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Recto: Bill of sale for a female slave. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 1155 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Husband: Netanʾel b. [...]. Wife: [...]ā bt. Yefet.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Containing references to a sum of 10 dinars, a qāḍī (judge), the feast of Purim, and …
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Legal testimony in Arabic script. Dated: 4 Ramaḍān 545 AH, which is 25 December 1150 CE. "Lammā ḥaḍara ilā majlis ḥ[ukm X]..." Needs examination for …
Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1649 Seleucid = 1337/38 CE. Concerning a partnership between [...] al-Levi al-Wajīh; his partner M[...]; a certain …
State document in Arabic, from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr) in Alexandria, a branch of the state silk monopoly. Dated 5 Dhu …
Verso (secondary use): Brief legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 419 AH = 28 November 1028 CE. Written transversely in relation …
Will in which a woman donates a house in the Qālūs neighborhood for religious and charitable purposes with a stipulation that she will stay in …
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Minute fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Official correspondence in Arabic script. The address lists Muḥammad Effendi as the recipient and the opening line of the document mentions Aḥmad Effendi. Mentions "al-majlis …
Small fragment of a legal document, on parchment. Mentioning 1000 dirhams and a wife. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Dowry list. Bride: Sitt al-Banāt bt. Yusuf. Groom: Mevorakh b. Abū ʿAlī. Early marriage payment: 10 dinars. Delayed marriage payment: 30 dinars. ASE.
Legal document. Partnership document. Dating: 1300-1350 (per Goitein). Mentions two partners, Abū al-Ḥasan b. Abū al-Faraj and Khalaf b. Ḥasan, who withdrew from a group …
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Text with citations from halakhic sources, possibly a responsum, mentioning an orphan. (Information from CUDL)
Deathbed declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138), comprising the right upper corner. An old woman, the widow of Abū ʿAlī Yefet …
Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document, dated 7 November 1791 (10 Heshvan 5552), Cairo, for the cantor Khalīfa ʿAfīf b. Aharon and Simḥa bt. Yaʿaqov b. Barukh. …
Bill of divorce. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Elul 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE. Location: Cairo. Husband: Elʿazar b. Avraham. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq.
Legal document, small fragment. Probably from a ketubba.
Recto: Draft of a document confirming payment to the orphan ʿAbd al-Muḥsin b. Yiṣḥaq Levi by Esther bt. Moshe Rofe. The funds are somehow connected …
Legal testimony. Location: Sunbāṭ, a small town in the Egyptian Delta. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1402 Seleucid = September/October 1090 CE. Reporting that the teacher Ṣedaqa b. …
Statement originally accompanying a will belonging to Abu al-Baqa. The will has not been found, but from this document it is clear that it comprised …
Legal record (#5) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Sivan [5320] …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE).
Legal record (#9) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 1r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
:(Documents 8-10) Right side of bifolium 1r
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 …
Legal document, damaged, perhaps regarding a partnership. Protagonists include Moshe ha-Kohen known as Abū ʿImrān. and Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlā. Witnesses include [...] ha-Kohen …
Legal document, probably from a ketubba, mentioning sums of money and a chest. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment, 20 lines, well preserved. The writer at the beginning of the letter mentions a sale that did not reap any profits (lam yūlij …
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. ـعه اليه ووجهي منه يسقط حيا{ء} لانه يعلم كيف جرى امره في ابتياعها
وانه لم يولج في شي منها حبة واحدة وبالله لو…
Legal deed. Dated: 4757 AM (996–97 CE). Ghulayb ha-Levi b. Shelomo, known as Salmān al-Tabīb, receives a loan from his brother Yiṣḥaq b. Salāma al-Ṭabīb …
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions the government and likely two partners and their previous contract. (Information in …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥammād b. Hiba al-A[...] makes a declaration concerning the jahbadh of the diwan and a sum of 70 dinars. …
Recto: legal document. Date: Thursday, 23 Shevat 1406 Seleucid (1095 CE). Location: Fustat. Bill of release settling financial matters arising from a partnership. Shelomo b. …
Legal document. Handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel? Fragment (upper left corner). Location: Banhā. Dated: [14]61 Seleucid, which is 1149/50 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel …
Recto: End of a legal document, written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Shevaṭ 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/1134 CE.
Two deeds of sale for houses, written by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiʾel. They were erroneously combined under one shelfmark. Fol. 2r: Location: Fustat. Dated: 8 Adar …
Damaged a torn fragment from the top of a ketubah of Karima. No further details preserved. The hand might be Hillel b. Eli. AA
Legal document. Small fragment from the bottom. Involves a certain Abū l-Ḥasan. Location: Qūṣ. Signed by Makārim b. Yeshuʿ[a]. The month is Adar and the …
Legal document, fragment, in Arabic script, mentioning the property of the deceased in Fustat and Giza. This inheritance was attested in the presence of the …
Recto: Text of an oath to be taken in court. There are several distinct text blocks. Merits examination. Verso: Halakhic discussion on inheritance and divorce, …
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 …
Verso (original use): Looks like a bifolio from a qāḍī court ledger. Copies of two documents are preserved, with signatures. Needs examination. On recto there …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: Shevaṭ 1[..]3 Seleucid. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Husband: Shimʿon b. Elʿazar. Wife: Sutayt bt. […].
Legal document, Mamluk era, in Arabic script. Iqrār document concerning a Christian man regarding a fiscal debt. Needs examination.
Bill of divorce. Dated: 1331 Seleucid, which is 1019/20 CE. Wife: [...] bt. Seʿadya. Written and signed by [Davi]d b. Shekhanya, also signed by Shelomo …
Court record in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Location: Fustat. Dating: 1097–1108 CE, based on the scribe's active dates and the …
IB I, 35. The widow of Abu al-Barakat, the son of Yosef Lebdi, buys a sixth of two adjacent stores for 53 and three/fourths dinars. …
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Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe for legal purposes. Mentions Sitt al-Ahl and Sitt al-Milāḥ.
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 18 Shevaṭ 1405 Seleucid = 7 February 1094 CE. Declaration by the beadle Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, that he …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. A deal between an investor, possibly named Ibrahim, and three unnamed indigo dyers opening a workshop in Damietta. The active partners …