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Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: possibly 11th century. Involves David ha-Kohen b. [...] (l. 9). Someone makes a statement regarding …
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Recto: Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: end of Tishrei 1525 Seleucid (1213 CE). Requires further examination.
Verso: Hebrew legal document, probably from a draft or formulary. AA
Betrothal deed. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Tuesday, 24 Sivan 1471 Seleucid (31 May 1160 CE), under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi. Bride: …
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Legal record (#13) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Concerning Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen who who bought dyed cloth from Abū …
Bill of divorce. Dated 13 Sivan 5505 AM which is 13 June 1745 CE. Location: Cairo. The husband's name is listed solely as Menaḥem b. …
Bottom of a legal document signed by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), Munajjā b. Shelomo and Yeshuʿa b. Yaʾir. An addendum …
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Legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Location: Fustat. Dated: First decade of Tammuz 1489 Seleucid, which is June 1178 CE. Abū l-Faraj …
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Legal document acknowledging a debt on account of a dowry. Date: 29 Sivan 1293 Sel. (982 CE). Location: Fustat. The groom is Yosef ha-Kohen b. …
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Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Conveying a first-person narration regarding a journey: فلما ان طال المكث . . . انا ومن معي وهجرت خرجت اما …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Rashīd b. [...]. Dated: end of Ramaḍān 777 AH = February 1376 …
Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Sahlawayh b. Ḥayyim. Groom: Ḥesed (presumably Abū Naṣr al-Tustarī). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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IB VI, 46. Legal document. Partnership. Dated: 1215-1216 CE. This fragment emerged from the court of Avraham Maimonides. The partners ʿImrān Moshe al-Iskandarī b. Bū …
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Legal record (#15). Deposition in court. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Makārim b. Salāma al-Kohen known as Ibn al-Maqāniʿiyya states that he was …
The main text is liturgical. In the margin two strips from another document- a ketubba written by Mevorakh b. Natan (active 1150-1181 CE) - were …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment from the middle of the top. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1438 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE, …
Power of attorney. Location: Tinnīs (= Ḥanes). Dated: Sunday, 13 Tishrei 4750 = 15 September 989 CE. The paqid Ṭoviyya b. Yaḥyā of Aleppo appoints …
Formularies for legal documents, including for a Palestinian-style ketubba. Location: Probably Tyre. Same scribe as T-S NS 243.28. See M. A. Friedman's edition for further …
Legal document. Dated: Friday 12 Shevat 5407 AM, which is 1647 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman named Khāṣṣ bt. Shelomo Levi Somekh, the widow of …
Power of attorney. Location: probably al-Mahdiyya. Dated: 486[.] AM (Goitein read 4861). A certain Efrayim appoints Abūn as his agent (wakīl) for settling his affairs …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Mentions 3 dinars. Two witness signatures. Dated Ṣafar 449 H, and the beneficiary is a descendant of the Abbasid …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلم على عبا[ده الذين اصطفى
اقر جعفر بن محمد بن جعفر بن الفضل بن الفرات[
في صحة عقله وبدنه وجواز امره وقد اشه…
Deed of lease. In difficult Arabic script. The lessee is [...] b. ʿĪsā b. ʿĀzif(?), a government employee (al-mustakhdam). Dated: 17 Rajab 531(?) AH = …
Legal record (#12). Claim of money owed. Dated: Thursday, 18 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faraj b. Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān brings a claim on behalf of …
Legal document in Arabic script. Deed of sale (refers to "hādhā al-bayʿ" three lines from the bottom). Involves the daughter of Yaḥyā b. Naṣr al-Kātib, …
Testimony that Abu al-Rida known as al-Subki had gifted all his property in Alexandria to his wife, Sitt al-Zaman bat Yiṣḥaq. Dated May 1185 in …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1432 Seleucid, which is September-October 1120 CE. Court record concerning a father’s will. Abū …
Fragmentary legal document(s) in Arabic script. There are two distinct main documents, one on recto and one on verso. In the right margin of recto, …
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 …
Recto: Legal document, probably, or a letter due to some loose formula. In Arabic script. Mentions "Abū l-Surūr al-madhkūr." Needs examination. Verso: Legal document in …
Probably a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [Sitt al-Sāda bt.?] Evyatar ha-Kohen and [Shelomo b. Abū] al-Riḍā al-Wakīl and Sālim …
Multifragment. (a) Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by ʿAmram b. Raḥamim and Yaḥyā b. Yiṣḥaq. (b) Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso the name Sar …
Fragment of a letter or legal document describing how in the presence of 'the community' two people testified concerning the cantor Hilāl, who apparently neglected …
Legal note, probably for the drawing up of a proper document. In Arabic script. ʿAllun b. Ḥasan b. [...]ṭā al-Ṣayrafī owes 70 dinars to Mūsā …
Legal testimonies before a beit din in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: 26 Kislev 5418 AM (verso) and Tishrei 5411 AM (recto) but the other verso …
Ketubba fragment (marriage contract). Location: Damascus. Dated: 1[.]01 Seleucid = [10]89/90 or [11]89/9 CE.
1r-v: Agreement between Sari b. ‘Eli and Sedaqa b. […] with regard to goods left by Musafir b. Yish‘i. Shari undertakes to pay after his …
Part of a 10th-century legal document dealing with the estate of Bundār the freedman (בנדאר המשחרר). The document may derive from the Jewish community in …
Qaraite ketubba formulary (FGP)
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Legal document. Probably a partnership agreement. Dating: Shortly before Ṭevet 1422 Seleucid, which is 1110/11 CE. The capital may be 50 dinars. Maḥfūẓ and Abū …
Document of sale dated 454 AH. Since the top part of the document is damaged neither the parties to the sale nor the object of …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary and damaged, bottom half. Mentions a Christian (al-Naṣrānī al-Dhimmī) who is probably the proprietor, and measures of wheats in …
Bottom of a legal document. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was active. Only signatures are preserved: [...]ram ha-Shofeṭ; …
Legal document, Qaraite. Conditional divorce. Dated: Monday, 21 Heshvan 5516 AM, which is 1755 CE. The document describes a quarrel between ʿOvadya b. Eliyyahu Rofe …
Draft of the opening sentence of a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or possibly Hillel b. ʿEli. Stating that Yehuda ha-Kohen …
Three leaves, all of which belong together. One side of each fragment contains an elaborate trousseau list, with values given in both Hebrew numerals and …
Legal document. Entirely in Hebrew. Headed זכרון עדות. Dating: Likely 11th century. Abū [...] and a woman are involved, gold coins, and a payment. Unclear …
Legal document on parchment. Damaged. Fragment (upper right piece). Referring to [...] ha-Levi; his travel to al-Andalus; 20 dinars; a half dinar; going with him …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū l-Ḥasan [...] b. Yosef and someone known as Ibn al-Quṣayyir(?) al-Zayyāt. …