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Ketubbas or copies of ketubbas, Qaraite. There seem to be two different fragmentary documents, preserved on separate pages of a codex or ledger. Some of …
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Bill of divorce, fragment. The husband's name is not preserved. Wife: Gharb bt. Abū l-M[...] Tamim b. Bishr. Scribed and signed by the court scribe …
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Large legal document (drafts?) at least partially in the hand of Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq. Dated: Thursday, 1 Tammuz 4940 AM = 26 June …
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Court records. The first record is in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. It begins on verso and continues onto the right-hand page of recto. …
Legal document in Arabic script. Acknowledgment (iqrār). The muqirr is Bū Muḥammad b. ʿAshīr (or Ghushayr?) al-Miṣrī al-Mutamaʿʿish(?), "one of the men/soldiers of the triumphant …
A long agreement of financial claims.
Several fragments from a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning Abū Saʿd b. Hassūn known as Ibn al-Wuḥsha (i.e., the son of the well-known businesswoman). Dating: …
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Recto: Legal fragment involving Halil (?) al-Shayzari ha-Bursi and Yishaq and various sums of money. Verso: possibly a Judaeo-Arabic draft of a sermon (?); words …
Legal record (#122) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 40r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 27 Sivan 5329 …
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Part of a large ketubba. The names of the bride and groom, date, location and witnesses are not preserved, but it was written under the …
Court record, calligraphically written, from a lawsuit about changing the configuration of the main hall of a house. During the dispute a Muslim judge was …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved, e.g., ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh and Bū Bakr [...] b. ʿAbdallāh. Verso: love poetry also …
Minute fragment, only two words זוזי דכספא are preserved, probably from a ketubah. AA
IB V, 45. Legal record (#7). Alimony received. Dated: End of Iyyar 1456 Seleucid (or shortly thereafter). Concerning the maintenance/alimony (mezonot) that the late Abū …
Legal document. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Shevaṭ 4872 AM = January 1112 CE. Large and well written fragment of a large document in which …
Deed of lease for an apartment (ṭabaqa). In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Ṣafar 919 AH = 2 May 1513 CE. Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) …
Accounting of a single foundation ca. 1186. This is followed by a trousseau list for the marriage of Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Ḥasan and the …
Verso (original use): Marriage contract (ketubba). Central piece. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Groom: Mordekhay b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Kuttāb. Containing many …
Recto: Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Late. Mentions [...] b. al-Ashqar and a debt of 30 Venetian ducats (בנד[ק). On verso there are pen trials.
Replacement ketubba dated 12 September 1802 (15 Elul 5562 AM) from "Kafr al-Nāqir" on the Nile. Line 6 notes that the couple's original ketubba is …
Agreement, possibly for the sale of land/property. The parties are Daniʾel b. Yaʿaqov and […]m b. Hille[l]. (Information from CUDL)
Ketubba (marriage contract) by proxy form from the siddur of Shelomo b. Natan of Sijilmasa, 12th century. NB: The shelfmark has changed, and it will …
Minutes fragment, some from legal documents, but too little remains. AA
Bill of release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment. Probably connected with the dissolution of a partnership, since the …
Much faded. The word לברתיה can be read, so it might be from a legal deed, but it can not be determined. AA
Small portion of a marriage document listing the elements of a dowry in Judaeo-Arabic.
Verso: bottom part of a beautifully illuminated ketubba, signed by Yaʿaqov b. Simḥa. It seems to be too damaged to extract much of the content. …
Another fragment from ENA NS 18.17a, not a direct join Description from PGPID 15840: Quittance from Ulla b. Tahor (or Tahor b. Ulla - his …
Legal document, probably a waqf or a will. Big ʿalāma beginning with a ḥamdala in the upper left corner, and probably three testimonies at the …
Lease of an apartment to a parnas as settlement of a debt, AD 1029-1031. The qodesh owes Yaʿaqov b. Mevasser (whom we shall find six …
(1-2) . . . . previously… service to the heqdēsh, will bring many advantages…
(3-4) mentioned, to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr after havin…
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Bill of sale for a female slave. Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Avraham, the wife of Yakhin, sells the female slave ʿUshshāq to Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yaʿaqov …
Legal document. Iqrār (Hebrew script) in which Yūsuf b. ʿAlī buys a Maghribī female slave named Ḥadaq ("pupil [of the eye]") from Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Three fragments from the lower part of the document. Dated: Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid, which is December …
Verso (primary use): Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding valuable items, including pearls and possibly a needle (ibra), and a dispute over whether they were a …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Involves a certain Yefet; reference to a purchase; gaining merit by keeping a shop open; …
IB II, 72. Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1156 CE. Sitt al-Ahl bt. Sayyid al-Kull, the widow of Hiba b. Abū Saʿd …
שהדותא דהות באכפנא אנ[ן שהדי דחת]מות ידנא לתתא סוף שטרא דנן כן הוה בחדש [...]
בפסטאט מצרים רעל נילוס [נהרא מותב]ה רשותיה דאדוננו שמואל הנגיד הגד…
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Legal document quoting a statement of ʿEli ha-Kohen and mentioning 52 dinars. (Information from CUDL.) Handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Legal record (#45) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Possibly a late letter in Hebrew. Rashid (Rosetta) is named at the bottom in connection with David Enricos(?) (אינריקוש). Needs examination.
Receipt from the association "H̱ayrāt Māzūn" specializing in the distribution of bread, for receiving two loaves – March 1956 – Museum of Islamic Art – …
Birth records. In Italian and Hebrew. Dated: 1747 CE through 1756 CE. For the boys, the names of the sandak and mohel are given.
Codification of Jewish law, by the hand of Joseph Rosh Ha-Seder, mentioned by Scheiber and Abramson. Also a responsum by Maimonides to Efraim from Tyre …
Recto: Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a lawsuit between Shabbat b. Yaʿaqov (aka Shabbetay b. Yaʿaqov) and Natan b. [...]. The portion preserved here …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. The last three lines of the main document are partially preserved (... 14[..] Seleucid... on the Nile... …
Legal document. Record of court proceedings. The hand of the scribe is probably known. With an unusual opening formula (חצר אלי מושב בתי דינין instead …
Probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlā Ibn al-Sh[...]. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Formulary for a legal testimony. Verso might be more of the same; there is additional text written between the lines at 180 degrees.
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Not recorded, but somewhere outside of Fustat. Dated: First decade of Adar 1453 Seleucid, which is 1142 CE. Shemarya b. …
Collection of legal or official records of some kind. Receipts? On parchment. One of the entries on verso mentions Isḥāq b. Manṣūr al-Yahūdī and the …
Power of attorney. Location: Fustat. Dated: 4976 AM, which is 1215/16 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. In which the daughter of Menaḥem ha-Talmid …
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