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  1. 2001Legal documentT-S 12.574

    Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar 14[.]3 Seleucid. The tens digit may have still been preserved at the time …

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  2. 2002Legal documentT-S AS 172.136

    Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The parties are Avraham and a certain …

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  3. 2003Legal documentT-S AS 184.36

    Upper part of a legal deed (iqrār), an acknowledgment made by both Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Abū l-Faḍāʾil Hibatallāh b. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan and the …

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  4. 2004Legal documentT-S Misc.36.205

    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 …

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  5. 2005Legal documentENA 972.3

    Bill of divorce. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Friday, 25 Iyyar 1439 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE. Husband: Natan b. Shela. Wife: …

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  6. 2006Legal documentENA 2176.2

    Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Abū l-ʿIzz and 22 dinars (בעד אבאעה . . . דינאר וחואליה . . . וטלבה פעסר עלי . . …

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  7. 2007Legal documentT-S AS 203.304

    Unidentified text in Arabic script, maybe legal or maybe literary about law (mentions nikāḥ). Reused for a book binding.

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  8. 2008Legal documentBL OR 5550.1

    Legal testimony from Fustat dated the 11th of Heshvan, 979 CE (1291 Seleucid) involving Saʿdān b. Saʿīd from Aleppo (Ṣuba) and Mevorakh b. Qiyām. Starting …

    זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו ברביעי בשבת בחמשה ימים לחדש מרחשון שנת

    אלף ומאתים ותשעים ואחת [למ]נין שאנו רגילין למנות בו בפסטאט מצרים

    שעל נילוס הנהר מושבה …

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  9. 2009Legal documentENA 3958.10

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Rajab 1244 AH, which is January 1829 CE. In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: …

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    1. غروش
    2. [ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]
    3. ١٥٠٠٠
    4. فقط خمست عشر الف غرش لا غير
    5. وجه تحريره
    6. ص [١] وله.... لما كان يوم الاربع المبارك في تلاتة وعشرين خلت من …

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    1. ghurūsh

    2. [ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]

    3. 15,000 .3

    4. Only fifteen thousand ghurūsh, nothing else.

    5. The reason for its [the document’s] compos…

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  10. 2010Legal documentT-S NS J272 + T-S 12.91

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: 1126–29 CE, based on the mention of the state official Abū Najāḥ ibn Qannāʾ (who …

    1. ] גרי מן אלראהב לענה אללה מא גרי עלי אלנאס ממא
    2. ]ך אלחרים ואכד אמואלהם ואמלאבהם וכאן ימחה שמו
    3. ] מאיה באליהוד ואשהאר חאל כל מנהם פעל פי דלך מא
    4. אה]רן ב…

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  11. 2011Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#118) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 38v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Location: Cairo. Dated: Av …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 38v

    1. ...] באחד נהאר אלכמיס מצ'נה חדש אב
    2. ...]. מצרים חצ'ר אד׳ הנ׳ הג׳ אהרן יצ׳׳ו ואשהד
    3. ...]גל שלמה יצ׳׳ו אבן אלמולי אלאגל מר׳…

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  12. 2012Legal documentENA NS 77.309 + ENA NS 77.307

    Legal document. Small fragment from a bill of sale. On parchment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Drawn up under the …

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  13. 2013Legal documentT-S 12.232

    Testimony regarding the proselytizing of two sisters. A new edition with English translation to be published by Amir Ashur

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו העדים הח[תומ]ים למטה בכתב הזה כי באו לפנינו
    2. שתי אחיות שהיו מקודם היום גויות ערלות שם הגדולה פלונית ושם הקטנה
    3. פל והתחננו א…

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  14. 2014Legal documentBL OR 10656.3

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: Kislev 13[..] Seleucid, which is 988–1088 CE. The wife's name is Nājiya.

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  15. 2015Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 110

    Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dated: 26 Jumādā II 1205 AH, which is 1791 CE. Involves Mīkhāʾīl Nāyūtī(?) al-Kātib(?) and Yaʿqūb Ḥarrāf(?). There are four …

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  16. 2016Legal documentT-S AS 183.361

    Legal fragment in Arabic. Very damaged and difficult to read. Portions of ~7 lines are preserved.

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  17. 2017Legal documentNLI 577.1/51

    Legal document, disintegrated and shredded. Probably related to divorce.

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  18. 2018Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 22/43

    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 …

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    1. שהדת אנא ובוסרור בן אלצבאג
    2. ופצאיל אלחזאן מעאלי בן
    3. אלארבלי עלי סת ריאץ
    4. אלנאיחה ואשהדתנא עלי
    5. ⟦נפש⟧ ופסהא אנהא קד
    6. והבה מן //דא…

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    1. (1-3) I, and (A)bū Surūr b. al-Ṣabbāgh, and Faḍāʾil al-Ḥazzān Maʿālī b. al-Arbilī are witnesses concerning Sitt Riyāḍ 

    2. …

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  19. 2019Legal documentYevr. II A 1746

    Court record from the Karaite community of Lithuania concerning the division of the poll tax between the Karaite and the Rabbinate communities. Non-Geniza.

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  20. 2020Legal documentT-S Misc.34.59

    Recto: fragment from a legal document written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, mentioning the son of Yaḥyā. Verso: Hebrew praises, including a …

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  21. 2021Legal documentT-S 24.75

    Prenuptial agreement between Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Levi and Turfa bt. Elʿazar. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1428 Seleucid, but signed mid-Kislev (November 1116 CE). Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן בי דינא ומאן דחתים עימנא לתחתא כן הוה
    2. למא סהל אלכאלק תעאלי דכרה ותקדסת אסמאה אסבאב אלוצלה בין
    3. מרור חלפון הלוי היקר הנבו…

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  22. 2022Legal documentMoss. Ia,9

    Legal document written in the court of Ḥananya Av Bet Din b. Yosef Gaʾon. Dated: Sunday, end of Elul 1318 Seleucid = 14 September 1007 …

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  23. 2023Legal documentENA 4011.34

    Recto (secondary use): Legal document according to which a debtor Khalaf must pay to Faḍāʾil only one half of the sum stipulated in the Muslim …

    1. שרוט אלקנינאת בלפסטאט באן . . .
    2. יקים בהדה אלמאיתין [סבעה] ותלתין
    3. דראהם ללשיך אבו אלפצאיל הל. .
    4. מכתוב בבאטן הדה אלחגה פי . . . .
    5. אתנין ותאלת מן שהר א…

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  24. 2024Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1639

    Karaite bill of debt. Not complete and lacking the date.

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  25. 2025Legal documentBL OR 5524.1

    Get (bill of divorce). Location: Damsīs. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevat 4810 AM = 16 January 1050 CE. Husband: Menahem b. Yefet. Wife: Riḍā bt. Avraham. …

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  26. 2026Legal documentT-S 12.29

    Fragment of a legal document regarding a sale, signed by Avraham b. Sahlān (active 1017–30 CE) and [Tamīm ha-Kohen] b. Shemuel. Involves Avraham b. Ṭībān …

    1. ] פרע . . . . . כן . . . . . [ . . . . . . . . .
    2. ] שאתינו כן ב[ . . . . . . . .
    3. ] . . שטר כל לעז ויקום . [ . . . . . . .
    4. ] אמר [ . . ] מחמת מכירה זו…

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  27. 2027Legal documentT-S 12.173

    Legal document. In Arabic script. Approximately the 17 bottom lines are preserved, densely and neatly written. Dating: at least twice mentions 18 Shaʿbān 421 AH …

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  28. 2028Legal documentT-S 20.117

    Verso: Statute in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 11th century. Condemning and prohibiting all the …

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  29. 2029Legal documentT-S NS 292.22

    Recto: Beginning of a legal deed written by Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (dated documents: 1128–64). Location: Fustat. Dated: 145[.] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1138–48 …

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  30. 2030Legal documentT-S 12.619

    On recto piyyut. On verso fragment from a ketubbah contains mostly the dowry list. AA

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  31. 2031Legal documentT-S 20.125

    One of three draft versions of a document concerning the leadership of the community of al-Maḥalla during the administration of Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (active 1079–1111). …

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    1. מעשה שהיה בפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע בפסטאט
    2. מצרים דממנא מבי דינא רבה מן כב גד קז מר[ן]
    3. ורבנן אדוננו מבורך אלוף הבינות [ ]ה[ ]
    4. טנהדרין רבה שר השר…

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    1. Proceedings that took place in our presence, we, the permanent court in Fustat,

    2. Egypt, appointed by the high court of (his) ho(nor), gr(eat…

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  32. 2032Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1645

    Incomplete Karaite bill of sale for six shares in a house. Dated Friday 1 Nisan 5405 AM (1645 CE). Involving the buyer Yaʿaqov b. Avraham …

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    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלגמעה ראש ניסן המ׳ סנה הת׳׳ה ליצירה חצר אלאך
    2. כה׳׳ר יעקב צגיר יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר אברהם צג'יר נ׳׳ע ואשהד עלי נפסה באנה אן אחצר אלא…

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  33. 2033Legal documentT-S 13J7.23

    Confirmation by witness of the divorce of Raisa b. Kathir, who wanted to marry Yosef. Written by Yefet ha-Hazan b. David. (information from Goitein's index …

    1. שהדו אלשהוד אלמסמאון [
    2. רייסה בנת כתיר אלדי כא[
    3. תלתמס אלזיגה ליוסף אלכ[הן וסאלת ען אלגט אלדי
    4. כתבה להא ללוש הדא ו[קאלת אנהא קד
    5. ודעתה ענד צדקה בן נ[חמן…

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  34. 2034Legal documentMoss. VII,67.2

    Fragmentary document from Damascus in which [...] b. al-Tarir gives a house adjacent to his own to Yefet ha-Levi b. Ḥalfon, presumably his son-in-law. Date: …

    1. ] עשר יומי לירח כסליו שנת ארבעת אלפין ותמני מאה
    2. ] מדינתא דעל נהרי אמנה ופרפר מותבה רשותיה
    3. ] תכון משרתו עד ביאת מורה צדק איך אמר לנא כב
    4. ] בן אלטריר ה…

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  35. 2035Legal documentT-S NS 320.134

    Legal or state document in Arabic script. Perhaps an IOU or a receipt. Mentions ʿAbdallāh and various numbers. Needs examination.

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  36. 2036Legal documentT-S 12.136

    Fragment of a legal document (bottom only) signed by Ṣedaqa b. Avraham ha-Kohen.

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  37. 2037Legal documentT-S NS 99.61

    Recto (original use): Trousseau list, small fragment, possibly from a ketubba.

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  38. 2038Legal documentENA NS 26.32

    Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Conveying a first-person narration regarding a journey: فلما ان طال المكث . . . انا ومن معي وهجرت خرجت اما …

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  39. 2039Legal documentT-S K25.240.55

    Autograph order from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer (also named Abū l-Majd?) two dirhams for baking matza (khabīz …

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    1. ב
    2. אלשיך אלחזן אבו אלמגד
    3. שצ' יוצל ללשיך
    4. אבי אלפרג שצ' מן
    5. אגרה אלרבע עשרה
    6. דרהם ען אלמתאכר לה
    7. פי אלמזונות אלי אכר
    8. שבת ויקח קרח עשרה
    9. דרהם ושלום

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  40. 2040Legal documentT-S NS 342.103

    Legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions a judge and the Qaraites; "29.5 every month"; Maʿālī b. [...].

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  41. 2041Legal documentYevr. II A 1292 + AIU VII.D.99 + BL OR 12369.11

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between …

    1. בע׳׳ה 
    2. להיות שהיתה חברה ושותפות הכה׳׳ר אליאו ן׳ צהל יצ׳׳ו והכה׳׳ר יעקב הלוי ידיע עכובס והכה׳׳ר מרדכי
    3. קפנטון יצ׳׳ו בעסק הצרפליק וסחורות ופרקמטיאות וכ…

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  42. 2042Legal documentT-S NS 325.89

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). The wife is Ḥusn bt. Berakhot of Cairo. The first witness's name is very faded ([...] b. Moshe?). The second witness …

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  43. 2043Legal documentT-S AS 171.276

    Fragment of a marriage-related legal document. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ. The witness signatures include the names Ḥiyya ha-Melammed and Shemuel

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  44. 2044Legal documentT-S AS 173.388

    Legal document or possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 15th or 16th century. Involves Alexandria, a certain Yeshuʿa, a sum of money, and …

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  45. 2045Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 76/54

    Legal document, probably contract of debt. Unfinished. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver? Dated: Elul 1456 Seleucid = August/September 1145 CE, under the …

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  46. 2046Legal documentJRL A 1143

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Refers to receiving money or goods ([tasa]llamahū) from al-Rayyis. Few other …

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  47. 2047Legal documentT-S NS 320.55 + CUL Or.2116.10

    Verso: Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1156/57 CE, based on the date of the document on recto. Begins, "Thus claimed Abū l-Faraj Amīn al-Dawla …

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  48. 2048Legal documentT-S AS 148.180

    Legal document(s). In Hebrew. One side is very faded. The other side mentions: Maṣliaḥ; Moshe b. Yaʿāqov; [...] b. Natan; a punishment; a Spaniard (ha-Sefarad[i]); …

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  49. 2049Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#88) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 11 Kislev 5325 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 30v

    1. למא כאן פי] נהאר אלכמיס י׳׳א שהר כסליו סנה תאר׳ אשהד עליה שמואל
    2. אבן אלמר׳ מנצור אלפולאדי //נ׳׳ע// אנה קבץ ואתסלם כמסה ד…

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  50. 2050Legal documentT-S AS 150.196

    Minute fragment, end of a late legal deed from Cairo, signed by Avraham known as [...]. AA

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