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Fragment of a legal document in which a wife appoints her husband Avraham as her legal representative.
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Legal document settling a dispute between Abū l-Faraj and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, the well known parnas in Fustat (dated documents 1084–1117), regarding …
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Verso: Note in a crude hand instructing Abū Naṣr b. Abū l-Maʿālī to immediately present before the court.
Fragment of a legal document.
Legal testimony, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal document. Extremely faded. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion preserved here consists of the identification of the party or parties and …
Letter or legal query addressed to Ḥananel b. Shemuel, probably identical with the well-known judge of the early 13th century (and son-in-law of Moses Maimonides). …
Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Shemuel and Sarah bt. Aharon Ḥīdīf (חידיף). Currency: esedi guruş. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 11 Sivan 5591 AM = 23 …
The right page of verso has a block of text in Arabic, which may be a witness statement from a legal document with a name …
Court record, signed (and written?) by Eliyyahu the Judge. Fragmentary (right half). Dated: [Tammuz] 153[8] Seleucid = 1227 CE. The dating is deduced from the …
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Draft of the opening of a legal deed, contains the date: Friday, 3 Shevaṭ 1600 Seleucid = 28 December 1288 CE, however that was a …
Recto: Legal document. There is a single signature from the scribe Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm, which he must have included before discarding this document as an unfinished …
Legal documents (one each on recto and verso). Recto: Involves a certain Seʿadya and Sitt al-Tujjār bt. Peraḥya b. Zuwayn. It might be the sale …
Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). Rudimentary hand. Entries include Dustarī/Tustarī fabric, other garments, and a female slave valued at 30 dinars. The …
Recto: part of a ketubba for ʿAmāʾim bt. [...] and Shelomo b. [...]. The document stipulates that Shelomo agrees not to take a second wife. …
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Muslim marriage contract. In Arabic script. Dating: Unknown. Written in a calligraphic hand, in pairs of two lines separated by moderately wide spaces. For other …
Recto: Marriage contract, fragment. Groom: Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Berakhot. Bride: Milāḥ bt. Abū l-Faraj (from verso). Dating: Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel …
Document of authorization from Sitana bt. Avraham to Yosef b. Sad'el. With the signatures of Efrayim b. Zadok and Sar-Shalom b. Yitzhak. In the handwriting …
Recto: draft of a legal query to the Nagid regarding a man who has been sick for one year. Followed by a draft of a …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2v: …
Legal document. Partnership dissolution. Dated: March 1029. Location: Fustat. This document, emerging from the court of Abraham b. Sahlān, records the dissolution of a partnership …
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Recto: Ottoman contract of sale of land. Dated Rabīʿ I 1032 AH (1623 CE). Verso: Ottoman legal contract
Legal fragment. Dated: 1358 Seleucid, which is 1046/47 CE. Involves [...] b. Avraham b. Mukhtār; possibly his wife; and a girl under 11 years of …
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Recto: Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: [4]84[.] AM = 1079–89 CE. Husband: Tamīm b. Shelomo. Wife: Nafīsa bt. David. Signed by the ḥaver Yosef b. …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 18 Shawwāl 549 AH, which is 1154/55 CE (the reading of the decade digit is not certain, but the …
Legal document. Fragment (right part only). Sitt al-Kull (named 2 lines from the bottom) makes a declaration that involves the will of the widow of …
Lengthy testimony. Dated: Thursday, 21 Av 1490 Seleucid = 22 July 1098 CE. Describing that at the time of arrival of the ships from the …
Small fragment from the top of a ketubba.
List of goods with values, possibly from the trousseau list section of a ketubba.
Court record written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Sitt al-Dār bt. Ḥusayn, the wife of Khalaf b. Isḥāq, claims from her husband 10 …
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Fragment of a legal deed. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). Probably a deed of a gift, involving Abū l-Jūd, Ṣedaqa, and …
Recto: Draft of a court record from the court in Fustat. 1042. In the handwriting of Yefet b. David Shekhanya. See join (and Goitein's translation …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script, with testimonies. Might be dated 417 H. Needs examination. Reused on recto for Hebrew liturgy
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman. Narration of commercial trade accounts. The word 'qabaḍ' appears in prolific numbers associated usually …
Small fragment in Hebrew. Late. Containing legal phrases בפנינו אנו . . חתומי מטה יודעים ומעידים עדות . . .
Qaraite deed of betrothal for Khalaf b. Maḥfūẓ (groom-to-be) and Amat al-Qādir bt. Efrayim b. Manṣūr b. Furāt (bride-to-be). Location: Probably Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 17 …
בשם אל [עולם] … |
ואנחנו עמ[ך] … |
וארשתיך לי ב|
נתחיל בשעת רצ|
עדן אלהים ובחיי ה|
ככם אלף פעמים ויברך |
זה ספר אר…
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Legal record (#88) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 11 Kislev 5325 …
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 …
Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Dated: first decade of Jumādā II. The year is difficult to read, maybe …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a gift given by a woman named Fāḍila and refers …
Legal document containing a request for a poor blind man and in the continuation, mentions a dispute with someone who had traveled between Byzantium and …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly state or legal. Mentions a qāḍī. Needs examination.
Trousseau list (taqwīm). Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī bt. Mevorakh ha-Kohen. Groom: Netanel b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Dating: Between Nisan and Sivan 1470 Seleucid, which is 1159 CE …
Fragment of a legal document or possibly a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of ~19 lines are preserved, probably from near the beginning. The first …
Fragment of an agreement specifying the conditions imposed on the kosher butchers licensed by the Palestinian congregation in Fustat and signed by ha-Ḥaver b. Mevorakh, …
Court record dealing with a disagreement about a delayed dowry payment to the divorced wife of al-Qaysarani. Ten dinars were supposed to be paid in …
Legal document, in which Sitt al-Rūm, a former slave who had been freed by her master Abū ʿ[...] before his death, appears in person before …
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Bill of sale for a female slave. Written and signed by Moshe b. Elʿazar. Also signed by Avraham b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av. Location: Cairo. …
Thin strip of the right-hand side of a legal document, mentioning dinars, different quantities of wares, accounts, lead and olive oil. Probably a legal dispute …
Upper left corner of a document in Arabic script concerning a legal case. Reads in part: "[...] b. Nissim(?) and his opponents Samārī(?) and Nāḥūm …