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Legal document from Cairo, dated 1817 CE (end of Heshvan 5578) in which David Dayyan declares an investment partnership with Barakha Goren. A specific profession …
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Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions Abū l-Surūr; Abū Saʿīd; and possibly a freedwoman named סלמה, but …
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Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. Dated: [Dhū] al-Ḥijja 1246 AH (1831 CE). The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for …
Verso: Legal document recorded on the back of an eighteenth-century letter. Dated 1727 CE (Kislev 5488 AM) in line 13. The document deals with the …
Small fragment from the end of a ketubba, referring to the bride’s immersion (טבילה). Ca. 13th century. (Information from CUDL)
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century. Fragment (upper right piece). At least three people make the acknowledgment (Abū …
Legal document signed by Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo. One of the parties is Ṣadaqa. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. In Arabic script. There are two witness signatures. It may be a debt contract involving a sum of 5 dīnārs (l. 3), that …
Minute fragment form the top of a legal deed dated [1]598 = 1286/87 CE. AA
Rental contract. Location; Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 2 Av 1461 Seleucid, which is 27 July 1150 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. …
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Court notebook in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fol. 2r, bottom text block: Outline of an employment agreement. Dated: Tuesday, 17 Tammuz 1438 …
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Recto: Legal document. Dated: 4976 AM, which is 1215/16 CE. Under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Involving a certain Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān and Shelomo ha-Levi …
Legal document. In Hebrew and some Aramaic. In the hand of Yefet b. David. Attests that Fāʾiza bt. Yaʿaqov b. Shuʿayb appeared in court after …
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Recto: Ketubba fragment. Most of the text here is the dowry list, which includes "royal Rūmī [broca]de" and blue dabīqī curtains. The early marriage payment …
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]); …
Affidavit of a loan by Berakhot b. Yosef to Peraḥyah b. Adayah signed by Judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. Peraḥyah owes Berakhot 480 dirhams, to be …
Minute fragment probably from the bottom of a legal document, signed by Avraham b. Shlo[mo]. AA
Bifolium with seven legal document entries, likely from a court register. Dated in several entries as Tishrei 5491AM (September/October 1730 CE). (1) The first document …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Ibrāhīm b. Siwār b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz acknowledges that he owes wheat. Needs examination.
Recto: Legal document. In Hebrew. Involves someone named Shelomo and various sums of money. Signed by Mevorakh b. David, Khalaf b. Seʿadya, and Thābit b. …
Legal document. On parchment. Appears to be a writing exercise, because there are multiple efforts and because there are inconsistencies (on recto Abū l-Maʿānī states …
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Instructions for writing legal documents, in particular those dealing with debts, with formulaic examples in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 5462 AM =1701/02 CE. Regarding a transaction between Shabbetay b. Masʿūd ____(?) and his father-in-law Yiṣḥaq Fer[..]ez. Both …
Badly damaged and faded fragment from a legal deed mentioning Sitt al-Dar
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 27 Kislev 1560 Seleucid = 14 December 1248 CE. Husband: Shela b. Yefet ("known as [...]"). NB: …
Fragment containing copies of two different legal documents. The second involves a loan from Abūl-Maʿālī to a certain Yeshaʿya.
Folio from a court ledger. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 1496 Seleucid, which is January 1185 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …
Legal fragment (lower left corner). Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by [...] b. Shelomo. Mentions a maṣbagh (dyeing workshop?) in Fustat.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document from Fusṭāṭ, dated ‘the middle decade of the month Ḥeshvan’, mentioning a man named Zayn and a …
Verso: Jottings, including a legal note: "the witnesses of the document (ḥujja): the brother of the qāḍī of Bilbays known as Baraka(?) ʿAbd al-Kāfī. With …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Ketubba from the late 13th–14th century, with no names preserved other than a signatory, Joseph ha-Levi. Information from CUDL.
Legal record (#21) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 21-23) Folio 6r
Power of attorney embedded in a letter. Yakhin b. Elʿazar of Minyat Zifta writes to Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Munā and instructs them to pay …
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Fragment (top part only). Involves: Abū Kathīr; Bahiyya bt. Ṣadaqa; [...] bt. Yosef …
Formulary of an oath to be given by the mother of Abū l-Ḥasan to him, concerning a female slave and other possessions, especially spices; oath …
Court record. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1140s CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Faḍl al-Kutnānī b. Hiba al-Iskandarānī claims that he …
Small and much faded. Dinars are mentioned, seems to be from a legal deed.
Arabic legal deed concerning a property – a house which includes a stable - outside the walls of Cairo, outside Bāb Zuwayla and Bāb al-Kharq. …
Purchase of a half-share in a shop. Dated Thursday 7th Kislev, 5431 AM (1670 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography, scribe (Barukh Rofe), …
Marriage contract from Damascus, 956 CE (10 Nisan 4716 AM), which records a marriage gift of 225 dinars (of which only 25 were advanced) and …
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Legal document of ḥaliẓa, probably from the first decade of the 18th century (the year is very faded but appears to begin 546[.]). Shelomo b. …
Legal record (#57) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but probably Adar …
Bill of divorce. Dated: 1331 Seleucid, which is 1019/20 CE. Wife: [...] bt. Seʿadya. Written and signed by [Davi]d b. Shekhanya, also signed by Shelomo …
Legal document in Arabic script. Acknowledgment (iqrār). The muqirr is Bū Muḥammad b. ʿAshīr (or Ghushayr?) al-Miṣrī al-Mutamaʿʿish(?), "one of the men/soldiers of the triumphant …
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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The main fragment is a late letter or legal query in Hebrew regarding some sort of legal dispute.
Deposition. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: Monday, 18 Sivan 1486 Seleucid = 9 June 1175 CE. In which two persons testify to the poverty of a …
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Fragment of a ketuba de'irkasa- a ketubah written as a replacement for a lost one. The groom named Perahya the elder. AA
Remarriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Dating: Under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39), so …