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  1. 4051Legal documentT-S AS 177.165

    Ottoman-era document with a seal imprint. Needs examination.

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  2. 4052Legal documentT-S AS 148.41

    Legal document dated Av 1446 of the Seleucid Era (= 1135 CE) (though the digit "6" is not perfectly clear) in the town [..]דמ (possibly …

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  3. 4053Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 11/36

    Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Ḥeshvan 1465 Seleucid = November 1153 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya. In …

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  4. 4054Legal documentT-S AS 151.38

    Legal document dated [...] Sivan […], in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)

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  5. 4055Legal documentT-S 16.76

    Fragment from the top of a ketubba (or engagement contract?). Bride: Ratab or Rutab (רתב) bt. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen ha-Sar. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen [b. …

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  6. 4056Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/5

    Legal testimony. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: 20 Tishrei 1469 Seleucid, which is 1157 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Denouncing …

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  7. 4057Legal documentT-S Ar.39.421

    Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Dated: 539 AH, which is 1144/45 CE. The lessee is the trader (tājir) Dāʾūd b. Ḥasan al-Yahūdī (though his …

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  8. 4058Legal documentT-S 8J8.11

    Recto: legal document mainly in Hebrew, detailing the financial arrangements between the woman Sitt al-Bayt b. Aharon al-Tājir (the merchant), her husband Yūsuf/Yosef al-Najjār (the …

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  9. 4059Legal documentBL OR 10578R.58 + BL OR 10578R.5

    Early modern legal fragment in Hebrew. Based on the paleography the dating is likely 17th-19th-century. This document is related to or perhaps a join with …

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  10. 4060Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 12/8

    Legal document. Abū al-Bahā' al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl (“the beekeeper”) undertakes to pay back his nephew Moshe ha-Kohen 66(9)0 silver dirhams, 200 dinars, and 100 irdabb …

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  11. 4061Legal documentCUL Or.1080 5.17

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Written in a rudimentary hand (Goitein calls it a "most miserable script"). Location: Cairo. Dated: Av 1[3]82 Seleucid, which is 1071 CE. …

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  12. 4062Legal documentT-S 8J32.5

    Draft of the beginning of a legal record. Handwriting of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Location: Fustat. Dated: 9 Elul 1533 Seleucid = 18 August 1222 CE, …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימי שהדותנא לתתא כסוף שטרא
    2. דנן כן הוה למא כאן פי יום אלאתנין אלתאסע מן שהר אלול שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ותלתון
    3. ותלתא שנין ל…

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  13. 4063Legal documentAIU VII.D.53

    Interesting legal document probably from 1682 CE (at least after Adar 5442) involving a businesswoman apparently named Mazal Tov and at least two famous rabbis, …

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  14. 4064Legal documentT-S 13J5.3

    Legal and communal documents. (a) Power of attorney granted by Saʿadya b. Yeshuʿa to Yosef b. Elʿazar ha-Melammed for the purpose of suing Yaʿaqov b. …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא
    2. בשטר אורכתא דא כן הוה חצר אלינא מר ור סעדיה בר
    3. כב מר ור ישועה הזקן וקאל לנא אשהדו עלי ואקנו
    4. מני מעכשיו…

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  15. 4065Legal documentENA 4011.56

    Recto: Partnership agreement. Written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Tammuz 1436 Seleucid = June/July 1125 CE. Settlement of a dispute of two …

    1. חצר אלי בית דין מוסי
    2. בן בשר אל[.] אל ואדעא עלי
    3. הבה אנה כאן שריכה פי עמל
    4. [[אלכבז]] אלכבז ואן כאן מעהם
    5. ד דנאניר לבן אלרצא אלשומר
    6. ותעישו בהא ואנהא גרקת

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  16. 4066Legal documentENA NS 16.6

    A Palestinian marriage contract from Ḥaṣor. The groom ([...] b. Yefet) is to pay 10 dinars as the “security” of the marriage contract. (Information from …

    1. יבנו ויצליחו
    2. . . .]דשמטתא מא דהיא שתא ארבע[
    3. . . .] דחצור דעל גף ימא דמליחה     אתכ[תב
    4. . . .] בר יפת ננ אמר מן דעתי ומן רעותיה ומן טבותיה ומן צביני
    5. נ…
    1. [...] May they build and prosper.
    2. [ ... year ... ] of the shemiṭṭa, which is year four [thousand ...]
    3. [...] of Ḥaṣor which is on the shore of the sa…

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  17. 4067Legal documentT-S AS 183.55

    Fragment from the middle of a legal document. Refers to itself as a taṣāduq. Dating: likely late Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Refers to rings …

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  18. 4068Legal documentAIU VII.D.110 + CUL Or.1081 J34 + Moss. VII,65.1 + ENA 4011.14

    Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1438 Seleucid = October 1126 CE. This was before the …

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    1. [... דח]תמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא
    2. [... מנ]שה הזקן [דידי]ע בן אלגביליה נע וקאל
    3. [לנא ....מעכ]שו ואכתמו עלי בג…

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  19. 4069Legal documentT-S Ar.50.113

    Small fragment containing large red letters and illumination. Likely a fragment of a ketubba (הכשרה המאו[שרת?).

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  20. 4070Legal documentT-S 16.51

    Verso: transfer of the debt detailed on recto. Dated: last third of Ḥeshvan 1441 Seleucid = November 1129 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. …

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    1. ] בר מרור סעדיה הזקן נע דידיע בן סעדאן ואשהדנא עלי נפסה אנה קד והב
    2.  אלש]ראבי סט מן גמ[.............] //ארבע אמות קרקע מחלקו בארץ ישראל …

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  21. 4071Legal documentT-S 13J30.7 + T-S NS J614

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Attesting that Sitt al-Gharb bt. Abū l-Faraj b. Semekh al-Daʿwa (known from other Geniza documents) gave a deed of manumission (גט …

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    1. חצ'רא א[ ] | דין [ ] מ[

    2. הוינא ב[מות]ב אדונ|נו נגידנו שמו[אל הנגיד

    3. הגדול יהי שמו לעול|ם שאהדין מן ישר[אל

    4. ושהדו בין ידינא בא|ן …

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  22. 4072Legal documentMoss. VII,5

    Legal document draft in Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Sivan 5579 AM, which is 1819 CE. Involves partners Eliyyahu b. Ṣahal and Eliyahu Sūkkar; as …

    1. ..........] נחנא בי דינא דחתיחין לתתא ואתא קדמנא אליאו ן׳ צהל יצ׳׳ו ואייתו שטרא בידיה על הר׳ אליאו שווכר יצ׳׳ו
    2. .........] נ׳׳ע מתו׳ ארם צובה יע׳׳א ו…

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  23. 4073Legal documentT-S 13J3.10

    Legal declaration. After the death in Sicily of Abū l-Surūr b. Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥibrī, his brother Futūḥ claimed his inheritance and the court establishes that …

    1. למא אתצל בנא אנו בית דין הקבועים מפי הדרת וכנל' ופאה אבו אלסר[ור אבן
    2. אלש אבו עלי אלחבריי נע פי סקלייה חצר אלינא אכוה שקיקה פתוח ודכר
    3. אלמתופא קד כלף …

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  24. 4074Legal documentT-S AS 179.169

    Legal document in Arabic script. Maybe a lease - mentions money and a period of 3 months. Needs examination.

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  25. 4075Legal documentT-S NS 306.10

    Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.

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  26. 4076Legal documentT-S 12.492

    Ketubba fragment (right side). Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. mid-11th century. Groom: Muʾammal b. ʿUmayr. Signed by: the parnas Yaʿīsh b. Avraham ha-Kohen and Yeshuʿa b. …

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  27. 4077Legal documentT-S 13J3.16

    Document concerning the sale of a female enslaved person named Saʿāda. Dated: 27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid, which is 5 April 1198 CE. (The main bill …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא [אנן ה]חתומין למטה כן הוה
    2. למא חצל עקד אלביע ללגא[רי]ה אלמדעוה סעאדה
    3. מן אלשיך אבי אלברכאת מר ור [יפ]ת הזקן היקר סט
    4. בר כגק מר ור מש…

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  28. 4078Legal documentT-S 20.34

    Ketubba for Mikhal bat Sason b. Yefet and Saʿadya b. Nathan, in the hand of Nathan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Verso: part of another document …

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  29. 4079Legal documentT-S AS 172.136

    Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The parties are Avraham and a certain …

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  30. 4080Legal documentBL OR 10118.9

    Ketubba for Yūsuf b. ʿIwaḍ al-Kohen and Ḥāliya bt. Yaḥyā Kohen. No earlier than late 17th century (perhaps 1696 CE = 2008 Seleucid).

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  31. 4081Legal documentT-S AS 111.164

    Recto: Hebrew prayer. Verso: last lines of an autograph responsum by Maimonides, and part of a liturgical text in Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based …

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    1. ...
    2. ... ולא יקדר אלחמו ימנע
    3. דלך בוגה וכתב משה

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    1. ...
    2. ... And the father-in-law cannot prevent
    3. this at all. Moses wrote this.

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  32. 4082Legal documentT-S AS 145.51

    Legal document of communal let(?), signed by [...] b. Nāḥūm, Hilāl b. [...], Thābit b. [...] and Muʿammar b. Yiṣḥaq. May be a petition involving …

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  33. 4083Legal documentT-S 12.592

    One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). …

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  34. 4084Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#55) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 19v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Shevat 5323 AM …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 19v

    1. ישהד עליה אלאך שמועון הלוי א׳ אלמולי אלאגל יעקב הלוי הסומך אלקדסי נ׳׳ע
    2. אן ענדה ופי דמתה [[תאיה..]] תלאתה מאיה וארבעין נ…

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  35. 4085Legal documentT-S AS 152.223

    Minute fragment. Bottom part of a legal deed, signed by Yeshuʿa b. Yiṣḥaq.

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  36. 4086Legal documentENA NS 62.22

    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.

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  37. 4087Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 13/1

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Contract for the sale of flax following the dissolution of the partnership. Tiqva …

    1. [...] .. [
    2. אלכתאן אלדי [
    3. כגק מרור [
    4. ואבעתה איצא גמיע אלחצירה אלמש[אקה 
    5. חמדת הישיבה ראש הנדיבים נט ר[...............]ין גמי[................]
    6. וקיימין…

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  38. 4088Legal documentT-S 16.133

    Part of a 10th-century legal document dealing with the estate of Bundār the freedman (בנדאר המשחרר). The document may derive from the Jewish community in …

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  39. 4089Legal documentCUL Or.1081 J69

    Deed of sale in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment, containing text written at a strange angle; perhaps this came from the margin of the original document. This …

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  40. 4090Legal documentENA NS 77.417

    Legal query, perhaps. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Concerning the principle of טוען וחוזר וטוען. Mentions a previous response from al-Rayyis. Dating: probably 12th or 13th …

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  41. 4091Legal documentT-S 24.7

    Qaraite marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Dated: 1315 Seleucid, which is 1003/04 CE. (In fact, Goitein points out that this is one of the oldest …

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    1. … הצליחו האל[הים] …
    2. עוד אב[ניך] עוד תטעי כ[רמים] …
    3. ביום אחד בשבת בשנים [ע]שר …
    4. שנת אלף ושלש מאות וחמש עש[רה שנה למספר יונים בעיר אל]
    5. קאהרה שדי…

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    1. … God made him prosper (II Chron. 26: 5) …
    2. … Again I will rebuild you (Jer. 31: 4). Again you will plant vines (Jer. 31:5) …
    3. On Sunday, the tw…

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  42. 4092Legal documentT-S AS 151.74

    Fragment from a document, mentioning names such as Sitt al-Ahl and Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL.)

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  43. 4093Legal documentBL OR 12369.43

    Legal document. Probably from a calligraphic Qaraite ketubba in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Unfortunately the name of the bride (Sitt ...) is cut off. What remains …

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  44. 4094Legal documentT-S NS J95a

    Legal document. In Arabic. Referring to a dispute over a power of attorney. The agent is Ṣāliḥ b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī al-Ṣiqillī. Dated: 7 Rajab 495 …

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  45. 4095Legal documentT-S NS 190.68

    Minute fragment. Bottom part from a legal deed signed by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). On the lower margin a mirror imprint of another …

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  46. 4096Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Legal record (#83) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 17 Elul 5325 …

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 29r 

    1. [[למא בתא׳ נהאר אלתלאת]]
    2. למא בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלגמעה י׳׳ז פי שהר אלול המכו׳ סנה
    3. ה׳ש׳כ׳ה ליצירה חצל כנאק ו…

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  47. 4097Legal documentENA NS 77.335

    Outline of a legal document. Investment (ʿisqa). In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 16th century. Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq אמרריליו(?) (probably equivalent to Amariyo) apparently receives an investment …

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  48. 4098Legal documentPER H 92 + T-S 16.334

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. A settlement in connection with the dissolution of a partnership between Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel ha-Levi and …

    T-S 16.334 Recto

    1. ( ) דרהם אקאם בהא עני מן מאלה ואועדני אנה יאכדהא מני דרהמין כל
    2. כל אסבוע ק(ד) צמן לי עלי נפסה דרך אלגוי ען מא בקי עלי פי אלאגארה אלד…

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  49. 4099Legal documentT-S 13J7.4

    Document of release concerning the estate of Berakhot ha-Levi’s deceased wife Ghāliya, mentioning Farjiyya the mother of Gh[āliya] and the daughter of her sister specifically. …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא א[נן
    2. חצר אלינא מ ברכות הלוי [
    3. סנין תופית זוגתי גאליה [
    4. ותכפל באחואלהא כאל[
    5. להא ואהמלת אלמכא[
    6. כאן פי הדא אלזמאן ל[
    7. פאנכרוני פאסתעד…

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  50. 4100Legal documentMoss. VII,67.2

    Fragmentary document from Damascus in which [...] b. al-Tarir gives a house adjacent to his own to Yefet ha-Levi b. Ḥalfon, presumably his son-in-law. Date: …

    1. ] עשר יומי לירח כסליו שנת ארבעת אלפין ותמני מאה
    2. ] מדינתא דעל נהרי אמנה ופרפר מותבה רשותיה
    3. ] תכון משרתו עד ביאת מורה צדק איך אמר לנא כב
    4. ] בן אלטריר ה…

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