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Legal record (#38) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 13-19 on f. 14r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Kislev …
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Legal document in Arabic script. The bottom ~7 lines are preserved. Mentions ḍamān and daʿwa, and maybe a partnership (shirka). The parties include Mūsā b. …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In which Abū l-Waḥsh makes a declaration about a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. …
Probably a Karaite ketubba (since the legible text is in Hebrew). Sums are given in darkemon (עשרים דרכמון וחצי). (Information from CUDL)
An IOU specifying a sum owed to al-Ḥājj al-Fawwāl.
Legal document in the scribal hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Declaration made by a woman named Mawlāt on the occasion of entering …
Deed of sale for a house. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th–12th century CE. Ḥusayn b. Ḥāzim al-Bayyāʿ (the food vendor) purchased a house from Ḥasan …
In the name of God, the merciful [and compassionate].
This is what Ḥusayn ibn Ḥāzim, the (food-)vendor, bought from Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, the groce…
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Legal document written and signed by Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya (חברייה). Dating: 16th century. Record of debt with values measured in Venetian zecchini (Ar. bunduqī, …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Three fragments from the lower part of the document. Dated: Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid, which is December …
A document that has been folded twice. The outer face (pages 1 and 4) contains legal documents relating to business partnerships; a Moshe and a …
Torn and damaged fragment of a kettuba. Probably in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi (although the script is too damaged to be certain). …
(I) Legal record of a prozbul. In Hebrew. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Elul 5376 AM = 7 September 1616 CE. Binyamin b. Shoshan transfers all of …
Small fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). The content is unclear but a certain Elʿazar is mentioned. an …
Contract in which Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar, a scholar known from a number of manuscripts dating to 1076–86 CE (e.g. T-S 20.110 (PGPID 1774)) gives 50 …
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Small fragment of a legal document, on parchment. Mentioning 1000 dirhams and a wife. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from a draft of a bill of divorce. Very rudimentary hand. On parchment. Husband: Ṣemaḥ (or rather Ṣubḥ?) b. […]. The year is …
Numerous drafts/outlines of legal documents from a court notebook. One of them is a partnership agreement. Dating: ca. 1128–1164 CE. A previous version of this …
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Legal document. Dated: Friday, 21 Tishrei 5527 AM (1766 CE). Previously the congregation had appointed as their head Shelomo Kohen b. Aharon Kohen and as …
Legal document. Long and narrow strip from a bill of gift, 11th century, probably from Acre or Tyre, since נחלת אשר is mentioned and [הים] …
Minute fragment of a legal document, in the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, fl. 1100–1138 CE. The text comprises a small portion of …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) with many lacunae. Concerns default in debt payment; involves [...] b. Abū Ṭāʿa(?) al-Ḥāmī and Manṣūr b. Faraḥ al-Ḥāmī in Cairo. …
Minute fragment from a legal deed.
Damaged fragment of a bill of loan. Partial signatures: [... Hako]hen b. Sa'id, Khalfon b. [...], Bahalul, Avraham ha-Sh[ar?]. on Verso the beginning of another …
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.
Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document (iqrār) in Arabic scirpt. Dated: Rabiʿ II 448 AH = June/July 1056 CE. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. …
Legal testimony. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Av [possibly 5348 AM?? אבנש] but the paleography appears much too early to be 16th-century. Perhaps the date is Seleucid …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/34 CE. Bill of release between a woman, [..]ma bt. Abū …
Legal document, Qaraite. Conditional divorce. Dated: Monday, 21 Heshvan 5516 AM, which is 1755 CE. The document describes a quarrel between ʿOvadya b. Eliyyahu Rofe …
Early modern legal fragment in Hebrew. Based on the paleography the dating is likely 17th-19th-century. This document is related to or perhaps a join with …
Court record written by Shemuel b. Avṭalyon (active in Fustat ca. 1007–55). Dealing with a dispute between Yeshuʿa b. Ghulayb ha-Kohen and Yoshiyya b. Maymūn. …
Legal document in Arabic. Dated in the final line. Requires further examination. (VMR)
Recto: Legal document, related to the earlier document on verso (PGPID 2223). Different handwriting. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Wednesday, 27 [...] 1532 Seleucid = 1220/21 CE. …
Recto: Legal document mentioning guardianship, R. Berakhot, and a deceased man. Verso: Legal document in a different hand (that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) mentioning capital …
Ketubba. Date: 1[.] Sivan 1420 Seleucid = 1109 CE. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Tamīm ha-Zaqen. Bride: Sitt al-B[ayt?], not her first marriage. Marriage payments: 5 + …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Very faded. There is writing on both sides. Part of a date and witness signatures are preserved on verso.
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Few details preserved. Involves a woman. (Information in part from CUDL)
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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Legal document. In Arabic script. Damaged. Of the main document, only portions of the last few lines are preserved (unclear if the date is preserved …
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 …
One of three draft versions of a document concerning the leadership of the community of al-Maḥalla during the administration of Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (active 1079–1111). …
Proceedings that took place in our presence, we, the permanent court in Fustat,
Egypt, appointed by the high court of (his) ho(nor), gr(eat…
Legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dating: 1100–38). The context is unclear. A house is mentioned and 6 legal deeds, 4 of which …
Recto: Bottom of a note from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a shipment of pearls. Verso: Legal document, perhaps a draft (no signatures). Hand of Shelomo …
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Ketubba. Only some signatures are preserved together with the validation (qiyyum) of the ketubba. The witnesses of the main document are: ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi; …
Trousseau list enumerating items of a dowry which amounts to 30 dinars and part of a house. Dated ca. 1090. Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. Bride: …
Legal document. Location: somewhere in Egypt, probably Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1286 Seleucid = November/December 974 CE. The merchant Maṣliaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq b. David acquits another …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions Bū Naṣr b. Yūsuf. Seems to be an agreement regarding a partnership in a tax farm: …
Document in Arabic script, likely a deed of sale. Needs examination.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Kislev 1390 Seleucid = 26 November 1078 CE. Ghālib b. Avraham comes before the court with a power …
Power of attorney. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Iyyar 1526 Seleucid, which is April 1215 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Moshe b. …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, likely 16th or 17th century. Concerning the estate of the late Shemuel b. Dan, a Portuguese Jew. His …