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Trousseau list enumerating items of a dowry which amounts to 30 dinars and part of a house. Dated ca. 1090. Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. Bride: …
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Power of attorney granted in a divorce settlement. Dated to the 11th century (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Order. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sulaymān Kohen tells the addressee to give two ounces of lemon and rose (syrups?) to Abū l-Faraj. (This Sulaymān Kohen may be …
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A qiyyum (approval of a legal deed) signed by [Moshe Sofer] b. Yiṣḥaq Ḥaver and Eli Ḥaver b. Amram and others.
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Minute fragment of a document. Medieval-era. Possibly legal formulary.
Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Eliyahu Halevi b. Avraham. The previously married bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Eliyahu. Dated 27 Shevat …
Legal document on parchment. Trousseau list, probably from a ketubba. The left edge has been cut into a serrated pattern. There is also a small …
Probably a court register with multiple distinct legal entries. Many of them have to do with partnerships. There is also a section with a letter …
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 …
Deed of gift of part of a house. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (active ca. 1128–1164 CE). Location: Fusṭāṭ. The gift is …
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Document concerning a settlement of accounts in which Hillel b. ʿEli the cantor was both party and scribe. Dating: 1066–1108 CE, based on the years …
Recto: legal document concerning debt. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Verso: probably a subsequent legal document in a different hand, mentioning Abū Yaʿaqov, 10 dinars, …
Fragment from a ketubah, probably a replacement for a lost one. Contains the immersion clause so can be dated to 1176 onwards. AA
Legal document (maḥḍar) in Arabic script, in a very elegant chancery-esque hand. The testimony concerns the deceased Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Dimyāṭī al-Ḥarīrī. It mentions the year …
Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Dated: first decade of Jumādā II. The year is difficult to read, maybe …
Legal declaration in Arabic script, with a few Hebrew words (also in Arabic script) mixed in. "I have witnesses to the effect that Abū ʿAlī …
Legal document, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Makhlūf, Abū Zikrī b. Khalfa (cf. T-S AS 152.70 (PGPID 17785)), a sum of dinars, and release formulae. (Information …
Legal document(s) in a court ledger. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involves Sitt al-Kull bt. Ḥalfon. Mentions a sum of …
Recto: document, mentioning names such as Yosef, Abū ʿAlī and Shemuel. Verso: Arabic document with Judaeo-Arabic jottings. (Information from CUDL.)
Quittance. On parchment. Mainly in Hebrew. Dating: ca. late 10th century. The releaser is named Yiṣḥaq b. ʿAmram. It looks like his name was later …
Legal document, probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Ketubba (marriage contract). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday 26 Adar II 1426 Seleucid, which is 1115 CE, under the …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Bilbays. Dated: December1209/January 1209 CE. This document is a partnership agreement in a perfume- and dye-manufacturing shop. The partners, Faḍā’il …
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State document in Arabic, from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr) in Alexandria, a branch of the state silk monopoly. Dated 5 Dhu …
Small fragment of an Abū Zikrī Kohen cheque, mentioning the quantity three ounces. Remnants of an earlier Arabic-script document on verso.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Nearly identical formulary to the neighboring document (T-S NS 224.14 + T-S NS …
Recto: Legal deed (part) for the sale of a house with an orchard on the Jazīra, "between the two rivers and the two bridges." Sold …
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Barely legible, probably a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Bride is a virgin. Marriage payments: 5 + 10. Dated: 1453 Seleucid, which is 1141/42 CE, under the authority of …
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 …
P17: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One man grants a release to another. No other details preserved.
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 a Ketubah.
Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Ya'aqov Halevi b. Shmuel and the bride is Esther known as 'Aziza, listed as a non-virgin.
Recto: part of a poorly preserved deed, from the court of, and probably written by, Efrayim b. Shemarya. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 4799 AM = 1038/39 …
Minute fragment from a legal document. Hardly any text preserved. AA
Legal testimony (marriage permit). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1485 Seleucid, which is 1174 CE. Natan b. Yaḥyā and Shelomo b. Yefet testify that there is …
Legal document, possibly in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. It mentions the names Abū ʿImrān and Abū l-Ḥusayn, 80 dinars, and various garments (Information …
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 …
Fragment from the right side of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a sum of 10.5 dinars. Dating: Mentions Shaʿbān [5]73 AH = January/February …
Deed of acknowledgment of a debt of 76.25 black dirhams to be repaid in weekly installments by Bū l-Fakhr b. Bū l-Futūḥ al-Levi, who works …
Court record written and signed by Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Middle third of Av 4889 AM, which is July/August 1129 CE, under …
Recto: Qaraite betrothal (erusin) document. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 11 Kislev 1360 = 20 November 1048 CE. Groom: Maḥfūẓ b. Menaḥem. Bride: Fāḍila bt. Avraham …
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IB I, 41. Partnership record. Dated: [Tish]rei 1551 Sel. (1239). Location: Fustat. The brothers Abū al-Faḍl and Abū al-Riḍā Yosef b. Berakhot, owners of a …
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Debt contract. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First third of Elul 1446 Seleucid = September 1135 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Document of release concerning Avraham b. Shemuel and Saʿdān b. Saʿīd, witnessed by Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) See also BL OR 5550.1 …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Looks late.
Court record. Dated: 1 Av 1542 (1231 CE). Legal document concerning a loan of 215 dirhams between Shelomo ha-Levi b. Shemuel and Abu Sa'd Sa'adya …
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Legal document dated 6 July 1564 CE (16 Tammuz 5324) in Cairo/מצרים, in which Sulaymān Ṣafiyy and the treasurers of the heqdesh of the Mustaʿrib …
Confirmation of money transfer from Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī to Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan. Dated: Monday, 12 Ṭevet 1358 Seleucid = 15 December 1046 CE. Berekhya …
[זכרו]ן עדות שהיתה לפנינו אנו העדים החותמים עדותינו מטה בשטר הזה איך מרב יוסף ב[ר מ]שה בר בר[הון]
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