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Legal document, probably, in Arabic and Hebrew script. Mentions "fī manʿ shahāda". Needs examination.
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Legal document. Loan terms. Dated: September 1239. Location: Bilbays. Between Amram b. Ḥalfon and Avraham b. Efrayim. Initially described as commenda (qirāḍ) but re-negotiated into …
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Karaite marriage agreement between Hananya b. Ya'aqov Halevi and Esther known as 'Aziza d. Eliyyahu b. Sa'adya. Date: 2 Nisan 5576 AM (1816 CE). As …
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Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Regarding a surgical operation by a physician. Nāṣir b. Jibrīl asks the Jewish physician Makārim b. Isḥāq to perform …
حضر الى مكارم بن اسحق بن مكارم اليهودى المتطبب
ناصر بن جبريل وصحبته ابنته لصلبه المسماة ستيت
وفى عينها اليسرى كمنة وسأل الطبيب
المذكور …
Nāṣir ibn Jibrīl came to Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the Jewish physician,
together with his natural daughter called Sutayt,
in whose left ey…
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to merchandise which was sent. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Formula for a validation by the court in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108), including an interesting addition. (Information from Goitein's index …
Legal document in Arabic script. Likely a deed of sale, as there are extensive descriptions of a property. On verso there are witness statements. One …
Minute fragment, probably from the middle part of a ketubah, based on the mention of דמיפטרא ביה (what that will make her divorce) which is …
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, …
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Small fragment from the beginning of a ketubah, 16th century. The groom name is Ishaq. AA
Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Only the upper left corner is preserved. Involving a physician (al-mutaṭabbib) and "to the Jewish woman Fāḍila bt. Abū …
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Dating: ca. 1100 CE (based on Med Soc II, p. 601 n. 18). The name of the enslaved …
Marital documents in Arabic, medieval-era. Only the divorce contract bears a definitive date: 2 Rabiʿ II 558 AH (10 March 1163 AH). Recto: top part …
Settlement agreement as part of which golden rings worth forty dinars were exchanged (one with a pearl) before the consummation of the marriage which was …
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Fragmentary court record(s). The main entry involves an Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon and Netanʾel and family relationships (someone refers to "my sister"). The text at 90 …
Legal document in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century if not earlier. Might be a join with ENA 3656.1, but it is too hard to tell. …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: 1127–39 CE, as Abū Manṣur Ṣalaḥ b. Sulaymān the head of the Jews (Raʾīs al-Yahūd), who appears …
Original use: Two fragments of a legal document in Arabic script. ~8 partial lines preserved. Tight line spacing, stylized dhālika ذلك in l. 2, stylized …
Document for the sale of real estate in river floodland – 1950CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 66) – in Arabic. (information from …
small strip from the top of a legal document, probably a draft. The date is Tuesday, 26 Sivan, 15[...] (13th century). On verso opening titles …
Recto: Legal fragment. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Power of attorney or partnership agreement? Mentions "... Abū Isḥāq for the entirety of this year." …
Marriage contract recorded on parchment. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 29 Adar II 5556 AM = 8 April 1796 CE. Groom: Yehuda Mercado. Bride: Sara bt. …
Bill of release. Location: Damīra. The city is referred to as עיר דמירה הקטנה in Hebrew ("the city of little Damīra"). The release is granted …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Tuesday, 25 Tammuz 1693 Seleucid = פֿדֿןֿ Hijri (this is confusing notation: perhaps 584 + an implied 200?). In any …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Elul 5[...] AM, probably ca. 15th or 16th century.
Legal record (#30). Trousseau list. Groom: Bū l-Barakāt al-ʿAṭṭār. Bride: Sitt at-Dār bt. Yefet ha-Kohen b. Menashshe ha-Dayyan. See Goitein's notes for the items enumerated. …
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 4977 AM, which is 1217 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. It is a bill of sale for …
Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note (petition?) in Arabic script …
A damaged fragment. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Legal or official document, wide space between the lines. Dating: Looks Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script, written on a bifolio. The two parties are ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Salāma al-Yahūdī and Ṣaʿīd b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī. Date: …
Upper left piece of a legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Fragment of a marriage contract from the 11th century. Beautiful handwriting and partially vocalized (e.g. the word כימֻכְֿת/kaymukht/shagreen leather). On verso there are a few …
Legal deed drawn up in Damascus, 27 September 1084 CE (25 Tishrei 1396 Seleucid). Both qiyyum and shimmush written by Shemuel ha-Nasi 'the third' b. …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 12 Shevaṭ 1415 Seleucid, which is 11 January 1104 CE. Husband: Yaʿaqov b. Mevasser. Wife: Baqiyya bt. Maṣliaḥ. …
Bill of divorce. Witnesses are Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel and Shelomo b. Yosef. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Small strip of parchment with various notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Recto may be for a memorial list: …
On recto an order to impose excommunication on a person who took books from 'our house' and didn't return them. At the end a signature …
Small fragment of a legal document. "An event that occurred [before us witnesses]. . . ha-Nasi ha-Gadol. . . He said. . ."
Legal document(s). Small fragment. Recto contains the beginning of a document and mentions al-Maghrib. Verso contains some crossed out text; portions of names; the words …
Legal documents, drafts recto and verso, in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Concerning a gift given to a young woman named …
Records/receipts of rent payments for months Jumada I to Shaʿaban 1054 AH = 1644/45 CE. There is a seal imprint twice, and the scribe signs …
Karaite prenuptial agreement. Dated Sunday 21st Heshvan 5511 AM (1750 CE). Location: probably Cairo, "on the property" of the prospective groom Shalom Levi. The prenuptial …
Fragment of power of attorney signed by four persons including the judge Shemuel b. Saadya (in office 1165-1203) and deputy judge Jephthah b. Yaʿaqov (in …
Legal document. Concerning a betrothal (qiddushin). Mentions the witnesses Bū ʿAlī b. al-Faḍlī (or al-Faṣlī?) and Ṭayyib al-Ṣayrafī. Early portion of 5 dinars. The transfer …
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Incomplete late legal document in which Yaʿaqov Maṣliaḥ acknowledges that Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm (fl. 1785-1825 CE) has invested 2000 medins with him.
Legal document, possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, mentioning 60 dinars, the Bet Din, Abū l-Ḥasan, and repeatedly mentions רקעה בדינאר ‘note for …
Vertical strip from a legal document, maybe a ketubba. Might involve a woman named Sitt al-Nās.
Legal document or possibly a letter. In Hebrew. Dating: late, ca. 16th–18th century. Mentions Shemuʾel Pali[...] (שמואל פאלי....); "the polisa, that is to say the …
Fragment of a legal document preserving one signature, Saadya b. Mevorakh (likely the son of the Nagid, Mevorakh b. Saadya, d. 1111), with the court's …