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Replacement of the original contract of marriage between Abū Manṣūr Elazar and his wife Sitt al-Sāda daughter of Abū Karām Nadīv, by a new one, …
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Drafts of legal documents in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). In Hebrew. Recto and verso are closely related to each other. …
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Legal document, probably dating to the late Mamlūk/early Ottoman era. Mentions grains and vegetables (al-ḥubūb wa al-mazrūʿāt), al-dhahab al-Ashrafī, the Nile (baḥr al-Nīl al-Mubārak), the …
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Investment partnership in which Shemuʾel Leon receives 4,000 medin from Mercada (מרקאדה) bt. Yaʿaqov Arubaṣ (ארובץ) to invest in his business. Dated Tammuz 5561 (= …
Court record of a case in which an orphan girl wishing to dispose of a piece of property that was held in trust by the …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1213/14 CE. This commenda records court proceedings regarding a partnership; only one of the partners' names, Saadiah b. …
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Legal document in which Khaluf b. Hayyim agrees that Ezra b. Yosef will pay him every month half a dinar of a debt of one …
Recto: Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involving a debt and a certain Yefet, but unclear if any details are preserved. Verso …
Fragment from the top of a ketubba (or engagement contract?). Bride: Ratab or Rutab (רתב) bt. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen ha-Sar. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen [b. …
Legal document mentioning ‘our lord, the great Nasi’ and Sitt al-Hanāʾ (cf. T-S NS 226.12 (PGPID 4242) and ENA 3778.7 (PGPID 11352)). Dating: Likely early …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Torn; only the right half is preserved. The term taṣāduq (settlement) appears in it. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or …
Document of authorization from Sitana bt. Avraham to Yosef b. Sad'el. With the signatures of Efrayim b. Zadok and Sar-Shalom b. Yitzhak. In the handwriting …
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 …
Legal records in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE).
Legal document mentioning [...] al-Ṣayrafī b. Khalfa. Small fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. (Information from CUDL)
Draft or record of legal deed(s) in a court notebook. Concerning the dissolution of a partnership at the death of one of the partners. Names: …
Bill of release. Fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions Sitt al-Kull and her mother Sirwa, one …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script (very neatly written, with diacritics). Concerning al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm and Isḥāq and a house. Dating: Probably late Mamluk …
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower left corner). Likely a release of a debt for Abū …
Fragment of a legal deed (or less likely from a halakhic discussion): ...jamīʿ mā... wa-min kull ḥaqq... shimmush wa-shahida fī... wa-qad istaqarra... qawl al-Mishna, "ʿEved..." …
Dowry list of a wealthy bride. The sums given at the bottom are: muqaddam 20, muʾakhkhar 30 and everything 676 (reading uncertain), meaning that the …
Legal document or letter, fragment, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Involves Barakāt and [...] b. Mubārak. (Information in part from CUDL) Might belong with …
Legal document from Fustat. Dated: 969 CE. A loan deed describing two compounds owned by Jews ‘located in front of the idolatry (i.e., church) of …
A religious slaughterer, Khalaf b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥallāl, who was careless in the exercise of his duties is flogged and forced to make a public confession. …
Unidentified text in Arabic script, maybe legal or maybe literary about law (mentions nikāḥ). Reused for a book binding.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Recto mentions "al-majlis al-ʿālī.... al-ʿāmil... al-fallāḥ fī al-nāḥiya al-madhkūra... al-nāṣirī al-madkhūr... jamīʿ al-mablagh...." Verso seems later, and likely related to …
Fragment of a ketubba. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. After 1176 based on the appearance of the Immersion stipulation.
Legal fragment in Arabic script (lower right corner). Dating: probably Mamluk period or later. May refer to silk of Homs and Alexandria. Needs further examination.
Deed of sale for the purchase by Ibrahim b. Mūsā b. Ṣaliḥ the Jew of two houses and irrigated land to the north of Fusṭāṭ …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وكفى وصلواته على عباده الذين اصطفی
هذا ما اشترى ابرهيم بن موسی بن صلح الاسرائيلي من [دا اود بن ازهر …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient for, and his blessings be upon, his [servants, whom] …
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Damaged court record signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel, Avraham b. [...], and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Concerning Abū l-Faḍl Shela b. ʿAyyāsh, Faraḥ, …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic, probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era.
Legal document, Mamlūk era, deed of sale, in a very faint and worn-off Arabic script. The document is dated to the last ten days (ʿushr …
Verso: in addition to the continuation of the document on recto, there is a second document written inverted in relation to recto, a draft Qaraite …
Court record. In Judaeo-Arabic. In a Yemeni hand (Worman's handlist desribes it as "Modern Yemenite.") concerning a debt of 2.5 qirsh between Ṣaliḥ b. Mūsā …
List of synagogue honors and the amounts congregants bid for them, with numbers expressed in Indic/Arabic numerals. Names: Angelino Gallico, Avraham Sabāʿī, Binyamin Yisraʾel, David …
Legal record (#59) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 Adar II …
Mostly destroyed fragment of power of attorney given to Yaʿaqov ha-Sar b. Moshe to represent the daughters of the late Avraham b. Shelomo in connection …
Legal record (#55) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 19v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Shevat 5323 AM …
Legal document, possibly a partnership. Dating: the paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or early 17th-century. The document details commercial arrangments between a certain …
Legal deed written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be …
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 …
IB VII, 4 (4a). Legal testimony concerning a partnership release from a commenda. Dated: 12 Nissan 1409 Sel. (1098 CE). Abū al-Ḥasan Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. …
Legal approval between Yehuda b. Nissim al-Tūnisī (cf. T-S NS 226.66 (PGPID 24392)) and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf al-Iskandarānī the ḍāmin of dyeing in Dam[...], …
Fragment of a deed of sale for a property, probably. Dated: Ramaḍān 421 AH = September 1030 CE. Reused for Hebrew text (lower margin and …
Legal document from Tyre between Musāfir b. Pinḥas (?) and ʿAmram b. L[...] regarding a payment of a debt. Refers to "leaving this copy in …
Bifolio from a court ledger. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dating: ca. 1150 CE. These pages are a register of marriage contracts. In …
Verso: formulary for reports of death in which the names of the deceased, the heirs and the witnesses are left blank. In Arabic script. Dating: …
The slaves report the death of so-and-so, the son of so-and-so, the Jew, on such-and-such a day of such-and-such a month,
in such-and-such a year…
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IB II, 60. Bill of sale for the purchase of a house by Maḥrūz. Constructed from three fragments: T-S NS 184 52, T-S NS 184 …
Small fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Declaration made by [Abū Is]ḥāq Avraham ha-Sar. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Small fragment of a legal document. Involves Yefet b. Sason. Includes release formulae.