the handwriting of Yosef b. Shemuel b. …
Recto (secondary use): Draft of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Involves Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo; a little house; …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Bilbays. Dated: December1209/January 1209 CE. This document is a partnership agreement in a perfume- and dye-manufacturing shop. The partners, Faḍā’il …
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Testimony dating to 1107 CE regarding a house, which is now a wreck, located near the 'house of the shofet' and (belonging?) to the daughter …
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Damaged legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Written on one page of a bifolio. Regarding …
Small fragment (upper left corner) of a legal document. Involving Ṣedaqa b. Netanʾel; no specifics are preserved. (Information from CUDL) Verso: One line of text …
Recto (original use): Legal document describing a gathering to assess a bride's dowry. Fragment (right side only). Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Probably in the hand of …
Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Several names are mentioned. Needs examination for content.
Ketubba fragment. The groom is Avraham. Probably a draft or formulary given the layout and that it is written on paper.
Verso: Fragment from the bottom of a document, maybe an Ottoman-era legal or official document.
P21: Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to: Abū Yaʿqūb; Abū Saʿd and his paternal cousin (ibn ʿamm); …
Bifolium from a court register. Fol. 1v: Verbatim copy (nuskha... naqalnāhā mila be-mila) of a marriage contract. Dated: Tuesday, 19 Elul 1468 Seleucid = 27 …
Draft of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 12 Ṣafar 499 AH = 24 October 1105 CE (this seems to be a better reading …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 20 Adar I 5559 AM, which is 1799 CE. Eliyyahu Ṣevi Ḥbak(?) (צבי חבאך) acknowledges an investment of 2000 medins …
Recto: Fragment of a legal document mentioning [...] b. Menashshe and Shelomo and [...] b. Faraḥ and sums of money. Verso: Fragment of a legal …
Legal record (#8). Lease of part of a house. Dated: Monday, 5 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faraj b. Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān leases to Abū l-ʿAlā …
Investment partnership (ʿisqa) from Cairo, dated 1 Adar 5562 AM (= 1802 CE), in which Efrayim b. Shabbetay ʿAda receives 150 reales from Qamr the …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Late. Probably a waqf document, describing the specifications of the entire property along with size dimensions. Mentions several amounts in …
One line from an incomplete court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper right corner). Concerning the son of the late Abū l-Faḍl. …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragmentary (only the upper left corner is preserved). A portion of a date and several names are mentioned, including one …
Legal query, draft. In the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Addressed to Yosef Rosh ha-Seder. The page is crossed out. A man gives half a …
Recto: Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and supplies for the Synagogue. Dating: ca. 1042 – Nov. 1043. In the hand of Yefet b. David …
…for two days, 4 dir.
…. from him, originally
.... and other (things), 6 dir.
…. and (she) opened a shop, they are known
…. owed …
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Legal fragment. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: [14]26 Seleucid = 1114/15 CE. Involves Zakkay b. Shelomo, Aharon al-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and the settling of accounts. Signed …
Ketubba, fragmentary. Groom: Yosef Kohen b. Khalūf. Likely from North Africa. Resembles Bodl. MS heb. a 2/2 (from Barqa, 990 CE). (Information from Friedman, Jewish …
Bifolium with four pages. First page: Legal record in Judaeo-Arabic. No signatures. Mentions the government (sulṭān). Dated Jumāda II 488 Hijri = 1095 CE. Second …
Legal record (#44) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 42-44) Folio 11r
Draft or copy of a legal document. Filling both sides of the folio. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 26 Tevet 154[.] Seleucid = 1228–38 CE (and …
Partnership agreement from Cairo, dated 13 October 1800 CE (24 Tishrei 5561 AM), between David Dayyan, Eliyyahu Palombo, and Avraham Ḥaqīm. The context of the …
Court record in Hebrew. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). (Or at least about Damietta.) Dated: Nisan 1360 Seleucid, which is 1049 CE. Concerns a debt of …
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Legal document. Deposition on cession of rights in the "Estate of the Jerusalemites," ca. 1160. The uncle of Bū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muqaddasī renounces his right …
(1-2) The uncle of (A)bū Saʿīd b. al-Muqaddasī made me be witness for
(3-4) himself, that he has given his nephew, the said (A)bū Saʿīd,…
Minute fragment containing legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentioning Yiṣḥāq b. Moshe and 27 dinars.
Bill of divorce (get). Dated: Thursday, 2 Adar I 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. Shemarya. Wife: Esther bt. Namir. …
A representative appointment deed. Deed in the hand of Ḥalfon ben Menashshe ha-Levi (there are documents in his hand from 1100-1138) in which the bride …
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Legal documents, four entries on the recto and verso. Possibly drafts from a court notebook, including one completely crossed out. Location: Cairo. Dated in multiple …
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Groom: Abū l-Karam Nadiv (might be identical with Abū l-Karam Nadiv b. …
Bottom of an Arabic legal document. There are four witness statements stacked on top of each other. The document itself is missing. It may have …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Perhaps a deed of sale. Mentions (l. 6) the mound known as Kawm Dīnār in the vicinity of Birkat Ramīs …
Geṭ. Location: Egypt, somewhere on the Nile. Dated: probably Ṭevet [13]4[.] Seleucid = 1029–39 CE. The father of one of the parties is Ḥusayn. Signed …
Testimony in Arabic script. Fragment (top cut off). Dated: first third of Jumādā I 528 AH = February/March 1134 CE. The bottom is divided into …
Recto: Deed of sale. Rabbanite. In Hebrew. Dated: Tuesday, 14 Elul 5321 AM = 26 August 1561 CE. Location: Cairo (מצרים). A woman named Qamr, …