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Bill of divorce (get) fragment from Fustat, dated 26 Elul 1633 Seleucid which is 1322CE. Despite the document's damage, the husband's name is legible as …
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A draft of a Karaite marriage contract
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Legal fragment with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The parties are Abū Zikrī and Berakhot. They might …
IB VI, 12. Recto (written later): Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Also signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: last decade of …
Marriage contract (ketubba) stating that the 200 zuz were "established by the holy college" and the dinars bear the sign "of the temporal ruler." Date, …
ו[מיי]קרין ית נשיהון ב…
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A unique legal deed: A man appoints his father to collect 200 dinars from his debtor. The groom apparently owes the same amount to his …
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Legal document dated 20 October 1800 (1 Heshvan 5561 AM), Cairo, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 60 reales, each equivalent to …
Legal document. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Heshvan 5549 AM, which is 1788 CE. Involves Yaʿaqov Levi b. Avraham Hītī (? היתי) and a sum of 80 …
Court record in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). A litigant named Moshe has claimed that his loan of 50.5 dinars to …
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Court notebook from the Qaraite court of Cairo that was based in the Dar Simḥa synagogue. Spanning the dates 1560–75 CE. 69 pages. Contains 190 …
Text with citations from halakhic sources, possibly a responsum, mentioning an orphan. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Location: Cairo. No details of the case preserved; might …
Karaite ketubba draft on recto and verso. The ketubba begins on the recto at line 6. Date: 23 Shevat 5414 AM (1654 CE). Location: Cairo. …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), mentioning foods, such as olive oil, and probably alimony arrangements from a …
Order of three pounds of meat from the butcher. In Arabic script. The cipher at the beginning means يدفع (cf. T-S AS 177.468).
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. …
Private accounts, in Arabic script. Contains a few names against sums of money, probably in Coptic numerals. Needs examination. Verso contains pen trials, among the …
Fragment with two different legal documents in two different hands, one on each side. Recto: Mentions raisins and [...] b. Manṣūr. Verso: Mentions indigo, Yosef, …
Witness statement regarding the discovery of the corpse of Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, leader of the Jews of al-Maḥalla, who paid his …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
لما كان بتاريخ الرابع والعشرين من ربيع الاول سنة …
It has been registered.
Praise be to God, who is sufficient for those who put in him their trust.
In the name of God, the merciful a…
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Sale of a female slave. Seller: David Ha-Levi. 25 dinars. Probably 12/13 century. (Ashur estimation). VMR
Legal document mentioning a bridal gift and Abū l-Faḍl. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document: fragment of a bill of compensation for the amount of 14 dinars, from Dalal to Mevorakh b. Menahem written by Efrayim b. Shemarya …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Writing on both sides. A settlement concerning arrangements for the dowry items of …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Perhaps a business partnership agreement. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Location: Cairo. Dating: No later than 1195 CE, as it was written under the authority …
Legal document from Cairo, dated January 1819 CE (Tevet 5579 AM), in which Moshe Ḥafis (?) and his wife Senyora acknowledge their debt of 2085 …
Fragment of ketubba (marriage contract) in the hand of Yefet b. David, ca. 1030. Bride: Karīma bt. Yosef, virgin. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Saʿadya. Only monetary …
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Three testimonies about a quarrel between Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā al-Najīb, a communal official, and Sayyid al-Kull b. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥazzan. The deponents are …
Fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Efrayim ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn. Dating: probably 11th century, per Goitein.
Tiny fragment of a legal document mentioning Ḥiyya ha-Kohen b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Dated: Rabīʿ I 536 AH, which is 1141 CE. Begins "yaqūlu Abū ʿAbdallāh...." There is also someone named [...] …
Karaite betrothal deed from the 1 Sivan 5347 AM. The groom Yisrael Hakohen b. Shemuel. The bride Esther d. Shemuel Ibn Yahya. The groom is …
Engagement agreement. Fiancé: Ṭāhir b. ʿIwaḍ al-Jazzār. Fiancée: Mudallala bt. Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar. Dated: Wednesday night, 28 Sivan 1581 Seleucid, which is 1270 CE. The …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Seems like a contract of depositing a sum of money for the duration of someone's travel. On verso, in a …
Legal document. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE. Declaration by Abū Naṣr Avraham b. …
Legal documentin the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), or maybe Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108). Involves Yiṣḥāq or [...] b. Yiṣḥaq and …
Legal document written by a Muslim notary, bottom half only. Contains three witnesses' attestations, dated 562 (?). On verso, written in various directions, there are …
Legal document. Location: Sammanūd. Dated: 1445 Seleucid = 1133/34 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ. Names [...] ha-Kohen ha-Zariz b. Yosef ha-Kohen. The …
Testimony in the hand of Shelomo, dated 1 Tevet 1540 Seleucid which is December 6 1228, about the dissolution of a partnership.
Power of attorney written by a Muslim notary, beginning [ ]هذا كتاب وكالة كتبه يبن هتم لعـ, with اليهودي added above the missing name in …
IB IV, 5 (ח8). Legal testimony. Location: Aden. Dating: ca. summer 1131 CE. Concerns the controversy caused by a Persian Jew, the nephew of the …
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Legal fragment. The beginnings of ~15 lines are preserved. Mentions Shemarya ha-Zaqen.
A photocopy of a Muslim court deed documenting various endowed properties of the Qaraite community of Jerusalem. The deed is from 1563 CE, and it …
Verso: Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Complete but very faded. Resembles a legal query: "What have our sages said concerning a man who died... [with] a mature …
Small fragment from the beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentioning Shelomo ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment with several different text blocks, chiefly a responsum attributed to the late Yaʿaqov Canpanton (d. before 1439 CE). Location: probably Spain. Dating: ca. second …
Fragment of a deed of sale for a house. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE).
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions a sum of 100 dinars; Yehoshuaʿ ha-Sar b. [...] he-Ḥasid (cf. T-S …
Legal fragment. Appears to be the settlement of a marital dispute between Yūsuf and Sitt al-Ahl. Dating: Mentions the date Shevat 1437 Seleucid, which is …
Recto: Perhaps a letter or brief legal document? Very faded. Verso: A record of the amount of money (35 silver [medin]) received from Eliyyahu Nābī(?) …