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Legal document, in Arabic script. Late. Archival note at the back "حجة ضاع مضمونها وصارت الان لا تدل على شي". Probably indicating towards the document …
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Iqrār (deed of acknowledgment) on verso. Poem on recto.
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dealing with the settlement of accounts. Involves Hiba b. Moshe …
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Legal document from 1725 CE (1 Tevet 5486) from Cairo formalizing a reconciliation between husband, Yosef Mizraḥi known as Khumays, and wife, Nujūm the daughter …
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Small piece of a marriage-related legal document, mentioning gifts and "Naẓar the mother of this bride." (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: Betrothal contract, Qaraite. Dated: Sunday, 4 Heshvan 5488 AM = 2039 Seleucid, which is 1727 CE. Location: Cairo. Groom: Naḥum ha-Levi b. Yosef b. …
Legal document mentioning [...] b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī. Scribed and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya and Yiṣḥaq …
Damaged ketubbah of Joseph b. ʿEli (groom), dated [...] Kislev [...]. No other details preserved. Probably written by Halfon b. Menasheshe Halevi. AA
In a short note, a letter brought by Tiqva b. 'Amram from Farah b. 'Ayyash is presented to the court in Cairo. The letter was …
Recto: Legal document, related to the earlier document on verso (PGPID 2223). Different handwriting. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Wednesday, 27 [...] 1532 Seleucid = 1220/21 CE. …
Fragment from a legal document, probably a bill of release from a wife to her husband Abū Sahl Menashshe. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Bill of release from any claim granted by Netanʾel b. Yefet b. Meshullam Ibn Ḥirbish to Musāfir b. Shemuel in relation to the will of …
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Legal document, probably a prenuptial or engagement document. Groom: Maymūn b. Yosef. Bride: Sitt al-Dalāl. There are conditions about financial support, place of residence, and …
Recto: Probably a legal query. Verso: The responsum? A discussion based on rabbinic literature. Damaged
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 20 Kislev 5422 AM, which is 1661 CE. Location: presumably Cairo, based on the witness signature of Barukh Rofe– a …
Fragment of a late legal document. A deceased person with an uncommon name is mentioned in line 3, ירוב זאקון נ׳׳ע (Yarov Zāqūn), probably as …
Fragment of a legal document. Refers to a man's death being verified (בצחה ופאתה . . . ) and it seems arrangements related to disposition …
Small fragment of a legal document. Involving Siwār (unless this word is "siwāhu"), Yosef, and a Torah codex. Refers to a period beginning with the …
Legal fragment. This portion contains about a dozen witness signatures, including Shabbetay b. ʿAlīl; Ghālib b. Faraj (spelled גאליב); and two people with embellished signatures: …
Court testimony. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves [...] al-ʿAkkawī b. Yeshuʿa Ibn Bunān — likely the same as in …
4 legal records. (1) Taqwīm for the marriage between Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Maghāzilī and Niʿam bt. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥazzan. Dated: Nisan 1497 Seleucid, …
Legal document related to real estate property in the "Samaritan Quarter" of Cairo, which remained as an urban placename despite the unexplained disappearance of the …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 19 Ḥeshvan 1498 Seleucid = 3 November 1186 CE. The betrothal of the orphan girl Sitt al-Muʿazzaza bat Šela b. …
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Fragment of a legal document. Verso mentions [Abū l-Fa]raj al-Kohen and his son. Recto mentions 100 of something.
Legal document concerning a quittance of debt, dated 1440 Sel. (1129 CE), written under the authority of the gaon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen. Mentions Abū l-Maʿālī b. …
Small fragment of a ketubba. Groom: Hillel/Hilāl b. Jallāb (גלאב). There is a filing note on verso.
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
(b) Trousseau list. Bride: Sitt al-Furs bt. Abū l-Bayān al-Jābī (cf. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/43). Groom: Al-Munajjā b. Yosef. 10 + 25. Total value: …
Ketubba fragment on parchment.
Legal document mentioning Shela b. [...], Fusṭāṭ and the Gaʾon. Signed by [...] b. Ṣedaqa, Yefet b. Saʿadya and [Jose]ph b. Yefet. (Information from CUDL)
Qaraite marriage contract. Some details of trousseau are preserved. Bride: Malika/Malka. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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IB V, 25. Legal document. Commenda. Dated: November 1132. Abū Zikrī Yehudah b. Yosef ha-Kohen and Ḥananel b. Nissim partner in a shop. The active …
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Letter containing a legal opinion/responsum in the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. Against a claim of orphans against the …
Fragment from the bottom of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), with part of a witness signature preserved. Dated: end of Dhū l-Qaʿda 610 AH = …
Recto: Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: First decade of Kislev 5439 AM = November 1678 CE. It has to do with property and …
Draft of a legal document. Confirming a settlement (ṣulḥ) negotiated by elders. A release by Shemuel b. Aharon for Nissim b. Meshullam and his brother …
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Recto: Legal document in Arabic script, likely an iqrār. Complete. One witness statement at the bottom. Verso: Columns of numbers which are added up. (Polliack …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written in a rudimentary hand (Goitein calls it a "most miserable script"). Location: Cairo. Dated: Av 1[3]82 Seleucid, which is 1071 CE. …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Cairo. Dated: Tevet 1744 Seleucid = November/December 1432 CE. Husband: Shemuel b. [...] b. Shemuel. Wife: Sarah bt. [...]. The …
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, …
Much-faded excerpt perhaps from a collection of responsa. There is an opening question in Hebrew about why something has to be written above something else. …
Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 29 Adar 5539 AM (=Ṣafar 1193 AH), which is 1779 CE. Avraham Fayrūz b. Eliyyahu Fayrūz known as Shuwaykh makes arrangements …
Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Bride: Sitt al-Kull, a virgin. Early marriage payment: 10 dinars. Grand …
Probably an order of payment.
Minute fragments, few from legal deeds.
Legal document in Arabic script. With witness signatures. One of them is Mūsā b. ... b. Aḥmad. Needs examination for content.
Fragment of a marriage contract listing items such as a pair of golden ‘dablas’ (a ring without a stone). The notation “’lq” opens the jewelry …
Recto: Copy of a deed relating to the settlement of the property of Khalaf b. Iṣḥaq, deceased, who left one daughter only. Dated Monday, 15 …
Legal document in Arabic script. Damaged. Needs examination for content. One of the parties may be named Salāma.
Fragmentary document from Damascus in which [...] b. al-Tarir gives a house adjacent to his own to Yefet ha-Levi b. Ḥalfon, presumably his son-in-law. Date: …