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In the upper margin, draft of the beginning of a legal document in Arabic script. "On Monday, in Ramaḍān '35. . . ." The century …
No Scholarship Records
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. There are four distinct text blocks. The document on recto is extremely long and begins with announcing someone's death "baʿd …
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Tyre, ca. 1079.
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Records of book sales, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1540 Seleucid = 9 July 1229 CE. "To increase their …
The elder Abu'l-Baya'n, (may his) R(ock) p(reserve him), sold through me the small [treatise on the] Art [of medicine] to the elder
Fad'l A…
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The upper part of recto is a Hebrew panegyric in praise of a scholar named Yiṣḥaq. The other text blocks are all drafts of a …
Minute fragment probably from the bottom of a legal document, signed by Avraham b. Shlo[mo]. AA
Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words preserved. AA
Legal document. The hand of the scribe is probably known (Hillel b. ʿEli?). Fragment (long vertical strip). Involves: [Hiba]tallāh b. Mūsā; a power of attorney; …
Minute fragment, probably from a legal deed (אחריות . . . יורש . . .).
Legal document or documents. Very damaged. Fol. 2 is dated: Kislev 1343 Seleucid = 1031 CE. One of the parties is Avraham b. Shemuʾel ha-Levi. …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 5 Shevaṭ 1378 Seleucid, which is 1067 CE. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Groom: Wuḥaysh b. …
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Small fragment from a draft of a legal document regarding a business partnership. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). AA
Legal document. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Thursday, 4 [...]n 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130/31 CE. Under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Involves a woman …
Legal document written by a Muslim notary, or two legal documents written on recto and verso respectively. Very little preserved: part of the left side …
Validation (qiyyum) from a legal document, signed (and probably written) by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Mevasser and perhaps …
Legal discussion on the collection of the ketubah money - needs examination. Image not available
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Dated: Rabīʿ I 536 AH, which is 1141 CE. Begins "yaqūlu Abū ʿAbdallāh...." There is also someone named [...] …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions something valued at 150 dinars. No other details preserved. (Information in …
IB I, 9. Draft of court proceedings from Fustat dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative …
…When I arrived from the Land of Yemen, I stored [alt. tr.: unloaded],
my goods, in the {add: dār} wakāla of Mr. Jekuthiel.
Much ti…
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Dissolution of ṣarraflık partnership. Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Nisan 5576 AM = 12 April 1816 CE. Between Yosef Romano and Nissīm Ḥāmī. Witnessed by Yaʿaqov …
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Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Dating: probably 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography and coinage mentioned. Concerning a certain Shemuel; an enslaved woman (שפחה), a …
Recto: part of a copy of a replacement ketubba for ʿAzīza bt. [...] and Saʿīd b. Yiṣḥaq. Dated: 5294 AM = 1533/34 CE. Location: Cairo. …
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Court record written by Efrayim b. Shemarya. A woman named Muluk claims to be the only heir of Tiban, the grandson of her maternal uncle. …
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Copy of a gift deed concerning properties that are part of the estate of the deceased Avraham Castro. The original gift deed was issued on …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. Contains part of the dowry list. Written by the cantor Yefet b. David. AA
Notification by the court concerning a legal decision. Dated: first decade of Av [1]549 Seleucid = July 1238 CE. Announcing that the collector of the …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Involves Yeshuʿa and [...] b. Natan.
Recto: part of a dowry list (bedding and copper section). Verso: copy of a ketubba, probably not related to dowry list on the recto as …
Recto: Settlement made in the court of Fustat between Mufarrij b. Yefet b. Shuʿayb the Damascene and Yaʿaqov b. Yosef the Iraqi. The Dayyan consulted …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a dowry. Possibly also a condition ("and if there is no child").
Upper right corner of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In the name of Rafīq(?) b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad. Reused for accounts.
Legal document from Tyre between Musāfir b. Pinḥas (?) and ʿAmram b. L[...] regarding a payment of a debt. Refers to "leaving this copy in …
Legal declaration, perhaps 16th- or 17th-century. Signed by Nissim b. al-ʿAnkari stating that in the assembly of the heads of the community, the slaughterer Yeruḥam …
Ownership note on a literary work that resembles but is not identical with Ruth Rabba (information from FGP). "The undersigned witness that Yehuda b. Ovadya …
Deed of sale for a male Abyssinian slave (ghulām ḥabashī) named Muqbil, a minor (dūn al-bulūgh), who was tattooed (or rather branded?) on a covered …
Fragment of a deed of gift, given in Ramla, approximately 1030.
Draft of a contract for a 2-year partnership in a drug store (dukkān al-ʿiṭr). Faded. Names: [...] ha-Kohen; Abū Yaʿaqov ha-Ḥazzan; [...] b. Abū Munā(?). …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid, which means no later than 1188 CE (and probably several decades earlier). The husband appears to …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Signed by Avraham b. Shemarya nin Shemaʿyahu Ga'on (אברהם ברבי שמעיה החבר נבתויא נין …
Engagement agreement from 1184. The date of marriage was set for the month of Elul in the following year, almost two years after the document …
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 …
Verso: Legal document mentioning Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān. In the hand of Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (like recto). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: no earlier than 1415 CE, based on the currency niṣf fiḍḍa (medin). The partners are Riḍā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. …
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Legal document. Unsigned. Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Tammuz 1540 Seleucid, which is 1229 CE. In which Shelomo b. Eliyyahu purchases from Abū l-Faḍl …
אשתרות אבי אלברכאת בן ר' אליה ס'ט מן אבו אלפצ'ל בן מחאסן יערף באבן אלכאמכי
אלכהן ס'ט מצחף נביאים בכמסה וסתין דרהמא נ…
A record of a testimony.
Abu'l-Baraka't, son of R. Elijah - (may he come to a) g(ood) e(nd) - bought from Abu'l-Fad'l b. Mah'a'sin, who is …
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Recto: legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Verso: drawings of a spear-armed man hunting on horseback, with what …
Legal or state document, probably financial or fiscal. In Arabic script. After the basmala and the month of Ramaḍān: "[...] in the name of Jurayj(?) …
(I) Legal record of a prozbul. In Hebrew. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Elul 5376 AM = 7 September 1616 CE. Binyamin b. Shoshan transfers all of …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Alexandria (referred to as No-Amon). Dated: 22 Tammuz 1461 (18 July 1150). This bill of divorce is one of forty …
A few words in Judaeo-Arabic: "The copy of the great excommunication (ḥerem gadol) which is said...." On verso Hebrew alphabet jottings and a couple Arabic …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 450 AH, which is 1058/59 CE. Involves Ibrāhīm b. Faraj al-Isrāʾīlī. Only the bottom right corner is …