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Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1422 Seleucid, which is February–March 1111 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (who died …
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Legal document. Fragment (bottom part only). Mentions: A debt of 27 dinars; Yosef al-Dimashqī on the one hand; Abū l-Makārim and Abū l-Bishr on the …
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Legal fragment (upper left corner). On parchment. Location: Fustat. Possibly a deathbed will, because the witnesses describe how they entered the house of Abū l-Faraj …
Recto: Legal document headed "testimony" (שהדותא). Ibrāhīm/Avraham b. Yehoshuaʿ owes Hilāl Sheʾerit 200 dirhams from 'the old Egyptian cash/currency (al-wariq al-qadīm al-Miṣrī). He will repay …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Tammuz 1451 Seleucid = 25 June 1140 CE. …
Court notebook, probably Qaraite. Many pages. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated with individual entries spanning the 1570s CE, such as 8 Tevet 5337 AM which is 1576 …
Marriage contract (ketubba), Palestinian-style. Bride: Dalāl bt. Yefet. The groom's name is lost. Location: Tinnīs, Egypt. Dating: probably 1085 or 985 CE.
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Legal formularies and instructions. Fragment; small strip of parchment.
Ketubba with an elaborate floral border (recto). Location: Salonica, the Hebrew/Aramaic names of the nearby rivers (?מגינות ובארוה) are unclear but there are several possibilities: …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Acknowledgment (iqrār). Dated: 10 Ṣafar 627 AH, which is December 29 1229 CE. One party is Isḥāq b. Manṣūr al-Yahūdī. …
Court record. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1140s CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Faḍl al-Kutnānī b. Hiba al-Iskandarānī claims that he …
Legal record (#18). Loan contract. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Khayr b. Nājī owes 2.25 dinars to Abū l-Murajjā Sālim al-Ṣayrafī b. Abū …
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 …
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
[اقر . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]
الاقرار الشرعي في صحته وسلامته] وطواعته واختيار…
Probably a legal document. On parchment. Mentioning Mufarraj b. Yiṣḥaq and Yosef b. ʿAzarya. Arabic jottings below. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: First decade of Ḥeshvan 1493 Seleucid, which is 1181 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. In …
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Possibly a deed of sale or lease of a property. Needs further examination.
Legal document in Hebrew, or draft of one. The format is uncommon for early modern geniza documents. Location: Marrakesh (l. 9, במראכש). Dated Elul חרו׳׳ת …
Pen trials in various hands, including signatures, biblical phrases and a note dated Tevet 1397 (= 1085 CE) with the names Mevorakh b. Mufarrij ha-Kohen …
Small fragment from the opening of a legal document. On parchment. Mentions ‘[...] the dear elder’ and someone inheriting something from his wife. (Information in …
Legal fragment. Mentions Mubārak b. Avraham and a street in Ḥārat Zuwayla. Probably continues onto verso, where Shelomo b. Kalev ha-Levi is mentioned (the same …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment describing that one-third of a house is given to a daughter upon marriage, on the condition that it would become her …
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Tiny fragment from the beginning of a ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1[.]5[.] Seleucid. Very little else is preserved.
Fragment from the middle of a legal document. Refers to itself as a taṣāduq. Dating: likely late Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Refers to rings …
Recto: Fragment cut out from a poem of Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver. In the margin is a fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Verso: Legal query …
Recto: Small fragment of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The one making the acknowledgment may be named Salmūn b. Isḥāq al-Māwardī.
Fragment from the book of legal formulae, no. 23 (divorce deed). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Query about niddah submitted to Abraham Maimuni by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu-- see Goitein Nachlass material
Bill of divorce. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Nisan 1435 Seleucid, which is 1124 CE. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. …
Verso: Legal document: agreement with the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1160. An agreement is concluded between a certain Ṣubḥ and his wife, and the qodesh, represented …
There were present (in court) Ṣubḥ and his wife and it was legally acquired from both of them that
they relinquish any claim to the 9 qīrā…
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Release given by Yakhin b. ʿEli to his brother Yeḥezqel. Dated: Friday, 7 Nisan 1409 Seleucid, which is 1098 CE. Likely in the handwriting of …
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One entry refers to the revenue from the shop; customs (maks); brokerage (samsara): and 83 dirhams. The …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Zekharya b. Raṣon ha-Rofe. The bride is Esther known as Sit al-Bayt d. Ya'aqov. AA
A copy of a legal document about inheritance, probably the copy to be kept in court. Name mentioned: Shmuel
Deathbed declaration of a druggist (ʿaṭṭār). Location: Fustat. Dated: middle third of Tammuz 1555 Seleucid = June 1244 CE. Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Abū l-Ḥasan …
Will (waṣiyya), involving transfer of ownership of a house. Fragment (bottom only). On parchment. In the description of the property and its boundaries, mentions "the …
Draft of the opening sentence of a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or possibly Hillel b. ʿEli. Stating that Yehuda ha-Kohen …
IB I, 44. Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 21 Adar II 1377 Seleucid, which is 21 March 1066 CE. Maymūn b. Yaʿaqov declares that …
שהדותא דהות באנפנא בתלתה בשבה דהוא עשרין וחד יומי בירח אדר שני דשנת אלפא
ותלת מאה ושבעין ושבע שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצרים דעל ני…
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Legal document in Hebrew, perhaps a draft or beginning of a copy. In a which a woman, possibly Jawhara bt. Maḥfūẓ (whose name appears at …
Legal record (#62) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 60-62) Folio 16r
Legal fragment written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Deed of sale with provisions about the right to buy back a house …
Legal record (#41b). Loan contract. Abū l-Faḍl b. Yūsuf is granted the right to repay his debt of 10 dinars to Abū Isḥāq al-ʿAṭṭār b. …
Legal document, quite faded. In which [...] Abū l-Faḍl b. [...] Daniʾel(?) "ha-sofer ha-mahir" acknowledges a debt of 287 dirhams to Abū Saʿīd b. Ṣedaqa …
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. The same block of text seems to be copied at least three times, followed by witness statements. At the far …
Legal document in Arabic script. A contract made before a Muslim notary, in which the proprietor of a Nubian slave promises to pay to the …
F. 1: various (drafts of) legal documents in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, including a trousseau list, power of attorney and witness statements. (1) …
Recto: beginning of a Qaraite ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1 Adar 12[..] Seleucid = 889–988 CE. There is a small drawing in the header. Verso and …
Legal document in Arabic script. Perhaps an iqrār made by Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbs(?). Mentions Cairo in line 6 and may also mention zakāt …
Notice of oath written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. He states that on Monday of the week of Beshalaḥ, he took an oath that he will …