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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Involves a certain Yefet; reference to a purchase; gaining merit by keeping a shop open; …
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Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 5372 AM, which is 1612 CE. Only the last two lines and the witness signatures are preserved. "We decree …
Marriage document (ṣadāq) between Mulūk b. Surūr b. ... and Fāṭima bnt. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Marqūra in the Fayyūm, dated Rajab 444 AH. (AP)
Legal record (#29) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated to the same …
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Small and damaged fragment of a bill of divorce (get)
Late partnership agreement (incomplete) between Yaʿaqov Ḥassūn and [Yaʿaqov?] Zaytūn.
Legal document, damaged, perhaps regarding a partnership. Protagonists include Moshe ha-Kohen known as Abū ʿImrān. and Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlā. Witnesses include [...] ha-Kohen …
End of a document about pledges (rahāʾin) signed by Moshe b. Binyamin ha-Sefaradi and Berakhot b. Shela ha-Kohen. The validation (qiyyum) is signed by Elʿazar …
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Few fragments of a rotulus, joined together. written by the scribe who is known to write many such rotuli for the owner known as Ibn …
Minute fragment, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions 90 silver dirhams. Too little remains. AA
Legal document from Cairo, dated January 1821 (Shevat 5581). It seems to be a partnership agreement between various traders active in the early 19th century, …
small strip from the top of a legal document, probably a draft. The date is Tuesday, 26 Sivan, 15[...] (13th century). On verso opening titles …
Legal document. Bill of divorce. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 19 Adar II 1464 (17 March 1153). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the …
1. מטא גיטא לידה
2. קמן אנן עידי מסירה
3. מבורך בר נתן ס'ט'
4. סעדיה ביר
5. מבורך נ'ע'
1. בתלתא בשבה דהוא תשעת עשר
2. יומי לירח אדר שני …
Court deed. Beautifully written. Fragment (first few lines only). Dated: Tishrei (during the holiday of Sukkot) 413 AH, which is 133[4] Seleucid, which is late …
Legal document dealing with property sale, mentioning the name Saqina ibn Yuḥannis. Buljusuq (Fayyum), Rabīʻ al-Awwal 407 [Aug.-Sept. 1016]. Parchment ; 22 lines ; 360 …
Recto: Draft of a power of attorney written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Names: ʿImrān; Ḥalfon (the agent - אפטרופא); and [...] b. …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: no earlier than 1415 CE, based on the currency niṣf fiḍḍa (medin). The partners are Riḍā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. …
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Recto: part of a legal document containing the attestation of the Bet Din, in the hand of the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). One …
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Legal deed. Rental contract. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Siwār, the wife of Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq de Molina leases an apartment …
Legal document from the court of Avraham Maimonides. The members of the court are listed in a neat table: Ḥananel b. Shemuel, Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim, …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 2 Sivan 1441 Seleucid, which is 12 May 1130 CE. Husband: Ḥananya b. Avraham ha-Kohen. Wife: Ḥasana bt. …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan, 5488 AM = October 1727 CE. Involving three gabbayim and property in the qodesh …
Bottom of a Muslim marriage contract. On parchment. Some of the surviving phrases refer to the bride's brother Yūsuf, as her representative, giving her in …
Possibly a legal document, or something to do with an excommunication. Small fragment. ...להם אחד ולא יעאמלהם... [ול]א יכמל בהם קדיש ולא ידבח... ארבע אמות...
Opening of a ketubba for Malka bat Yeshuʿa (bride) in a very calligraphic script. Reference to 20 dinars. There are many pen trials in the …
Fragment (lower left corner) of a legal document from Fusṭāṭ. Dating: mid-12th century. Signed by Moshe b. Netanʾel ha-Shishi ha-Levi and [Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammd b. Ḥayyim] …
Fragment of a marriage contract of Sittuna with some items of dowry. Dated ca. 1000. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 413, and from Goitein's …
Recto: Legal document mentioning guardianship, R. Berakhot, and a deceased man. Verso: Legal document in a different hand (that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) mentioning capital …
Birth record? In Hebrew. Dated: Sivan 5324 AM, which is 1564 CE.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Acknowledgment of debt? Concerns the late Abū Saʿd, who willed half of 50 …
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Remnant from a large cluster of calligraphic rabbinic signatures. This fragment is likely the lowest section from an important legal document given the high concentration …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: 6 Nisan 4973 AM = 1524 Seleucid, which is 1213 CE. Husband: Shela b. Meshullam b. Netanel ha-Zaqen. …
Legal document. Location: Probably Minyat Zifta. Involves Abū l-Riḍā and his brother Ḥ[asan?] the sons of Khalaf ha-Levi. Signed by Sheʾerit b. Yakhin ha-Kohen; Yefet …
Aramaic legal document with a few Judaeo-Arabic words. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Dated: 1448 Seleucid, which is 1136/37 CE. Very faded. Concerning the divorce arrangements of Elʿazar b. Saʿadya and his wife. Signed by: Moshe …
Legal document. Bottom part only. Perhaps a marriage contract, as there is a note in between the document and the qiyyum making a statement about …
Legal document from a qāḍī court. Dated: 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 870 AH (Sunday 29 July 1466 CE). The raʾīs al-yahūd, Yūsuf b. Khalīfa, and his …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده جرى ذلك اللهم صلى على سيّدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً
بمجلس الحكم العزيز بين يدي …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Praise be to God alone. God’s prayers and many blessings upon our lord Muḥammad, on his famil…
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Legal document, small fragment. In Hebrew. Written on parchment, with strings still attached. Location: Qiryat Ono. Dating: Probably no later than early 11th century. Published …
Formularies for marriage documents.
Lower fragment: Legal document. Location: Tinnīs ("the island of Ḥanes"). Dated: Tuesday, 8 Ṭevet 4861 AM, which is 11 December 1100 CE. Ṭayyib b. Faraj …
Petition filed by a woman asking the help of the community since her husband did not return from his travels. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand …
Notice from the District Court of Qalyub for the appearance of two proprietors and each of them are Jewish individuals living in Cairo's Jewish quarter …
Legal document. Abū al-Bahā' al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl (“the beekeeper”) undertakes to pay back his nephew Moshe ha-Kohen 66(9)0 silver dirhams, 200 dinars, and 100 irdabb …
Court record in the hand of R. Daniel b. Azarya ha-Nasi. Hayyim b. Harun announces his intention to marry a woman in Sahrajt, but people …
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Marriage agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1459 Seleucid, which is 1147 CE. The document is in need of conservation, and several names and words are …
A Palestinian marriage contract from Ḥaṣor. The groom ([...] b. Yefet) is to pay 10 dinars as the “security” of the marriage contract. (Information from …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment? Mentions 450 dinars, possibly with the term "Malikī" after, which would …
Trousseau list. Gives the prices of items in Greek/Coptic numerals. The sums are given at the bottom, together with a figure for the delayed marriage …
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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Tishrei 5440 AM, which is 1679 CE. Concerning Yaʿaqov Re'uven who had employed Yaʿaqov Maṣliaḥ b. …