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Fragment of a ketubba. Containing mainly part of the dowry list. May be in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Between the lines and upside …
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Legal fragment in Hebrew, with some phrases in in Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic. Dating: likely ca. 16th century. Concerning a p[artnership Mentions Shelomo; ʿOvadya; [...] Ashkenazi; …
Primary use: Bottom of a legal document. Containing only the signatures of Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av Bet Din and Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: 1467 Seleucid …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dating: Refers to the beginning of Ḥeshvan 1429 Seleucid, which is 1117 …
Minute fragment from a legal deed
Fragment from the top of a ketubba (marriage contract). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 15[.]4 Seleucid, probably 1554 = 1242/43 CE or 1544 = 1232/33 CE. …
Legal record (#14) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew with some terms in …
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Verso: Legal document, in Arabic script. A divorce document involving a high-level Ayyubid official described as one of the mamlūks of al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aḥad al-mamālīk …
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Recto: Fragments and/or copies of documents in both Arabic script and Hebrew script. The Hebrew-script text may be in the hand of Ḥillel b. ʿEli? …
Minute fragment from an opening of a court record
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Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Shawwāl 899 H, which is 1494 CE. Mentions a state official: walī Amīr l-Muʾminīn Abī ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī. …
Recto (original use): Isḥāq b. Avraham appoints Furāt b. Yosef as a power-of-attorney against neighbors who had taken possession of the house he had inherited …
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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: [..]19 AM, which is either 1858/59, 1758/59, or 1658/59, or conceivably 1558/59 CE at the very earliest. Of …
Probably an order of payment.
Small fragment of a legal document. Dated: [1]454 Seleucid = 1142/43 CE, under the authority of Shemuʾel ha-Nagid (Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya) and referring to Abū …
Court register; two folios containing two legal records. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi and bearing his signature in a couple …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 22 Adar II 1472 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. Husband: Yaʿaqov b. Binyamin. Wife: Sitt al-ʿIrāq bt. …
Legal document faded and fragmented, mentioning Eli ha-kohen ha-parnas and Yefet ha-Kohen.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerns Abū l-Faḍāʾil and his wife ("amḍā la-hā al-taṣarruf fī jamīʿihā"). No details preserved. Dated: Elul …
Legal document. Court record (draft). This document concerns the settlement of an account between Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Yefet and Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭoviyya b. Avraham …
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Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 14 Kislev 5527 AM, which is 1766 CE. Groom: Moshe b. Yosef b. Aharon. Bride: Miryam bt. Yaʿaqov …
Recto (secondary use): Record of testimony regarding a settlement according to which a debt is to be repaid in six monthly installments, concluded under the …
Legal record (#14) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Deed of sale for a female slave. Price: 20-some dinars. Very few specifics preserved.
Legal record (#19). Engagement contract. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Goitein notes that both fiance and fiancee must be very poor; neither has a …
Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 9 Shevat 5530 AM, which is 1770 CE. Groom: Ḥayyim b. Eliyyahu ha-Rofe b. Elishaʿ ha-Rofe. Bride: Raḥel …
Recto: Bottom of a legal document containing various release formulae applied to Mawhūb b. Ḥusayn. The context is almost entirely lost. A couple other partial …
Two government officials named Abu al-Makarim the scribe and Abu al-Bishr make a loan of 54 dinars belonging to them in equal shares to Yosef …
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to a sale. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Ḥeshvan 1478 Seleucid = October 1166 CE, under the authority of the Gaon Netanel b. Moshe ha-Levi. …
On line from an opening of a court record involving Berakhot b. Yefet. AA
Kitāb al-Sheṭarot (the book of legal formularies) of Hayya Ga'on b. Sherira Ga'on. Per the Bodleian catalog, the copyist or owner is Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel …
Legal document. Record of release. Dated: April or May 1164. In the hand of judge Mevorakh b. Natan. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Sahl al-Jubaylī accepts …
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving a husband and wife, apparently a will making provisions for his death …
Partnership/investment agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[.]4, probably 1384 Seleucid, which would be 1072/73 CE. (1334 and 1394 Seleucid are also technically possible; the decade word …
End of a document, probably legal. Dating: Mamluk-era, based on paleography. Needs examination. (Info from FGP)
Fol. 1r: Court record or draft of a legal document. Dating: Probably 11th century. Concerning Mubāraka bt. Shemuel al-Qābisī who had sold her female slave …
Legal fragment. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Shem[uel] and Ḥiyya b. Yeshuʿa. Little of the content remains. There are two separate documents on recto and verso.
Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Draft of a marriage contract (ketubba) under the authority of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to as "Nagid" (therefore post-1213 CE). There are numerous other …
Drafts of two legal documents, the first a declaration by a father regarding bequests to his sons. Incompletely drafted in Fustat. Dated 155?/1238-1248. (Information from …
Legal or official document, wide space between the lines. Dating: Looks Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Bottom part of a legal deed with partial signature and approval. One of the parties is Abi al-Faraj. Signed by Elazar b. ha-Shofet (the judge). …
Verso: Marriage contract dated 1050, between Saadya b. Maymun and Ḥasana bat Levi, mentioning 5 dinars that will be given at the time of the …
A Karaite ketubba draft or formulary dated Wednesday, 8th Kislev 5448 AM and 1999 Era of documents (1687 CE), from Cairo. The groom is Aharon …
Legal document concerning the affairs of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Shelomo and probably his wife(?), with references to the Bet Din. (Information from CUDL.) Also mentions …
Settlement of a dispute (mutual release) between Barukh Nasi b. Eliʿezer Nasi the Qaraite (מבני מקרא) and Shabbetay b. Mordekhay Shabbat the Rabbanite (מבני משנה). …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Two fragments, which may not directly join with each other. Dated: [13]99 Seleucid = 1087/88 CE. Groom: Yefet b. Menashshe. Bride: Mawlāt …
Legal agreement between spouses on the issue of second wife, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel Ha-Ḥaver (fl. 1128-1164 CE). Location: Fustat. The groom, …