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Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Contains part of the physical description of one of the parties (...wāḍiḥ al-jabha...). Verso: Probably records …
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Legal fragment. Late. In Hebrew. Mentions Mardūk. There is an addendum in which Aharon agrees to all of the above.
Legal document. Fragment (lower right corner). Dated: 13 Iyyar 1[...] Seleucid. involving Sittāna bt. [...] the wife of Mevasser b. [...]. Signed by: Shelomo b. …
Karaite ketubbah, in which only the introductory biblical verses are preserved: 2 Chronicles 26:5; Proverbs 18:22; Psalms 37:23; Jeremiah 7:34. On the top margin pen …
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Legal record (#115) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Tammuz 5326 …
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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: …
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IB VII, 23. Legal document detailing how Ṣāfī, the slave (ghulām) and agent of the Jewish Academy in Fustat, insulted a notable in ʿAydhāb, Ibn …
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Halakhic text with citations such as Leviticus 18:18. Mentions property, money, things owed, the Bet Din. Possibly part of a responsum. (Information from CUDL)
Deed of appointment for a kosher butcher Shemuel [surname lost]. Location: Cairo. Dated: [5]288 AM, which is 1527/28 CE. The term of the appointment is …
Small fragment of a legal deed mentioning a kind of silk called כזאג. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE).
Legal document. In Hebrew. Fragment: upper left corner. Dating: Probably 15th–17th century, based on the handwriting. Contract of a debt between Yehuda Ṭali, Yiṣḥaq b. …
Minute fragment from a ketuba. The groom's name is probably Shelomo.
Court testimony. Dating: 13th century. Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. ʿAbdallāh b. Shemuel attests that the estate, consisting of cloths, textiles and other things, of the late …
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Fragment from a legal document, maybe a deed of sale since it describes the location of a property. Mentions Fāṭima bt. [...].
Verso: Bill of sale for a slave. Incomplete and unsigned. Dated: Monday 26 Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid, which is 1091 CE. Seller: Meshullam b. Hiba known …
Top right strip from a Ketubbah of Ṣedaqa [b. ...] (groom), with no further details preserved. AA
Fragment (bottom) of a legal document from Fusṭāṭ. Concerning a petition from a group of people ("al-mustaghīthīn"). The court validates a document and gives it …
Fragment from the bottom of a deed of sale. Mentions [...] the wife of Khalaf. Needs further examination.
Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). Groom: Yosef b. Yefet. Bride: Sitt al-Ahl. Mentions an apartment (ṭabaqa) that is over the cross-street bridge (sābāṭ). Signed by …
Fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Involves a wife and husband ("... li-zawjatī...") and mentions the transfer of a …
Part of a draft deed of indemnity, dated 1342 Seleucid (= 1030/31 CE), in which the woman Ḥusn bt. Mawhūb, releases her husband, Netanʾel b. …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), based on Weiss' paleographical assessment. Agreement probably between the daughter of Abū …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century. Fragment (upper right piece). At least three people make the acknowledgment (Abū …
IB I, 6–7. Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. …
בתרין בשבה דהוא תמניה יומי בירח אייר שנת את''ט לשטרו[ת]
חצר אלי בית דין מ' יקותיאל הנזכר כלף הדה אלורקה וטאלב מ' יו…
On Monday, the eighth day of the month of Iyyar, 1409 E.D.,
Mr. Jekuthiel, who is mentioned on the reverse side of…
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There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. (fol.1) - a - Bottom of a legal document containing legal testimonies.
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 …
Business agreement from Egypt, concerning raisins. Location: Cairo. The parties include Raḥamim and Avraham. It is signed by Yosef b. Ṣefanya Kohen. Dated: Monday, 11 …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment from the top. Dated: 12 Av 14[..] Seleucid, under the reshut of M[aṣliaḥ? Mevorakh?]. The groom may be Yeshuʿa b. …
Recto: deed of release (שובר) in Hebrew from Yosef b. Bahlūl to an unnamed person. Date, location and witnesses are not preserved. Verso: collection of …
Legal document, iqrār, in Arabic script. More than two-thirds of the document is preserved except for some tear on the top and left corner. Khalīfa …
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 26 Adar 5487 AM (1727 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously married bride is Najma bt. Yeshūʿa bt. Moshe and the groom …
Lease contract involving al-Khazzān al-Yahūdī, dated A.H. 569 (= 1173-74 C.E.). - needs examination.
Document concerning the sale of a female slave named Ḍiyāʾ. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid, which is 31 March 1226 CE, under …
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Birth record. On the final page of a copy of copy of Kitāb al-Tawriyyah, the Book of Covert Ambiguity, by the 11th-century Qaraite scholar Jeshuʿah …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Someone says "I no longer have any livelihood here" (לאן מא בקי לי ההנא מעאש) and someone responds to that and …
Fragment of a settlement with a widow. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid, which is 1145 CE, under the authority of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
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Fragment of a legal document, probably. Shaky hand. Mentions words and phrases such as "al-madhkūr. . . bi-dhālika. . . fī salkh kull sana . …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yeshu'a b. Kogan b. Avraham. The bride is Esther d. Yeshu'a b. Daniel.
Upper part of a Qaraite legal document. Dated: Tuesday, 23 Tishrei 5408 AM = 22 October 1647 CE (not 1787 CE as stated in Ktiv). …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 20 Shevaṭ 1354 Seleucid = 3 February 1043 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. …
Recto: Legal record in a court notebook. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 18 Iyyar 1409 Seleucid = 22 April 1098 CE. Regarding a financial claim made by …
Recto: see PGPID 1305. Verso: distinct document, also in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, dealing with a business partnership between Saʿadya al-Nīlī, Abū Isḥāq …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1563 Seleucid = 1251/52 CE. (The last digit of the year is quite faded but the letters ותל …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 4[..] AH (so no later than 1106 CE). Mentions the jahbadh Ḥusayn b. Yūsuf. Needs examination.
Verso: Probably the header of a large ornamented ketubba. Recto contains an alphabetical list (of piyyuṭim?).
Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic of appointing a legal agent. Mentions Seʿadya and an exilarch, a sum of 10 dinars, and the number 15.
Legal formularies. One template is based on the replacement ketubba (כתובה דארכסא) of Sitt al-Malāḥim. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1427 Seleucid = 1115/16 CE. (Information from …
Right side of a court record, so only a few words from the beginning of each line are preserved. Mentions Yehuda Beḥir ha-Yeshiva; quotes someone's …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 17 Adar II 1597 Seleucid = 15 March 1286 CE. The communal officials (khuddām) who collect the capitation taxes in …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Shevat 5578 AM, which is 1818 CE. Declaring that Rica bt. Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) …