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Karaite bill of debt paid to Ḥilda bt. Shemuʾel Fayrūz. Dated Thursday 13 Tishrei 5459 AM (1698 CE). Ḥilda receives payment of 300 niṣf fiḍḍa …
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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. …
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Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).
Verso (primary use): Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding valuable items, including pearls and possibly a needle (ibra), and a dispute over whether they were a …
Fragment from a legal deed written by Yosef b. Shmuel b. Saadya Halevi.
Text in Arabic with at least two different scribal hands, medieval-era. One portion opens with "يشهد الشهود" pointing to the likelihood that this is the …
Bottom part of a legal statement/letter addressed to a higher authority concerning a legal case. Dating: Tammuz 1477 Seleucid (June 1166 CE). Written and signed …
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Recto: Declaration made by the merchant Yosef b. Moshe b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 8 days remaining in Iyyar 4807 AM, which is …
Torn court record written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shmuel the Spaniard (active until ca. 1132 CE). …
Verso: Legal document involving al-Rayyis Abū l-Bayān (Moshe) b. Mevorakh. Many names are mentioned. Needs examination.
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Legal document, possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, mentioning 60 dinars, the Bet Din, Abū l-Ḥasan, and repeatedly mentions רקעה בדינאר ‘note for …
Small fragment of a document, mentioning a payment, Yosef, and "her husband."
Legal draft. Dated: 24 Shevat 1441 Seleucid = 5 February 1130 CE. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Needs examination for content. Deathbed …
Legal document (written by Yosef b. Shemuel. AA) . Lease of an apartment of the Qodesh ca. 1194 and 1199. A deed of lease is …
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1690 Seleucid = October/November 1378 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid ʿAmram. Concerning the sale of the part …
Marriage document (ṣadāq) between Mulūk b. Surūr b. ... and Fāṭima bnt. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Marqūra in the Fayyūm, dated Rajab 444 AH. (AP)
Fragment of a legal document or possibly a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of ~19 lines are preserved, probably from near the beginning. The first …
Page from a court notebook concerning the verdict of the court in Fustat, written by Avraham, son of the Gaon, December 1026. See also T-S …
Recto: Bottom of a legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: 5314 AM, which is 1553/54 CE. Verso: Notes for the drawing-up of another legal document, in …
Formulary for a legal document involving marriage and a sum of ducats (peraḥim). Late.
Legal document mentioning [...] al-Ṣayrafī b. Khalfa. Small fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. (Information from CUDL)
Enactment of the Karaite community of Lithuania concerning the protection of businesses. Non-Geniza, provenance likely connected to Avraham Firkovich's acquisitions in eastern Europe.
T-S AS 207.191: Interior section from a larger legal document, very damaged. Ca. 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The document may relate to …
Dowry list and the beginning of a prenuptial agreement. Very neatly written, many items listed. Dating: no earlier than 12th century, and probably 13th or …
Rental contract. Looks like the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Abū l-Ghayth Yeshuʿa leases half of a shop owned by his wife to Abū Isḥāq …
Legal document dated Monday 14th Iyyar (no year but probably late 12th or early 13th century), about the gift of half a house which Khibāʾ …
Fragment of a deed of sale in Arabic script.
Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions a list of individuals with sums of money. Needs examination.
Narrow strip from a legal document, mentioning the sum of 25 dinars and a half. AA
Deed of gift (ahdā...). No signatures. Al-Sadīd ʿUmar b. Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān gifts something to Makārim b. Isḥāq b. Makārim al-Yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (the Jewish …
Verso: Note written on the verso of a legal query. Concerning litigation between a separated husband and wife. This note invites the plaintiff to court …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Friday, 18 Tammuz 5319 AM, which is 23 June 1559 CE. Partnership in a muqāṭaʿa (Ottoman Turkish: mukata’a) …
Legal record (#30) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated at …
Recto: draft of a lengthy panegyric for Yehuda b. Menashshe he-Ḥasid, with his name in acrostic. The poet continues writing what may be a draft …
Part of a ketubba, for Shemarya ha-Kohen (groom) and Sitt al-Bayt (bride). (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. The bride is named (Sitt al-)Khawāt. The scribe uses the unusual spelling דנאן for דנן, which may help in finding …
Fragment from the top of a legal document in Arabic script. Concerning [properties?] comprising the waqf for the poor of the Jews ("...al-mawqūfa ʿalā ḍuʿafāʾ …
Draft or notes for a legal document concerning an inheritance. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are also some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with a settlement between husband and wife and an item …
Dowry list for the marriage of Bū l-ʿIzz b. Mūsā and Najmiyya bt. Yosef b. [...]. List of items with Greek/Coptic numerals. Some Arabic notes …
Legal fragment in Arabic. Very damaged and difficult to read. Portions of ~7 lines are preserved.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right corner of recto). Cut into an unusual shape, with long slits made and the paper removed. …
Bill of exchange pledged for the rental of river floodland in which the amount paid is to the Jewish owner of the land – 18 …
Unidentified text in Arabic script, maybe legal or maybe literary about law (mentions nikāḥ). Reused for a book binding.
Fragment of a ketubba. Reused on recto, in a different hand, for a literary text about the book of Jonah.
Legal formulary, likely for a bill of release from an oath. (Information from Amir Ashur.)
Story in Judaeo-Arabic. Long but quite faded. Might be a legal document in that it begins with ("lammā...") but it would be an unusual sort …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1040s CE. Concering a commenda partnership between Faraḥ b. Yosef known as Ibn Bānūqa (who also features in CUL …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Involves [...] b. Yakhin
Official document of some kind. In Persian? There are eleven different seal imprints. Dated: 1201 AH = 1786/87 CE according to the last line of …