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Original use: Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, twice mentioning Natan ha-Levi known as Hiba Ibn [...], also …
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Karaite betrothal deed between Esther bt. Moshe Fūlādī and Avraham b. David Feyrūz aka Revaḥ. Dated on Purim 24 Adar 5509 AM (1749 CE). The …
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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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Fragment of a legal document. Dated: 1424 Seleucid = 1112/13 CE. Signed (on verso): Yehuda b. [...]; [...] b. Yaʿaqov. Mentions an Arabic document; various …
Ruling in absentia obligating Maʿtūq Dāūd al-Jamāl to pay the amount of 985 pounds toward the rent of a store in the inheritance of the …
Recto: Bottom part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. לך כתיר אללה תעאלי יתם עליך מא אנת פיה ויזידך מזיד כל כיר ויעינך עלי פעל אלזכיות …
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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Fragment (a strip) of a legal deed concerning real estate (al-dār al-madhkūra). Mentions a ladder, a Muslim legal deed (kitāb al-'arabī). The remaining legal text …
Fragment of a deed of sale in Arabic script. Mentions payments in installments starting the beginning of Ramaḍān.
Fragment of a court record (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38). Concerning the inheritance of Abū Isḥāq Avraham ha-Levi, …
Fragment of a document in Judaeo-Arabic. Contains legalistic language but is written in a crude hand - possibly a copy of an original document. Refers …
Two fragments of a legal document. Mentions Wahba(?) b. ʿIwaḍ, Sulaymān, and a sum of 1,600 dirhams 'fulūs.'
Legal document recording that the parnas Eli ha-Kohen and his colleague testified in court that three orphan girls had received ten dinars bequeathed to them …
Small and faded fragment of a legal deed regarding a lawsuit by the 'great elder, the haver' Dosa b. [Yehoshuaʿ(?)] of a shipment of musk …
Marriage contract. Location: Tyre. Bride: Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yaʿaqov. There is a header decorated with fleurs-de-lis. (See Goitein's index card and the PGP record for …
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Legal testimony. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Thursday, 24 Shevat 1816 Seleucid = Shaʿbān 910 AH, which is 1505 CE. The document first lists the assembly …
Verso: Dowry list. Bride: Sitt al-Banāt bt. Yusuf. Groom: Mevorakh b. Abū ʿAlī. Early marriage payment: 10 dinars. Delayed marriage payment: 30 dinars. ASE.
Bottom of a legal document. Location: probably Alexandria. Dated: Sivan 4856 AM = May/June 1096 CE. Binyamin receives 1/3 of something and Nissim and Hārūn …
Bill of sale for an eighth of a house in Cairo. Seller: Ṣadaqa b. Abū l-Khayr. Buyer: Dhakhīra bt. ʿEli. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tammuz 1452 …
Unidentified, might be fragment from an Aramaic legal deed?
Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/45r: Deathbed will. Dated: Wednesday, 18 Nisan 1493 Seleucid = 24 March 1182 CE. Testator: Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe …
Recto: Bottom of a rental contract (mentions several times al-mustaʾjir). In Arabic script. One of the parties is Abū l-Ḥasan. Stipulates installments at the end …
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 …
Bill of sale in which a Nubian female slave named 'Salt' is sold for 15 dinars. Dated 24 Tammuz 1395/ 30 June 1084. (Information from …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1414 Seleucid, which is 1102 CE. Groom: Meshullam b. David. Bride: Sutūt bt. Ṭahor, the divorcee of Yefet …
Recto: Legal fragment in Arabic script. Iqrār. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Dated: 510 or 520 AH = 1116/17 or 1126/27 CE. Needs …
Legal document, small fragment. Involves [...] b. Yūsuf and a certain Faraj. Signed by Yefet b. Yesh[aʿya?]
Legal deed in the hand of Eliyyahu ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaʾon; he also signed the validation. Location: Damascus. Dated: 10 Iyyar 4791 AM = 5 …
Legal document. On parchment. Appears to be a writing exercise, because there are multiple efforts and because there are inconsistencies (on recto Abū l-Maʿānī states …
Protocol of a case heard at the court of Natan b. Avraham, head of the yeshiva in Palestine ca. 1040 (during his rivalry with Shelomo …
Legal fragment. Appears to be the settlement of a marital dispute between Yūsuf and Sitt al-Ahl. Dating: Mentions the date Shevat 1437 Seleucid, which is …
Deed of sale. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, end of Tammuz 4764 AM = 1315 Seleucid = July 1004 CE. In which Khalaf b. Yosef b. …
1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו //אנו החתומים למטה כי ג'מילה בת אסד אשת כלף בר יוסף בר יעקוב הידוע בן// בחמישי בשבת שהוא סוף חדש תמוז שנת
2. ארבעת אלפים ו…
Legal record (#112) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 36v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 16 Iyyar 5327 …
Legal document: bill of sale in which Makhlūf b. Jābir b. Nāṣir buys a house in al-Muʿizziyya (Cairo) from […] b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. …
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Long court record written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Also signed by Moshe b. Efrayim and Yosef b. Zekharya. Ṣedaqa had …
Legal document concerning financial matters, an orphan, and Abū Isḥāq. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? (Information in part from CUDL)
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] …
Legal record (#80) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 27v-28r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Av 5325 …
Legal record (#65) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 22r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 16 Tammuz 5324 …
Copy of a will of Mahara bat Avraham ha-Kohen that had been made and dated in Alexandria in January 1143, issued at the request of …
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Marriage contract (ketubba) of a divorcee. The grand total of the marriage gift and dowry is 39 dinars. Dated ca. 1000. (Information from Mediterranean Society, …
Drafts of documents, made by Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel and other scribes. Dating: 1159 CE, based on the date mentioned in the first entry …
Legal deed in large square thick letters
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involving a complicated case of a house divided into shares. "What emerges from …
IB I, 26. Court proceedings in the case of al-Wuhsha (or al-Wahsha) against Yosef al-Lebdī. Wuhsha's representative, Moshe b. Yeshuaʿ, sues al-Lebdī for her share …
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Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: Late; the date in the document is torn away, all that can be read is Wednesday [...]9 AM. Location: Cairo. …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Ṣafar 605 AH = 1208 CE. Needs examination for content.
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue a ketuba (?). AA
Document of authorization from Sitana bt. Avraham to Yosef b. Sad'el. With the signatures of Efrayim b. Zadok and Sar-Shalom b. Yitzhak. In the handwriting …
Verso: Court record. Dated: Sunday, 12 Ḥeshvan 1461 Seleucid, which is 1149 CE. Incomplete. In which Sayyid al-Ahl testifies that he heard Abū l-Faraj ask …