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Karaite legal document dealing with property on Darb al-Furn (in Cairo). Dated Sunday 29 Iyyar 5471 AM (1711 CE). The current owner Aharon aka ʿAbalkarim …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Calligraphically written. Five lines preserved. Dating: probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Mentions an amīr(?) Yūsuf, summoning somebody (to …
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Legal documents. Two fragments, both torn and fragmentary, under one shelfmark. 1 recto is a ketubba signed by [...] b. Avraham, Ghālib b. Ḥasan, Ṣedaqa …
Ketubba (marriage contract). Location: Fustat. Dated: 20 Tammuz 1376 Seleucid, which is 1065 CE. Groom: Fuḍayl b. Efrayim. Bride: Ḥasana bt. Yosef. No monetary details …
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Verso: Draft of a legal document, dated Thursday, 24 Tammuz 4978 = 19 July 1218 CE. Written shortly after the document on recto and in …
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Ketubba. Bride: Malīka bt. Mukhtār. Groom: Ṣedaqa b. Yeshuʿa. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 13 Av 1365 Seleucid = 20 July 1054 CE. Early marriage payment: …
Petition and/or legal report to the Gaʾon (Maṣliaḥ), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1127–1138 CE, based on the active …
Legal document concerned with a case of slander. Location: Aleppo. Dated: Tishrei 1326 of the Seleucid Era (= 1014 CE). A notable was suspected of …
Legal fragment (lower right corner). Signed: [...] b. Yosef ha-Kohen; Shela b. Mevasser (dated documents 1065–1103). On verso there is a prescription/recipe in Arabic script.
Legal document in the form of a letter. Fragment (bottom part only). Refers to various legal conditions, might mention sugar, and specifies a fine of …
Two drafts of Karaite legal documents. On recto testimony on a debt. On verso regarding inheritance. No date or signatures
Fragment of a Karaite ketubba for […] bat Ṭoviyya and ʿOvadya b. Ṣedaqa b. Ḥalfon b. ʿAlūn. In line 3 the word בת was originally …
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In a short note, a letter brought by Tiqva b. 'Amram from Farah b. 'Ayyash is presented to the court in Cairo. The letter was …
Bill of sale for a female slave, probably a draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd Seʿadya sells a Nubian female slave ([...]da) and her daughter …
Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents. Discussing the halakha of legal witnesses and testimony, including the table of contents. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment. Few words only
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 458 AH = 1065/66 CE. Seems to be a deed of sale, but needs further examination …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Deed of sale for an enslaved woman named Sahar. One of the parties …
Yefet b. Shelomo b. Yefet b. Nājī, after having acquired 3 out of 24 shares in a house from Efrayim b. Moshe, also known as …
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Legal document. Dated: Friday, 21 Tishrei 5527 AM (1766 CE). Previously the congregation had appointed as their head Shelomo Kohen b. Aharon Kohen and as …
Deed of sale for a residential building and its upper-story apartment in the Jewish quarter of Cairo. Dated: in the first third of Nisan 542[4] …
Legal document (maḥḍar) in Arabic script, in a very elegant chancery-esque hand. The testimony concerns the deceased Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Dimyāṭī al-Ḥarīrī. It mentions the year …
First two lines of a large legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? The parties are Avraham b. Faraj ha-Kohen al-Raḥbī (known from …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 1 Tevet 5416 AM, which is 1655/56 CE. Marḥaba the widow of Elʿazar(?) leases the large līwān …
Legal document recording that the parnas Eli ha-Kohen and his colleague testified in court that three orphan girls had received ten dinars bequeathed to them …
Verso: Legal agreement in which Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī the banker agrees to pay Ḥalfon b. Efrayim 8.5 dinars every month on a debt of 15 …
Recto: probably the end of a letter (or literary lament) mentioning the date Nisan 5362 AM, which is 1602 CE. Verso: legal deed with release …
Qaraite deed of betrothal. Fiance: Jābir b. Azhar. Fiancee: Ḥusn bt. Ḥayyim b. Sahlawayh. The witnesses to the appointing of the bride’s agent - probably …
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Contract of a lease. In Arabic script. Fragment: only the first 3 lines are preserved here. The tenant may be Ṣadaqa b. ʿAyyāsh.
Records of book sales, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1540 Seleucid = 9 July 1229 CE. "To increase their …
The elder Abu'l-Baya'n, (may his) R(ock) p(reserve him), sold through me the small [treatise on the] Art [of medicine] to the elder
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Deed of sale for a house (Wissem Gueddich FGP). Needs examination
End of a legal deed; only the date and signatures are preserved. Nine signatures, Nisan 1041. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS
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Fragment (left side) of a legal document in Arabic script.. Involving [...] b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī. Dated: possibly 454 AH = 1062/63 CE if read correctly.
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 …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138). Fragment (bottom only). Concerning a woman whose husband has traveled. This document evidently asserts some …
Query and response in Arabic script. The nature is not clear. The response refers to determining the "state of ripeness" (ḥāl al-naḍj) of something.
Deed of release, in Hebrew, given by Avraham b. Moshe al-Talmid to Banat b. Khalaf al-Baidayani and her daughter Durra bat Yeshua. Dated ca. 1030. …
Legal document or letter, fragment, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Involves Barakāt and [...] b. Mubārak. (Information in part from CUDL) Might belong with …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [Sitt al-Sāda bt.?] Evyatar ha-Kohen and [Shelomo b. Abū] al-Riḍā al-Wakīl and Sālim …
Muslim marriage contract. (Information from Naïm Vanthieghem.)
Legal document concerning Shelomo al-Tilmisānī. Various names, including Abū al-Kāram and Abū al-Barakāt and Abū Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, are mentioned, along with a sum of …
Small fragment of a legal document or draft in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Recto: Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Late. Mentions [...] b. al-Ashqar and a debt of 30 Venetian ducats (בנד[ק). On verso there are pen trials.
Recto: draft of a legal query to the Nagid regarding a man who has been sick for one year. Followed by a draft of a …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal or official.
Tiny fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Signed: [Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant] of Shemaʿya Gaon (active ca. 1100). Nothing else is preserved.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel. Yehuda b. Shelomo ha-Sofer is one of the witnesses. Mentions …
Fragment of a deathbed declaration of Sedaqa b. Mevorakh for his sister and brother, signed by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108). (Information from Goitein's index …
Ottoman-era document with a seal imprint. Needs examination.
Fragment from a document, mentioning names such as Sitt al-Ahl and Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL.)