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Debt contract. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: Probably 1100–27 CE, as there is no …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 29 Tammuz 1590 Seleucid = 11 July 1279 CE. Written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active …
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom name is not preserevd and the bride is Esther.
Fragment of a legal document in which Elʿazar b. Shela ha-Levi makes a declaration. Verso was not photographed.
Several legal attestations in Hebrew, perhaps from a court ledger, in multiple handwritints, regarding the dispute between Yosef Kalido (?) and David Leon, who were …
Legal record (#21) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 21-23) Folio 6r
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Part of a large ketubba. The names of the bride and groom, date, location and witnesses are not preserved, but it was written under the …
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Probably a legal document in Arabic. On parchment. The beginnings of 12 lines are preserved. Difficult to determine any of the content. In the right …
Small fragment of a legal document or documents. Mentions someone titled Peʾer ha-Qehilot, Sitt al-Nasab, Yeshuʿa, and Bū l-Faraj "the husband of her mother." Likely …
Fragment of an engagement contract concerning an esteemed family; five generations headed by a “grand mufti,” the highest juridical authority. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, …
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Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥasan, the Jewish druggist, bought four shares of a house in Minyat Ghamr, consisting of a …
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Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–1139) in which a man …
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Recto: part of a deed of release (אביזר), granted by ʿEli b. Ḥusayn b. Moshe al-Maghribī, to his brother Azhar b. Ḥusayn b. Moshe al-Maghribī,. …
Two copies of a legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents: 1100–38). Draft. In which Abū l-Ḥusayn Moshe b. Shelomo …
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Excerpt of a writ written in Ramla, 1076.
Court proceeding from the court of Yoshiyyahu Gaon, approximately 1010. Testimony of two business partners who quarreled. Original document of their partnership done in Fustat …
Petiton from some students at al-Azhar against a landowner in Arabic, with a line of Ottoman Turkish text in the heading. Dating: Ottoman-era. [Described on …
Responsa, Miscellaneous; recto: unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text; verso: geonic responsum concerning a bailee who attempts to cheat the depositors heirs (Hebrew + Aramaic). (Info from FGP)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Probably a partnership agreement. No names or details preserved. (Information in part …
Recto: deed in which a man and his sons gift a house to an adult woman, ʿAʾisha (known as al-Wuḥsha), the daughter of the owner. …
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[this house,] defined herein, with all its boundaries, its land, its building, its lower [and upper floor and every r…
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. The last three lines of the main document are partially preserved (... 14[..] Seleucid... on the Nile... …
List of books that [...] al-Dawla Abū l-Barakāt inherited from the late Abū l-[...]. The first two items are difficult to read (except for maqāla …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 11 Rabiʿ I 852 AH = 15 May 1448 CE. Possibly a deed of sale for a property. Needs …
Certificate of assessment by the rabbinate in Jerusalem for religious instructors – undated – (number 96) – in Hebrew and in English. (information from Ḥassanein …
Marriage agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1459 Seleucid, which is 1147 CE. The document is in need of conservation, and several names and words are …
Probably the earlier side: Fragment from the top of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, drawn up under the authority of the Nagid [Sar] ha-Sarim Nagid …
Legal fragment in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Bill of release. No specifics are preserved. AA
Legal document in Arabic script. A contract made before a Muslim notary, in which the proprietor of a Nubian slave promises to pay to the …
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Fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The bride is not a virgin. Dowry apparently of little value. (Information …
See PGPID 24609: Legal document, or possibly a letter describing a legal case. Three continuous fragments from the middle section are preserved. Concerns a woman's …
Recto: Legal note, probably a draft of an agreement about a quarrel between husband and wife. The husband is taking upon himself not to be …
Court records. Location: Fustat. Dating: c.1082–94 CE, as the reshut clause of the second document invokes David b. Daniel [b. ʿAzarya]. The fragment includes the …
Upper section of a partnership agreement, the lower half of which remains as T-S 10J4.19 – PGPID 16113 (join: Matthew Dudley). Date: the end of …
:(JTS MS 9160, fol. 7) Upper Section of Join
Agreement between Sitt al-Baqāʾ and her husband Tahor ha-Levi the astrologer (al-Munajjim) b. Namir concerning money owed from the ketubba. Signed by Moshe b. Yehuda …
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Fragment from the top of a legal document. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dated: Adar II 1456 Seleucid = February/March 1145 CE. In …
Deed in which Abū Saʿd Efrayim b. ʿEli the Jew acquires the lease of a plot of land in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Futūḥ Ghālib b. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, his blessings and peace be upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet and his family.
Thi…
Fragment of a legal testimony. Written in an early square hand. Location: Unknown. Dated: 4761–68 AM = 999–1008 CE (it cannot be 4716 AM or …
Subsequent use: Two legal drafts from the court of the Nagid Mevorakh. Fragmentary and incomplete. #1: Beginning of a statement about a brawl between Shelomo …
Testimony concerning the death of a man and his son. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 427/1 August 1036. The witnesses attest that Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Dabbāb …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The witnesses named in this document, all of them knowing Ṣadaqa ibn ʿAlūn ibn al-Da…
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū Sulaymān Dā'ūd. Signed by Moshe b. Yosef Nafūsī. See T-S AS …
Beginning of a will in the handwriting of Hillel b. Eli (but this is worth checking against Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's earliest documents). Testator: Hillel b. …
Writ of release signed by three witnesses and dated end of Av 1414/July-August 1103 (a word is missing between 'one thousand four hundrer and four' …
Recto: Legal query concerning a husband and wife and business and property arrangements. Possibly in the hand of Yosef b. Shemeul b. Seʿadya. Very faded. …
Legal document possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Draft of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: after March 1066 CE. In which Maymūn b. Yaʿaqov, acting as agent for Moshe and Shelomo …
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1777 CE (end of Tamuz 5537 AM) in which Menaḥem Abzaradel (אבזראדיל) makes arrangements for his 7 1/3 qirats that …
1. בפנינו עדים ח׳׳מ בא היקר נשא ומאד נעלה להתהלה כה׳׳ר מנחם אבזרדיל יצ׳׳ו ואמר לנו הוא עלי עדים גמורים וקנו ממני ק…
Part of a divorce deed (geṭ) signed by Ḥalfon ha-Kohen b. Elʿazar and Sar Shalom b. Shelomo (second half of the 11th century CE). (Information …
Probably part of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). In which Aharon and Ḥayyim the sons of Yisraʾel b. …