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Minute fragment. Two words from an opening of a legal deed
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Fragment from the end of a legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Kislev 5286 AM = November/December 1525 CE, One of the signatories is …
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves Elḥanan; [...] b. Natan Ibn al-Ṣīrī; and ʿEli …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document on parchment. Faded and damaged. Probably a ketubba, dating to the 13th century or later, based on …
Ketubba dated 1821/2 CE (5582 AM) from Cairo, for Eliyyahu Amaryo b. Yaʿaqov. The total of the ketubba is 750 esedi gurush. There is extensive …
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Table of contents of a responsa collection
Fragmentary bill of divorce (get). The husband name [... b.] Halfon. The wife's name 'Aziza. Signed by [... b.] Yeshu'a Hakohen and [...] b. Ishaq. …
Bottom of a ketubba. Groom: Yosef. Bride: Ḥaziyya (חזייה). Signed by חטר(?) b. Shalem and Yosef b. Avraham. Looks Yemeni and potentially late.
Ketubba or marital dispute resolution involving a Rabbanite wife and Karaite husband (Sarah bt. Efrayim and Yosef b. Avraham). Location: Fustat. Dated 24 Kislev 1364 …
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Small fragment of an Arabic legal document on parchment. Probably a transaction involving real estate; mentions al-makhzan alladhī. . .
Legal fragment. In the late hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066-1108) or the early hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [...] b. …
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Karaite ketubba from Cairo, the date is mostly lost to damage but can be inferred as no earlier than Sivan 15 5519 AM (June 1759), …
Judicial record of a discussion on the legality of the Rabbanite synagogue in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood in Cairo (al-Qāhira), during the reign of al-Mustanṣir …
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Recto: deed of sale in Hebrew for a compound in Damascus (a large and small house) at the Market of the Jews, for 280 ʿAzīzī …
Legal document (iqrār) concerning receiving payments for crops. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "contrat du prince Saragah Mache (mamelouk) avec les cultivateurs"]. Loss …
Bill of divorce, Qaraite. In Hebrew. T-S 12.54 and T-S 12.70 are two very rare examples of Qaraite bills of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, …
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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 …
Document of sale in Arabic. Records two transactions and a fuṣūl.
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, Dated: 1435 Seleucid = 1123/24 CE. The delayed marriage payment is …
Verso: Two distinct documents. The one on the left is dated 19th Muḥarram 808 H, but the genre is difficult to make out. The document …
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Date: Late, perhaps Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Recto: Possibly a draft of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination. Verso: Legal document(s) in Arabic script concerning the sale of a house. Unclear …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Small fragment from the top. mentioning [Saʿa]dya ha-Kohen, [...] b. Saʿīd, and …
Codification of Jewish law, by the hand of Joseph Rosh Ha-Seder, mentioned by Scheiber and Abramson. Also a responsum by Maimonides to Efraim from Tyre …
Legal testimony in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Before 1146 CE. Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham ha-Zaqen Ibn al-Amshāṭī testifies that the letter is his letter and written …
Outline of a marriage document and/or dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Groom: Levi b. אמר(?). Bride: Ittifāq, a freedwoman. Marriage payments: 1+ 10. The dowry follows; the …
Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dated: First decade of Rabīʿ I 486 AH = April 1093 CE. Apparently concerning some confusion over shipments of produce …
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Ketubba, illuminated, from 1840/41 CE ([5]601), left half only. Signed by David b. Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm.
(b) Trousseau list. Bride: Sitt al-Furs bt. Abū l-Bayān al-Jābī (cf. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/43). Groom: Al-Munajjā b. Yosef. 10 + 25. Total value: …
Karaite agreement regarding a partnership in rural cheese production (אלגבן אלריפי) mentioning the specific type(s) "אלכשכבאן אלכזין". Dated 22 Heshvan 5515 AM (1754 CE). The …
Legal fragment. The beginnings of ~15 lines are preserved. Mentions Shemarya ha-Zaqen.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from the top. Seems to be the resolution/settlement of a …
Legal document. Dating: Approximately 15 weeks prior to Ḥeshvan 1451 Seleucid, which is 1139 CE. Concerning a debt of 90 dirhams to be paid in …
Recto: Unidentified writings in Arabic script, maybe accounts or scribal practice. Verso: Fragment of a legal deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), involving a debt. The beginnings …
Witness statement(s) in Arabic script, originally at the bottom of a deed of acknowledgment made by a woman. Dated: Shawwāl 427 AH = July/August 1036 …
Partnership in sarraflık business between two groups: (1) Mordekhay Bialobos, Moshe ha-Levi Ṣanūʿa, Raḥamīm b. Eliyahu Najjār, Yiṣḥaq ʿAfīf, Avraham ha-Levi aka Skandarī and (2) …
Legal document in Arabic script. Perhaps a deed of sale of a property. On parchment. Fragment: the beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved in additional …
Verso: Addendum or subsequent court record concerning Abū l-Munā and 90 jars of wine as well as other commodities and someone named Ṣāʿid. This record …
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Recto: Legal document, probably. Bottom only. In Arabic script. Witness signatures are preserved.
Bill submitted to Avraham Maimonides: the cantor 'al-Makīn' is owed 9 dirhams for 6 weeks, and Abū l-Ṭāhir is owed 1.5 dirhams for 3 weeks. …
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 …
Beginning of a marriage match agreement drawn up in the presence of witnesses and written three times, the last version written in the shape of …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Maybe a legal document on recto and accounts on verso. But needs examination.
Small fragment from an engagement deed, written under the authority of Netanel Halevi, based on the phrase נסיכנו ונשיא אלהים ב[תוכנו]. AA
Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar 14[.]3 Seleucid. The tens digit may have still been preserved at the time …
Legal testimony. Dating: Late 11th or early 12th century. Pinḥas b. [...] claims from Tiqva b. ʿAmram a ruqʿa worth 5 dinars. Tiqva is prepared …
Monograph; formulary of legal documents, including the heading י״א שטר שכירות(?) דבאתי. (Deed of slae of a house) (info from FGP)
Marriage document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108). Fragment from a left side of ketubba de-irkesa (כתובה דארכסא), a ketubba written as …
Legal document. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Unsigned. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 26 February 1225 CE, under the …
We were present, we the witnesses, when the following, explained in this
record, transpired, and we signed (this record) on the bottom (of …
Power of attorney. al-Sāliḥ b. Yūsuf, a Sicilian Jew, gives power of attorney to another Jew in a qadi court. Dating: ca. 1102 CE, as …
[الحمـ]ـد لله و [حـ]ـده وصلواته على [سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلم تسليما]
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
نسخة كتاب الوكالة
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