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Legal document, fragment. Mentions [Avraham?] b. Natan Av Bet Din and seems to be some sort of release. There is a list of items covered: …
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Recto: Bill of release. Dating: 1094–1111 CE, as it was written during the period in which Mevorakh b. Seʿadya was known as Sar ha-Sarim (this …
Power of attorney. Fragment (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1336 Seleucid, which is 1024/25 CE. In which Ḥusnā bt. Yeḥezqel b. Masʿūd al-ʿAqrabānī, appoints …
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Agreement between Sitt al-Baqāʾ and her husband Tahor ha-Levi the astrologer (al-Munajjim) b. Namir concerning money owed from the ketubba. Signed by Moshe b. Yehuda …
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Fragment of a legal document having to do with a house, described in detail. Mentions Sitt al-Ḥasan.
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Probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlā Ibn al-Sh[...]. (Information from CUDL)
Responsum? Small fragment from the bottom of the page, written by the hand of Menashshe b. Ya'aqov (1116-1132. Compare with DK 187, p. 6r, where …
Petition and/or legal report to the Gaʾon (Maṣliaḥ), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1127–1138 CE, based on the active …
Fragment of a court register. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Entries on verso include (a) a marriage agreement between Namer …
Legal document concerning the repayment of a debt in monthly installments. Dating: ca. 13th–15th century. Mentions Yosef and Abū l-Bahāʾ. Witnessed by Ghālib(?) b. Abū …
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Settlement between Abū l-Munā ʿUlla b. Sibaʿ (known as Ibn al-Dihqān), and Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. Shemuel ha-Kohen. The latter owes a debt (figures of …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo/Fustat. Dated: 14 Ḥeshvan 1849 Seleucid, which is 1537 CE. Groom: Shelomo b. Shemuel.
Karaite marriage contract (previously catalogued in PGP as betrothal document per Ktiv metadata). Dated 6 Nisan 5528 AM (1768 CE). The key clause that qualifies …
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 …
Official copy of a court record. The first three lines state that Khalaf b. Natan b. Shabbat came to the court and asked to examine …
Legal document concerning a partnership, mentioning Ṣedaqa and Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Basūṭī (?); signed by Abraham b. Saʿadya, Shelomo b. ʿAdaya, Shemuʾel b. Judah and …
Very faded Arabic legal document - needs examination. Reused on verso for a piyyuṭ of Yiṣhaq ibn Ghiyath.
Jottings/drafts of an order of payment addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan. The year is written at least once but is difficult to read.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevaṭ 1422 Seleucid, = 31 January 1111 CE. Quittance of the debt of Shelomo b. Ḥayyim ha-Sheviʿi made …
Ketubba fragment. Only the ornate text in the upper margin and a few words from the first two lines are preserved.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: 28 Heshvan 5557 AM, which is 1796 CE. Testimony that Raḥamim Ashiyahu (אשיאו) received from Sara bt. Yiṣḥaq Re'uven an …
Recto: part of a copy of a replacement ketubba for ʿAzīza bt. [...] and Saʿīd b. Yiṣḥaq. Dated: 5294 AM = 1533/34 CE. Location: Cairo. …
Fol. 1v: Legal record (deed of release). In the hand of the cantor Yefet b. David. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar I 1339 Seleucid, which is …
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Legal document; vertical strip of parchment. Location: probably Fustat. Dating: [14]5[.] Seleucid under the authority of the Nagid [Shemuel b. Ḥananya]. Mentioning Ḥalfon the cantor; …
Deed of remittance, dated 3 Shevat 5316 (= 1556 CE) between Isaac b. ʿOvadya and Zephaniah b. Ḥayyim Saragossi (סרגוסי), possibly including the former's brother-in-law, …
Part of a large, finely decorated ketubba. Dated 13[.]2 Seleucid; Goitein read 1342 Seleucid = 1030/31CE, but could be 1372 or 1392 (=1080/81 CE) as …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated Monday, 8th Adar I 5398 AM (1638 CE). Mordekhay b. El'azar b. Aharon betroths Esther bt. Ya'aqov b. Avraham. Unlike most …
Fragmentary Karaite marriage contract, the margin of which is adorned with large, hollow letters. (Information Mediterranean Society, III, p. 112)
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Legal record (#111) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 36v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 10 Iyyar 5327 …
Prototype of a legal document from Tyre, eleventh century, probably in the hand of Yosef Ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large and well preserved. Release granted by Yaḥyā ha-Kohen to Abū l-Waḥsh Sibāʿ, …
Document in Arabic script. Probably legal, as the lower left portion looks like a witness statement. Dated: 563 AH? Needs examination. On verso there is …
Margin of verso: Notation explaining how a document written a hundred years earlier was found again after it had been missing for a long time. …
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Get (bill of divorce) dated October/November 1041 CE (Kislev 4802), from Dam[sīs]. Yosef b. Sūq[..] divorces Sutayt bt. Aharon. Signed by Shemuel b. Avraham and …
Verso: Fragment from a deed of betrothal (qiddushin). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: 1100–38. The marriage will take place on Shabbat …
Legal document. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the upper left corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: [..]61, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE, …
Recto: short note in Hebrew written by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq and Menaḥem b. Shemuʾel Kohen regarding the writing of a geṭ and the tearing of …
Ketubba in an exquisite scribal hand, possibly that of Shalom Sasportas based on his handwriting and the placement of his signature. Location: Ṣafad (צפת). Dated: …
Legal testimony. Location: Qalyūb. Dating: 1205–37 CE, as the document is intended to reach Avraham Maimonides. The community asks the Nagid to reappoint Tamīm b. …
Legal record (#51) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 14r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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Legal testimony. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 12 Shevat 5321 AM = 29 January 1561 CE. Yosef ארוייויץ b. Yaʿaqov Toledano acknowledges that he owes his …
Small and damaged fragment from a prenuptial agreement. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE) in his cursive hand. From the little that …
Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). Groom: ʿAmmār b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Surūr bt. Yefet. A sum of 12.5 dinars is mentioned. The dowry is valued at …
Verso: Notes for drawing up a marriage document. Groom: Avraham b. [...]. Bride; Mubāraka bt. Faraḥ (maybe the same as in T-S Misc.8.97 (PGPID 3922)). …
Legal record (#114) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 Iyyar 5327 …
Recto: Fragment of a legal document, referring to transactions and mentioning Ibn al-Bayrūtī and ‘in the hand of Abū ʿAlī ha-Levi’. Verso: jottings. (Information from …
An IOU specifying a sum owed to al-Ḥājj al-Fawwāl.
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Lessor: "Shaykh al-Islām" ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-ʿIbādī(?). Lessee: Shemuel b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī al-Rūmī. The property is a first floor …
Marriage contract (ketubba). The marriage gift at the conclusion of this marriage contract is five dinars and the payment required at the termination of the …
Legal document, late Arabic script. Dated 1243 H. Probably regarding the transfer of ownership of something "al-taslīm al-sharʿī". Mentions the province of Damietta and three …