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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Probably a deed of gift. Signed by [Abraham?], a descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon. …
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Legal document dealing with a debt of Hiba/Natan the dyer b.'Ulla to al-Sheikh Abu 'Ali Yefet b. David for two qintar of indigo he bought …
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Damaged court record signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel, Avraham b. [...], and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Concerning Abū l-Faḍl Shela b. ʿAyyāsh, Faraḥ, …
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Fragment of a (marriage-related?) legal document in Arabic script. There is a portion of a trousseau list and the name Yaʿqūb b. Bābār. Needs further …
Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Refers to the dates Adar 1408 and Kislev 1409 Seleucid (1096/7 and 1097/8 …
Ketubba fragment. Small piece. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya.
Draft of the opening of a testimony involving the widow of Yefet ha-Kohen. Abandoned. Written on a scrap piece of parchment. Hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Deed of testimony. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1471 Seleucid = 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe …
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Legal fragment. Appears to be the settlement of a marital dispute between Yūsuf and Sitt al-Ahl. Dating: Mentions the date Shevat 1437 Seleucid, which is …
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Adar 1810 Seleucid, which is 1499 CE. Groom: Elazar. Bride: Esther Sutayta bt. Yosef ha-Levi. Quite faded and damaged, …
Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: Shevaṭ 1462 Seleucid = January/February 1151 CE, under the authority of Shemuel ha-Nagid. A woman named ʿAmāʾim bt. Abū l-Faraj …
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Legal document in Arabic script, maybe starting with اقر. Nearly complete. Involves several people and the receipt of money. There is a blank space on …
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Ḥasab (bride). Most of the text is too badly faded to read. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document concerning a marriage contract, bridal gifts and rights to a property, mentioning the name Abū Saʿd. (Information from CUDL.) A general prenuptial agreement. …
Order/note in Arabic script addressed to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd, who is to pay 30 dirhams to Abū l-Faḍl for the plaster on the 17th of Dhū …
Verso: Legal transaction made in front of witnesses in which ʿAmram Ibn Nufayʿ acknowledges that he owes Netanʾel b. Shelomo three dinars for a sold …
Legal record (#57). Settlement of dispute, outline. Belongs with #55. Stating that a contract shall be written to the effect that Sitt al-Dār bt. Natan, …
Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words preserved. AA
Court record. Written by Avraham b. Natan Av (Date: 1098–1114). (Or rather Hillel b. ʿEli?) The main party is a husband certifying in Jewish court …
Court record in the record book of Fustat dealing with the remains of an inheritance in Qayrawan. Dated Adar 1345/March 1034.
Partnership agreement dated November 1739 CE (first third of Heshvan 5500 AM) between Nissim Kaspi b. Moshe and Moshe Kohen b. Yehudah Kohen. Signed by …
Legal document. Probably a partnership agreement. Dating: Shortly before Ṭevet 1422 Seleucid, which is 1110/11 CE. The capital may be 50 dinars. Maḥfūẓ and Abū …
Document of sale of a house (intaqala...), dated 28 Muḥarram 587 AH, which is 25 February 1191 CE. (Though note that Khan at one time …
Recto: Upper part of a will. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1552 Seleucid = 8 May 1241 CE. Written in the same hand as verso. The …
Legal document. Probably a bill of release connected to a will. The deceased is Moshe b. Yefet, and he left behind a minor son Hibatallāh. …
Deathbed will of a rich woman, made during the absence of her husband. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April …
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Beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves the moneychanger (al-shulḥani/al-ṣayrafī) Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmram b. ʿEzra, …
Legal document. Record of release. Dated: April or May 1164. In the hand of judge Mevorakh b. Natan. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Sahl al-Jubaylī accepts …
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Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (1127-1138). …
Formulary for a legal document involving marriage and a sum of ducats (peraḥim). Late.
Legal document written and signed by Yeḥiʾel b. Elyaqim (active 1213–33). Quite faded. It seems that al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd gives half of a house to …
Deed of sale in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 29 Ḥeshvan 1446 Seleucid = 17 November 1134 CE, under the authority of …
Informal note of the court, likely in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to write out the will that has …
Legal document (likely a contract of sale) dated Muḥarram 446 AH. The document is damaged at the top. Three of the witnesses come from the …
Legal record (#20) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tishrei 5321 AM …
Legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Very faded, but complete. Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I 1448 Seleucid = 1 February 1137 …
Legal document, bill of divorce. Location: Damietta (איכפתור). Dated: 25 Av 1477 (25 July 1166). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the …
IB VII, 8. Legal document. Record of release. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar I, 1426 Seleucid. One of …
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Recto: The main text is a Judaeo-Arabic sermon/exhortation that in order to avert the evil decrees and the plague and the economic depression, all members …
Bill of divorce. Written by Shemuel b. Seʿadya (1165–1203). Husband: Avraham b. M[aymūn?]. Wife: Miryam bt. Ḥabīb ha-Maʿaravi.
Legal document. Looks like the handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Involves someone close to the government (יתעזז באלמלכות); someone who obtained a governmental …
Legal record (#121) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 40r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 3 [...] 5329 …
Partnership agreement, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides, involving a certain [...] b. Sulaymān known as al-Ashyāfī (seller of ophthalmics) and …
Legal document and a marriage document. Damaged fragment containing 3 different legal deeds in 3 different hands, most likely refers to the same parties. On …
An agreement between husband and wife. The wife. d. of Perhaya, is declaring that she gave what she had ro five from the gift given …
Ketubba (marriage contract). Location: Alexandria. Dated: 16 Sivan 4920 AM, which is 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanel ha-Levi. Groom: …
Query addressed to R. Yosef 'the Rav' concerning a case of inheritance. Headed by the unusual בשמ רחמ וחנינא. Involves several brothers, one minor. Quite …
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Yumn. Known handwriting. (Information from CUDL)
Betrothal deed. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Tuesday, 24 Sivan 1471 Seleucid (31 May 1160 CE), under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi. Bride: …
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Recto: Levirate case in which a widow appoints an attorney to sue her brother-in-law with the demand either to marry or to free her. Zayn …