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Power of attorney embedded in a letter. Yakhin b. Elʿazar of Minyat Zifta writes to Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Munā and instructs them to pay …
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An 11th-century deed of sale for a portion of a house, in Arabic script. In between a [...] al-yahūdī al-ḥarīrī (the Jewish silk trader, who …
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Multifragment. Several dozen scraps appear under this shelfmark including several documentary fragments. The most substantive is the fourth from the right in the second row. …
Legal record (#2) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f.1r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Dated in the …
Legal record (#48) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 17r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tishrei 5323 AM …
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Marriage document, fragment. "Delayed marriage payment and dowry, 38 dinars...."
Writ of release signed by three witnesses and dated end of Av 1414/July-August 1103 (a word is missing between 'one thousand four hundrer and four' …
Legal document (Baker and Polliack call it an 'Ottoman mustarad'). Location: Cairo. Dated 12 Rajab 1023 AH, which is 1614 CE. 4 witness signatures. May …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves an Abū l-Faraj. Otherwise consists entirely of elaborate release formulae.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving 120-some dinars; mentions Barakāt(?) al-Ṣayrafī al-Levi and Sitt al-Jamāl
Dowry list and nuptial gift of a rich bride. In the hand of Natan b.Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1128–53 CE.
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Legal formularies (from the section dealing with marriage and divorce). On vellum.
Legal testimony. Mentions Evyatar ha-Shelishi; Eliyyahu ha-Kohen Rosh Yeshivat Ge'on Yaʿaqov; and the estate of Avraham Ibn al-Zayyāt(?).
Ketubba in the Palestinian style. Only the recto was photographed. Dated: Heshvan 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE, under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Ga'on. Location: …
IB VII, 26. Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 …
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Dowry list for Sitt al-[...]a bt. Abū l-Khayr b. Yosef. No details of the dowry itself are here. Probably a draft.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Elul 1648 Seleucid = Muharram 738 AH = 13 August 1337 CE. Ṣafiyy b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥazzān accepts a …
Copy or record of a legal deed. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 11th century, based on the presence of the witness Ṣāliḥ b. Yivḥar, who …
Legal document, small fragment. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Mentions 'all kinds of merchandise' (in the margin).
Marriage contract (ketubba) concerning a wealthy and influential family. Dated: 18 Kislev [48]41, which is 1080 CE. (Gil thinks 4741 AM and 979/80 CE.) The …
Fragment from a power of attorney mentioning Avraham b. Asher. Dating: probably 18th or 19th century. Location: Fusṭāṭ/Cairo. No witnesses. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document mentioning Sitt al-Dār bt. Saʿadya written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). AA
Legal document from 1818 CE (5578) as per Shmuel Glick's FGP transcription—regarding an investment partnership involving Yaʿaqov ha-Levi aka ʿAkūbas and Eliyyahu b. Ṣahal.
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Legal document; probably a witness statement. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Concerning a financial settlement, mentioning various sums of money: 26 Malikī dinars (used in Yemen) …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (long vertical strip from the middle of the document). Dating: ca. 1135 …
Marriage contract for Shelomo b. Yosef and Munā bt. ʿAmram. Marriage payment: 1 + 15? From somewhere in Egypt. Dated 1086/87 CE (1398 Seleucid).
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) made by Salmūn b. Qūrīl (=Cyril), apparently a Coptic civil servant (al-[...] fī l-dīwān). Includes a description of his physical appearance …
Damaged ketubbah of Joseph b. ʿEli (groom), dated [...] Kislev [...]. No other details preserved. Probably written by Halfon b. Menasheshe Halevi. AA
Legal record (#38) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 13-19 on f. 14r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Kislev …
Legal document in Hebrew. Dated in the final third of Adar II 5415 AM (1655 CE). Location: Cairo. Moshe Kolon returns a deposit of jewelry …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a quarter-dār. Mentions "in the land of Marseilles" (מרשיל[יא), but the context is missing. Likely in the hand of Eliyyahu …
Karaite ketuba. The groom's name is Eliyahu b. Avraham and the bride is Esther known as Rina d. Avraham
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Looks like it is dated 7[..] AH = 14th century CE.
Lease of an apartment of the Qodesh ca. 1180. Abu'l-Bayan, one of the prominent parnasim of this period, leases an apartment, which is in a …
Al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Faḍl al-Parnās b. R. Aaron ha-Levi, of blessed memory, rented from al-Shaykh
Abūʾl-Bayān al-Jābī b. Elazar ha-Levi, of bl…
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid = beginning of January 1124 CE. …
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11 minute fragments (paper), of which two are parts of an order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, mentioning Abū l-Faraj (row 1, nos 2-3), …
Trousseau list. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: ca. 1140 CE or, more broadly, ca. 1128–1164 CE based on the years when Natan …
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Fragment from the right side of a legal document in the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Damaged, few details preserved. May be …
Fragment of a court record (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38). Concerning the inheritance of Abū Isḥāq Avraham ha-Levi, …
Court record, in which Naḥum b. Avraham b. Neḥemya declares that he possesses nine qiraṭs of a house in Fusṭāṭ in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the other …
Marriage document, bottom 4 lines only. No signatures are preserved.
Fragment, acknowledgment of debt by an agent to an investor while forming a partnership. Yosef ha-Kohen was appointed to act as an agent of b. …
Small piece of a legal document probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
On line from an opening of a court record involving Berakhot b. Yefet. AA
Recto: Legal document written by Yosef Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi, detailing the settlement of the estate (tarika) of the late perfumer (ʿaṭṭār) Avraham b. Abū …
Minute fragment, only few words are legible
Account and agreement between the Qodesh and a partner, ca. 1156. A certain al-Nadiv, otherwise known as the perfume maker, tenant of a compound partly …
The honorable elders declare that they
settled the account of al-Nādīv, the result
of the account being that there is a balance to his …
Recto: Legal document (lammā kāna. . .) in Judaeo-Arabic in a rudimentary hand. Mentions various names. Difficult to understand any of the content.
Recto: deed in which a man and his sons gift a house to an adult woman, ʿAʾisha (known as al-Wuḥsha), the daughter of the owner. …
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[this house,] defined herein, with all its boundaries, its land, its building, its lower [and upper floor and every r…
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