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Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated: Tuesday, 2 Heshvan 5324 AM = 19 October 1563 CE. Doña Masʿūda (the same Doña Masʿūda as …
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Confirmation of transfer of funds to the Palestinian Yeshiva, 15 dinars + 75 dinars = 90 dinars total. Dated: Shevaṭ 1416 Seleucid = January/February 1105 …
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Recto: legal document mentioning a market. Signed by Ḥalfon b. [...] and Mukhtār b. Ḥasan (or Yosef?) Verso: Beginning of a letter in Arabic script, …
No Scholarship Records
Power of attorney. In Hebrew. Dated: Location: Aleppo. Dated: Thursday, 16 [...] [13]48 Seleucid = 1036/37 CE. Ḥaggay appoints Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿaqov to collect 1,750 …
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Legal document from Cairo, dated 28 December 1812 CE (25 Tevet 5570 AM) in which David Dayyan b. Avraham declares that he owes 12000 silver …
Fragment of a deed of release (שטר אביזאריה).
IB V, 45. Legal record (#7). Alimony received. Dated: End of Iyyar 1456 Seleucid (or shortly thereafter). Concerning the maintenance/alimony (mezonot) that the late Abū …
Digest of a legal document. Probably in the cursive hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. For a partnership in a shop in Cairo. One partner …
Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 3v-4r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
Marriage contract with an exquisite floral border illustration. Location: Calcutta, India ('on the river Ganga' (=Hooghly). Dated: Sunday, 12 Adar II 5611 AM, which is …
Small and much faded. Dinars are mentioned, seems to be from a legal deed.
Legal document(s). Dated: 8 Tammuz 5613 AM, which is 1853 CE. On one side there is an Arabic document witnessed by "Daniel" and on the …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Maybe a legal document on recto and records of payments on verso. But needs examination.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1452 Seleucid = April/May 1141 CE. Regarding the sale of a house in Minyat Zifta costing 9 dinars. Between …
Small and damaged fragment, probably from a draft of a late legal deed.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a sum of 100 dinars; Yehoshuaʿ ha-Sar b. [...] he-Ḥasid (cf. T-S …
Recto: fragment from a legal document written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, mentioning the son of Yaḥyā. Verso: Hebrew praises, including a …
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 …
Two pages from the ketubah of Yosef and Esther
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Husband: Evyatar.
The poetic introduction of a "Yemenite Ketubba" dated Nisan 1368 (=1057 CE?), see BL OR 10653.8 for transcription.
Fragment of a court record (upper left corner). Dated: Thursday, 4 Ṭevet 1453 Seleucid = 4 December 1141 CE. In which Bishr b. Ibrāhīm sues …
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Court notebook, probably Qaraite. Many pages. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated with individual entries spanning the 1570s CE, such as 8 Tevet 5337 AM which is 1576 …
Trousseau list. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Groom: Arye b. Yehuda. Bride: Karīma bt. ʿAmmār. Marriage payments: 10 + 15. The latter …
Legal document. Karaite court record in Judaeo-Persian from 951 CE signed by [...] b. Ismāʿīl, Abraham b. Padāwī (פדאוי) and Saʿīd ha-Le[vi]. "The present document …
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Engagement contract. Bride: the widow Rashīda bt. Yiṣḥaq b. Sheʾerit. Groom: the widower Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe. Location: Minyat Ghamr. Dated: Wednesday, 3 Tishrei 1627 Seleucid …
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Few words from the bottom of a legal deed.
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps legal or having to do with a waqf, or having to do with the text that Yosef Rosh ha-Seder copied (see …
Legal document, mentioning a certain Shela. Very damaged. Might be a deed of sale for a property.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Only the heading and first lines preserved. Dated: 1391 Seleucid, which is 1079/80 CE. The groom is named Naḥum. Handwriting of Hillel …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.
Communal enactment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1516 Seleucid = March/April 1205 CE. Supporting the authority …
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Small fragment with few words from a legal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138). Possibly related to the shelfmark T-S NS 226.84 …
A draft of few line of an opening formula of a legal document written by Nathan b. Shmuel ha-Haver (Date: 1128-1154)
Court records, possibly. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. There are various entries about different matters, including several deceased …
Marriage contract, tiny fragment. Includes part of three lines from a dowry list.
Legal document in Arabic script. Very damaged. Mentions ʿAskar b. ʿAlī b. Faraj al-Maghribī in the first line. There are additional notes in the upper …
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: …
Small fragment of a legal document. Refers to someone's wife and to the death of Sitt al-Gharb. Looks like the hand of Avraham b. Natan …
Minute fragment from an end of a legal deed with the signature of Yefet b. Ya'aqov and Shemuel b. Yehuda. AA
Recto: fragment of a legal document, in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Refers to a deceased man; the town of Farsīs …
Notes for drawing up a marriage document. Groom: Yehuda b. Eliyya ha-Levi. Bride: Bat Ṣabāḥ, a widow. The marriage payments are listed, and then "half …
Small fragment from the top of a legal deed. The name [...] b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen is mentioned. AA/ASE
Bottom of a legal document signed by Menaḥem b. Berakhot and Mevorakh b. [...]. There are two undeciphered lines in Arabic script underneath. (Information in …
Karaite legal document dealing with property on Darb al-Furn (in Cairo). Dated Sunday 29 Iyyar 5471 AM (1711 CE). The current owner Aharon aka ʿAbalkarim …
Legal document mentioning 20 dinars and people including Ibn Bundār (likely one of the prominent merchants of Aden known from the India Book documents), Abū …
Large fragment of a late legal document. In Hebrew. The paleography supports a dating estimate of late 18th- or early 19th-century, possibly the scribal hand …
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Concerning a certain Kohen who is seeking a restraining order against his divorcee and to prohibit her from entering …
Deed of lease. Dating: The year-long lease begins on [Ṭevet] 1525 Seleucid = [Shaʿbān] 610 and ends on Kislev 15[26] Seleucid = Rajab 611 AH. …
Marriage contract, upper right portion, between Yosef b. Mawhūb and Sittān bt. Mevasser b. Yeshuʿa, written in Tyre, dated (not completely legibly) from the destruction …