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Upper left corner of a bill of release given by Abū Saʿd Mevorakh to his maternal aunt Gharb; also mentions his mother. Concerning the rent …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Fragment (upper half only). In Arabic script. Parties are Sālim b. Abū l-Faraj and Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Needs examination for …
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Legal fragment. Very faded. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver, whose name also appears in l.2. A number of other names are mentioned in this …
Certificate of study for a student in eighth grade – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 107) – in Hebrew and Arabic. (information …
Document in Arabic script, occupying one page of a bifolio. (The other pages have Hebrew poetry, including by Ibn Gabirol.) This is catalogued as a …
Narrow bifolio. One page: Legal record in Judaeo-Arabic written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Adar 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE. Involving …
Bill of divorce. Dated: Thursday, 27 Adar I 1540 Seleucid, which is 1229 CE. Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. מימאן(?). Wife: [Miryam] bt. Ḥabīb. On …
Three court record entries, two dated Tevet 1339/December 1027 and one Shevat 1339/January 1028.
יהודי אנדלוסי תובע שבית דין של שלושה שנקבע לעיין בדינו יתכנס. אסיפת
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Legal or state document, probably financial or fiscal. In Arabic script. After the basmala and the month of Ramaḍān: "[...] in the name of Jurayj(?) …
Small fragment from the top part of a legal deed, with a prolonged introduction with praises for Mevorakh b. Saʿadya and his son Moshe (ca. …
Probably a power of attorney involving Elʿazar b. [...], valid in "all the countries and cities" (al-buldān wa-l-amṣār wa-l-[...]). (Information in part from CUDL)
Very damaged legal deed by the court appointed by the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh (1112–26). ʿAmram b. Aharon ha-Kohen appears in court, but the actual …
Legal document written by a Muslim notary on parchment related to the sale of property, with description of the location. Mentions ʿAlī b. Zakariyā 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 …
A very damaged legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca 1100–38 CE). Some details might be extracted with effort. In the …
Legal document. On parchment. Mentioning Abū l-[...], [...] b. the cantor Ayyūb, Mevasser ha-Levi and al-Mahdiyya. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? (Information in …
Recto: bottom line of a court record, (written and?) signed by [Avraham] b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver, [Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel] the Spaniard, Menashshe b. Shemuel, Ḥalfon b. …
Upper fragment: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/26 CE. Involves Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. [...], Aharon …
Ketubba. Groom: Yosef b. Neḥemya. Bride: Zuhra bt. Avraham. Signed by the cantor Yefet b. David (b. Shekhanya, active 1014–57 CE), Avraham ha-Levi b. Mulham …
Legal record (#83) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 17 Elul 5325 …
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IB VII, 20. Document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (left side). Concerning business in pepper in Yemen. Involves Seʿadya ha-Kohen, Abū l-Khayr, …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including a book list, including al-Faṣīḥ fī l-Lugha, Masāʾīl Ṭibbiyya, and Leviticus in Arabic. Verso: Draft or copy of a legal …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Recto mentions: two orphans, the release of a buyer, a guarantee, Sitt al-Ḥusn, Sitt al-Nasab, …
Legal record (#46) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Legal document concerning the appointment by the court of an agent for orphans, who will collect what is due them from their mother when they …
Agreement between Shelomo b. Kathīr and Barhūn b. Sahlān, the husband of his daughter Fāʾiza, in which Barhūn undertakes to redeem the silver vessels belonging …
פאיזה זוגה ברהון בן סהלאן
Ketubba fragment. A line of holes on the side.
Legal record (#23) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 21-23) Folio 6r
Legal document dated [...] Sivan […], in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Karaite betrothal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated 4 Sivan 5516 (1756 CE). Groom: Moshe b. Yahūda b. Aharon. Bride: Qamr bt. Israel b. Raṣon ha-Rofe. The …
Ketubbah – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 203) – in Hebrew and Aramaic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza …
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dating: before 1032 CE. Fragment (lower left part). In which Aharon b. Yiṣḥaq (=Aharon b. Fuhayd?) the glazier undertakes …
Legal document mentioning Abū l-[...] and probably Sitt al-Sāda, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a quarter-dār. Mentions "in the land of Marseilles" (מרשיל[יא), but the context is missing. Likely in the hand of Eliyyahu …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerning [...] b. Hillel ha-Zaqen, Yosef b. Moshe ha-Kohen (see T-S NS 321.12 (PGPID …
Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The person making the acknowledgment is ʿAntar al-ustādh al-Zukhrī(?) (a eunuch and/or government officer). He is 'yellow-skinned' …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). "A litigation concerning an inheritance. Two partners were operating a store and upon …
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Legal document. In Arabic script. Approximately the 17 bottom lines are preserved, densely and neatly written. Dating: at least twice mentions 18 Shaʿbān 421 AH …
Recto: Notes for a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions: the wife's brothers' son: Khalaf b. Abū Sahl; her brother Dāʾūd …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions 5 dinars and alludes to a conflict between two people. No names …
Legal fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning inheritance and mentioning Yeshuʿa (possibly the deceased). (Information in …
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. 1r: …
Fragment of a power of attorney, written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). No names preserved. (Information from CUDL)
A photocopy of a Muslim court deed documenting various endowed properties of the Qaraite community of Jerusalem. The deed is from 1563 CE, and it …
End of a legal document, signed by David b. Mevorakh, Abraham b. Caleb and others. Below is a colophon written by Elʿazar b. Joseph b. …
Verso: legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (left side). It is likely a court record (هذا الكتاب محضرنا في يوم الاحد) related to a house …
On recto piyyut. On verso fragment from a ketubbah contains mostly the dowry list. AA
Legal document. In Hebrew. Fragment: upper left corner. Dating: Probably 15th–17th century, based on the handwriting. Contract of a debt between Yehuda Ṭali, Yiṣḥaq b. …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Involves [...] Khalaf the parnas and Abū l-Faḍl the parnas of Cairo. Possibly the former is standing guarantee for …
Legal or official document, wide space between the lines. Dating: Looks Ottoman-era. Needs examination.