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Minute fragment, probably from a ketubah.
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Liturgy for the marriage ceremony, along with part of a copy of a Karaite ketubba for Muʾammala bat Ḥayyim. Dated: 1324 Sel. (= 1012-13 CE). …
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Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba. Groom: Meshullam. Dating: probably first half of the 11th century. Location: perhaps Fusṭāṭ. The dowry is a total of 277 …
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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 …
Small fragment from the top of the ketubba of Karīma bt. Yosef. Dated: [13]68 or [14]68 Seleucid. Another ketubba for a bride bearing the same …
IB V, 46. Legal record (#46). Discharge of debt. The court ordered Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān al-Kohen to purchase 1/8 of a house for 50 dinars …
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Karaite betrothal document, with some water/liquid damage toward across middle lines. Date: 15 Heshvan 5485 AM (1724 CE). Due to discoloration/damage, parts of the document …
Beginning of an engagement document for Shelomo b. Raḥamīm Khamīṣ/Ḥamīṣ(?) and the orphan Sarah bt. Aharon Ḥīdīf. Undated, but pre-1830/1831 CE based on Sarah's later …
Recto: fragment of a legal document. Date not preserved. Verso: quotation from a Hebrew poem by Shemuel ha-Nagid ibn Naghrela of Granada (d.1056), apparently quoted …
Acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century on paleographic grounds and based on the mention of the Dār Simḥa synagogue. A precise date …
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Marriage contract recorded on parchment. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 29 Adar II 5556 AM = 8 April 1796 CE. Groom: Yehuda Mercado. Bride: Sara bt. …
Small fragment of a ketubba, probably. Dating: ca. 11th century.
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 25 Adar I 1453 Seleucid = 22 February 1142 CE. Husband: Surūr b. Sibāʿ. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl …
Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that Maḥāsin Ibn al-Rabbāṭ agrees to stand surety for his mother in a case involving inheritance and the government. See …
Minute fragment, probably from legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi
Legal record (#37) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 23 …
:Right side of bifolio 5v (Documents 37-38)
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Writing on both sides. Dealing with a partnership (muʿāmala) and mentioning the sums …
Deed of lease in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Lessee: ʿAlī b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī al-Shawwāʾ. Lessor: al-faqīr ilā llāh taʿālā …
Incomplete Karaite betrothal agreement. Dated Wednesday 28 Tevet 5399 AM (1639 CE). Location: Cairo. The marriage will take place a year and a half after …
Court notebook. Two entries, each dated 7 Ḥeshvan 1643 Seleucid = 9 October 1331 CE. Recto: Record of a divorce. (Sitt al-)ʿArab bt. ʿAbdallāh received …
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Late document in Hebrew, probably a legal declaration, in which the writer seeks to absolve himself from the complaints against him from Shemuel and Avraham …
Legal document involving a partnership between Yosef Mughrabi and Eliyyahu Mosseri. There are also notations in other hands and sums/accounts.
Marriage document. A few lines from the bottom. The groom is named ʿEli. Witnessed by [...] b. Avraham and Yehuda b. Shelomo ha-Sofer.
Small fragment from a legal deed (bill of release?) written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). One of the parties has the rare …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Fragment of an ordinance (taqqana) concerning the Jerusalem community in Fustat. The community decides to choose ten men who will manage the community with Efrayim …
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Part of a ketubba, with only a few words preserved. Part of the shemaʿ has been written between the lines in faded ink and a …
Small fragment from the middle part of a legal document mentioning Avraham Halevi. AA
Original use: Bottom of a Jewish legal document. Nothing is preserved apart from five signatures: -Ṣedaqa b. Avraham -Yoshiyyahu b. Efrayim he-Ḥaver -Shemuel b. Yehuda …
Folio from a court notebook. Two records, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Recto: record of a legal dispute between Abū Naṣr b. …
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Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to sums of money; pounds of silk; …
Recto: Legal document, in Arabic script. Fragment (the right halves of ~7 lines) of a marriage contract. Mentions the mahr (dower). Needs examination.
The end of a ketubba. There is some sort of reshut clause at the end of the document, invoking Rosh Galutenu ... Nagidenu. . . …
Minute fragment. On parchment. Only a few words can be read. Seems like the opening of a letter or legal query to a notable, probably …
Court record from the court of Shemarya b. Elhanan. Around 1000. A claim by Avraham b. Sa’da against his brother Tabian, regarding trades of small …
Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for an enslaved person. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? One of the parties …
Legal document. Dating: Refers to a period of 5 years and then to the end of Iyyār of either 153[.] or 1503 Seleucid. So this …
Legal document. Release. Location: Fustat. Regarding partners, a sum of 400 dinars, and every party receiving his due in full. Names mentioned include Avraham b. …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Involves Abū l-Faraj Netanel, who dies; the sister of Shela ha-Kohen; Hiba Ibn al-Shāmī; …
Recto: Marriage contract between Riḍwān b. ʿAṭiyya and Bint Muṭṭalib in front of the qāḍī ʿImād al-Dawla Abū l-Faḍāʾil al-Ḥasan b. al-Khiyār b. ʿAlī, judge …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله [ ] . سلم تسليـ[ـما]
هذا ما اصدق رضوان …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, his pr…
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Court records and notes in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. Dated in one entry on the verso as Tishrei 1455 Seleucid (1143 …
The Amīr Ḥiṣn al-Dawla b. Sayt al-Dawla, for two murattabs,
seven waybas of wheat. Still due to him, eight
waybas of wheat, whose cost
of 7…
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Sunday, 7 Adar II 5331 AM, which is 4 March 1571 CE. Yiṣḥaq Romano and Yisra'el Eliyya acknowledge …
Fragments of legal document(s) in Hebrew. The document on Page 2 is dated April 1818 (Nisan 5578). The first legal fragment only retains some of …
Query from Nadiv b. Yiṣḥaq, “the son of the brother of Umm Nadiv,” asking whether a woman who was deserted by her husband with whom …
Notes for the drawing up of legal documents. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto is for a deed involving something "being handed …
Legal record (#110) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 36r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Shevat [5326 …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic. Dated: 13 Rabīʿ I 591 AH = 25 February 1195 CE. Made by two brothers, ʿAlī and Nāṣir b. …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel and …
Legal record (#37) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 1-11 on f. 14r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 21 …