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Legal record (#30). Trousseau list. Groom: Bū l-Barakāt al-ʿAṭṭār. Bride: Sitt at-Dār bt. Yefet ha-Kohen b. Menashshe ha-Dayyan. See Goitein's notes for the items enumerated. …
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Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script (very neatly written, with diacritics). Concerning al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm and Isḥāq and a house. Dating: Probably late Mamluk …
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Many minute fragments, one seems to be by the hand of Shelomo b. Yosef. Some are in Arabic script.
Legal document in which a loan of 200 ‘black coins’ is made by a school teacher, to be repaid in monthly instalments of 40 coins. …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Only one of the witness signatures (Mūsā b. [...]) is preserved, with an additional note at the bottom. Reused on …
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 …
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Court testimony in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Thursday, end of Kislev 1530 Seleucid = 20 December 1218 CE, under the …
Legal record (#131) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 42v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 29 Elul 5329 …
Upper left piece of a document in Arabic script, likely legal. Needs examination.
Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions 24 silver pieces; Menaḥem al-Yahūdī known as Rūfīl (? روفيل, possibly a diminutive of the name Refaʾel); an …
Legal documents. Dating: Ottoman-era, probably. Recto refers to a new gold denomination of currency (al-dhahab al-jadīd al-sulṭānī al-tāmm). Needs further examination.
Four different documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Clockwise from upper left: (1) Thin vertical strip from the left side …
Legal document in Arabic script. Perhaps a bill of sale. Needs examination.
Karaite decorated ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Eliyyahu b. Yosef. The bride is Esther known as Marhaba d. Nahum Hakohen b. Aharon
Minute fragment, only few words preserved (one appears to be from the dowry list), probably from a ketubah. AA
Formulary for a Karaite marriage document, edited by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.
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Legal document dated ‘middle [decade] of Av’ [...], most likely from Fusṭāṭ, mentioning [...] the perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) al-Levi; Abū [...] Peqid ha-Soḥarim Kelil ha-Yofi b. …
Ketubba according to the Palestinian style. Dated: 4810 AM = 1049/50 CE. In the hand of Eliyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, when he was either reviʿi …
Marriage contract for two enslaved people, both born into slavery (muwallad(at) al-jins), Muwaffaq and Dhahab. In Arabic script. On verso reused for the Passover Haggada. …
Fragment of a marriage-related document. Mentions the date 4 Tishrei. Specifies marriage payments and timing (including a large muʾakhkhar of at least 200 [dinars]) and …
Recto: Draft contract. Dated: 1845(?) CE (l. 6, verso). In which ʿAfīf and Avraham Abū Aharon receive an ʿisqa investment of 40,000 arayot from Yaʿaqov …
Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The scribal hand may be known. Requires further examination.
Fol. 1v: Legal record (deed of release). In the hand of the cantor Yefet b. David. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar I 1339 Seleucid, which is …
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Small fragment from a marriage contract.
Partnership document in Hebrew between Moshe and Me'ir & his brother. 16th century per Avraham David. The partnership is to last for two years. The …
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Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower left corner). Likely a release of a debt for Abū …
Bill of divorce. Witnesses are […] b. Yūsuf and Yoseff b. Yeshuʿa. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Legal document, in Arabic script. A late Arabic, Ottoman iqrār document with a seal. Issued by the maḥkeme al-Ṣāliḥiyya al-Najmiyya, one of the ~15 qadi …
الحمد الله وحده
جرى ذلك
كتبه يحيى بن ي…
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script, with an addendum on the back concerning the same case. There are also notes in the margin …
Legal document from Tyre between Musāfir b. Pinḥas (?) and ʿAmram b. L[...] regarding a payment of a debt. Refers to "leaving this copy in …
Recto: (I) The upper text block is the bookseller's accounts, apparently referring to a woman (שפתל?). (II) Record of a deposition regarding donation of parts …
(1-3) I, and (A)bū Surūr b. al-Ṣabbāgh, and Faḍāʾil al-Ḥazzān Maʿālī b. al-Arbilī are witnesses concerning Sitt Riyāḍ
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Legal record (#85) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 6 Heshvan 5325 …
Recto: Testimony by Nissim b. Shemarya that Sason b. Natan had deposited with him seventeen counterfeit nizārī dinars. The counterfeiter was the mutawallī al-sikka, or …
Small fragment from a ketubah.
Small fragment of a Yemenite style marriage contract. See Friedman, JMP, I, p. 184, n. 109. AA
Fragment of deed of sale in Hebrew in which Esther bat Yosef b. Shalom, her husband Yosef, David b. Sahlan and Dosa sell to each …
Court record. A settlement between a brother and his two sisters concerning their late father’s inheritance. Dated: 1440 Seleucid (1128/9 CE). In the hand of …
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Fragment from a bill of divorce (get).
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated 2 Ṣ[afar] 1248 AH which is 1832 CE. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.24. There are multiple …
Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take …
Minute fragment. Few words only
The original text may be the remannts of the lines in Arabic script on the right-hand page of image 1, which appears to be a …
Probably the end of a legal document, with signatures by Saʿadya b. Nathan, ʿAmram b. Yefet and Isaac ‘the pauper’ b. Abraham. (Information from CUDL)
Upper section of a legal document dated 1728 CE (Tishrei 5489 AM) involving the heirs and dependents of the deceased Eliʿezer Ḥayo. Shemuel Ben-Naʿim is …
Recto: Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Dating: ca. 530 AH (= 1135/36 CE). (However, Goitein read the year 55[.] AH somewhere, which would be …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[هذ]ا ما اشترى مكارم بن أبي الفرج بن يوسف الـ[ ]
[ السمـ]ـرة واضح الجبهة وبها غضون مقرون خفي وبقرن جبهتيـ[ـه ]
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what Makārim ibn Abī al-Faraj ibn Yūsuf the [ … ] bought [ … ]
[ … brownness]…
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Bottom of a legal document. Needs examination.
Bill of sale in Arabic script, beginning only, probably Mamluk period. "Instead of the opening formula hādhā mā ishtarā X min Y ishtarā minhu ... …
Bill of sale for a female slave. Dating: Perhaps second half of the 11th century or beginning of the 12th century, based on the hand. …
Legal testimony from June/July 1225 CE (Tammuz 1536 in the Seleucid calendar) written under the auspices of Avraham Maimonides (1186-1237). A certain 'daughter of Abu …
Recto: part of a copy of a replacement ketubba for ʿAzīza bt. [...] and Saʿīd b. Yiṣḥaq. Dated: 5294 AM = 1533/34 CE. Location: Cairo. …