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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Apparently a debt contract. Abū Zikrī owes a large sum of money …
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Witness signature from an Arabic-script legal document. The document itself is not preserved.
Recto: Court record regarding the complaint of a man that his divorced wife penetrated forcefully into his house, April 1085 CE (6 Nisan 1396). Verso: …
(1-3) On Thursday, 6 Nissan 1396 AG (=9 April 1085 CE) according to the dating to which we are accustomed in Fustat-Mitzrayim, situated upon …
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Settlement of a debt to be paid in installments starting Ḥeshvan 1435 Seleucid = October 1123 CE. The parties are Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli ha-Kohen and …
Legal fragment. Damaged and in need of conservation. There is probably additional text (including the year) hidden in the middle where the paper has accordioned. …
Fragment of a marriage contract.
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Court record issued by a Qaraite beit din at the Dar Simḥa Synagogue in Cairo. Dated: Monday, 4 Shevaṭ 5321 AM = 21 January 1561 …
Legal document. Release. In Hebrew and Aramaic. A name appears at lower left. Dating: likely 11th century.
Marriage document. Groom: [...] b. Yefet, probably. Bride: Qā'ida bt. [...]. Signed by: Yefet b. David ha-Ḥazzan; Yeshuʿa b. Yosef; Yosef b. Yefet; Zekharya b. …
Court record concerning the inheritance of Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov Qābisī, of the Ibn Jāmiʿ family, left to him after the death of his …
Legal fragment In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Deed of gift of an enslaved woman (waṣīfa). Fragment, containing the first half of 5 lines. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 …
Fragment of a document preserving the beginning of an appeal by a plaintiff who feeling himself unjustly treated is exercising his right to interrupt public …
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Lower fragment: Bill of divorce. Written by Natan b. Shemuel. Dated: Sunday, 25 Shevaṭ 1456 Seleucid, which is 1145 CE. Husband: Makārim b. Moshe. Wife: …
Legal document containing an acknowledgment by a creditor, Khalaf b. Aharon, of the full payment of the debt.
Verso: Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Complete but very faded. Resembles a legal query: "What have our sages said concerning a man who died... [with] a mature …
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 …
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Bill of divorce. Dating: 13th century? Signed and probably written by Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov (ha-Ṣarfati?) and Ṣadoq b. [...]
Deed of lease. Dating: The year-long lease begins on [Ṭevet] 1525 Seleucid = [Shaʿbān] 610 and ends on Kislev 15[26] Seleucid = Rajab 611 AH. …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Late. Probably a waqf document, describing the specifications of the entire property along with size dimensions. Mentions several amounts in …
On of relations who are ineligible to serve as legal witnesses. F. 2v contains jottings and pen trials. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#12) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 11-13) Folio 4r
Legal fragment (right side). Concerning a husband and his wife Rayyisa bt. Ḥalfon. One of them is from the Ibn Nuʿmān family. Location: Cairo. Written …
Bottom part of a legal document signed by Levi kohen. Dating: probably ca. 16th century.
Bifolio containing a narrative of a dispute arising from a partnership during the period Nisan 1463 through Adar 1464 Seleucid = 1152–53 CE. The parties …
Ketubba fragment on parchment.
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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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Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE, but this range can be narrowed by Goitein's scribal identification: hand of Hillel. …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, Dated: 1435 Seleucid = 1123/24 CE. The delayed marriage payment is …
Record of a birth, left incomplete. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday morning, 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja, no year. Wulida al-mawlūd al-mubārak.... Reused on the other side …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE).
Legal document. Abū al-Bahā' al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl (“the beekeeper”) undertakes to pay back his nephew Moshe ha-Kohen 66(9)0 silver dirhams, 200 dinars, and 100 irdabb …
Bill of divorce. The date, location, and names of the husband and wife are not preserved. Written and signed by the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli …
Decorated Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Yosef Hakohen b. Barukh. The bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Avraham Halevi.
Small and damaged fragment from a bill of divorce of Sut[ay]t d. Ulla. Seems to join with T-S AS 152.408. AA
Fragments of a legal document. Mentioning Natan and his mother, [...] b. Yosef, Ḥasan, Nāḥūm b. Ismāʿīl (aka Naḥum b. Shemuel), Mevasser/Mubashshir, and an unsuccessful …
(b) Record of marriage conditions. Dated: Sivan 1496 Seleucid (May 1185 CE). Groom: Abū l-Barakāt b. Musallam al-Ṭabīb. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAlam bt. Netanel the Fifth. …
State receipt/order of payment issued by the "khazīnat anwāl al-ḥarīr", a branch of the state-run silk monopoly under Meḥmed ʿĀlī Pasha's administration. Date: 6 Rabīʿ …
Two fragments of a court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). There is a detailed narrative of a quarrel over a …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerning the death of Shemuel ha-Zaqen (or his son)—maybe the execution of his …
Bifolio of literary text (אלו הן הקרובין from Mishna Sanhedrin 3:4). On a blank page there is a draft of a legal summons: Abū l-Faḍl …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated Tammuz, but the year is missing. Signed by Ḥananya b. Shemaʿya and Menashshe b. Yosef.
Legal document concerning the long dispute between Avraham b. Shemual al-Andalusi and the gaurdians who executed the will of his father - Yosef b. Binyamin …
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Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Jumādā II 907. A (sale?) contract beginning with "qabaḍ al-muʿallim Aḥmad b. Yūsuf" concerning several people, one of …
An IOU specifying a sum owed to al-Ḥājj al-Fawwāl.
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). Dating: ca. 11th–12th century. Abū Aṭibbāʾ b. Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū Aṭibbāʾ the Jew buys …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
هذا ما اشترى ابو اطبا بن ابي الفضل بن ابی اطبا اليهودي الـ[ ]
فيها غضون مقرون الحاجبين أشهل العين اقني الانف مستدير ال…
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what Abū Aṭibbāʾ ibn Abū al-Faḍ1 ibn Abū Aṭibbāʾ the Jew, the [ … ] bought [ … ]
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Legal document. Location: Al-Maḥalla. Involves [...] b. Yefet ha-Zaqen and [...] b. Peraḥya ha-Levi ha-Zaqen and contains the curious phrase "I have leased myself to …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The first ~7 lines are preserved and part of two lines in the margin. The acknowledgment is made …
Much damaged fragment from a bill of receipt(?). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya? Mentions [...] b. Khalfa.