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  1. 101Legal documentBL OR 5543.3

    Engagement (shiddukhin) agreement between Nissim Zeraḥya and Miryam bt. Shelomo ha-Levi. Dated 1749 CE (21 Heshvan 5510), Rashid. Currency: the gold zeri maḥbūb coin (זהובים …

    1.                       גדול יהיה כבוד הבית הזה האחרון
    2.                                  בסימנא טבא כי׳׳ר
    3.                                          בעהי…

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  2. 102Legal documentT-S NS 321.97

    Legal document likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. Concerning a man and his wife who was the daughter of the late …

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  3. 103Legal documentYevr. II K 7

    Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Eliyahu Halevi b. Avraham. The previously married bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Eliyahu. Dated 27 Shevat …

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  4. 104Legal documentENA NS 76.435.6 + ENA NS 76.435.7

    Deathbed will. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 [Kislev] 1500 Seleucid, which is December 1188 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Testator: …

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  5. 105Legal documentJRL B 2490

    Legal testimony from June/July 1225 CE (Tammuz 1536 in the Seleucid calendar) written under the auspices of Avraham Maimonides (1186-1237). A certain 'daughter of Abu …

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  6. 106Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#51) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 14r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 50-52) Folio 14r

    1. יצ׳׳ו בכה׳׳ר יצחק יצ׳׳ו בסך אלפים וחמש מאות ושמנה וארבעים מאידיש כסף על פי הערך והשומא ששמו
    2. והעריבו אותם הר׳ נסים…

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  7. 107Legal documentT-S 12.684

    Draft of deed of attorney written in Tyre, which includes an accounting between partners after the death of one of them, Menashshe b. Yiṣḥaq, and …

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    1. [ ]בם אל המערב ומכר
    2. [ ]ם ונטלתי ממנו רובה
    3. [ רו]בה והאמנתיו בכללו והותיר על
    4. [ ]הם בחשבונו וכן היה עליו למנשה
    5. [ננ בר יצחק] הזה לטלם לו ועוד אמר מ…

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  8. 108Legal documentT-S 10J6.18

    Legal document from Cairo dated 15 Shevaṭ 5505 AM (= 1745 CE), describing the appointment of Joseph ha-Levi as cantor. The location given for the …

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    1. בע׳׳ה

    2. בהיות שהבית הכנסת שבפנים חארת אלקראיין שהיא תוך המבוי שאצל הכ'ורונפש הנודע בק׳׳ק

    3. כ'אלתי מסעודה כיון שנתעוללו על הקהל הנז׳ הגוים ה…

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  9. 109Legal documentENA NS 18.9

    Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Involves Netanʾel ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad, Abū l-Surūr, a sale, and orphans …

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  10. 110Legal documentT-S AS 145.315

    Legal document(s). Dated: 8 Tammuz 5613 AM, which is 1853 CE. On one side there is an Arabic document witnessed by "Daniel" and on the …

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  11. 111Legal documentYevr. II A 1253

    Karaite betrothal deed, torn along the right margin. Dated 17 Adar I 5502 AM (1752 CE). Location: Cairo. Th groom is Avraham b. Yosef b. …

    1.                                בסימן טוב ובהצלחה
    2. [ביו]ם חמישי בשבוע והוא שבעה עשר יום מחדש אדר ראשון שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש מאות ושנים שנים
    3. [לב]ריאת הע…

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  12. 112Legal documentMoss. VII,181

    A letter begging for help from a distinguished addressee, in elegant and vocalized script. The writer intends to travel but lacks a covering. On verso …

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  13. 113Legal documentT-S Misc.34.67 + T-S AS 155.224

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), mentioning Shela ha-Levi the elder. Uncharacteristically, there is also text on verso, which …

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  14. 114Legal documentNLI 4°9463.10

    Document of the qodesh (pious foundation). In the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (aka Ḥusayn Ibn Shekhanya). Dated: Jumādā I 434 AH, which …

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  15. 115Legal documentT-S AS 158.15

    Halakhic text, probably a responsum; citation from Mishna Bava Qamma 7:1. (Information from CUDL)

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  16. 116Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/26 + JRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/14

    Draft of a court record from the court in Fustat. 1042. In the handwriting of Efrayim b. Shemarya (not Yefet b. David Shekhanya). Regarding the …

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע במצר[ים]
    2. והזקנים החתומים עדותנו מטה ביום חודש שנת
    3. אלף שלוש מאות חמשים ושלוש שנים למנין שט'
    4. שאנו רגילין למנו…

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    1. קבלתי
    2. כפי שנדרש בן ישראל לקבול, אל דייני בית ישראל
    3. ואל קהילות ישראל שיפסיק הגולן את גזלתו
    4. והוכחתי לכם בנוכחותכם את הגזל של י…

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  17. 117Legal documentENA NS 19.19

    Legal document. A small fragment, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), regarding a settlement between a couple, probably after their divorce (a …

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  18. 118Legal documentCUL Or.1080 5.15 + T-S AS 147.45

    Document with the trousseau list for the marriage of Sitt al-ʿIzz and Yeter ha-Levi. On parchment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel. …

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  19. 119Legal documentT-S NS 342.33

    Small fragment of a legal deed regarding sugar refining (ṭabīkh al-sukkar). Involving Yeshuʿa b. Yiftaḥ ha-Kohen. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. …

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  20. 120Legal documentT-S AS 152.351

    Fragment from the bottom of a bill of release. Only a few letters from the signatures are preserved, including the name Tamīm. AA

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  21. 121Legal documentENA 3962.6

    Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script, with an addendum on the back concerning the same case. There are also notes in the margin …

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  22. 122Legal documentT-S AS 145.347

    Small fragment of a legal document; written under the authority of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (served 1078–82, 1094–1111 CE). In the scribal hand of Hillel b. …

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  23. 123Legal documentT-S AS 220.77

    Small fragment from a legal deed relating to Abū l-Faraj al-Jubayli, and his trip to Yemen. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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  24. 124Legal documentMoss. IXa,3.14

    Communal ledger, late Ottoman, numerals in Arabic. Multiple pages, folded vertically and sewn.

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  25. 125Legal documentJRL B 6590

    Legal document or documents. Only the final words on each side and the signatures are preserved. On recto: [...] b. Ḥalfon (ZL). On verso: Yiṣḥaq …

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  26. 126Legal documentENA NS I.90

    Partnership release. Dated: 1091. Location: Fustat. Verso: Avraham b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen irreversibly releases Abū l-Faḍl/Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel b. Yefet from any obligations concerning a partnership. …

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  27. 127Legal documentT-S AS 180.149

    Fragment from the upper right corner of a deed of sale made by a certain Sayf al-Dawla [...]. Possibly Mamluk period. Bill of sale in …

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  28. 128Legal documentT-S AS 176.217

    Upper left piece of a legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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  29. 129Legal documentT-S Ar.40.63

    Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script, written on a bifolio. The two parties are ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Salāma al-Yahūdī and Ṣaʿīd b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī. Date: …

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  30. 130Legal documentT-S 12.784

    Partnership deed regarding a money exchange store. Around 1085. Yahya b. Eli b. Yosef Kohen Fasi and Sason b. Natan agree to have a partnership. …

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    1. נסחי למהוי לזכו ולראיה ודלך [ ]

    2. גאלטין ולא סאהיין ולא עלה בנא ולא מרץ ולא גיר דלך מן אלאעראץ אלמ[פסדאת אלא בלב]

    3. שלם ובנפש חפצה נחן מקרין …

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    We asked God for guidance and contracted a partnership between us. I, Yaḥyā ha-Kohen, produced from my property five hundred gold dinars, of ex…

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  31. 131Legal documentT-S 13J1.8

    Deathbed will of Khalaf b. Yeshu'a, the envoy of the lepers in Tiberias (and a leper himself), Elul 1345/August 1034.

    1. אנו עדים החתומים למטה כן היה שנכנסנו אצל //מ// כלף בר ישועה שלוחם של אחינו
    2. המיוסרים אשר במדינת טיבריה ומצאנ[ו אותו ח]ולה במטה ודבריו ומילוליו
    3. מכווני…

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  32. 132Legal documentT-S 12.799

    Question to Muslim jurisconsults. In Arabic script. Concerning a case of inheritance. The last two lines contain the names of two apparently deceased people: Isḥāq …

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  33. 133Legal documentT-S 20.8 + T-S 12.552

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan 1467 Seleucid = 10 October 1155 CE. Groom: Peraḥya b. Tiqva ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. Avraham. Signed by …

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  34. 134Legal documentT-S AS 220.80

    Small fragment from the beginning of a legal deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Involves Abū l-Faraj Hibatallāh and Abū Saʿd …

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  35. 135Legal documentT-S 6J7.13

    Lower part of a court record concerning a sum of money (150 dinars) and a house. Dated: Ṣafar 523 AH (= January/February 1129 CE). (Information …

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  36. 136Legal documentMoss. V,384.2

    Un-conserved, so no numbers allocated to each fragment yet. Among the five minute frgaments in this folder there is one legal document written by Efrayim …

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  37. 137Legal documentT-S 18J1.22

    Legal document. Location: Damietta. Dated: Monday, 7 Nisan 1452 Seleucid = 17 March 1141 CE. In a matter of inheritance, ʿAmmār b. Makhlūf had been …

    1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלכאתמין שהאדתנא אכר הדה אלמחצר
    2. אן למא כאן יום אלאתנין אלסאבע מן חדש ניסן משתא
    3. דאתנב חצרנא בבית הכניסת אלמעמורה [בב]קא הדרת
    4. אדוננו ה…

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  38. 138Legal documentT-S AS 152.281

    Recto: Bill of divorce (geṭ). Or less likely deed of manumission. Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: 15[..] Seleucid, which is 1198–1298 …

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  39. 139Legal documentT-S NS 305.115

    Three drafts of a testimony concerning the qualifications and good conduct of the physician Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Sahl b. Ibrāhīm (=Yedutun ha-Levi?). The witnesses …

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    1. شهد من اثبت شهادته اخر هذا المحضر شهدوا

    2. جميعا وفرادى انهم يعرفون فلان منتجزه معرفة

    3. صحيحة جامعة بعينه واسمه ونسبه ويخبرون

    4. حاله…

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    1. The people whose names occur at the end of this court record, they being free,  

    2. honourable and good Muslim men, testified,  

    3. together …

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  40. 140Legal documentT-S AS 88.1

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Fragment: upper left corner. Dating: Probably 15th–17th century, based on the handwriting. Contract of a debt between Yehuda Ṭali, Yiṣḥaq b. …

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    1. ...].רו היקרים כה׳׳ר יהודה טלי וכ׳׳ר יצחק בכ׳׳ר חיים אבולכיר
    2. ...]. מכירה גמורה לנבון ומעולה [כ]ה׳׳ר יהודה אבולכיר יצ׳׳ו
    3. ...]ה ומעתה [.]קנו כ׳׳…

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  41. 141Legal documentHalper 370

    Legal testimony. Signed and scribed by Yaʿaqov Griyani. Also witnessed by Yiṣḥaq b. Binyamin b. Shoshin. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday 3 Tishrei 5370 AM, which …

    1. בעהי׳׳ת 
    2. בפנינו עדים חתומי מטה בא הבחור כה׳׳ר יעקב אליקים יצ׳׳ו בן המנוח כ[ה׳׳ר
    3. ואמר לנו לא נעלם מכם איך חזקת צרף אלגאושייה שיש לי היא [ג]זולה כ[י ה…

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  42. 142Legal documentT-S AS 172.356

    Legal document in the form of a letter. Fragment (bottom part only). Refers to various legal conditions, might mention sugar, and specifies a fine of …

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  43. 143Legal documentT-S AS 149.116

    Legal document mentioning a bridal gift and Abū l-Faḍl. (Information from CUDL)

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  44. 144Legal documentMoss. III,79.2

    Ketubba fragment, with a lovely decoration in the header. The groom's father is named Shelomo. On verso there are magical remedies/incantations, including one against polyuria.

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  45. 145Legal documentT-S 6J1.15

    Small legal fragment, probably a contract of debt. Mentions al-ʿAlāqma, a town in the area of Bilbays. The debtor is Abū l-Bahāʾ b. Abū [...]. …

    1. ]מי מטה שכך היה בפנינו . .
    2. ]א ארבעה ימים לחדש אייר
    3. ] מאות ושבעים וששה שנים
    4. ]לא קמה מערי בלביס הסמוכה
    5. ]ר שיך אבלבהא בן אב[. . . .
    6. ואשהדו] עלי ואקנו מ…

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  46. 146Legal documentT-S AS 173.427

    Possibly a legal formulary. On parchment.

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  47. 147Legal documentBL OR 10578R.48

    Small fragment of legal document(s). Recto is in a square hand and verso appears to be a more cursive copy of it. Needs examination.

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  48. 148Legal documentMoss. VII,7

    Legal document in Arabic script. Agreement between Ḥasan b. Hārūn and his father-in-law Ḥasan b. Isḥāq b. Mūsā concerning Ḥasan's fiancee Maḥfūẓa bt. Ḥasan b. …

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  49. 149Legal documentT-S NS 324.10

    Legal fragment. Dating: ca. 1046/47 CE. From the bottom of a bill of compensation, from [Ḥusn] bt. Yaḥyā to Abū Naṣr b. Saʿadya and Shelomo …

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  50. 150Legal documentENA NS 16.6

    A Palestinian marriage contract from Ḥaṣor. The groom ([...] b. Yefet) is to pay 10 dinars as the “security” of the marriage contract. (Information from …

    1. יבנו ויצליחו
    2. . . .]דשמטתא מא דהיא שתא ארבע[
    3. . . .] דחצור דעל גף ימא דמליחה     אתכ[תב
    4. . . .] בר יפת ננ אמר מן דעתי ומן רעותיה ומן טבותיה ומן צביני
    5. נ…
    1. [...] May they build and prosper.
    2. [ ... year ... ] of the shemiṭṭa, which is year four [thousand ...]
    3. [...] of Ḥaṣor which is on the shore of the sa…

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