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Karaite bills of debt on a bifolium. Dated 1 Shevat 5498 AM (1738 CE). Both documents deal with a qāʿa residence on Darb al-Furn, a …
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Numerous drafts/outlines of legal documents from a court notebook. One of them is a partnership agreement. Dating: ca. 1128–1164 CE. A previous version of this …
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Two tiny legal fragments in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). The upper fragment mentions someone's wife, Sitt al-[...]. The lower fragment mentions ʿAsqalān.
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Legal record (#127) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 41v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 2 Elul [5329 …
Legal document from Cairo, dated March of 1810 CE (17 Adar II 5570 AM), in which Moshe Shtiwi acknowledges an investment of 15,000 מכ (medin …
Recto: Legal document in which Abū l-Khayr b. Nājī ha-Parnas releases ʿAmīd al-Dawla Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef from any obligations for goods sold by the latter …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Conveying a first-person narration regarding a journey: فلما ان طال المكث . . . انا ومن معي وهجرت خرجت اما …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Recto: betrothal (erusin) deed. Groom: [...] b. ʿEli known as Ibn Ḥunayn. Bride: …
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Legal testimony. The witnesses have examined (bāsharū) the Jew Ibrāhīm b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, and found that he had developed leprosy (judhām) on account of a …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The people attaching their signature and registering their name (below), they being […
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A bill of division of land in Troki, Lithuania
Karaite agreement regarding a payment for two apartments (תבקתין) in a house. Date: 27 Shevat 5446 AM (1686 CE). ʿOvadya Feyruz receives a payment of …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (first three lines only). The muqirr is Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, a Jewish …
Marriage contract. Dated: Ḥeshvan 5570 AM = October/November 1809 CE. Elegantly decorated capitals, calligraphic script. Groom: Yosef b. Yehuda b. Shemuel. Bride: [...] bt. Yaʿaqov …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dating: Refers to the beginning of Ḥeshvan 1429 Seleucid, which is 1117 …
Legal deed in large square thick letters
Engagement document between Esther bt. Yaʿaqov ʿAdda and Se. Yosef Fīḥa(?) (פיחה), listing a variety of conditions for their marriage (Join: Matthew Dudley). The prospective …
Fragment, few lines a very faded Arabic script on recto and a sequence of Coptic/Greek numerals on the verso. Mentions silver pieces (waraq). Needs examination.
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108). Rough draft of an agreement between spouses, detailing the conditions that the husband must …
Legal document. Large release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 6 Heshvan 1440 Seleucid (1128 CE). It is unclear why, but worth noting …
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Record or outline of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Written on a narrow piece of parchment. Dated: …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document, containing only the validation, mentioning ʿEli ha-Kohen the Parnas as one of the signatories. Written and validated …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions "his wife Sitt al-Dār" and then quotes her speech. Very faded and damaged, almost nothing …
Order for a quantity of apple syrup from al-Asʿad. Possibly in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. This was left incomplete. There is one line …
Legal document. Fragment (lower right corner). In the hand of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (active 1122–50). Someone makes an acknowledgment in favor of Sayyid al-Kull. …
Legal deed in Aramaic. Dated: 133[.] Seleucid = 1018–29 CE. Shemuel b. Avraham ha-Levi ha-Sefaradi is appointing Mevorakh b. Yosef ha-Kohen. as his agent. Above …
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Part of a deed of sale for part of a house in Fusṭāṭ. Two of the parties are women: […] bint Saʿīd (‘the Jewish builder’) …
Top of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Abū Zikrī Zekharya b. Sar Shalom makes a declaration to Shelomo/Sulaymān …
Possibly a formulary for an elaborate bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE. Both recto and verso are covered …
Legal record (#13a). Loan contract, summary. It states that Barakāt b. Abū l-Ḥasan owes 30 (dirhams) to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Faḍl and will pay …
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. …
Document concerning a shiddukh (matchmaking) for a first-time bride in Dammuh, Egypt. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (Gil; Ashur disagrees). Records a fine for the …
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Small and torn fragment from a bill of gift from husband named Abū l-Majd to his wife, probably [...] bt. Saʿadya. AA
Order in Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥasan is to pay or hand over two dinars, 1 qirat, and 2 ḥabbas of "ḥawāʾij."
Legal document, small fragment. Possibly a ketubba. All that is preserved is the date: [4]846 AM, which is 1085/86 CE.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Minyat Zifta. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. Yosef. Wife: Bita bt. Shelomo (ביתה בת שלמה). Dated: Thursday, 5 Nisan 1446 Seleucid, which …
Legal record (#42). Deposition of securities (thabat al-ḥawā'ij). Dated: Monday, 28 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. These valuable items (aʿlāq), some of which are taken from the …
Legal deed concerning the payment in monthly installments of the remaining five dinars minus one sixth of a debt of a total of seven dinars. …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan, 5488 AM = October 1727 CE. Involving three gabbayim and property in the qodesh …
Legal document. Bottom part only. Perhaps a marriage contract, as there is a note in between the document and the qiyyum making a statement about …
Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi agrees to bring to court a husband and his wife, the latter being accused of frightening another man's wife with practices …
Document with the trousseau list for the marriage of Sitt al-ʿIzz and Yeter ha-Levi. On parchment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel. …
Fragment of a legal document concerning the ketubba of Karīma and her husband Nadiv. Also mentions a certain Shelomo. In the hand of Natan b. …
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Involves a woman "[sit]ting in the house of her widowhood"; children; and a son named Abū Manṣūr.
Bill of debt. Dated: Tuesday, 28 Elul 5406 AM, which is 8 September 1646 CE. Rahamim b. Ya'aqov Qayyim and his wife Muhja bt. Yaʿaqov …
Upper left corner of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār).
Recto: legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Concerns an agreement reached between a husband and …
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Recto: halakhic discussion (possibly a responsum) concerning testamentary dispositions. Verso: specimen text for קיום שטרות. (Information from CUDL)
A list of clothes and household utensils returned by a divorced woman to her ex-husband, Naḥman, after she had taken them to the house of …
Court record concerning the inheritance of Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov Qābisī, of the Ibn Jāmiʿ family, left to him after the death of his …
A Karaite ketubah. The groom is Yosef b Aharon Hakohen. The bride is Esther.