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Minute fragment from the top a legal deed. With an ornamental header and opening with the date, like a ketubba. Mentions the name Khalaf (...ת …
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Recto: Legal document from Cairo, dated March 1819 CE (last third of Adar 5579 AM), in which Yiṣḥaq Zamiro acknowledges receipt of an investment of …
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Legal record (#19) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 16-19) Folio 5r
Engagement contract, draft. The scribe repeated a number of lines of the document as well as the names of the bride and groom several times. …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Large and almost completely preserved. Location: Tyre. Dated: Thursday, 12 Kislev 4784 AM, which is 28 November 1023 CE. The scribe is …
Much-faded excerpt perhaps from a collection of responsa. There is an opening question in Hebrew about why something has to be written above something else. …
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 50
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Prototype of a legal document from Tyre, eleventh century, probably in the hand of Yosef Ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov.
Draft of a ketubba. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1400 Seleucid = 1089 CE. Groom: ʿOvadya b. Yefet ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. Netanʾel. …
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Tiny fragment from the end of a legal document, under the reshut of Shemuel ha-Nagid.
Verso: legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (left side). It is likely a court record (هذا الكتاب محضرنا في يوم الاحد) related to a house …
Outline of a legal document. Investment (ʿisqa). In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 16th century. Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq אמרריליו(?) (probably equivalent to Amariyo) apparently receives an investment …
Fragment of a legal document. Likely an engagement or betrothal agreement (including phrases such as מתי מא אפסכת דלך כאן... and ואלעאיד באללה...), but could …
Fragment with three document entries, probably from a court register. Dated November 1719 (Kislev 5480). The first is marriage-related; the second is a betrothal document; …
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Ketubba fragment. Only the ornate text in the upper margin and a few words from the first two lines are preserved.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Concerning the cultivation of cotton and berries (ashjār al-tūt) in the lands of the valley (arāḍī l-wādī). Dated: 1243 AH, …
Legal deed or letter. In Judaeo-Persian. There are at least two separate sections, one of which is a list of names. The document mentions Khurāsūh(?, …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In which Abū l-Waḥsh makes a declaration about a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. …
Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 12 Nisan [5322] …
Legal document. In Arabic script. May mention a Rabbanite Jew in line 6. There is at one witness signature preserved at the bottom.
Ketubba (marriage contract) by proxy form from the siddur of Shelomo b. Natan of Sijilmasa, 12th century. NB: The shelfmark has changed, and it will …
Ketubba fragment for an unnamed bride and groom. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1 Shevaṭ 1415 Seleucid = 31 December 1103 CE. With blessings for the Nagid …
IB V, 31. Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel. Location: Fustat. Dated: last third of Av, year missing, under the authority of …
Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Fragment (upper part). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: middle decade of Tammuz 1503 Seleucid Era …
Quittance for Saʿadya b. Avraham ha-Levi on 4 dinars he had owed. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last decade of Iyyar 1489 Seleucid = May 1178 …
Fragment of a power of attorney issued by a woman.
Legal record (#89) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 30v-31r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 24 Kislev 5325 …
Geṭ. Location: Egypt, somewhere on the Nile. Dated: probably Ṭevet [13]4[.] Seleucid = 1029–39 CE. The father of one of the parties is Ḥusayn. Signed …
Marriage document. Small fragment. Mentions [...] ha-Levi b. Yeshuʿa al-Rayyis and [...] ʿAmram known as Ibn Ḥarīra. The delayed marriage payment is 40 dinars. On …
Small fragment of a legal document or documents. Mentions someone titled Peʾer ha-Qehilot, Sitt al-Nasab, Yeshuʿa, and Bū l-Faraj "the husband of her mother." Likely …
Fragment of two documents of sale, on recto and verso. The document on the verso is regarding the sale of a house.
4 entries in a court register. (a) Record of marriage conditions. Groom: Abū Zikrī al-Kattanānī b. Aharon. Bride: Sitt al-Nās bt. Isḥāq. Delayed marriage payment: …
Ketubba (marriage contract), formulary, found inside of a Palestinian prayerbook. The booklet also contains formularies for a bill of divorce and the husband's instructions to …
Mamluk era, legal document. Probably a sale contract, partially legible. Second part of the date is legible 7xx H.
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).
Deathbed will of a rich woman, made during the absence of her husband. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (left side). Involves Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā; other details are too faded …
Verso: Legal document, possibly. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era, based on the hand. Mentions various people including Yehuda b. Yaqar. Needs examination.
Legal and communal documents. (a) Power of attorney granted by Saʿadya b. Yeshuʿa to Yosef b. Elʿazar ha-Melammed for the purpose of suing Yaʿaqov b. …
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 …
Small fragment from the beginning of a ketubah, 16th century. The groom name is Ishaq. AA
Legal record (#30). Trousseau list. Groom: Bū l-Barakāt al-ʿAṭṭār. Bride: Sitt at-Dār bt. Yefet ha-Kohen b. Menashshe ha-Dayyan. See Goitein's notes for the items enumerated. …
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Legal record from the early thirteenth century explicating a communal conflict. The sermon of local Jewish judge describes accusations concerning women in the city lending …
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IB VII, 5. A note (ruqʿa) with a merchant's disposition for his property in contemplation of death. He specifies that his daughter should not marry …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Made by Q[...] b. Mūsā al-[...], "one of the captains of the victorious fleets" (aḥad quwwād al-asāṭīl al-manṣūra). …
Legal document. A damaged bill of release, in late Andalusian or Maghrebi hand. Mentions a payment of 54 peraḥim, which generally refers to the Venetian …
Court minute, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Location: Fustat. Legal document concerning the Sicilian Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b. Moshe al-Kohen who has …
Deed of sale. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Ṣemaḥ Alanj (? אלנג׳) sells Shemuel Cordoba 19 pounds of a particular kind of coral …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to expedite the payment of 81 dirhams to the Muslim Judge Shams al-Din. This …
Legal testimonies before a beit din in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: 26 Kislev 5418 AM (verso) and Tishrei 5411 AM (recto) but the other verso …