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Legal document. In Hebrew. Late. Fragment: upper right corner. Involves [...]ya ha-Kohen and Avraham.
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Bottom of a ketubba. Bride: Munā (מונא). Groom: Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa. Witnessed by Avraham b. Natan b. Pinḥas he-Ḥaver (who also signed T-S 10J27.3, dated …
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Draft of a court declaration written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu regarding the estate of the late physician (al-mutaṭabbib al-ḥakīm) Ibrāhim b. Mukhtār Ibn Ilyās. He …
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Sivan 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. Groom: Tiqva b. Peraḥya ha-Levi. Details of the …
Ketubba fragment. A line of holes on the side.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Dating: Likely Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Court record. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century. Rayyisa bt. Yosef Bīmī, the wife of Yeshuʿa b. Nissim, vehemently accuses ("mustaghītha mutaẓallima mustaʿdiya ʿalā") Seʿadya …
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 …
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IB VII, 10a + 10b + 10c + 10d. Legal document. Agency agreement. Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. T-S 10J4.16: …
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Legal document, fragment. Only the ending is preserved. One of the parties is named Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen.
Acknowledgement (iqrār) in Arabic script. Mamluk-era? On verso there is an addendum involving ʿAbd al-Dāʾim and a Rabbanite Jew, who is also a perfumer/druggist (al-ʿaṭṭār). …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1[.]61 Seleucid, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE. Zayn b. A[...] gives a release to Abū l-Barakāt Hibat …
Legal record (#48) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 17r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tishrei 5323 AM …
Fragment from the top part of a ketubba from Cairo ([al-Qāhira] al-Muʿizziyya). Invokes the authority of the Nagid titled [Mordekhay] ha-Zeman. The groom may be …
A few fragments stuck together. The main one is a piece from a document written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (dates: 1100–38). Mentions some neighborhoods …
Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Nissim and the bride is Esther known as Rachel (she is noted as a non-virgin, meaning …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥammād b. Hiba al-A[...] makes a declaration concerning the jahbadh of the diwan and a sum of 70 dinars. …
Recto: ketubbah, with a trousseau list including a short robe (jukāniyya), a mantle (ridā) and a face cover (niqāb). Verso: Bill of release of dowry …
Legal document acknowledging receipt of 110 dīnārs from the account of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf for a shipment of lac. (information in part from Aodeh.)
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Drafts of Karaite conditional divorce documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Sivan 5503 AM, which is 1743 CE. Two of the drafts provide detailed record of how …
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Small fragment of a legal document probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions Abū l-Bishr.
Legal document. Dating: probably ca. 1185 CE. This is the only known document that refers to the majlis of Maimonides. It is a draft of …
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Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Shaʿbān 1104 AH = 14 April 1693 CE …
Legal fragment.
Recto (secondary use): Settlement made before the divorce between Abu al-Faraj b. Abu Ishaq and 'Alam bint Abu Ishaq al-Hazzan. Abu al-Faraj renounces his rights …
Ketubba (marriage contract). Groom: Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen. The bride is a virgin. The conditions include arrangements for portions of houses. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning the elder Abū Isḥāq probably relating to a marriage agreement. The monogamy clause is included. The bride was probably …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Only partial signature, probably of Ishaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard is preserved. AA
Legal document(s). This fragment contains the bottom two lines of one document and the entirety of a second document (though a vertical strip from the …
Debt acknowledgement in Hebrew. Dated 8 Sivan 5536 AM (May 1776 CE). Location: Cairo. Yaʿaqov Yaʿabeṣ/Yuʿbaṣ commits to repay a debt of 68.5 reales abūṭ[aqa] …
Possibly a record of a birth. In Arabic script. "In the name of God the most gracious, the most merciful: the blessed ________ was on …
Upper left piece of a document in Arabic script, likely legal. Needs examination.
Legal fragment in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Damaged. Mentions Tamīm ha-Kohen and the sale of pepper. (See description for …
End of a legal document. Involves Dalāl bt. Yaʿaqov. Signed by David b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen and Elʿazar b. Saʿadya. The qiyyum is written and signed …
IB VII, 15. Legal deed. On parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). In which Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan al-Tinnīsī (aka Yefet …
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Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dating: likely 11th century. It is an acknowledgment of having received the money due and a …
Recto: The end of a legal document dated Sunday, 2 of Tevet 5323 AM = 28 November 1562 CE. Concerning the obligations of a certain …
Court record in the hand of R. Daniel b. Azarya ha-Nasi. Hayyim b. Harun announces his intention to marry a woman in Sahrajt, but people …
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Recto: Legal document. Dated: Monday, 3 Tishrei 1526 Seleucid, which is 1214 CE. Under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Involves Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Manṣūr …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including a book list, including al-Faṣīḥ fī l-Lugha, Masāʾīl Ṭibbiyya, and Leviticus in Arabic. Verso: Draft or copy of a legal …
Prenuptial agreement of a previously divorced couple (a husband who re-accepts his divorcée). Eight lines survive on this fragment, probably in the hand of Natan …
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Fragment of a legal document. Possibly the dowry list section of a ketubba.
Legal query, probably to Avraham Maimonides and possibly in Shelomo ha-Melammed b. Eliyyahu's hand.
Legal document mentioning two manns of cassia (dār ṣīnī) and parties including Mevorakh, Avraham b. Yaʿaqov, and Shaʿyā b. David. Signed by ʿUlla b. Yosef …
Fragment (upper right corner) from a legal deed. Involving Ṣedaqa.
Beginning of a deed from Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa ha-Levi to the dyer Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Saʿd. Dated: Wednesdsay, 1 Adar 1539 Seleucid = 9 …
Deed of sale for multiple properties in Cairo, explaining how they exchanged hands in a complex succession of guardianship procedures, inheritance, and a widow's ketubba …
Legal document in Arabic script. Deed of sale (refers to "hādhā al-bayʿ" three lines from the bottom). Involves the daughter of Yaḥyā b. Naṣr al-Kātib, …
Legal records or notes for the drawing up of a document, or perhaps from a book of formularies and legal procedures. The hand seems very …
Legal document in Hebrew. Dated in the final third of Adar II 5415 AM (1655 CE). Location: Cairo. Moshe Kolon returns a deposit of jewelry …