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List of 19 items in a marriage gift. The groom is Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, the bride is Sitt al-Banīn bt. Avraham. Written by Ḥalfon b. …
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Monograph; recto: formulary of legal documents, including part of שטר הלואה, numbered ג(?) (info from FGP)
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Trousseau evaluation in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dated: not long before 28 Elul 1594 Seleucid = 21 September 1283 CE, which is set as the …
Deed of quittance. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely early 11th century. Between Sittūna bt. Yosef ha-Levi the dyer and her husband ʿEzra b. Avraham ha-Kohen. She …
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Letter with legal content, signed by Shelomo b. Nisan ha-Kohen and [...] b.Yehuda, to multiple addressees. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerns the oil merchant (al-zayyāt) Yūsuf b. …
Small notes regarding payments. Verso concerns a sum of 41 (dirhams?) owed by the scribe to his paternal uncle for a wasaṭ (belt). It seems …
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Verso: legal record, unfinished. Concerning a dispute between Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Shelomo Ibn al-Tawwazī and his father-in-law Abū Manṣūr Aharon b. Mevasser al-Zayyāt. Describing …
Probably a legal document. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: late Mamlūk or Ottoman. Mentions a town in the Gharbiya province. Needs examination.
Legal document, small fragment. Involves Sitt al-Hanā' (the same as in T-S NS 226.12? It is not a join, but the hand looks quite similar.)
A damaged legal document in Hebrew. It seems to be dealing with the payment of the ketubah of a woman, who speaks in first person. …
Right fragment: Small fragment of a ketubba written in the Palestinian style. In the hand of the ḥaver Shemuel b. Moshe, the same scribe as …
Legal document, possibly in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya, concerning a matter between Yosef the doctor and a certain Ḥaver Efrayim. Refers to the …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, signed by Moshe b. [...] with little letters around his name, and Yehuda b. …
Deed of sale of one half of a house in the al-Musasa quarter in Fustat, in which one owner sells his half to the other …
Recto: deed in which a man and his sons gift a house to an adult woman, ʿAʾisha (known as al-Wuḥsha), the daughter of the owner. …
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[this house,] defined herein, with all its boundaries, its land, its building, its lower [and upper floor and every r…
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Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 624 H. Involves Abū l-Faraj b. Fāḍil(?) b. Khalaf al-Tājir and Bū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī b. …
Fragment from a 13th century ketuba. Verso is decorated. AA
Recto: draft of a court record written by Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (active 1165–1203). Involves a sale; Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Naṣr; an agent, Abū …
Legal document. Dating: Approximately 15 weeks prior to Ḥeshvan 1451 Seleucid, which is 1139 CE. Concerning a debt of 90 dirhams to be paid in …
Deathbed will. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 [Kislev] 1500 Seleucid, which is December 1188 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Testator: …
Marriage document. Small fragment. In Aramaic. Dated: [...]3. Involving [... b.] She'erit ha-Kohen.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dealing with alimony/maintenance (mezonot) for a wife and son.. People mentioned: Ibn al-[...] …
Acknowledgment of a debt of 10 dinars contracted by Ḥammūd b. Hāshim, the miller, with Ibrāhīm b. Ḥajīj, the Jewish middleman. The document states that …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient. Peace be upon his' servants, whom he has chosen.
Page from the record book of the law court of the Yeshiva, perhaps Yoshiyahhu Gaʾon. From the same ledger: ENA 4010.28, ENA NS 8.15, and …
Deed of manumission. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 5 Kislev 14[.]8 Seleucid, perhaps 14[7]8 Seleucid = 1166/67 CE or one of the adjacent decades, as the …
The main text is liturgical. In the margin two strips from another document- a ketubba written by Mevorakh b. Natan (active 1150-1181 CE) - were …
Verso (original use): Legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. Portions of 9 lines are preserved. Involves Mūsā b. ʿĀdī(?). Dating: Mentions the year 42[.] …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Refers to if somebody should desire separation, and a sum …
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. …
Marriage contract (ketubba) possibly from Tyre that includes the list of goods in the dowry: a cloth, a curtain, a lamp, two dyeing vessels, two …
Legal documents in Arabic script. Main document on recto and a faṣl on verso. Very difficult to read. The faṣl may be dated Ramaḍān 940 …
Right side of an informal note or order of payment in Arabic script. Its content is not preserved, only the opening phrases and the phrase …
Marriage contract. Small fragment. The bride is named Nujūm.
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated Monday, 8th Adar I 5398 AM (1638 CE). Mordekhay b. El'azar b. Aharon betroths Esther bt. Ya'aqov b. Avraham. Unlike most …
Recto: Unidentified writings in Arabic script, maybe accounts or scribal practice. Verso: Fragment of a legal deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), involving a debt. The beginnings …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca. 1100–38 CE). Probably a debt contract. (Information in part from CUDL)
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 17 Tammuz 5519 AM (1759 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously married bride is Hana bt. Yeshūʿa b. Yosef and the groom …
Debt contract. Location: Minyat Ashna. Dated: middle third of Av 1460 Sel. = July 1149 CE, under the jurisdiction of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. …
An important and extremely unusual Arabic legal/communal document using Jewish legal formulae and invoking Moses (Mūsā b. ʿImrān al-Rasūl), appointing Sahlān b. Barhūn […] al-Mumḥe …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Mamluk-era?
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Containing references to a sum of 10 dinars, a qāḍī (judge), the feast of Purim, and …
Legal fragment. Preserving the date 1441 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, and little else.
A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …
Fragment of a legal document. Menahem b. Shemuel mentioned. Avraham b. Shemaya and Avraham b. Natan Av are signatories, which dates this to end of …
Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/45v: Continuation of previous document (PGPID 6535). The clothing and household goods are divided between the two girls. The …
Deed of compensation. Location: Tyre. Dated: Tuesday, 23 Kislev 4780 AM = 24 November 1019 CE.
A fragment from a beginning of a ketubah. 11th century. AA
Legal formulary. Late. Among the types of formulaic documents mentioned there are: (T-S AS 207.21 1r) [copy of ...] the bill of divorce from the …
Ketubba, probably. Small fragment. Very damaged. Reused for an alphabetical (divination?) table on verso.
Ketubba fragment (perhaps Palestinian) mentioning a payment of 12 zuz (in keeping with the Palestinian tradition). Signed by Elʿazar b. Yosef. Not mentioned in the …