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Legal document, perhaps Mamluk or early Ottoman-era, with a large and elaborate ʿalāma at the top. Some phrases are preserved including the blessings for the …
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Minute fragment of a legal deed, only few words, mostly cut into half.
Two drafts of Karaite legal documents. On recto testimony on a debt. On verso regarding inheritance. No date or signatures
Legal document. In Aramaic. Location: Fustat. Dating: Looks old, maybe 11th century, but that is a guess. Needs examination.
A court clerk's notes for drawing up a legal document. It involves a payment of 4 dinars. The witnesses are Abū Isḥāq al-Tawwazī (אלתווזי); Yosef …
Fragment of a legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Concerning a family dispute. A woman, Maḥfūẓa from the Ḥātimiyya(?) family, …
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Legal document, late, in Arabic script, issued by al-Ṣāliḥiyya al-Najmiyya qadi court of Cairo. Concerns al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ajhūrī and the Rabbinic Jew Murād. Needs examination.
Middle fragment of a deathbed will of a physician (it seems, for he notes the book of medicine (kitāb al-ṭibb) in his own hand), mentioning …
Legal fragment. Dated: 1358 Seleucid, which is 1046/47 CE. Involves [...] b. Avraham b. Mukhtār; possibly his wife; and a girl under 11 years of …
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Recto: unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe a draft petition since it contains a taqbīl in the top line and ends with ṣalwala and ḥasbala. …
Marriage document (ṣadāq) dated Ramaḍān 461 between Qurūlus and ʿAzīza bnt. Ḥudayj (?). The document is damaged throughout. (AP)
Fragment of a ketubba. Reused on recto, in a different hand, for a literary text about the book of Jonah.
Bill of divorce, badly damaged. Dating, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. A small remnant of the date is visible in line two "[ה]עשרים …
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Recto: deed of sale in Hebrew for a compound in Damascus (a large and small house) at the Market of the Jews, for 280 ʿAzīzī …
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On line from an opening of a court record involving Berakhot b. Yefet. AA
See PGPID 15834
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Deed of sale of a house in Fustat dated Dhū l-Qaʿda 643 AH = March/April 1286 CE. Refers to Fustat and the Mamṣūṣa quarter and …
Qaraite marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Dated: 1315 Seleucid, which is 1003/04 CE. (In fact, Goitein points out that this is one of the oldest …
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Unfinished legal deed. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli and dated Ḥeshvan 1411 Seleucid (= 1099 CE). Concerning the will of Makhlūf b. Ismaʿīl …
Marriage document. A few lines from the bottom. The groom is named ʿEli. Witnessed by [...] b. Avraham and Yehuda b. Shelomo ha-Sofer.
Legal deed, apparently settling accounts at the end of a lease. Probably from a Rabbanite court. In Hebrew. Dated: Sunday, 5 Av 5404 AM, which …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Deathbed declaration of an old man, bringing his two sons before four witnesses and explaining …
Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is ʿAlāʾ bt. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Saʿīd (Khan suggests this is …
Part of a ketubba for Nathan ha-Levi (groom), referring to the dowry. (Information from CUDL)
Order in Judaeo-Arabic. Sibāʿ is to give the bearer 1 ratl of olive oil (zayt ṭayyib).
Fragment of an effaced court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1417 Seleucid, which is December 1105 CE. Among other matters, Ḥalfon b. …
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning blessings for the Nagid as well as a certain [...] b. Yehuda ha-Kohen. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script, maybe mercantile. Long, with a lot of content preserved, however the fragment is crumpled and in need of conservation. Dating: …
Ketubba, Rabbanite. Dated: [13]56 Seleucid, which is 1044/45 CE.Groom: Thābit b. Yaʿaqov. Bride: [...] bt. Abu l-Faraj (based on the filing note on verso). Mentions …
Several notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1213–37 CE, as Avraham Maimonides is referred to as the Nagid. Either a letter or legal jottings, but in any …
Legal record (#51). Disposition of inheritance. Dated: Monday, 13 Tammuz 1467 Seleucid. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Skandarānī appeared before the court bearing a power of attorney …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Small fragment (lower right corner), and possibly a draft. The name Ibn Shamārī …
Court record. Mentions a woman who died and a dispute over an inheritance involving Abū Isḥāq Yoshiyya (the same as in T-S 12.37 (PGPID 3143)?), …
Legal deed. In Arabic script. Dated: Jumādā II 993 AH, which is 1585 CE. A landlord, called only al-Faqīr ilā Allāh, settles accounts with his …
Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Moshe the cantor, Shelomo, a wālī, and "the father and his mother." The word קתל (kill/be killed) …
Fragment of a legal document (upper left corner). Dated: Av 1400 Seleucid = July 1089 CE. Mevorakh b. Yosef makes an acknowledgment. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract. Groom: Munā b. Shelomo. Bride: Mubāraka bt. Avraham. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13 Tishrei 1406 Seleucid = 26 September 1094 CE. The couple is …
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Legal document involving a partnership between a large number of the Jewish merchants active in Egypt ca. 1800 CE: Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, Avraham Cesana …
Legal document from Cairo dated January 1802 CE (Shevat 5562), in which Nissim Romano acknowledges that he has received 180 silver muayyadis from the orphans …
Beginning of a ketubah dated 133[.] Era of documents = ~1020s.
IB VII, 14. Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Ṣāfī b. Yakhin appoints [Yaʿ]aqov(?) b. Yiṣḥaq(?) al-Sijilmāsī as his …
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Header of a beautifully illuminated ketubba, with micrography in the border.
Formal letter of resignation from the judge Nissim al-ʿAnqarī. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Friday, 16 Iyyar 5301 AM, which is 1541 CE. He says …
P1: Legal document on parchment, related to real estate, probably a deed of sale. In Arabic script, badly rubbed. Dated: Jumādā II 346 AH = …
Legal fragment (lower left corner). Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by [...] b. Shelomo. Mentions a maṣbagh (dyeing workshop?) in Fustat.
Ketubba fragment. The groom may be named Namir (the word after וקבל עלוהי). The bride's is [...] bt. Tamim ha-Zaqen ha-Rofe. The wife's earnings will …
Legal document dated 1819 CE (Shevat 5579) in which Yosef Yuʿbaṣ makes a declaration about 400 gurush that had been invested with him. The day …
Karaite agreement regarding a payment for two apartments (תבקתין) in a house. Date: 27 Shevat 5446 AM (1686 CE). ʿOvadya Feyruz receives a payment of …
Fragment of a beautifully written ketubba. Groom: Netanʾel. Bride: Mubāraka. The trousseau list appears to be written in rhymed Hebrew. The sum 250 dinars is …