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Legal document. Partnership record. Dating: 1085 (per Goitein's index cards). Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (probable, per Goitein). This document is the …
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Small fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involving a woman named Sitt al-Sāda and a sum …
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Subsequent use: Two legal drafts from the court of the Nagid Mevorakh. Fragmentary and incomplete. #1: Beginning of a statement about a brawl between Shelomo …
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Draft of deed of attorney written in Tyre, which includes an accounting between partners after the death of one of them, Menashshe b. Yiṣḥaq, and …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: (Ramaḍān?) 721 AH = 1321/22 CE. With signatures. Refers to someone's demand as worthless and null and void (وطلبه …
Legal document. Two pages of claims filed by Sason/Surūr b. Natan against Shela b. Shelomo Ibn Qatāʾif concerning two adjacent houses in Zuqāq Marzubān. Dated: …
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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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid = October 1133 CE, under the authority of …
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Trousseau list with many typical items; [...] b. Yehuda is mentioned. On verso there is more writing, probably also legal, in a different hand. (Information …
Legal document. Tiny fragment. Mentions dinars and silk.
Karaite inheritance documents on a bifiolium. Date: c. 5505 AM (1744/1745 CE). The date Tishrei 5499 AM is given in line 21 (f.1r) as the …
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Dowry list, probably part of a ketubba, written by Mevorakh b. Nathan (active ca. 1150–81). Faded and damaged. Bride: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. [...]. Groom: [...] …
Legal document from Alexandria (מדינת אכסנדריה ). Dated: [..]69 AM, probably 4869 AM = 1108/09 CE, but 4769 or 4969 are also possible. (Information in …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Alexandria (referred to as No-Amon). Dated: 22 Tammuz 1461 (18 July 1150). This bill of divorce is one of forty …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 13 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 = May/June 1143 CE. It seems certifying a loan or payment of …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Very faded. Probably acknowledging a debt. (Information in part from CUDL)
Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 15 Sivan 5566 AM, which is 1806 CE. Groom: David Karo b. Binyamin. Bride; Malīḥa bt. Yaʿaqov Romano. Sum …
Legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanel (identification provided by Amir Ashur). It looks like there are portions of at least three …
Leaf from a notebook or register of some sort. The two pages are each headed "faṣl," like other documents from the dossier of the Mosul …
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Cutting from a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). At the bottom there appear the names Mufarrij …
Small fragment of a ketubba. The numbers 15 and 40 appear. The names Yefet and Sitt al-[...] may appear in the bottom line.
Fragment (a strip) of a legal deed concerning real estate (al-dār al-madhkūra). Mentions a ladder, a Muslim legal deed (kitāb al-'arabī). The remaining legal text …
Legal record (#13) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Court record written by Shemuel b. Avṭalyon (active in Fustat ca. 1007–55). Dealing with a dispute between Yeshuʿa b. Ghulayb ha-Kohen and Yoshiyya b. Maymūn. …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Dated: Shawwāl 400 AH (May–June 1010 CE). Abū l-Ḥasan Mubārak b. Asad al-Zajjāj al-Isrāʾīlī ("the Jewish glassmaker") receives a loan of …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless Muḥammad, the prophet, and his family and save them.
Mubārak, who has the p…
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Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Av 1476 (16 July 1165). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to a power of attorney (wakāla) of …
Mysterious document with multiple text blocks, all quite faded. It may begin on verso and continue onto recto. At the top of verso there is …
Recto: part of a ketubba for ʿAmāʾim bt. [...] and Shelomo b. [...]. The document stipulates that Shelomo agrees not to take a second wife. …
Legal document. Dated: Nisan [13]34 Seleucid, which is 1023 CE. Binyamin b. Yūsuf (probably Ibn ʿAwkal) gives money to Aharon b. Yosef known as al-Ghazāl …
Legal document in Hebrew issued in Cairo. At first glance the date appears to be Elul 5420 AM which is August-September 1660 CE. However, the …
Gift deed draft with an addendum on the verso. Location: Istanbul (קושטנדינה). Dated: Nisan 5401 AM, which is March/April 1641 CE. The citation of ha-Rashb''a, …
Fol. 2: Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dated: first decade of Adar I 1437 Seleucid = January/February 1126 …
Bill of divorce. Witnesses are Saʿīd b. Aharon and Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
One side: Testimony of Efrayim b. Ṣibyān ha-Kohen. Dating: 11th century. Describing how Yaʿqūb b. Yaʿīsh traveled in the time of the unrest and famine …
Betrothal (erusin) contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 19 Heshvan 5591 AM, which is 1830 CE. Groom: Avraham b. Yosef b. Shelomo. Bride: Masʿūda bt. …
Legal document mentioning a certain Joseph. (Information from CUDL)
A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. …
Compensation bill from Fustat. Dated: 7 Nisan 4815 AM = April 7 1055 CE. Three witnesses approved (not in front of the court) that Abū …
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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between …
Probably a legal document, mentioning the bridal gift and Ḥalfon b. Shelomo. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of an unfinished marriage contract. Groom: [...] b. Yosef ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Bride: Sitt al-Adab bt. Yehuda b. Nissim ha-Sar b. Masliah the haver, the …
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 …
The original text may be the remannts of the lines in Arabic script on the right-hand page of image 1, which appears to be a …
IB V, 31. Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel. Location: Fustat. Dated: last third of Av, year missing, under the authority of …
Fragment of a partnership agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). No names preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document in the form of a letter addressed to the Gaon (Maṣliaḥ?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by Yefet b. Shelomo and Elʿazar b. [...]. The …
Two legal documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–1138 CE). Verso: end of a court record regarding the marriage of Qaraite woman …
Legal document in Hebrew and some Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Extremely faded and damaged. Involves Hārūn b. Avraham Tāhertī (תיהרתי). Dating: 11th century?