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Bottom of a legal document, in Arabic script, with witness clauses. Probably a document of Iqrār dated to the month of Rabīʿ I, but the …
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Minute fragment, probably from a legal document. AA
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Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Location: Fustat. Refers to the ending of a man's period of …
Legal document draft or court register entry draft. Dated to the first third of Heshvan 5491 (1730 CE). Location: Cairo (noted in l. 8). The …
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Minute fragment from a legal deed
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including a book list, including al-Faṣīḥ fī l-Lugha, Masāʾīl Ṭibbiyya, and Leviticus in Arabic. Verso: Draft or copy of a legal …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Fragment (upper half only). In Arabic script. Parties are Sālim b. Abū l-Faraj and Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Needs examination for …
Legal record (#87) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Kislev 5325 …
Legal document containing an acknowledgment by a creditor, Khalaf b. Aharon, of the full payment of the debt.
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Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Involves Avraham b. Faraj/Yeshuʿa al-Raḥbī who is known from several other documents from the late 11th …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel. Yehuda b. Shelomo ha-Sofer is one of the witnesses. Mentions …
Bill of release from any claim granted by Netanʾel b. Yefet b. Meshullam Ibn Ḥirbish to Musāfir b. Shemuel in relation to the will of …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Probably a deed of gift. Signed by [Abraham?], a descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon. …
A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …
End of a legal document. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar 5337 AM = 29 April 1577 CE. Signed (and probably written) by Yosef b. …
Marital documents in Arabic, medieval-era. Only the divorce contract bears a definitive date: 2 Rabiʿ II 558 AH (10 March 1163 AH). Recto: top part …
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Muslim marriage contract. Fragment (upper right corner). Groom: Yazdād b. Balūl(?). Needs further examination. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Replacement ketubba. Location: Safed. Dated: 23 Adar 5299 AM = 11 February 1539 CE. Husband: Moshe b. Yosef ʿAynos (? עיינוס). Wife: Doña Hora Buena …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Repurposed for a tax receipt. The document is a fragmentary marriage contract, and mentions the dower (ṣadāq), and some standard …
Deed of a gift or gifts, willed by an old man to be collected after his death. Dated: 1122 CE. The testator is the Tripolitan …
Legal document mentioning Shela b. [...], Fusṭāṭ and the Gaʾon. Signed by [...] b. Ṣedaqa, Yefet b. Saʿadya and [Jose]ph b. Yefet. (Information from CUDL)
End of a legal document from Cairo dated in the first third of Adar 5502 AM which is 1742 CE. From what little can be …
Marriage document. Fragment from a left side of ketubah de'irkasa כתובה דארכסא, that is a ketubah written as a replacement for a lost ketubah (see …
Marriage contract. Location: Tinnīs, Egypt. Dating: late tenth century. Two pieces are preserved. A long elaborate poem recited on Passover (for dew) was written on …
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Legal document. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). "Another woman, Mubāraka bt. Maḥfūẓ, already separated for over four years from her …
Part of a pre-nuptial agreement. Written by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiʾel. Dated 13th Elul 1[...], in Fusṭāṭ. Issued under the authority of David I Maimonides (1237–1300). …
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 …
Engagement contract, draft. The scribe repeated a number of lines of the document as well as the names of the bride and groom several times. …
Legal document. Small fragment. Perhaps a marriage contract (...tosefta ve-nedunya...).
Legal document from Alexandria (מדינת אכסנדריה ). Dated: [..]69 AM, probably 4869 AM = 1108/09 CE, but 4769 or 4969 are also possible. (Information in …
Compensation bill given by Alush b. Yeshua to Shemuel (Isma’il) b. Avraham al-Andalusi, July 24, 1011. The two Spanish merchants (Alush and Shemuel) arrived in …
Ketubba, beginning only. The scribe interrupted the draft after the date in the seventh line, probably because the day in the month is mistaken: 17 …
בסימן יפה לנו ולכל ישראל
בשעה יפה בין כאן בין . פה
במזל גבוה יהיה לנו ולכל
ישראל כין הוה במעלי
Legal document, probably, in Arabic and Hebrew script. Mentions "fī manʿ shahāda". Needs examination.
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement. Fiance: Yosef b. Yehuda Menaḥem. Fiancee: Estīta bt. David ha-Kohen. Currency: Venetian ducats (פרחים זהב בנאדקה). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan [5]330 …
Recto: Summaries of legal documents in Arabic script. There are at least seven legal records of sale, and one deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) at the …
Fragment of a legal document, 6 lines, not very legible script. Indication of a default in loan repayment on the first due date (ākhiruhā yatluhu …
Draft of a deed of compensation in the hand of the court reporter Yefet b. David Shekhanya, around 1030 CE. It was given to Efrayim …
Legal record (#19) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
Deposition made in court, under duress. Dating: ca. 1130s–40s CE. The issue concerns a house worth 300 dinars; 150 were paid. Then it was estimated …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Involves a certain Yefet; reference to a purchase; gaining merit by keeping a shop open; …
Liturgy for the marriage ceremony, along with part of a copy of a Karaite ketubba for Muʾammala bat Ḥayyim. Dated: 1324 Sel. (= 1012-13 CE). …
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Testimony regarding the proselytizing of two sisters. A new edition with English translation to be published by Amir Ashur
Legal document written by a Muslim notary on parchment related to the sale of property, with description of the location. Mentions ʿAlī b. Zakariyā b. …
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Concerning a certain Kohen who is seeking a restraining order against his divorcee and to prohibit her from entering …
Small fragment containing an order, maybe for 2.5 dirhams' worth of meat.
Legal document. Abū al-Bahā' al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl (“the beekeeper”) undertakes to pay back his nephew Moshe ha-Kohen 66(9)0 silver dirhams, 200 dinars, and 100 irdabb …
Legal document. Fragment of a prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). The wife is permitted to leave her house only with …
Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 3 Kislev 1391 Seleucid = 31 October 1079 CE. Husband: Shelomo b. Avraham. Wife: Yamān bt. Avraham. Signed …
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 …