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Legal document dated to the month Marḥeshvan (year lost), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
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Declaration about five generations of males and females related by ramified family connections. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 286)
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Ketubba in a very nice large and unusual script, written on parchment. The bride seems to be named Ḥāra, unless this is referring to a …
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Possibly a court record. Containing a list of names. (Information from CUDL.) Needs examination.
Legal document. Dated: Monday, 8 Iyyar 5509 AM, which is 1749 CE (not 1509 CE as catalogued). Reconciliation agreement between two partners, the goldsmiths Yūsuf …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a release. Someone, possibly an orphan, agrees to release his paternal uncle from any claims. Mentions a sum of either …
Tiny fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only a few words are preserved: ...[al-du]khūl wa-l-khurūj ilayhim...
Legal document. Location: Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen. In which David b. Saʿīd and Sulaymān b. Yosef promise not to curse each other. Dated: Monday, 8 Adar 1946 …
Geṭ. Location: Egypt, somewhere on the Nile. Dated: probably Ṭevet [13]4[.] Seleucid = 1029–39 CE. The father of one of the parties is Ḥusayn. Signed …
Small strip from the top a ketubbah of Sason b. [...] (groom), in Fusṭāṭ. No further details are preserved. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Halevi …
Long and torn strip, only a couple words are preserved on each line, probably from a draft of a legal contract written by Halfon b. …
Description from T-S 12.148: Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dating: Under the authority of Mevorakh (b. Seʿadya). Mentions: Syria (al-Shām); Abū Isḥāq... Avraham known as Ibn …
Will, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In which Sayyid al-Kull disposes of his possessions (including a drug store, dukkān …
Small fragment from the top of a legal document relating to an engagement or betrothal. ...אללה תעאלי אסבאב אלוצלה בין אבו אל . . . …
This fragment contains several legal documents in the hand of a single scribe. Upside down on verso: a complaint by the judge Yaʾir b. Avraham …
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Qaraite marriage contract. Some details of trousseau are preserved. Bride: Malika/Malka. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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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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Legal record (#82) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 28v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 29 Av 5325 …
Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words preserved. AA
Left fragment: small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138), under the authority of the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ …
Fragment from a deed of partnership. Handwriting of Hillel b. ʿEli? No names or details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi? Including an outline for a bill of sale for a Persian (ʿajamiyya) enslaved woman named …
Deed of sale of a property. Involving Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. This document describes the boundaries of the property. …
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper left corner). Regarding shares in a house which was given …
Fragment of a document in Arabic script, probably legal. Narrow vertical strip. On parchment.
Legal record (#8) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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Legal record (#81) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 28r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 19 [Av 5325 …
Verso: Legal document, possibly. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era, based on the hand. Mentions various people including Yehuda b. Yaqar. Needs examination.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Possibly from Ṣanʿāʾ, like CUL Add.3338.2. The groom is named Saʿīd, and the bride is named [...]da bt. Muʿayyaḍ(?) b. Saʿīd. Needs …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from the top. Seems to be the resolution/settlement of a …
Report or legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Jumādā II 1010 AH = Novembe/December 1601 CE. In the upper part mentions various people al-Ḥājj Muḥammad …
Minute legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4980 AM, which is 1219/20 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. Involving Yefet ha-Rofe and his wife Sitt al-[..]Mʿ, …
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Legal document. Dated: Friday, 5 Shevat 5346 AM = 24 January 1586 CE. Avraham b. Saʿadya Sadīd the physician acknowledges that he owes Moshe Skandarī …
Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Groom: Faraj. Bride: [...] bt. Farjūn, virgin. Witnesses: Tamīm ha-Kohen b. Shemuel, Ṣadaqa b. [...], Hiba b. Aharon, Hillel …
Fragment from the top of a legal document. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dated: Adar II 1456 Seleucid = February/March 1145 CE. In …
Formulary for a Palestinian Ketubba, no. 10. See DK #1, ULC Or. 1080 Box 3, f. 10. Information from Goitein's note card.
Upper left corner of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār).
Legal document, probably a summary of case proceedings. The document is entitled, maḥḍaratayn. The case involves at least one government official, a mutawallī of a …
(c) Trousseau list. Dated: Sivan 1185 CE. Bride: Nasab bt. Abū l-Khayr al-Zayyāt. Groom: Munajjā Abū Saʿd al-Labbān. 10 + 25. Total value: 90 dinars. …
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.
Marriage contract – 5690AM – 1930CE – (number 58) – in Hebrew and Aramaic in manuscript and print. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Two fragments, probably from the same ketubba (marriage contract) showing elements characteristic of North African custom, perhaps as early as the 9th century.
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Court record possibly in the hand of Ghalib ha-Kohen b. Moshe, August 1, 1038. In the court of the Jerusalem community in Fustat. Community members …
Beginning of a draft of a court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE), mentioning the issuer Abū ʿImrān Moshe b. Yefet …
Legal document (probably a formulary) for marriage conditions. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Much of the text resembles the text …
Ketubba, beautifully written. Location: Fustat. Dated: Friday, 13 Nisan 129[7] Seleucid = March 986 CE. Bride: Muʿtazz, the freedwoman of Moshe b. Palṭiel. Groom: Bushayr/Bashīr …
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Recto: Bill of release. In Hebrew. Granted by Aharon b. [...] to [...] b. Mevorakh ha-Shulḥani (the banker), upon receipt of 7 dinars, somehow related …
Marriage contract. Dated: 5579 AM, which is 1818/19 CE. Groom: Raḥamim ואפה(?). Bride: Marḥaba bt. Yaʿaqov Manīṣar (מניצר). Currencies: real, medin. The border of the …
Bifolio from a court notebook, containing a trousseau list with typical trousseau items and values in Hebrew numerals. The hand is likely known. (Information from …