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Legal document. Dating: mentions Av 1346 Seleucid = July/August 1035 CE. Concerning Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov, who had disregarded the ruling of the court in Qayrawān. …
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There are several unrelated fragments sharing this shelfmark, of which the only documentary one is fol. 5. Fol. 5r: Legal document written and signed by …
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Minute fragment from a marriage deed. On recto probably from a marriage agreement or ketubah, with monogamy clause and probably a stipulation about domicile. On …
Unidentified document mainly in Hebrew. Likely a legal document. Faded. Needs examination.
Fragment from a ketubba. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Faraj. Signed by Efrayim b. Ṣadoq (active late 10th century) and Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. AA
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 …
Legal document. Ketubba. Dating: early 11th century. Bride: Dalāl. Early marriage payment: 30 dinars. (Information from Goitein’s index card and CUDL.)
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Part of a legal document; much of the date is lost. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The name Abū Saʿīd is …
Engagement contract in which Ṭahor b. Yehuda b. Saʿadya ha-Kohen pledges his minor daughter after 5 years to Muhadhdhab b. Shemuel (appears also in BL …
Tiny fragment of a document in Arabic script with a date preserved: Dhū l-Qaʿda 671 AH
Lower text block: Agreement to nominate a Dayyan in the Maghrebi congregation (FGP)
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Minute fragment of a legal deed regarding Eli and 3 brothers- probably concerning inheritance. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). AA
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1151. Location: Minyat Ashna (near Fustat). Following appeals by his deceased brother Binyam's widow to the court, Kathīr b. Avraham …
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Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe for legal purposes. Mentions Sitt al-Ahl and Sitt al-Milāḥ.
Legal note. The first part is in Arabic script: "What remains (owed) to al-Shaykh Abu l-Faraj...." The sum is 25 wariq dirhams. Dated: Shaʿbān 539 …
Power of attorney appointing Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya as agent. Dating: Probably ca. 11th century, but no date is legible. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment from the end of a legal document in calligraphic Arabic script. Dated: 594 AH = 1197/98 CE. On verso there are some lines in …
Recto with continuation on verso: Legal document in Hebrew. In which the brothers Yefet, Mevorakh and Yosef, sons of the late Mawhūb b. Faraj, acknowledge …
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Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps legal or having to do with a waqf, or having to do with the text that Yosef Rosh ha-Seder copied (see …
Receipt for payment of the rental on the river floodland in the amount of 1926 qirsh – 15 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art …
Karaite decorated ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Eliyyahu b. Yosef. The bride is Esther known as Marhaba d. Nahum Hakohen b. Aharon
Notes from a lesson given by Maimonides. There is a fingerprint. See analysis and edition in Friedman, "Notes by a Disciple in Maimonides' Academy Pertaining …
Legal document. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar II 1404 Seleucid, which is 1093 CE, under the authority of the Nasi …
Legal document relating to a dowry. On parchment. Mentions 100 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
Minute fragment. Few words only
Ketubba fragment. Groom: Avraham ha-Levi.
Fragment of a court record, probably a quarrel between partners about amount of money. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active ca. 1066-1108). Mentions …
Very damaged fragment of a ketubah. The bride's name is Husn. AA
Incomplete Karaite bill of sale for six shares in a house. Dated Friday 1 Nisan 5405 AM (1645 CE). Involving the buyer Yaʿaqov b. Avraham …
Recto: Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic about the collection of payments from al-Zakiyy, mentioning a jābī and a ḥawāla (aḥāla ʿalayhi...). Dating: refers to Dhū l-Ḥijja …
Fragment from the book of legal formulae, no. 23 (divorce deed). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Legal document in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century if not earlier. Might be a join with ENA 3656.1, but it is too hard to tell. …
Small fragment of a bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Two different hands. Recto begins with a basmala and is followed by the word thabat (inventory). …
Fragment from a bill of divorce of Hiba ha-Kohen from Fustat. Written by the same scribe who wrote T-S AS 147.254. AA
Recto: The upper part of a legal testimony. Aharon ha-Zaqen b. Yosef ha-Mumḥeh reports that Abū l-Munā b. Ṣadaqah al-Jūjarī was renting a drug store …
Verso: Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: Late 13th century CE according to Lieberman, but in fact probably closer to 1230 CE (the date of recto). …
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Only a small amount of text is legible, but what little remains, and the fact it is written on vellum, suggests a legal document rather …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38). Regarding a partnership. Mentions Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and [...]n ha-Kohen. Written on a Wednesday.
Legal document concerning a sale, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#66) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 22r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 14 Elul 5324 …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involving an agreement between two parties. Dating: written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, and …
Legal record (#30) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Sivan [5322 …
Small fragment of a ketubba, probably.
Bottom part of an Ottoman-era legal document. Mentions Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad and Jews.
Deed of sale or lease. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The seller (or lessor) receives 6 dinars from a woman. …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A woman gives to a man a gift consisting of two objects delivered …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 27 Kislev 1560 Seleucid = 14 December 1248 CE. Husband: Shela b. Yefet ("known as [...]"). NB: …
Fragment of a legal document (or documents) in Arabic script.
Ketubba for the marriage of Sahlān and his bride. Ca. mid 11th century CE. Written by Yefet b. David. Signed by Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen ha-Parnas b. …
Page from a book of legal formulas contains a will, Ketubah for widow or divorced and for remarriage (מחזיר גרושתו) and a deed of prozbol …