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Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. A woman named ʿAzīza makes a declaration. "My husband Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen" is mentioned three lines from the bottom. On …
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Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic, with a few words written in Arabic script. Concerning a poor man who may wish to break an engagement. On verso …
Karaite deed of testimony that a husband has delivered a bill of divorce to his wife. Location: Baghdad (l. 7, פה בגדאד) Dated: 6 Iyyar …
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Legal document. Loan terms. Dated: September 1239. Location: Bilbays. Between Amram b. Ḥalfon and Avraham b. Efrayim. Initially described as commenda (qirāḍ) but re-negotiated into …
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Minute fragment containing part of a signature (Natan ha-Kohen).
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions something that passed 'between the two of them'; the court in Fustat; a sum of dinars; Natan b. Shelomo. It …
Small fragment of a legal document probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions Abū l-Bishr.
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Torn; only the right half is preserved. The term taṣāduq (settlement) appears in it. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or …
Legal document. Location: somewhere in Egypt, probably Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1286 Seleucid = November/December 974 CE. The merchant Maṣliaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq b. David acquits another …
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Small and torn fragment from a bill of gift from husband named Abū l-Majd to his wife, probably [...] bt. Saʿadya. AA
Minute fragment. Few words from the top of a legal deed.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Concerning a financial settlement, mentioning various sums of money: 26 Malikī dinars (used in Yemen) …
Fragment from legal deeds written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). On recto a reverence is made to 'al-wakil al-goy' = the gentile …
Fragment of a marriage contract concerning the remarriage of Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and his wife Sittat, containing details about the dowry. Dated 1378/ 1066-1067. (Information …
Legal document (iqrār). In Arabic script, in beautiful handwriting. Dated: Ramaḍān 568 AH, which is 1173 CE. A few lines earlier, Rabīʿ I of the …
Likely a fragment of an old (ca. 11th century) ketubba. Mentions Yaʿqūb and a bride.
Two fragment so a legal document, likely in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Draft, with crossouts and interlinear insertions. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: speaking to …
Legal deed for the purchase of a house by a descendant of the Ṭabāṭabā family. Dating: early 5th/11th century. See also T-S Ar. 38127 (early …
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Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tevet 1444 Seleucid = December 1132 / January 1133 CE, under the …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment from the bottom. One of the parties is referred to as "Rabbenu." …
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Minutes of court proceedings, recto dated Kislev 1454 sel. (December 1142), written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Verso a different recording, related to the …
Likely a deathbed will. Shemuel b. Yosef grants executorship of his estate to his brother Yehuda. Location: Damascus. Rivlin says date is 1003 CE (but …
Minute fragment from a bottom of a legal deed. Only part from the signatures from which tne names Yefet, and [Yeh]uda Hakohen are preserved. AA.
Two legal documents (or letters dealing with legal issues) each written in a different hand, probably 13th century. On verso seems to be a bill …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 426 AH = 1034/35 CE. The year 424 is also mentioned in the body of the document (l. 1). …
Fol. 1: Legal document. Location: Cairo. The bottom is missing, but it seems it was also left incomplete since the day of the week and …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Kislev 1390 Seleucid = 26 November 1078 CE. Ghālib b. Avraham comes before the court with a power …
ENA 4011.19a (upper fragment): Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/34 CE. NB: This fragment was previously dated Ḥeshvan 1435 Seleucid (unclear why …
Legal formulary. For a loan contract.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Involves [Aharon?] b. Shemarya ha-Kohen, [...] b. Mevorakh, and Yakhin.
Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 23 Tevet 5414 AM, which is 1654 CE. Groom: Yosef ha-Kohen b. Avraham b. Yosef. Bride: Badra bt. …
Legal deed? Signatures of various people. Was probably part of a legal deed or communal decree
Karaite partnership agreement in a shop between Shelomo b. Aharon Miʿmār and three orphans left by the deceased community man Yeshuʿa Qayīm. Dated 28 Av …
Legal document recording that the parnas Eli ha-Kohen and his colleague testified in court that three orphan girls had received ten dinars bequeathed to them …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 21 [...] 1369 Seleucid, which is 1057/58 CE. Involves Yisrael ha-Shulḥani, Nissim b. Maḥbūb, and Ṣemaḥ b. …
Writ of release signed by three witnesses and dated end of Av 1414/July-August 1103 (a word is missing between 'one thousand four hundrer and four' …
Fol. 1v: Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Involves a real estate transaction between two Levi brothers 'the princes' (שני האחין השרים …
Deed of release. Beautifully preserved. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 23 [...] 1329 Seleucid = 1017/18 CE. In which Shelomo b. Moshe b. Shelomo declares that …
Legal document from 1818 CE (5578) as per Shmuel Glick's FGP transcription—regarding an investment partnership involving Yaʿaqov ha-Levi aka ʿAkūbas and Eliyyahu b. Ṣahal.
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Legal document in Arabic script. Only the beginning is preserved. Involving "Sulṭāna the Jewish woman" and Makārim and [...] b. Isḥāq al-Mutaṭabbib. This may be …
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 …
Legal document (top only) in which Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham (probably Ibn Furāt) appoints Asad a.k.a. Yehuda b. Moshe as his agent. Yiṣḥaq is here titled …
Testimony in Arabic script. Fragment (top cut off). Dated: first third of Jumādā I 528 AH = February/March 1134 CE. The bottom is divided into …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: 1126–29 CE, based on the mention of the state official Abū Najāḥ ibn Qannāʾ (who …
Recto: Legal document dated 1350 Seleucid = 1038/39 CE. Qaraite, based on the use of למנין יונים. In which Sibāʿ b. Menashshe renounces all claims …
Probably a dowry list, quite faded.
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 …
Ketubba, Rabbanite. Dated: [13]56 Seleucid, which is 1044/45 CE.Groom: Thābit b. Yaʿaqov. Bride: [...] bt. Abu l-Faraj (based on the filing note on verso). Mentions …
Legal record. Written and signed by the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; also signed by Saʿadya b. Menashshe ha-Kohen. Certifying that Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Salāma …
Recto: halakhic discussion (possibly a responsum) concerning testamentary dispositions. Verso: specimen text for קיום שטרות. (Information from CUDL)