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Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed from the year [144]5 Seleucid = 1133/34 CE, under the authority of Masliah Gaon, and written …
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Verso: Bill of sale for a slave. Incomplete and unsigned. Dated: Monday 26 Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid, which is 1091 CE. Seller: Meshullam b. Hiba known …
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IB VI, 12. Recto (written later): Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Also signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: last decade of …
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Geṭ (bill of divorce). Signed by Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen (active early 13th century) and Shemuʾel b. Mevasser ha-Melammed. On verso an attestation that the …
Ketubba fragment. See Goitein's index card.
Legal record (#72) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 23v-24r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: final day (סלך/سلخ) …
Verso: Fragment of a bill of divorce. Draft? No names, details, or signatures preserved.
Formulary for a Palestinian Ketubba, no. 10. See DK #1, ULC Or. 1080 Box 3, f. 10. Information from Goitein's note card.
Recto: probably part of trousseau list, mentioning vessels and values. Verso: marriage (betrothal) settlement, mentioning the sum of 10 dinars, signed; names mentioned: Manṣūr, Ḥiyya …
Two deeds of sale for houses, written by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiʾel. They were erroneously combined under one shelfmark. Fol. 2r: Location: Fustat. Dated: 8 Adar …
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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, small fragment.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, likely 16th or 17th century. Concerning the estate of the late Shemuel b. Dan, a Portuguese Jew. His …
Legal document; probably concerning a transfer of property. Mentions Malīḥa bt. Yosef. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from a ketubba. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Faraj. Signed by Efrayim b. Ṣadoq (active late 10th century) and Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. AA
Verso: Legal document, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. A lot of text is here, but it is extremely faded. Mentions Salmān b. Ibrāhīm and merchants and perhaps …
Quittance granted by [...] bt. ʿAbdallāh al-Rummānī to Abū l-Faraj Sulaymān b. Hārūn al-Khaybarī known as Ibn al-Sulūkī (?), an official in the treasury (kātib …
Legal document, late, in Arabic script. Mentions at least one date, 4 Ṣafar 1301 AH (1883 CE), in line 8 of the third image in …
Legal document. Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan ha-Sefaradi gives to his son, Shemuel, power of attorney to sue Aharon b. Yosef (aka Hārūn b. Yūsuf), known as …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions some works at a house in Fusṭāṭ, "tajdīd fī al-makān allatī lahu bi-Miṣr". Also mentions a stable, and probably …
Rental contract for a property (ṭabaqa) for a period of three years. Lessor (al-mālik) ʿAlī Nāfiʿ. Lessee: Mūsā/Moshe/Moses Schlesinger (موسى شليزنجر) from Austria(?), who signs …
P7 + P11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Partnership agreement. Tamīm ha-Kohen will be the active partner, traveling …
Qaraite legal testimony (zikhron ʿedut) dated 20 Adar 5442 (=1682 CE), written and signed by Avraham ha-Rofe ben Ṣaʿīr, one of the messengers sent from …
Muslim marriage contract. (Information from Naïm Vanthieghem.)
Parts of documents - needs examination.
A damaged leaf from a book of legal documents or monograph.
Fragment with several different text blocks, chiefly a responsum attributed to the late Yaʿaqov Canpanton (d. before 1439 CE). Location: probably Spain. Dating: ca. second …
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Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Apparently a settling of accounts between merchants. Mentions: a sum of 16 + …
.Below, an undated court record. Hillel the great cantor and Moshe b. Ephraim dispute the price of two Sicilian head covers. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. …
Contract between Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen and Abū l-Maʿālī regarding tax-farming in the town of Būsh and its environs. Dated Elul 1460 Seleucid = August/September 1149 …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī (here spelled אלאמשטי). Mentions large sums of money ("200" and "80 dinars") and the children of …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Iyyar 1491 (12 May 1180). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Will, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In which Sayyid al-Kull disposes of his possessions (including a drug store, dukkān …
Transfer of amounts of dinars made for a loan or partnership (qirḍ) in front of witnesses. Signed by Yusuf b. Faraj al-Fasi and Dawud b. …
Bill of divorce between […] b. Yefet and […] bt. Ṭūviya. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Document for the sale of real estate in river floodland – 1950CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 66) – in Arabic. (information from …
Private accounts, in Arabic script. Contains a few names against sums of money, probably in Coptic numerals. Needs examination. Verso contains pen trials, among the …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Contains some typically legal phrases (mā yaswā shayʾ... mustawiya jamīʿ mā.... baʿd yamīnihī aʿnī... ʿalā... wa-jarā baynī wa-baynahū...)
A damaged fragment. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. There is a grid drawing on the back. AA
Two damaged fragments from a ketubba. The groom is […] b. Mevasser. The first fragment mostly contains the dowry. On the bottom of the fragment, …
Notes from a lesson given by Maimonides. There is a fingerprint. See analysis and edition in Friedman, "Notes by a Disciple in Maimonides' Academy Pertaining …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Mordechai b. Refael. The bride is Esther . AA
Verso: Unidentified Judaeo-Arabic document (draft of a legal document?) mentioning Abū l-Faraj, Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe ha-Kohen, ha-Talmid, Abū ʿImrān Ibn al-[...], and al-Raqqī. Seems like …
Legal document in which [...] b. Yosef [...] acknowledges an investment from [...] Kohen of 20,000 silver medin. The paleography supports of dating estimate of …
Fragment from a book of legal formulas
Legal document, in Arabic script. Very damaged. Probably a marriage contract. Mentions ʿAskar b. ʿAlī b. Faraj al-Maghribī in the first line. There are additional …
Qiyyum shetarot, formulary from Siddur R. Natan of Sijilmasa
Karaite bill of release of a debt, dated 30 Shevat 5594 AM (1734 CE). The document was recorded in the home of the brothers Eliyahu …