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Three court records dealing with the same conflict over bay windows of two confronting houses which were touching. Dated: Tuesday, last decade of Shevaṭ, 1419 …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving a certain [...] b. Ṭībān and Abū Mūsā and details concerning …
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Bill of divorce. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Nisan 1435 Seleucid, which is 1124 CE. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. …
Contract between ʿAlun and Judah the cantor. Signatures include Maʿarūf b. Judah, Yaʾir b. Elʿazar and Menashshe b. Judah. Verso: possibly accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information …
Recto: Legal agreement between Nissim b. Ḥayyim Mosseri and Yosef al-[...] b. [...]. Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 5589 AM = August/September 1829 CE. The document …
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Draft of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 12 Ṣafar 499 AH = 24 October 1105 CE (this seems to be a better reading …
List of goods with values, possibly from the trousseau list section of a ketubba.
Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39). Dating: 1127–38 CE. Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. …
Much damaged fragment from a ketubah.
Verso: Legal deed related to the ketubba on recto. Location: Fustat. Dated: 25 Tishrei 1607 Seleucid = 6 October 1295 CE. Muwaffaqa bt. Yirmiya ha-Levi …
Legal document mentioning Sitt al-Dār bt. Saʿadya written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). AA
Recto is a legal document concerning a compromise reached between a certain Saʿadya and a woman. Verso is in the same handwriting but is not …
Recto: an acknowledgement of debt by Yosef b. Menashshe al-Ramlī, who owes 11 dinars to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef, which he will pay back …
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IB VII, 12. Bifolium from a court notebook. Dating: One entry is dated Shevat 1411 Seleucid, which is January 1100 CE. The four pages have …
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Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). Groom: ʿAmmār b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Surūr bt. Yefet. A sum of 12.5 dinars is mentioned. The dowry is valued at …
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Will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother and …
Verso: End of a court record. Unrelated to the entry on recto Written and signed by Avraham b. Natan Av. Also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. …
Recto: Bottom of a note from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a shipment of pearls. Verso: Legal document, perhaps a draft (no signatures). Hand of Shelomo …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: Tuesday, 17 Elul 16[29?] Seleucid, which would be 1318 CE. The first and final letter of the missing digits are clearly …
Legal document recording the receipt by a woman of the inheritance due to her from the administrator of intestate succession in Tinnīs. Dated: 10 Rabīʿ …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dating: First decade of the 19th century ([..]התק). Involving Shabbetay Skandarī and Yiṣḥaq Ḥanūn. Signed by Nissim Romano, Aharon …
Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Refers to the dates Adar 1408 and Kislev 1409 Seleucid (1096/7 and 1097/8 …
Draft of a legal document (or documents). In Judaeo-Arabic. There is writing on both sides. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, but it …
Fragment from a legal document mentioning a certain Moses. (Information from CUDL)
Will of Na’ima bt. Yaʿaqov stating that one-half of a house with a store in Malij that she bought from her son for six dinars, …
צוואת נאעמה בת יעקוב בעיר מליג
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Unidentified document mainly in Hebrew. Likely a legal document. Faded. Needs examination.
Legal testimony. Upper right corner. Mentions Maṣliaḥ Gaon. A man makes a declaration beginning with "Eight _____ ago...."
Leaf from a court notebook. Recto: Legal record. Dated: Tammuz 1549 Seleucid, which is 1238 CE. There are no reshut clauses invoking a Head of …
Legal record (#12) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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Ketubbah for [...] b. Eleazar (bride). Dated 28th Elul 15[.. Sel.], in the time of R. Abraham (possibly Maimonides?). Might be by the hand of …
Legal document. Testimony. Dated: Sivan 1470 Sel. = May-June 1159 CE. Testimony around the engagement of Tamīm b. Abū al-Faraj and Fakhr bt. Yosef, imposing …
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Letter or legal query/responsum. Fragment. In Hebrew. Late. Concerning a theft or somebody accused of a theft.
Right fragment of a marriage contract, containing high-priced items in the trousseau (dowry). Groom: Avraham. Dated [13]35 Seleucid, which is 1023/24 CE. (Information from CUDL …
Legal fragment in Hebrew. Some unusual formulae, and unusual hand. Late? T-S AS 206.304 and T-S AS 206.304 seem to be two different legal documents …
Deed of acknowledgment of a debt of 76.25 black dirhams to be repaid in weekly installments by Bū l-Fakhr b. Bū l-Futūḥ al-Levi, who works …
End of a legal document in Arabic script. Might be dated 29 Jumādā I 510 AH, but this is difficult to read and more or …
Recto (original use): Power of attorney. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 16 Ḥeshvan 4835 AM = 9 November 1074 CE. A woman, Nājiya bt. Shelomo b. Hiba …
Bill of sale for a Nubian enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe as well as Elʿazar ha-Kohen …
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1462 Seleucid = 1150/51 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Groom: [...] b. Ṣadaqa. Bride: Turfa …
Legal document. Location: somewhere in Egypt, probably Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1286 Seleucid = November/December 974 CE. The merchant Maṣliaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq b. David acquits another …
Marriage document. Lower part, probably of a ketubah, written by a typical 13th century hand. Some of the dowry list is preserved. Signed by […] …
Court register. Recto: Partnership agreement, probably for the tax farming of silk dyeing in Upper Egypt (פי צמאן באב אלחריר ב[אלצעיד . . . אל]עליא …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions: [Abū l-]Faḍāʾil Yosef; Qurrat al-ʿAyn Sitt al-Milāḥ; her late father [Abū …
Ketubba from the late 13th–14th century, with no names preserved other than a signatory, Joseph ha-Levi. Information from CUDL.
Court record in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Fragment (upper right corner). Appearing before the court are Abū l-Ḥasan (titled הנדיב …
Court record of divorce. In Hebrew. Dated: Friday, 4 Tammuz 5279 AM = 3 June 1519 CE. Husband: Elʿazar b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Wife: Esther bt. …
Legal deed written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be …
Legal document. Upper right corner. Dated: Tammuz 15[..] Seleucid, which is 1189–1288 CE. Involves Abū l-Faraj, Abū Saʿd, 40 dinars, a bustān and a qāʿa, …
Court record about the settlement of various claims between Shela b. ʿAyyāsh ha-Kohen and Tiqva b. ʿAmram. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1410 Seleucid = 1098/99 CE. …
Legal document written in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning Nathaniel and the elder Abū [...]. Includes the word אסתאגתת = a misspelling of استغاثت? (Information in part from …