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Marriage contract, template. Written in codex form. The original text is from a ketubba dated Wednesday, 21 Heshvan 5515 AM, which is 1754 CE. Groom: …
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Legal document in the form of a letter addressed to the Gaon (Maṣliaḥ?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by Yefet b. Shelomo and Elʿazar b. [...]. The …
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Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 44.
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Bifolium from a court ledger. The dates range from Adar II through Sivan of 1410 Seleucid, which is 1099 CE. At least one is in …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan, 5488 AM = October 1727 CE. Involving three gabbayim and property in the qodesh …
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Remarriage contract of a bride who had been both widowed and divorced in which she receives a house, but no trousseau. Dated 1180-1191. (Information from …
Legal document in Arabic on verso, the lower right corner and a partial witness signature are preserved. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Court ledger in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment of a bifolio; three columns of text are partially preserved. Recto: …
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 …
Legal document with testimony from al-Sitt bt. Yosef b. ʿAmram and her mother Jamīla bt. Yaʿqūb describing that Yosef (the former’s father and latter’s husband) …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Monday, 10 Adar I 1537 Seleucid (9 February 1226 CE). This bill of divorce is one of forty …
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Recto: legal document. Date: Thursday, 23 Shevat 1406 Seleucid (1095 CE). Location: Fustat. Bill of release settling financial matters arising from a partnership. Shelomo b. …
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Deathbed will, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Dated: Shevat 1441 Seleucid = January/February 1130 CE. Small fragment.
Official document in Arabic script. Certifying that the teacher Gedalya Eliyyahu the Jew will pay (or has paid?) the ground rent (ḥikr) of a certain …
Small fragment in Hebrew. Late. Containing legal phrases בפנינו אנו . . חתומי מטה יודעים ומעידים עדות . . .
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 5500 AM = 2051 Seleucid, which is 1740 CE. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Raḥel bt. …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Qūṣ. Bride: Sitt al-Gharb bt. Yehuda. See description for MS 8254, fol. 15 (PGPID 32292) for the whole story.
Small piece of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38). Involves Manṣūr/Elʿazar and Ṣedaqa. Apparently Manṣūr agreed to pay Ṣedaqa …
One of three draft versions of a document concerning the leadership of the community of al-Maḥalla during the administration of Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (active 1079–1111). …
Proceedings that took place in our presence, we, the permanent court in Fustat,
Egypt, appointed by the high court of (his) ho(nor), gr(eat…
Fragment of a court record (upper left corner). Dated: Thursday, 4 Ṭevet 1453 Seleucid = 4 December 1141 CE. In which Bishr b. Ibrāhīm sues …
A fragment of a Muslim court document from 1456. The existing fragment includes a detailed description of a synagogue in need of repairs. The inspection …
Bill of release (draft or copy). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dated: Tishrei 1356 Seleucid, which is 1044 CE. Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Shelomo …
Fragment of a legal deed (or less likely from a halakhic discussion): ...jamīʿ mā... wa-min kull ḥaqq... shimmush wa-shahida fī... wa-qad istaqarra... qawl al-Mishna, "ʿEved..." …
Legal document, probably dating to the late Mamlūk/early Ottoman era. Mentions grains and vegetables (al-ḥubūb wa al-mazrūʿāt), al-dhahab al-Ashrafī, the Nile (baḥr al-Nīl al-Mubārak), the …
Recto: legal document, mentioning the teacher Berakhot b. Ḥalfon and Elʿazar; signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥalfon, a Kohen and [...] b. Yosef. Verso: note possibly …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 11 Ṣafar 916 AH = 20 May 1510 CE.
Upper right fragment: Legal document in Arabic script. Needs further examination. There are three more unrelated documents in Arabic script under the same shelfmark; all …
A three line fragment of a draft of a legal testimony. The other side of the page contains a fragment of what is probably a …
Acknowledgment of receiving a Torah scroll - needs examination. No image
Dowry list. Dating: Early 12th century. The marriage is between a widow and a widower, both promising to educate the children of the other party …
Small fragment of a ketubba, probably. Dating: ca. 11th century.
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) and a jeweler (al-jawharī)
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Involves Netanʾel ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad, Abū l-Surūr, a sale, and orphans …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Looks late.
Legal document concerning the breaking off of an engagement agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fiancee: Sitt al-Banāt the …
Draft(?) of a court record. Dated: 29 Nisan 1543 Seleucid, which is April 1232 CE. The widow (Sitt al-)Tujjār bt. Manṣūr claims that 10 shares …
Legal fragment.
Formulary for a marriage-related legal document.
Legal documents, drafts recto and verso, in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Concerning a gift given to a young woman named …
Legal fragment. Mentions a ḥerem stam and coral and various sums of money. Mentions the year 1410 Sel. (1098-1099 CE). Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel. …
Various legal jottings written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. One of them is dated Wednesday, 7 Nisan 1432 Seleucid = 1131 CE.
A photocopy of a Muslim court deed documenting the endowment of properties to the Karaite community in Jerusalem, in 1519 CE. Current location of the …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated Thursday, [...] 1435 Seleucid = 1123/4 CE. Mentioning [...] bt. Shelomo and Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. …
Deed of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar II 1461 Seleucid, with the signing deferred until Tammuz 1461 Seleucid, which is 1150 CE, under the authority …
Bill of divorce. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Friday, 25 Iyyar 1439 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE. Husband: Natan b. Shela. Wife: …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: (Ramaḍān?) 721 AH = 1321/22 CE. With signatures. Refers to someone's demand as worthless and null and void (وطلبه …
Document of sale in Arabic. Records two transactions and a fuṣūl.
Legal document draft in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu about a gift from his father of almost all his books and copper vessels; brother …
אוהבת אבני שלמה שרה אלתורה והו כמסה אגזא ואיצ'א
סידור רבנו שלמה ז'ל וליס לא[חד] פיה שי בל הו לאבני
שלמה במתנה …
I present my son Solomon with a Torah commentary
I present my son Solomon with a Torah commentary in five volumes, as well as
the prayerb…
Legal contract concerning the synagogue of the Mustaʿrib congregation in 1544 CE (Sivan 5304 AM).
Legal record (#109) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 36r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 17 Shevat 5326 …