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Hebrew instructions for producing silver and gold, followed by Hebrew writing exercises in a different hand. At the bottom of recto there is a draft …
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Small piece of a Palestinian-style marriage contract (ketubba), preserving part of the volition formula and the statement of the wife's obligations. (Information from CUDL)
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Legal records, perhaps. In Judaeo-Arabic. One record states that Ghāliya al-Ḍarīra (the blind) bt. B[...] releases someone. Another involves Nuṣayr b. Thābit and debts owed.
Halakhic text, probably a responsum; citation from Mishna Bava Qamma 7:1. (Information from CUDL)
Beginning of a legal document in Hebrew, drawn up in Egypt in Ṭevet 13[..] Seleucid = 988–1087 CE.
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Document concerning the sale of shares in sugar refinery. At the top appears the name Saʿadya b. Shelomo b. Yefet ha-Levi (all given titles such …
Betrothal (erusin) contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 19 Heshvan 5591 AM, which is 1830 CE. Groom: Avraham b. Yosef b. Shelomo. Bride: Masʿūda bt. …
Formulary for a Karaite ketubba. See Mann, Texts and Studies, 174–76. Information from Goitein's note card.
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Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Handwriting of Natan b. Shemuʾel? In which [...] Khalaf the parnas who used to be a ḍāmin (tax …
IB V, 47. Legal record (#65). Inheritance settlement. Dated: Middle of Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. "One of a series of documents from 1156 about an inheritance …
Damaged fragment from the bottom part of a pre nuptial agreement (or a ketubah). The future husband is taking upon himself not to harm his …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Dating: 800s AH, possibly 823 AH = 1420/21 CE. Needs further examination.
Unusual genre of legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), stating that Abū l-Karam must pay to the orphan Abū …
Torn Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom is Yosef b. Elisha. The bride is Esther d. Ishaq Halevi the cantor.
Arabic legal document, iqrār, bottom left corner. There are two fragments under this shelfmark, and it is not immediately clear whether they belong to the …
Deed of sale for a portion of a house. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1468 Seleucid, which is 1156/57 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. …
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Small piece of a marriage-related legal document, mentioning gifts and "Naẓar the mother of this bride." (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. Dated: 1448 Seleucid, which is 1136/37 CE. Very faded. Concerning the divorce arrangements of Elʿazar b. Saʿadya and his wife. Signed by: Moshe …
Legal record (#18). Loan contract. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Khayr b. Nājī owes 2.25 dinars to Abū l-Murajjā Sālim al-Ṣayrafī b. Abū …
Court record concerning a grain dealer who promises to pay his former wife 4 dirhams every week for his five-year-old son, who was staying with …
On Monday, 24 Tishrei (1)364 AG (= 21 September 1052 CE), R. Joseph b. R. Ṣedaqa
the keeper of a grain store and his divorcee Gh[aniyya] b…
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F. 1: various (drafts of) legal documents in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, including a trousseau list, power of attorney and witness statements. (1) …
Draft or beginning of a legal document. In Arabic script. "This is a release between me and Umm Abū Manṣūr regarding the dwelling in the …
End of damaged legal document on parchment from 11th century Fustat. Involving [...] known as al-Ṣāʾigh. Signed by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef and a certain Yefet …
Ketubba draft from Cairo dated 22 November 1822 (8 Kislev 5583), for Khalīfa b. [name omitted] Kika(?) (כיכא) and the widow Sulṭāna bt. Nissim Qajiji. …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. On parchment. Large, but quite damaged. Verso refers to a buyer and a house and elements of the house, so …
Marriage contract in which the bridegroom promises to feed and clothe the son of his future wife, a divorcee, to let him learn a craft, …
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Fragment from the end of a legal document. In Hebrew. In the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (per Goitein's index card #6774). Dated: …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Tammuz 1837 Seleucid = 932 Hijri, which is July 1526 CE. It lays out the settlement of at …
Court record in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Ḥasana bt. Yehuda demands the possessions of her brother Shemarya/Maḥfūẓ from his …
Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/45v: Continuation of previous document (PGPID 6535). The clothing and household goods are divided between the two girls. The …
List of three bills of divorce, apparently notes of a court scribe. (1) Husband: Sālim b. Avraham. Wife: [...]b al-Dīn bt. Maṣliaḥ. (2) Husband: David …
Contract of a commercial sale – 192_CE [digit missing] – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 30) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Trousseau list. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Fiancé: Seʿadya b. [Avraham]. Fiancée: Jawhara bt. Seʿ[adya known as Abū l-Yumn Ibn al-Baṣal]. This is …
Legal document draft in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu about a gift from his father of almost all his books and copper vessels; brother …
אוהבת אבני שלמה שרה אלתורה והו כמסה אגזא ואיצ'א
סידור רבנו שלמה ז'ל וליס לא[חד] פיה שי בל הו לאבני
שלמה במתנה …
I present my son Solomon with a Torah commentary
I present my son Solomon with a Torah commentary in five volumes, as well as
the prayerb…
Fragment from the top of a ketubba drawn up in Alexandria (נא אמון). Hebrew and Arabic pen trials on verso.
Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi agrees to bring to court a husband and his wife, the latter being accused of frightening another man's wife with practices …
Declaration of a father and husband, testifying that he had not married anyone before the mother of his first-born and that he had not sired …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Date missing. Fragment of a Hebrew contract of partnership in which a woman named Summāna ("Quail") invests 8 dinars. She will …
IB ח97. Recto: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dating: 1133–36 CE (see PGPID 9140 for rationale). Partnership …
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Right side of a somewhat unusual court record. In Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th century. Maymūn, the husband of Malka bt. ʿUmayr, is suing a certain …
Legal record (#45). Alimony owed. Dated: Thursday, 24 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Location: Cairo in the moshav/majlis of the Nagid (the other items in this notebook …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 21 Shevaṭ 1422 = 1 February 1111 CE. Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi (the Spaniard); also …
Marriage document (ṣadāq) dated Ramaḍān 461 between Qurūlus and ʿAzīza bnt. Ḥudayj (?). The document is damaged throughout. (AP)
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), possibly appointing Avraham b. Uri Shabbetay Ashkenazi as someone's agent …
Legal record (#23) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 21-23) Folio 6r
On recto there are three brief legal records: (I) The first concerns the selling of jewels owed to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Fakhr. Dated: Shevaṭ …
Ketubba, illuminated, from 1840/41 CE ([5]601), left half only. Signed by David b. Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm.
Legal document dated 20 October 1800 (1 Heshvan 5561 AM), Cairo, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 60 reales, each equivalent to …
(b) Record of marriage conditions. Dated: Sivan 1496 Seleucid (May 1185 CE). Groom: Abū l-Barakāt b. Musallam al-Ṭabīb. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAlam bt. Netanel the Fifth. …
Small fragment from a legal document mentioning the advanced bridal gift (muqdam/muqaddam). Probably from a ketubba. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya …