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Legal document in the scribal hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Declaration made by a woman named Mawlāt on the occasion of entering …
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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 …
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Legal fragment on parchment in Hebrew. Late, but potentially pre-sixteenth century based on the paleography. Inheritance-related document following a woman's death. Mentions the inheritor Yaʿaqov …
Purchase of a half-share in a shop. Dated Thursday 7th Kislev, 5431 AM (1670 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography, scribe (Barukh Rofe), …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1444 Seleucid = August/September 1133 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Small fragment from a ketubah, probably written by Yosef b. Shemu'el Halevi. AA
Trousseau list as part of a ketubba. Mentions cloth and currency. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage document. A torn and damaged Karaite ketubah. Although no complete sentences have survived, from the remaining words and phrases we can be sure that …
Fragment from the top of a ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Preserving part of the header with blessings for …
Verso: Legal document (quittance). Mentions "my daughter Bahiyya" twice. Otherwise unclear if any of the substance is preserved.
Draft of the opening date of a legal document (probably a ketubah). AA
Torn at the top-right, but otherwise almost complete, but faded, Bill of divorce (get). The name of the bride is Turfa. The signatures are too …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper part only). In which Abū Saʿd al-Ḥarīrī Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq, the …
Legal testimony. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: 20 Tishrei 1469 Seleucid, which is 1157 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Denouncing …
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Karaite marriage contract, dated ca. 1000. Bride: Farajiyya bt. Yehuda. Groom: Yeshaʿya b. Yiṣḥaq. The dower is made in a mixture of regular dinars and …
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Legal document mentioning a bridal gift and the name Abū l-Faḍl. (Information from CUDL)
minute fragment. Bottom part of a legal deed, only some signatures preserved: [...]she b. Hillel, [...]el b. Berakhot, Sjlomo b. Berakot (spell ברכת), Yefet b. …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 27 Tishrei 1337 Seleucid, which is 23 September 1025 CE. Husband: Sibāʿ b. Avraham. Wife: Rayyisa bt. Kathīr. …
Legal document in Hebrew and some Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Extremely faded and damaged. Involves Hārūn b. Avraham Tāhertī (תיהרתי). Dating: 11th century?
Legal document, fragmentary, probably dating to the classical Geniza period. The preserved text reads as " kulluhu zūr wa-bāṭil wa-ẓulm".
Legal document. Court ruling. Dated: July 1084. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. Location: Fustat. Yaḥyā b. Samuel sues Amram b. Abraham for …
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Part of a divorce deed (geṭ) signed by Ḥalfon ha-Kohen b. Elʿazar and Sar Shalom b. Shelomo (second half of the 11th century CE). (Information …
IB VII, 4 (4a). Legal testimony concerning a partnership release from a commenda. Dated: 12 Nissan 1409 Sel. (1098 CE). Abū al-Ḥasan Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. …
Verso: legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (left side). It is likely a court record (هذا الكتاب محضرنا في يوم الاحد) related to a house …
Document in Arabic script. Probably legal. Dated (on verso): 1173 AH = 1759/60 CE. There is an addendum in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Sulaymān b. Yiṣḥaq al-Qaysī(?). …
Marriage document. Small fragment. Mentions [...] ha-Levi b. Yeshuʿa al-Rayyis and [...] ʿAmram known as Ibn Ḥarīra. The delayed marriage payment is 40 dinars. On …
Receipt for the price of printing the book of Rabbi Yosef ʿAnībī – 1916CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 50) …
Legal record (#17b). Alimony owed. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. The wife (and cousin, ibnat ʿamm) of Bū ʿImrān al-ʿAṭṭār b. Abū l-Murajjā Sālim …
Legal approval between Yehuda b. Nissim al-Tūnisī (cf. T-S NS 226.66 (PGPID 24392)) and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf al-Iskandarānī the ḍāmin of dyeing in Dam[...], …
Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Dating: Mentions Tishrei 1520 Seleucid, which is 1208 CE. Abū l-ʿIzz acknowledges receipt …
Legal record (#87) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Kislev 5325 …
Official record of some kind in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 742 AH ("לישמעאל"), which is 1341/42 CE. Very faded and barely legible. Mentions numerous people including Yosef …
Small fragment of a legal document.
Legal document, in Arabic script. Lease document for a house in Fusṭāṭ, owned by Abī Saʿīd b. Makārim b. Abī Saʿīd al-Yahūdī, the overseer of …
Legal record (#55) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 14v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 52-55) Folio 14v
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Samuel concerning a debt of ten ounces of Dūqī (= ducal) gold "in the weight of …
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Partly preserved marriage contract of Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo and Jawhara. The delayed payment of the dowry is set at 50 dinars. Dated ca. 1050. (Information …
Tyrian marriage contract with a peculiar proposal formula borrowed from Malachi 2:14 (‘my companion and wife in covenant’). Mid eleventh century. (Information from CUDL)
Probably part of a court record. (Information from CUDL)
Part of a ketubba for Shelomo (groom), in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (1014-57 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragemnt from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (date: 1100-1138) concerning an agreement involving the wife of Abu Sulayman David. No …
Karaite bill of debt, incorrectly listed as a ketubba in Ktiv. Dated 4 Iyyar 5421 AM (1661 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the signature …
Court record issued by a Qaraite beit din at the Dar Simḥa Synagogue in Cairo. Dated: Monday, 4 Shevaṭ 5321 AM = 21 January 1561 …
Legal document. Shemuel b. Moshe b. Sahl brings Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov b. al-Nihmi to court. The latter promises to pay him one and one-fourth dinars …
Legal document (deathbed will). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Last decade of Ṭevet, 1424 (or less likely 1427) Seleucid, which is 1113 …
Legal record (#5) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Sivan [5320] …
Formulary for a marriage-related legal document.
Very damaged and faded fragment of a legal deed signed by Aharon b, Nethan'el
IB I, 21. Legal document. Dated: 23 [Elul] 1412 Sel. The death of Shelomo Lebdi was not only a serious personal blow to his brother, …
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Recto: Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Apparently a released granted by Muvḥar to Berakhot. Mentions a period of one year from …