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Legal document. Fragment (bottom only). Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dating: Uncertain, but it has to be a year in which 2 Elul …
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Fragment of a legal or official document, with details about people collecting things from people.
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Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents. Discussing the halakha of legal witnesses and testimony, including the table of contents. (Information from CUDL)
Deed of quittance. The firstborn Barakāt b. Salmān b. Avraham releases his brother Faraj and stepbrother ʿAbdallāh and the latter's father Abū ʿAbdallāh from any …
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Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 20 Adar I 5559 AM, which is 1799 CE. Eliyyahu Ṣevi Ḥbak(?) (צבי חבאך) acknowledges an investment of 2000 medins …
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Legal document. A late bill of release between 3 partners in a shop. The bottom part is missing. One of the parties, יעקב נהרדעא בכר …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves an Abū l-Faraj. Otherwise consists entirely of elaborate release formulae.
Avraham b. Rason buys from Yeshua Abu al-Fadl b. Eliyyahu 9/24 of a sugar factory for 150 dinars. Date: First third of Shevat 1555 Sel. …
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Ketubba fragment. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century (Goitein just writes "old.") Vertical strip from the middle. The dowry list mentions a bed of shisham/sheesham …
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Involves [Avra?]ham b. ʿAllān; six gold coins that had been deposited with someone; ʿAṭiyya ha-Sh[...]; Salmān. The signatures of Salmān and …
Bill of divorce, probably. Very small fragment. Location: Fustat. Husband: David ha-Levi b. Natan.
Ketubba fragment. Badly damaged yet line five confirms the document type in stating: "כתובתא דא". Oddly, written on paper. MCD.
Fragment from the end of legal document involving a man and his son Moshe. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David. Also signed …
Fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Involves a wife and husband ("... li-zawjatī...") and mentions the transfer of a …
Only a small piece remains, containing the ends of two signatures (followed by 'נ'נ). (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Tiny fragment. Apparently dealing with the marriage of a freedwoman (meshuḥrarta kalta).
A legal deed regarding division of money between partners involved in the silk industry (אלקזאזה ואסתעמאל אלתיאב). There is an agent named Elʿazar; [...] b. …
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 4975 AM = 9 October 1214 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides. A Sicilian trader, …
IB V, 25. Legal document. Commenda. Dated: November 1132. Abū Zikrī Yehudah b. Yosef ha-Kohen and Ḥananel b. Nissim partner in a shop. The active …
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Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: possibly 11th century. Involves David ha-Kohen b. [...] (l. 9). Someone makes a statement regarding …
Simha, daughter of Moshe b. Job, wife of Yosef al-Bali, sells a Pentateuch with gilded ornaments to Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham. Dated Iyyar 5159/April-May 1399. (Information …
P4: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Deathbed will of Yefet b. Yaʿaqov. He wills that his share in …
Ketubba (marriage contract). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 17 Tevet 1436 Seleucid = 25 December 1124 CE. Blessings …
Small legal fragment, probably a contract of debt. Mentions al-ʿAlāqma, a town in the area of Bilbays. The debtor is Abū l-Bahāʾ b. Abū [...]. …
Margin of recto: Fragment of the Arabic portion of a marriage contract, discussing the groom's promises to the bride regarding her exemption from oaths; margin …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Consists almost entirely of legalese. Involves a parnas and his wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 16 Iyyar 1359 Seleucid = 3 May 1048 CE. Yosef claims that Shūʿa b. Menaḥem al-Shaʿʿālī (perhaps …
Legal document, fragmentary, probably dating to the classical Geniza period. The preserved text reads as " kulluhu zūr wa-bāṭil wa-ẓulm".
Non-Geniza. Legal document. Agreement between the Qaraite and Rabbanite congregations in Lithuania (specifically Samogitia?) concerning taxation. Dated: 1654 CE.
Ketubba fragment (left side only). Dated: [13]77 Seleucid, which is 1065/66 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov. Marriage payments: 5 + 10 = 15. No dowry. (Information from …
Scattered phrases having to do with marriage documents. Legible names include "Sarah bt. Avraham to the son of R. Yiṣḥaq," and "the daughter of David. …
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 26 Av 1484 Seleucid = 7 August 1173 CE. Husband: Abū Saʿd b. Abū ʿAlī. Wife: [Sitt …
Ketubba fragment (upper right corner). Dated: 1367 Seleucid, which is 1055/56 CE. Groom: Avraham. Bride: Wuḥsha bt. Yeshuʿa. The trousseau list mentions golden earrings (akhrāṣ …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 4 Nisan 1377 (2 April 1066). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Minute fragment from an opening of a court record
Karaite prenuptial agreement. Date: 28 Heshvan 5506 AM (1746 CE). The groom is listed solely as Yosef, therefore one of the witnesses' names may contain …
Fragment of an Arabic deed of sale on recto and Hebrew pen trials citing the Book of Esther. writing exercise on verso. (Wissem Gueddich in …
Ketubba. Dated: 12 Ni[san] 1571 Seleucid, which is 1260 CE, under the authority of David I Maimonides. This was not the first marriage of the …
Minute fragment from a legal deed mentioning Qasr al-Sham'
Small fragment, probably from the opening of a ketubah (but can also be from top of a letter).
Minute fragment from a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1442, 1443, 1448, or 1449 Seleucid, so 1130–32 …
Deposition in the Jewish Court of Tyre, ca. 1028. The rent of a compound in Aleppo has been dedicated by its owner, Hilla b. Joseph, …
To the mighty of the country and its dukes. The ones chosen of that which is the Choice, and mingled in It. The troops of Gaba and Its redeem…
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Legal document in Arabic script. Likely a deed of sale for real estate. The borders are specified, including the house of ʿAṭāʾ al-Anmāṭī and the …
Legal document. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, which is 988–1088 CE. Statement that the claims about the immoral behavior of Ḥisāna bt. Asmāʾ, the wife of Hilāl …
Legal record. Location: Damietta [אי כפתור]. Dated: [2]7 Tishrei 1467 Seleucid = 25 September 1155 CE. Somebody testifies that as he was returning from the …
Record of a birth, left incomplete. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday morning, 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja, no year. Wulida al-mawlūd al-mubārak.... Reused on the other side …
A long agreement of financial claims.
Legal document with the testimony of Natanʾel b. Tamīm concerning a signature he witnessed for Saʿīd b. Yūsuf, who releases Mufaḍḍal b. Salāma b. Saʿīd …
I, Netanʾel bar Tamīm, testify that I have guaranteed
for Saʿīd b. Yūsuf the delivery of his signed document, which
he owes to Mufaḍḍal …
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a dowry. Possibly also a condition ("and if there is no child").
Ketubba, faded, from Cairo, dated 25 March 1811 CE (29 Adar 5571 AM). Between Nissim and Esther aka Sarah, with marital payments totaling to 150 …