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Fragment of a deed of sale for a property in Fustat, in Maḥbas Bunāna. In Arabic script. Several geographical details and characteristics of the property …
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Deed of sale for real estate (يحد هذه الدار وحدودها وارضها) in Arabic script. Quite faded. The price is 12 dinars (العين الجيد المصري المحقق …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: Unknown. Location: Jerusalem. Groom: Avraham b. Gershom. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Mevorakh, a divorcee. See Goitein's index card for further information.
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Karaite agreement regarding a partnership in rural cheese production (אלגבן אלריפי) mentioning the specific type(s) "אלכשכבאן אלכזין". Dated 22 Heshvan 5515 AM (1754 CE). The …
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Deed of release (ibrāʾ) written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) concerning the repairs and rent of a house. Mentions a certain …
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The part written with a wider pen resembles business accounts, while the part written with a thinner pen looks like a portion of a legal …
Legal document, an iqrār, in Arabic script. Top portion only. Needs examination.
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning the elder Abū Isḥāq probably relating to a marriage agreement. The monogamy clause is included. The bride was probably …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 20 Adar I 5559 AM, which is 1799 CE. Eliyyahu Ṣevi Ḥbak(?) (צבי חבאך) acknowledges an investment of 2000 medins …
Record of statement of release issued by the court of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1538 = 3 May 1227 CE. …
Verso: responsum in Judaeo-Arabic by ʿEli b. ʿAmram (11th century), regarding forbidden marriage. Recto: piyyuṭ in Hebrew that continues in the margin on verso. (Information …
Testimony, deed of divorce, catalogued as a legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 808 H. …
Upper fragment: Replacement ketubba (כתובה אירכסא), meant to replace one that was torn or lost. Mentions Avraham ha-Rav he-Ḥasid b. Yehuda (presumably the groom) and …
Legal document. Bill of release after collection of a sum of money. No names or amounts preserved.
Marriage document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108). Fragment from a left side of ketubba de-irkesa (כתובה דארכסא), a ketubba written as …
Small fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed. AA
Legal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed זכרון עדות. Dated: 1540 Seleucid, which is 1228/29 CE. Despite the heading, it might be a legal query, e.g., if …
Verso: Copy of a will by Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri. September 1090. In the handwriting of Shlomo ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu (which became the Gaon later). …
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פי הדא אלכתאב חצרנא ענד ר ישועה בר שמואל …
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Deed of sale, probably. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). For "the large dār with the square …
Possibly a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. Dated, but only the number 4 or 40 is readily legible. The hand looks late and/or Sefaradi-influenced. Mentions a …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (bottom only). Wife: Naʿama bt. Menashshe(?). Signed by Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq and ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen.
Draft of legal document; the merchant Nahrir b. Mawhub appears before the rabbinical court of Fustat on 23 Ḥeshvan (Shawwāl) 521 AH = October/November 1127 …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 19 [...] 5585 AM (1824/25 CE). Stating the amount of money to be paid to al-Khwāja Eliyyahu Lanyado.
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Contains part of the physical description of one of the parties (...wāḍiḥ al-jabha...). Verso: Probably records …
Halakhic text, possibly a responsum, mentioning Rabbis Ilʿa and Hiyya, as well as dates. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document dealing with a debt of Hiba/Natan the dyer b.'Ulla to al-Sheikh Abu 'Ali Yefet b. David for two qintar of indigo he bought …
Legal document. Damaged and faded. Location: the city of פלודס or פלורס(??). Dated: Sunday, 21 Av 4813 AM = 8 August 1053 CE. Power of …
Legal document mentioning a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Tammuz 1837 Seleucid = 932 Hijri, which is July 1526 CE. It lays out the settlement of at …
Karaite ketubah. The groom is Yeshu'a b. Mordechai and the bride is Esther known as Situta d. Shemuel. 28 Adar 5400 AM (1640 CE).
Legal document(s) or letter(s) concerning a legal case. Both sides—one in Arabic script, one in Judaeo-Arabic—are first-person declarations about the details of some financial case …
Palestinian-style marriage contract. Late tenth or early eleventh century. Mentions Shemarya b. Yshuʿa. In a darker ink and different hand, someone has added Elʿazar ha-Levi …
Bill of release from Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiʾel b. Moshe ha-Rofeʾ, the representative of the merchants, to the cantor Avraham b. Neḥemya. Also mentions Shemarya b. …
Ketubba with an elaborate floral border (recto). Location: Salonica, the Hebrew/Aramaic names of the nearby rivers (?מגינות ובארוה) are unclear but there are several possibilities: …
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Apparently nearly complete, with only the first few lines missing. Dated: Wednesday, [..] Rajab 1163 AH = June/July 1750 …
Legal record (#14) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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Legal document from a qāḍī court. Dated: 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 870 AH (Sunday 29 July 1466 CE). The raʾīs al-yahūd, Yūsuf b. Khalīfa, and his …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده جرى ذلك اللهم صلى على سيّدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً
بمجلس الحكم العزيز بين يدي …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Praise be to God alone. God’s prayers and many blessings upon our lord Muḥammad, on his famil…
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Marriage contract for Shelomo b. Yosef and Munā bt. ʿAmram. Marriage payment: 1 + 15? From somewhere in Egypt. Dated 1086/87 CE (1398 Seleucid).
Karaite documents on bifolium regarding ownership of real estate shares in a house and a shop. Dated in the first document as Monday, Iyyar 2nd, …
Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 19 Rabīʿ II 1056 AH = 4 June 1646 …
Fragment from a legal deed written by Yosef b. Shmuel b. Saadya Halevi.
Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
Many tiny fragments, some are from legal deeds.
Legal document concerning an inheritance. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Much of the date is broken off, but mentions a number of names …
Court record. Dated: Monday, 14 Adar I 1464 Seleucid = 10 February 1153 CE. The cantor Yosef b. Mikhaʾel sells a little house in Fustat, …
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Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Mentions Rabbenu Pinḥas ha-K[ohen?], Nissim, the phrase פי ולאיה נטר perhaps referring to a girl or woman named Naẓar. …
Partnership/investment agreement (עסקא). Location: Cairo. Dated: First third of Shevaṭ 5577 AM = January 1817 CE. Khalīfa ʿAfīf acknowledges that David ʿAfīf has invested 17,000 …
Fragment of a betrothal (qiddushin) deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The groom is probably [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi. The early installment …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by al-Masīḥī al-ʿAmīd Abū l-Faḍl b. Abī l-Majd b. Bishāra al-Naṣrānī acknowledges a debt that he owes to …