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  1. 3201Legal documentT-S NS J469

    Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased was an adult (kāmil) woman Ḥusn bt. Mūsā, and she was survived …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. المماليك ينهو وفاة حسن اليهودية الامراة الكامل ابنه موسى
    3. اليهودي وخليت من الورثة المستحقين لميراثها ثلاث اولاد ذكور
    4. وهم…
    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

    2. The slaves report the death of Ḥusn, the Jewess, an adult woman, the daughter of Mūsā,

    3. the …

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  2. 3202Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/55

    4 legal records. (1) Taqwīm for the marriage between Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Maghāzilī and Niʿam bt. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥazzan. Dated: Nisan 1497 Seleucid, …

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  3. 3203Legal documentHUC 1006

    Bottom of a legal document. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was active. Only signatures are preserved: [...]ram ha-Shofeṭ; …

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  4. 3204Legal documentENA 4020.17

    Agreement made by Abu al-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. Allan with his business partner Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, who takes care of his commercial interests …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . ל]פנינו אנו העדים החותמים
    2. . . . . . . . . . . ]וה איך אפרים המכונה אבו
    3. . . . . . . . . . . .] אלגוהרי אמר לנו רבותי דעו
    4. . . . . …

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  5. 3205Legal documentT-S NS J528

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Location not specified. Dated: Tuesday, 4 days into ḥol ha-moʿed Sukkot 5325 AM, which is 1564 CE. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Medina …

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  6. 3206Legal documentT-S Ar.53.61

    Legal document. Bill of sale, fragment, in Arabic script. Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, the Jew, known as al-ʿIjla (or al-ʿĀjala?) buys from three Christian women one-fourth …

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    1. ثبت والحمد لله الخفى لطفه

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى
    2. هذا ما اشترى يوسف بن يعقوب الاسرا…

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    1. It has been registered Praise be to God, whose kindness is unseen.  

    2. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God…

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  7. 3207Legal documentT-S AS 216.201

    A court clerk's notes for drawing up a legal document. It involves a payment of 4 dinars. The witnesses are Abū Isḥāq al-Tawwazī (אלתווזי); Yosef …

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  8. 3208Legal documentT-S AS 147.90

    Legal fragment. No names preserved. Refers to collecting rent.

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  9. 3209Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#84) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 6 Tishrei 5325 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 29r

    1. [[למא בתא׳ נהאר אלתלאת]]
    2. למא בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלגמעה י׳׳ז פי שהר אלול המכו׳ סנה
    3. ה׳ש׳כ׳ה ליצירה חצל כנאק וצ…

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  10. 3210Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#85) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 6 Heshvan 5325 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 29v

    1. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלכמיס ו׳ פי שהר מרחשון
    2. סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ה׳ ליצירה אשהד עליה אלאך ע׳אלרחים א׳אלמר׳ אלמול…

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  11. 3211Legal documentT-S AS 153.237 + T-S AS 153.238 + T-S AS 153.240 + T-S AS 153.242 + T-S AS 153.243 + T-S AS 153.244 + T-S AS 153.245

    Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning the sale of property. There is writing on both recto and …

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  12. 3212Legal documentT-S AS 169.203

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Nothing preserved apart from some release formulae.

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  13. 3213Legal documentT-S 16.374

    Marriage contract (ketubba). One of the very few Byzantine ketubbot to have survived. Location: Mastaura, on the Meander River (in Asia Minor). Dated: Friday, 4 …

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    1. בשישי בשבת לירח ניסן בארבעה ימים בו בשנת ארבעת
    2. אלפים ושבע מאות ושמנים ושתים לברית עולם למיניין
    3. דירגילנא לממנא ביה במדינת מסטורא הסמוכה לינהר
    4. מ…

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    1. On Friday, fourth of the month Nisan in year
    2. 4782 of the Creation of the World, by the reckoning

    3. current in the city of Mastaura near the r…

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  14. 3214Legal documentT-S Ar.20.2

    Divorce document in Arabic script. Wife: ʿAzīza the freedwoman (mawlāt) of ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAllān. Husband: Ismāʿīl b. [...] al-Iskandarānī. Dated: 20 Jumādā I …

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  15. 3215Legal documentT-S 12.701

    Bottom of a legal document, probably a prenuptial agreement. The name of one of the parties is just barely legible in the top line: Abū …

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  16. 3216Legal documentYevr. II K 38

    Karaite decorated ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Eliyyahu b. Yosef. The bride is Esther known as Marhaba d. Nahum Hakohen b. Aharon

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  17. 3217Legal documentT-S 13J6.23

    Fragmentary record of communal dispute in which Shelomo ha-Kohen, Head of the the Yeshiva, became involved; written in Fustat.

    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו העדים ה[
    2. בשבת שהוא תשעה עשר יום לחודש [
    3. ל]מנות בו בפסטאט מצרי[ם
    4. .א.ה אבי עמראן משה בן אסמאע[יל
    5. ... .... ... .... אלתאבות ווקפ.

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  18. 3218Legal documentT-S AS 145.118 + T-S AS 145.285

    Legal document labeled in line one as a zikhron ʿedut (deed of testimony). Location: Fustat. Date: 6 Kislev 1542 Seleucid = 13 November 1230 CE, …

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  19. 3219Legal documentMoss. VII,99.1

    Marriage contract. Five lines from the middle are preserved: only detail that survives is the gift of a 1/4 dār to the bride. [RR]

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  20. 3220Legal documentENA 2559.1

    Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic of appointing a legal agent. Mentions Seʿadya and an exilarch, a sum of 10 dinars, and the number 15.

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  21. 3221Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1571

    Unsigned Karaite bill of debt, possibly a draft given the reusage of the recto for a liturgical(?) text. Dated Friday 4 Nisan 5403 AM (1643 …

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    1. למא כאן בתאריך נהאר אלגמעה ראבע חדש ניסן המ׳ סנה
    2. הת׳׳ג לליצירה חצר אלאך הב׳ הי׳ נסים יל׳ בן אלמ׳׳ר ר׳ שלמה חכים נ׳׳ע
    3. ואשהד עלי נפסה באן ענדה ו…

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  22. 3222Legal documentT-S NS 321.105

    Small piece of the decorated rim of a document, perhaps a ketubba. "The happy season" and fleurs-de-lis.

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  23. 3223Legal documentT-S NS 338.53

    Small fragment of a legal document int he hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. A few words in Judaeo-Arabic. li-waladihā... qabaḍa... ʿanhā dīnārayn... maʿraqa

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  24. 3224Legal documentT-S Ar.39.113

    Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Recto mentions "al-majlis al-ʿālī.... al-ʿāmil... al-fallāḥ fī al-nāḥiya al-madhkūra... al-nāṣirī al-madkhūr... jamīʿ al-mablagh...." Verso seems later, and likely related to …

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  25. 3225Legal documentT-S AS 152.375

    Fragment from a bill of divorce (get). AA

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  26. 3226Legal documentT-S 8J29.5

    Recto: Declaration made by the merchant Yosef b. Moshe b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 8 days remaining in Iyyar 4807 AM, which is …

    1. יקול מן סיתבת שהאדתה פי אספל הדא אלכתאב חצר אלינא יוסף
    2. בן מוסי בן ברהון אלתיהרתי וקאל לנא כנת עאם אול פי שהר סיון סנה
    3. תתו ללכליקה חאצר פי גמלה [[בעצ…

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  27. 3227Legal documentT-S 6J12.3

    Part of a pre-nuptial agreement written under the authority of David b. Abraham (David Maimonides, r. 1237–1300 CE) concerning the groom Aharon and the bride …

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  28. 3228Legal documentT-S NS 228.36

    Draft or notes for a legal document concerning an inheritance. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are also some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  29. 3229Legal documentT-S 16.44 + T-S 12.613

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 11 Iyyar 1437 Seleucid (1126 CE). Change of a will signed by Ḥalfon b. …

    T-S 16.44 + T-S 12.613

    1. שה[דותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא […
    2. אלצ[
    3. אב[
    4. ואפ[
    5. אלאסו[
    6. למתלהא [
    7. כנת מן מ[
    8. אלדאר אלדי א[
    9. אבו אסחק בן ט[
    10. מדעאה …

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  30. 3230Legal documentMoss. Xa,3.6

    Legal document written by a Muslim notary on parchment related to the sale of property, with description of the location. Mentions ʿAlī b. Zakariyā b. …

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  31. 3231Legal documentMIAC 73

    Birth certificate – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 73) – in Turkish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda …

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  32. 3232Legal documentT-S Misc.28.79.17

    P17: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One man grants a release to another. No other details preserved.

    T-S Misc.28.79 17

    1. ]מא קד אברא צאחבה
    2. ]הא ואפילו על ידי גלגול ואפילו
    3. ]דה ופי צד
    4. ]ילא ופי
    5. ] פי מא

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  33. 3233Legal documentT-S NS 38.92

    Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably notes for the drawing up of a document. Concerning [...]h b. Elʿazar. …

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  34. 3234Legal documentT-S 8J4.4

    Legal document in which Shimʿon ha-Levi agrees to rent his wife a place to keep her belongings separate from his; Shimʿon also takes over her …

    הסכם בין בעל ואשתו

    1. חצר בית דין שמעון בן לוי פי כלף
    2. וקע בינה ובין זוגתה ואדעת עליה
    3. בדנאניר עלי צפאת פאקר מן גמיע
    4. מא דכרתה עלי תמניה דנאניר
    5. מן שי כאן …

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  35. 3235Legal documentT-S NS 327.152

    Fragmentary legal document(s) in Arabic script. There are two distinct main documents, one on recto and one on verso. In the right margin of recto, …

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  36. 3236Legal documentT-S 20.38

    IB I, 44. Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 21 Adar II 1377 Seleucid, which is 21 March 1066 CE. Maymūn b. Yaʿaqov declares that …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא בתלתה בשבה דהוא עשרין וחד יומי בירח אדר שני דשנת אלפא

    2. ותלת מאה ושבעין ושבע שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצרים דעל ני…

    recto

    1. ….
    2. בא לפנינו מ''ר מימון בן יעקב נ"ע ואמר לנו: היו עלי עדים וקנו ממני מעכשיו
    3. וכתבו וחתמו עלי בכל לשון של דין ובכל מובן החלטי ובכל לישאני
    4. דזכו…

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  37. 3237Legal documentT-S AS 183.351

    Legal document in Arabic script. Describing the borders of a house or property. Perhaps a document of sale. Mentions a house known by the name …

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  38. 3238Legal documentL-G Ar. I.64

    Court record in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1541 Seleucid, which is 1230 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. …

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  39. 3239Legal documentENA 4010.42 + ENA 4011.23

    Record in a court notebook. Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Two complementary fragments, not providing a complete document. A venture on behalf of …

    ENA 4010, f.42

    1. ]ה במושב הדרת אדוננו
    2. ]מו לעולם אלשיך אבו
    3. ]ע בן אסד נכבדנו כגק
    4. ]שר הנכבד החכ והנב
    5. ]הזקנים שצ בן כגק מ
    6. ] וולדה אלשיך אבו עלי
    7. ]ונא גמיעא…

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  40. 3240Legal documentYevr. III B 637

    Marriage contract for the same couple as in Antonin 637r. Begins with a clause concerning the appointment of the bride's agent, concludes with the last …

    1. בכל מה דהוא עבד ב[עסקה ...]
    2. עלוי הדין מבורך בר יפת [ ]עלוי עשרה [דינ]רין מד[ינרי]
    3. המלכות לית ליה רשות למתב[וע מנהון פרוטה חדא כל זמן דהוא חיי] והיא …

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  41. 3241Legal documentAIU XI.116

    Fragment (upper right piece) of a partnership agreement in Hebrew between Avraham al-Akhṭar and a certain Shem Tov. Dating: probably 16th century (the hand is …

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  42. 3242Legal documentT-S 16.136

    Marriage contract (ketubba) from Tyre, ca. 1079.

    1. ומייקרין [...]
    2. כחלכת נשייא [...]
    3. ונקיו ומני[ית לה הדה] סת [אלבית]....[...]
    4. דשמריה דנן ורצת [וצבת] בכל דהוא עבד ב[עסק זיווגה ...]
    5. [ת]ריין שהדין קדמינ…

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  43. 3243Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 129

    Accounts, in Arabic script. The list is itemized each beginning with "ʿalā" indicating the dues of each person listed. The usage of the ق qurush …

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  44. 3244Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#14) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …

     Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 6r 

    1. למא כאן נהאר תאר׳ סנה תאר׳ חצרת אלגמא׳ בר׳ יה׳ פי דאר שמ׳
    2. וחצ'ר בחצ'ורהם אד׳ הנ׳ הג׳ שמואל הדיין יצ׳׳ו וכ׳׳ר יהודה הרו…

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  45. 3245Legal documentDK 237.4

    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 …

    1. בש רח
    2. נקול נחן אלגמאעה אלמתבתין כטוטנא באכר הדה אלסט[ור]
    3. אננא ראציין באן יטלק מן גבאיה אלרבע אלמוקף ברסם
    4. אלעניים ברסם גזיה אלשיך אלנגיב מר ור אברהם …

    1. In Thy Name, oh Merciful!
    2. We, the company undersigned at the end of these lines, declare
    3.  (3-5) that we agree that 1⅔ dinars shall be deducted from…

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  46. 3246Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 781

    Legal document, fragment, in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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  47. 3247Legal documentT-S AS 177.3

    Recto: Bottom of a rental contract (mentions several times al-mustaʾjir). In Arabic script. One of the parties is Abū l-Ḥasan. Stipulates installments at the end …

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  48. 3248Legal documentT-S 12.526

    Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dating: ca. 1160 CE. Bride: Sitt al-Nasab bt. Avraham ha-Kohen the parnas, a virgin. With some …

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  49. 3249Legal documentBL OR 4856.2

    Testimony dated the 8 Av 1776 Seleucid = 31 July 1465 CE. Regarding Manṣūr b. Ibrāhīm ("known as the leprous (al-Abras)"?) and another party who …

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  50. 3250Legal documentMIAC 224

    Donation pledge form from Yaʿacov Kohen to the holy yeshiva (the right and the peace) for the sake of raising generosity and assistance to all …

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