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Legal document. Partnership agreement. The partnership is to last one year and the parties include a woman named Sirwa -- who is to receive a …
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Legal document mentioning a sum of money and ‘the price (or: eighth) of the house’. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). On parchment. Fragment (long vertical strip from the left side of the …
Legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid (1089–1188 CE). The day of the month was left blank, so this is presumably a draft. In the hand of …
Deed of lease (hādhā mā istaʾjara...) of real estate. In Arabic script. The lessor is a woman named Sitt al-Nās (l. 3), maybe the daughter …
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 …
Legal deed, draft, regarding the estate of Avraham ha-Levi the teacher b. Yosef b. ʿAnan, which had been deposited by the Beit Din with ʿEli …
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Fragment of a quittance document (שטר אביזארי). Written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Ṭevet 4837 AM = 14 December 1076 CE. …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1248-1249. Location: Fustat. This document describes a partnership in a sugar-factory. It is likely the document is a draft because …
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Court record in Hebrew. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Nisan 5285 AM = 19 April 1525 CE. Signed by three known figures: Yisraʾel b. Yeḥiel, …
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1350 Seleucid = August/September 1039 CE. Banīna bt. Avraham in Alexandria, who had been deserted by her husband Yosef, …
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Minute fragment of a legal deed regarding Eli and 3 brothers- probably concerning inheritance. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). AA
Court record. In Hebrew. Location: Crete (Candia). Dated: Monday, 1 Tevet 5275 AM = 19 December 1514 CE. Certifying that the bearer of this document, …
IB VII, 11. Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). David b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn al-Ṣafaṭ (? אלצפט) acknowledges receipt of …
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Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Likely legal and Ottoman-era based on hand and format.
Legal document concerning a settlement of 17 dinars belonging to ‘my son Sālim’. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from …
Recto: beginning of a Qaraite ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1 Adar 12[..] Seleucid = 889–988 CE. There is a small drawing in the header. Verso and …
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A leaf from a court register. Contains four different entries, dated to Nissan and Sivan 1409 Sel. (Spring 1098 CE). On left hand of Verso, …
Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Shaʿbān 1104 AH = 14 April 1693 CE …
Legal document. Fragment (lower left corner). In Hebrew rather than Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Av 48[24?] AM, which is (if correct) 1064 CE. Involves a woman …
Marriage contract, possibly. Only a few words of the inscription at the top (mentioning rejoicing and the Nagid) and the first line of the document …
Agreement to pay back a debt. Dated: Friday, 9 Nisan 1576 Seleucid = 27 March 1265 CE. Hanāʾ, the wife of Khuḍayr al-Qalyūbī, promises to …
Legal document, fragment.
Legal document, fragment from the lower left containing part of a date.
This shelfmark includes 3 unrelated fragments. Bottom fragment: Validation of a legal document. Signed by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham (also signed BL OR 5551.1), Ḥiyya b. …
Opening line of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment. There are several interlinear corrections. Mentions a widow; a kohen; Ḥalfon; a parnas; and Ibrāhīm. It is unclear how all these names relate …
Promissory note, maybe. "I owe al-shaykh al-ajall X...." In Arabic, with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Needs further examination.
On recto piyyut. On verso fragment from a ketubbah contains mostly the dowry list. AA
Legal record (#47-49). Liquidation of a dowry. The family is Qaraite. The father is selling off items from the dowry of his wife, Sitt al-Dār …
Legal record. Only the very end is preserved. Dated: 1429 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. Signed: Avraham b. Shemaʿya; Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib; ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel …
Legal note(s) in Arabic script. The most preserved one: "The buyer: [...] b. Ḥammūd b. ʿAmmār.... on the defects (al-ʿuyūb)... from the aforementioned price." The …
Legal document written and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 21 Elul 1404 Seleucid = 15 September 1093 CE. In which Saʿadya …
Two tiny legal fragments in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). The upper fragment mentions someone's wife, Sitt al-[...]. The lower fragment mentions ʿAsqalān.
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Minute fragment. Dating: 1100–38. Someone will not sue someone. There is a remaining debt of …
Resposum in Aramaic, tiny fragment
Marriage contract, fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic, with the dowry list in Judaeo-Arabic. The bride may be [...] bt. Yosef.
Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: ca. 16th century. The parties are Shemuel and Siman Ṭov. Mentions a sum of 20 medins.
Fragment of ketubba (marriage contract) in the hand of Yefet b. David, ca. 1030. Bride: Karīma bt. Yosef, virgin. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Saʿadya. Only monetary …
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Friday, 15 Kislev 1417 Seleucid, which is 24 November 1105 CE. Groom: Yefet …
Small fragment of an Arabic legal document. Only a few words are preserved including the physical description of one of the parties (wāḍiḥ al-jabha...).
Legal document of unknown nature (real estate?), written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138) or Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066-1108 CE). fragmentary and torn.
Description from T-S 12.502 (PGPID 7245): Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (per Weiss). Dated: Av 1434 Seleucid, which is 1123 CE. …
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Marriage contract. Dating: first half of the 13th century, on paleographic grounds. The handwriting is similar to that of ʿImanuel b. Yeḥiel (also compare T-S …
Small fragment, likely from a legal document. Mentions Avraham b. Farrāḥ. Might join with ENA NS 18.16 (PGPID 11103).
Bill of exchange in the amount of 120 qirsh paid to Kẖawaja Mūsa Abū Hārūn – 25 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art – …
Legal document. Small fragment. Containing the first words of 15 lines. Likely a deed of sale, as it is describing the location and boundaries of …
Court record in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Tuesday, 12 Elul 1515 Seleucid = 10 August 1204 CE. In which Sitt …
IB I, 16. Two court records regarding Moshe b. Labrat b. Moshe b. Sugmar and Yosef b. David al-Tarabulusi, from the court in Fustat. November …
בחמשה בשבה דהוא חמשה יומי בירח כסלו דשנת אלפא
וארבע מאה ותשע שנין למניינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט
מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן הוה חצר אלי…
On Thursday, the fifth day of Kislev, in the year
Mr. David b. Mr. Joseph—may he…
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Court copy of a Karaite ketubba (marriage contract), Ramla. Ca. 1030 (per Friedman) or 1010s-1020s (per Olszowy-Schlanger). Bride: Ḥusn bt. David. Groom: Shelomo b. ʿAmram. …
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