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Fragment from a marriage contract or a ketubah. Part from the monogamy clause is preserved. AA
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Legal document. Written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Middle third of Shevaṭ 1441 Seleucid = January 1130 CE, under the authority of …
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Witness clause from the bottom of an iqrār. The witness is Aḥmad b. ʿAbdallāh.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) concerning payments in installments, and the names Yefet and Benaya(?). Dating: mentions Sivan …
Fragment of a legal document regarding a sale, signed by Avraham b. Sahlān (active 1017–30 CE) and [Tamīm ha-Kohen] b. Shemuel. Involves Avraham b. Ṭībān …
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Torn fragment of a legal deed.
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Draft. Late. There appears to be an Ottoman-era seal. Groom: Moshe b. Yehuda. Bride: Saʿādat bt. Avraham Dukkān (or Dakkān?), virgin. The …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Mentions the name [...] b. Abū ʿAlī b. Muqla(?) b. [...].
Three fragments preserving three full lines from a legal deed in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Concerning a debt. It …
Recto: Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; mentions the currency muayyadi. This appears to be a rental contract for a portion …
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 …
Legal fragment in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mentions sums of money and an agent (al-wakīl). No names clearly preserved. There …
Marriage contract – 5690AM – 1930CE – (number 58) – in Hebrew and Aramaic in manuscript and print. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Recto: Ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Groom: Ṣedaqa b. Berakhot. Signed by Natan ha-Kohen b. Av[raham] and Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. [Menashshe]. …
Legal record (#3) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f.1r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Dated 12 Shevat …
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Fragment of a bill of acknowledgement of a debt by Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel ha-Levi to Abu l-ʿAlā. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138). …
Legal fragment in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Damaged. Mentions Tamīm ha-Kohen and the sale of pepper. (See description for …
Recto (original use): Legal document describing a gathering to assess a bride's dowry. Fragment (right side only). Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Probably in the hand of …
Many minute fragments, one seems to be by the hand of Shelomo b. Yosef. Some are in Arabic script.
Fragment of a legal document from Fustat concerning a shop and a house, and mentioning Efrayim b. [...], Ḥasan and Thābit. Dated: Kislev 1344 Seleucid …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions "my wife" and contains release formulae.
Two different legal documents. One of them is catalogued as a deed of sale. These are folios 2 and 3; folio 1 is literary. The …
Formulary (Palestinian-Rabbanite) for a bill of divorce, copied from a bill dated 872/73 CE, in Jerusalem. (Information from Goitein's index card.) See Krakowski and Stern, …
Ketubba fragment. The groom is Avraham. Probably a draft or formulary given the layout and that it is written on paper.
Bifolio. One page (the right side of recto) contains a draft or copy of an Aramaic deed of gift given to a woman named Karīma.
Legal document (iqrār) concerning receiving payments for crops. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "contrat du prince Saragah Mache (mamelouk) avec les cultivateurs"]. Loss …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Dated: 29 Tevet 1443 Seleucid, which is 19 January 1132 CE. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli. Wife: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. …
Small fragment of a legal document, probably, in Arabic script. Involving Abū l-Maʿālī b. Abū Yaʿqūb Ibn Kūshak. Mentions the year 515 AH and regular …
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Small fragment from a ketubah
Legal deed with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Mentions "our late father."
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Separate documents on recto and on verso. The document on recto deals with …
Court proceedings. There are two drafts, possibly of the same document. Involving Nissim and Shemuel ha-Ḥaver and Abū l-Karam and Peraḥya. The hand of the …
Legal fragment.
Fragment of a betrothal (qiddushin) deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The groom is probably [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi. The early installment …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Concerns a ruined house in Fustāt (Miṣr) in the neighborhood of Mamṣūṣa. The date, according to Richards, is 605 …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left piece). Dating: no earlier than ~14th century, and potentially much later, based on the formulae used. After …
Legal record (#11). Loan contract. Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Sayyid al-Kull al-Zayyāt Ibn Makḥūl and Abū ʿAlī b. Abū Saʿd attest that Sibāʿ …
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Not completed. In the hand of Hillel b. Eli. Dated: Friday, 2 Tammuz 1409 Seleucid, which is 4 …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Describing a property, probably put up as collateral or for lease. Beautifully written. Among other landmarks, mentions the mosque of …
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Karaite decorated ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yefet b. Eliyyahu. The bride is Esther Habiba d. Yosef.
Legal deed concerning Yosef ha-Parnas the physician, who claims to be unable to support his daughter Sittūna, and her little son, after she was divorced …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Bū l-Faḍl Shela ha-Levi.
Recto: note to Abū l-Maḥāsin, asking for guidance in a personal problem (probably in relation to the query on verso), which also involves the fact …
Legal fragment (upper right piece). On parchment. Location: Cairo. Involves Muʿazzaza bt. Petaḥya(?); Ibrāhīm; Abū l-Munā; a house near the synagogue; eventualities including the price …
Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Wide space between the lines, in which someone has copied some of the text as writing practice. [...] bt. …
Recto: Fragment (lower left corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document involving division of money between Abū l-Faḍl, Yaʿaqov, and Abū l-Ḥasan. Verso: Fragment (lower left …
Part of a ketubba for Shelomo (groom), in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (1014-57 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Or possibly a letter on behalf of a woman ([al]-mamlūka). Probably her …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: second half of the 16th century based on the people mentioned; strangely, no date appears in the document itself. Involves …