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Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. The parnas and shammash Elʿazar b. Hillel comes before the court with an unbound Torah codex, and Yosef b. Yefet known …
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Fragment of a ketubba. The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions the name Furāt and something "ʿibrānī" apparently in …
Legal document. Copy of a Qaraite proxy appointment for a marriage, one of only two such documents known from the geniza. Dating: ca. 1040–47 (based …
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Middle third of Sivan 4895 AM, which is 1135 CE, under the authority of …
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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Will of a dyer, before going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar, 4975 AM = 1526 Seleucid, which …
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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 …
Fragment from a ketubah, probably a replacement for a lost one. Contains the immersion clause so can be dated to 1176 onwards. AA
Legal record (#8) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 4r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 25 Tishrei 1872 …
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Probably a legal document, mentioning the bridal gift and Ḥalfon b. Shelomo. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Bottom of an iqrār, dated 457 or 459 AH in the first line of the verso (1064/65 or 1066/67 CE). Witness is Hibatallāh b. …
Small fragment of a bill of sale for a slave, probably. Mentions ḥaqq al-sūq. No names or details preserved.
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Legal record (#51). Disposition of inheritance. Dated: Monday, 13 Tammuz 1467 Seleucid. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Skandarānī appeared before the court bearing a power of attorney …
Legal document. Signed and written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 7 Av 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. Concerns the same case as …
Page from a book of legal formulas of a marriage contract by a proxy probably from Siddur R. Nathan if Sijilmasa. Written by Shelomo b. …
Recto: Opening of a deed of sale in Arabic script. The buyer may be named Hārūn b. Khalaf. Verso: What seems to be a partial …
Fragment of a ketubba. Reused on recto, in a different hand, for a literary text about the book of Jonah.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (left side only). Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. Bride: Malika/Milka (מלכה). Groom: ʿAllūn b. Ṣeda[qa]. The dowry includes a house …
Formulary of an oath to be given by the mother of Abū l-Ḥasan to him, concerning a female slave and other possessions, especially spices; oath …
Testimony in Arabic script. Fragment (top cut off). Dated: first third of Jumādā I 528 AH = February/March 1134 CE. The bottom is divided into …
Legal document in Hebrew issued in Cairo. At first glance the date appears to be Elul 5420 AM which is August-September 1660 CE. However, the …
specimens of כתובה דמירכסא and שטר מסירה, followed by the heading שרח הלכות מן יבמות. The hand might be of Halfon Hakohen b. Elazar, who …
Legal notes for the preparation of documents. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, based on Weiss' paleographical assessment. The first contains details for the …
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Halakhic work, possibly a responsum, concerning betrothal and marriage. Features the proverbial Reuben and Shimon. (Information from CUDL.) Reuven engaged or betrothed the daughter of …
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Legal document or letter, fragment, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Involves Barakāt and [...] b. Mubārak. (Information in part from CUDL) Might belong with …
Legal record (#24) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
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Fragment of a beautifully written ketubba. Groom: Netanʾel. Bride: Mubāraka. The trousseau list appears to be written in rhymed Hebrew. The sum 250 dinars is …
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 988–1088 CE. Groom: ʿEli. Bride: Malka/Milka/Malika, a widow or divorcee. Marriage payments: 5 + …
Bottom of a legal document. On parchment. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Unclear if any specifics are preserved; someone is …
Recto: Legal document, probably, or a letter due to some loose formula. In Arabic script. Mentions "Abū l-Surūr al-madhkūr." Needs examination. Verso: Legal document in …
Just a few calligraphic words with elaborate fleurs-de-lis, presumably from the poetic header of a ketubba, very similar to BL OR 10653.9 (identified by Gaster …
Ketubba fragment. The groom is named Ghālib.
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 …
Notes from a lesson given by Maimonides. There is a fingerprint. See analysis and edition in Friedman, "Notes by a Disciple in Maimonides' Academy Pertaining …
Ketubba fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A circular piece has been cut out; this is part of the …
Small fragment with the name Makārim b. Maʿālī, another incomplete name ([...] b. Shelomo), and mention of a monthly (payment?). probably from a sketch for …
Part of a ketubba, mostly illegible. (Information from CUDL)
Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Marital agreement between groom David b. Efrayim ha-Parnas and bride Mubāraka bt. Faraḥ ha-Kohen (maybe the same as in T-S AS 153.50 (PGPID 34983)), listing …
Draft of a legal document. Mentioning the death of someone's son Abū l-ʿAlā; the late Nagid; and an orphan, Saʿadya b. Saʿadya. (Information in part …
Legal document. Involving appointing an agent; Abū l-[...]; Sitt al-Kull bt. [...]; and demanding maintenance (mezonot). There are a few words in Judaeo-Arabic on verso, …
Court record from the court of Shemarya b. Elhanan. Around 1000. A claim by Avraham b. Saʿda against his brother Ṣibyān, regarding trade in coral …
Legal document (iqrār). In the name of [...] b. Menashshe al-Isrāʾīlī. There is a description of a woman as "al-ṭaliqat al-lisān" (the fluent/facile of tongue). …
Legal document in Arabic script. Deed of purchase from the Mamluk period, according to the Baker/Polliack catalogue. On verso there is a letter (see alternate …
Recto: Marriage contract (or renewal of a marriage contract?). Location: Fustat. Date: 13[..] Seleucid, which combined with the fact that the document on verso was …
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Bill of sale for a Nubian enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe as well as Elʿazar ha-Kohen …
Legal document. Bū l-Majd b. Thābit, known as Meir b. Yakhin, appoints his brother Hilāl/Hillel as his attorney for all his claims and in particular …
Minute fragment of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). A man releases a woman from claims; no other …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Probably a marriage or divorce contract. Some readable phrases are: "لا يعترض معترض فيها", and "قطع وفصل لا رجوع". Needs …