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Fragment from the top of an iqrār made by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUbayd known as [...] al-Fakkāh. The document continues وهو يومىذ which would have …
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Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Late Mamlūk or early Ottoman-era. The one on recto (the secondary use) is a power of attorney drawn up …
Legal documents, one each on recto and verso. Both are from "the capital" Constantinople/Istanbul, both are signed by Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ashkenazi and Yosef b. …
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Fragment of a trousseau list, comprising the upper right corner of the document. Medieval-era. Some of the items include two jukāniyya garments, a handkerchief, two …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a woman [...] bt. Natan and a man who has been …
Cheque / order of payment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 10 Kislev 1530 Seleucid, which is December 1218 CE. The beadle Abū l-Ṭāhir is to pay the …
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. The same block of text seems to be copied at least three times, followed by witness statements. At the far …
Digests of legal documents. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Document #1: Manṣūr/Elʿazar b. M[...] sells 1/8 of a house for 14 dinars. Specifies …
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Legal entries in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Entry at upper right: mentions the 17th of Jumādā, the name of a witness …
Recto: legal document, mentioning the teacher Berakhot b. Ḥalfon and Elʿazar; signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥalfon, a Kohen and [...] b. Yosef. Verso: note possibly …
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Deed of sale for a male Abyssinian slave (ghulām ḥabashī) named Muqbil, a minor (dūn al-bulūgh), who was tattooed (or rather branded?) on a covered …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Upper piece: The names of the parties are deliberately erased. Mentions a sum …
Responsum concerning orphans, describing a loan from orphans that is taken orally without an oath, and a statement that orphans who are in debt because …
Small fragment from a power of attorney written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). No details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment from the beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is [...] Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ghaniyy b. ʿAbd al-Malik.
Engagement agreement. Fiancé: Ṭāhir b. ʿIwaḍ al-Jazzār. Fiancée: Mudallala bt. Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar. Dated: Wednesday night, 28 Sivan 1581 Seleucid, which is 1270 CE. The …
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Legal document (or 2 documents) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The one on the right involves a marriage. The one …
Un-conserved, so no numbers allocated to each fragment yet. Among the five minute frgaments in this folder there is one legal document written by Efrayim …
Fragment from the center of a ketubba. (See Goitein's index card for further information.)
Deed of sale or gift of property. Damaged. Location: not preserved. Dating: not preserved, but 11th century seems likely, based on the uncommon formulae and …
Fragment of a deathbed declaration of Sedaqa b. Mevorakh for his sister and brother, signed by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108). (Information from Goitein's index …
Legal record (#49) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 13v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 48-50) Folio 13v
Legal fragment/draft. One line only. Involves Khibāʾ bt. Menashshe (known also from ENA NS I.11 (PGPID 11204) and ENA 3765.2 (PGPID 34325)).
Legal document. In Arabic script. Concerning a house (... مشاعا غير مقسوم ... الدار المجاورة لها ...). Perhaps a deed of sale. Only four lines …
Fragment of a deed of sale for one half of a sugar factory (al-Dār al-Sukkariyya) in Minyat Zifta. Dating: probably ca. 12th century. One of …
. . . it will be upon him as a [legal contract] and a proof from this day onwards that I [attest …
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Deed of betrothal (erusin). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dates: 1100–38). Drawn up under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (dates: 1127–39). Fiancée: Malka, …
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Legal record(s) in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (right side of recto). Partial translation: "When our master the qāḍī purchased …
Legal record (#47) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 16v-17r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Location: Cairo, based on …
Palimpsest. This parchment contained an Arabic legal document, which was scraped. The part on recto refers to [...] b. Yaḥyā al-ʿAfṣī (the gallnut merchant) and …
Probably from a book of legal formulas, citing a legal deed
Legal fragment. The beginnings of ~11 lines are preserved. Mentions various valuable items, such as a jūkāniyya. Possibly a dowry list?
Top of a legal deed probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Moderately wide line spacing. Dated: 1425 Seleucid = 1113/14 CE.
Small fragment of a legal document. On parchment. Mentions a qāʿa. Likely a deed of sale related to real estate.
Birth record? In Hebrew. Dated: Sivan 5324 AM, which is 1564 CE.
Recto: Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 24 Adar 1[6]50 Seleucid, which is 5 March 1339 CE. Husband: ʿEzer b. Yehoshuaʿ. Wife: Shumaysa …
Minute fragment, from the bottom of a legal deed. Only partial signatures are preserved one of those is [... ba]r Perahya Hakohen. AA
Bottom of a Ketubbah, signed by Yeshuʿah b. [...] and Saʿadiah b. Solomon. We find here remnants of the immersion enactment issued by Maimonides in …
Beautiful fragment of a legal document from Alexandria in the hand of the court clerk Mawhub. A father gives an entire house to his son …
Karaite betrothal document, with some water/liquid damage toward across middle lines. Date: 15 Heshvan 5485 AM (1724 CE). Due to discoloration/damage, parts of the document …
Legal document. Shemuel b. Moshe b. Sahl brings Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov b. al-Nihmi to court. The latter promises to pay him one and one-fourth dinars …
Part of a deed, in which Yefet b. Aharon confirms that he has received the sum of 8 3/4 dinars from persons, including Avraham and …
Recto: deed of sale in Hebrew for a compound in Damascus (a large and small house) at the Market of the Jews, for 280 ʿAzīzī …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 4 Av 5386 AM, which is 1626 CE. Concerning Malka/Milka bt. [...] Amarillo, the widow of the …
Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 12 Nisan [5322] …
Recto: Fragment from a marriage document, probably a ketubba, for Sitt al-Kull, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). BL OR …
Probably a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Deed of quittance. The firstborn Barakāt b. Salmān b. Avraham releases his brother Faraj and stepbrother ʿAbdallāh and the latter's father Abū ʿAbdallāh from any …
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Document in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE) concerning Zikri b. Ḥalfon, who received 50 dinars from funds belonging to …
Karaite bill of debt. Dated Wednesday 23 Iyyar 5410 AM (1650 CE). Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo Levi acknowledges a debt of 4 guruş kilāb (esedi guruş/Lion …
Court record in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Refers to a rent; 20 dinars; a power of attorney; a period of …