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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 …
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Book of legal formularies. In Aramaic and Hebrew.
Legal document, small fragment. Involves Sitt al-Hanā' (the same as in T-S NS 226.12? It is not a join, but the hand looks quite similar.)
Court notebook, probably Qaraite. Many pages. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated with individual entries spanning the 1570s CE, such as 8 Tevet 5337 AM which is 1576 …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1433 Seleucid = July/August 1122 CE. Written in the hand of Avraham b. Shemaʿya (or rather Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?), …
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Legal document. In Arabic script. Concerning a house (... مشاعا غير مقسوم ... الدار المجاورة لها ...). Perhaps a deed of sale. Only four lines …
Legal record (#65) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 22r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 16 Tammuz 5324 …
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Recto: Fragment of a deed of release (שטר אביזאר),
Minute fragment, probably from a marriage contract formulary.
Ketubba fragment. The groom is named Ghālib.
Court record written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. A woman (Ḥasana bt. Menashshe ha-Kohen the …
Marital documents in Arabic, medieval-era. Only the divorce contract bears a definitive date: 2 Rabiʿ II 558 AH (10 March 1163 AH). Recto: top part …
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Deed of release. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 11th century. Abū Naṣr b. ʿAṭiyya the Jew, formerly a broker dealing with drugs in Fustat (see …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone, he is sufficient, and peace be upon his servants, whom he has chosen. …
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Small fragment from the bottom of a late legal document. The name Gedalya Ṣarfatī appears in the margin.
rom a formulary of legal documents, including the beginning of the section on ketubah. (FGP)
Legal document in Hebrew. Late. Involves [...] b. Shemuel ha-Levi and the payment of the ketubba.
Bill of release (שטר אביזאריה). Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: 2 Av 1433 Seleucid, which is 1122 CE. Shelomo b. Meshullam ha-Kohen …
Fragment from the top of a ketubba. Dated 1552 Seleucid = 1240/41 CE. The groom is Netanʾel.
Legal record (#52). Disposition of inheritance. Belongs with the previous record. Headed "the text of what should be written," but this is not solely a …
Narrow strip from a legal document, mentioning the sum of 25 dinars and a half. AA
Arbitration after the breaking off of a betrothal. A board of arbitration, consisting of four prominent citizens, decided that the brother of the bride, Tarib …
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Investment partnership from the late 18th- or early 19th century between Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm and Barūkh Shalom. The document concerns the lending of a sum of …
Rental contract (هذا ما استاجر) on parchment, mentioning titles of high state officials (e.g. qāḍī al-quḍāt wa-dāʿī [al-duʿāt]) and with a long ʿalāma at the …
Legal document. Left side only. Several names and a partial date are preserved. Needs examination.
Draft of a ketubba from Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Tuesday, 13 Tishrei 1613 Seleucid = 16 September 1301 CE, written under the authority of the Nagid Avraham …
Legal document, late, in Arabic script. Concerning the loom of textiles "anwāl al-qumāsh" in Alexandria. Mentions the dealings between Yeshūʿā the Jew and Ibrāhim Effendi. …
Large fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Difficult hand. There is a section in the middle with the formula "wa-lā X wa-lā Y …
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper right corner). Concerning the son of the late Abū l-Faḍl. …
Torn at the top-right, but otherwise almost complete, but faded, Bill of divorce (get). The name of the bride is Turfa. The signatures are too …
Minute fragment from the beginning of a legal deed between the son of the Sofer and Abu Kthir.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from a legal deed regarding a passageway belonging to Efrayim the elder and his wife (?). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 …
Parts of documents - needs examination.
Fragment from a court ledger probably. Recto contains portions of legal documents, one mentioning marriage, with a signature partially preserved. Verso contains a list of …
Legal record (#26b). Loan contract, addendum. Bū l-Barakāt, the creditor, makes Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf vow that he will make his repayments in front of two …
Minute fragment from a legal deed mentioning Qasr al-Sham'
Will in which a dyer setting out for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem makes provisions for his wife and children in the event that something should …
F. 2r: Betrothal contract between Ṣedaqa b. M[oses?] and Wazīra bt. Mūsā b. Isaac. Dated Kislev 1691 of the Seleucid Era (= 1379 CE), and …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Nagid ha-Gola, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Yemen. (Information in part from …
Legal documents? Recto has many names, perhaps signatures. Verso has a discrete text block and underneath the signature of Seʿadya b. M[...].
Marriage contract, small fragment. Location: Fustat. Bride: [...] bt. Avraham. In Aramaic.
Fragment from the top of the ketubba of Muʾammala bt. David. In the hand of Yefet b. David (early 11th century). AA/ASE
Draft of a marriage contract (ketubba) under the authority of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to as "Nagid" (therefore post-1213 CE). There are numerous other …
Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dated: [14]57 Seleucid, which is 1145/46 CE. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ gives to his wife Sitt al-[...] …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. A deal between an investor, possibly named Ibrahim, and three unnamed indigo dyers opening a workshop in Damietta. The active partners …
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Promissory note, maybe. "I owe al-shaykh al-ajall X...." In Arabic, with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Needs further examination.
Marriage contract containing a list of jewelry apparently of Syro-Palestinian manufacture, to be sold by Shemuel b. Ḥasan two months after the signing of this …
Minute fragment of a legal deed, probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).
Legal document in Hebrew. 16th-century. Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Allāh the Qaraite, known as Fayrūz, attests that he owes Moshe Ḥazzān b. Yiṣḥaq(?) a certain sum …
Accounting of a single foundation ca. 1186. This is followed by a trousseau list for the marriage of Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Ḥasan and the …