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Decorated Karaite ketubba from Cairo. Dated: 18 Shevat 5557 AM (February 1797 CE). The groom is Nissim b. Avraham and the bride is Esther d. …
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Legal record (#72) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 23v-24r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: final day (סלך/سلخ) …
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Few faded words, probably regarding a debt
Legal document. Tiny fragment.
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a deed of sale for half of a house, describing its boundaries. Mentions Yosef. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recto: Formulary for a bill of divorce (get). In Hebrew and Aramaic. Upper margin and verso: several lines of Arabic script. The verso reads, "Yashūʿā …
Bill of sale for a house. Faded. Location: Damascus. Dated: Late Tevet 4874 AM = early January 1114 CE (beginning of second line one can …
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Liturgy for the marriage ceremony, along with part of a copy of a Karaite ketubba for Muʾammala bat Ḥayyim. Dated: 1324 Sel. (= 1012-13 CE). …
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Looks like it is dated 7[..] AH = 14th century CE.
Small fragment from a prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130/31 CE. There is an even smaller fragment …
Legal document, late, running transaction sheet with (related?) sequential transactions, probably a bill or a receipt of goods and services. Mentions a wage - "ujra", …
Legal documents. Dating: Ottoman-era, probably. Recto refers to a new gold denomination of currency (al-dhahab al-jadīd al-sulṭānī al-tāmm). Needs further examination.
Legal contract concerning the synagogue of the Mustaʿrib congregation in 1544 CE (Sivan 5304 AM).
Legal fragment. Appears to be the settlement of a marital dispute between Yūsuf and Sitt al-Ahl. Dating: Mentions the date Shevat 1437 Seleucid, which is …
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Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (Date: 1100-1138). Partnership record. Seʿadya b. Menashshe ha-Kohen has inherited funds from his father, and places …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 7 Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133 CE. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Also signed …
Deed regarding the endowment of a small house in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the Babylonian synagogue. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from CUDL)
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient His blessings be upon his servants, whom he has cho…
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Top of a legal declaration drawn up in Fustat in the middle of Iyyar 15[..], under the authority of the Avraham Maimonides. One of the …
Court proceedings. There are two drafts, possibly of the same document. Involving Nissim and Shemuel ha-Ḥaver and Abū l-Karam and Peraḥya. The hand of the …
Bill of release. Fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions Sitt al-Kull and her mother Sirwa, one …
Small and much damaged fragment from a ketubah. Contains the immersion clause so can be dated to 1176 onwards. AA
Legal document from the high court (al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī) in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ II 1106 AH = 22 November 1694 CE. Judge: …
Marriage contract (ketubba) appearing to be between two relatively poor families, as evident by the small marriage gift of 14 dinars. Dowry provided by the …
Fragment from a legal document, mentioning dirhams and a witness statement. (Information from CUDL)
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yosef b. Yehuda Hakohen. The bride is Esther known as Qamar d. Eliyahu. Dated 25 Adar 5581 …
Legal document in Arabic script. Almost complete. There are two witness attestations at the bottom. There is a short note on the verso.
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Deed of sale of shares in a property; the seller is a woman. Mentions a man's two …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Elul 5[...] AM, probably ca. 15th or 16th century.
Ruling in absentia against the blacksmith Jawhar Maḥmūd of al-Sakākīnī Street where he runs a blacksmith workshop without a permit and he is fined 50 …
Trousseau list (taqwīm). Groom: Tamīm b. Netanel. Bride: Sitt al-Khafar bt. Elʿazar. 42 + 83 + 55 + 30 = 210 dinars. Dating: ca. 1182 …
Barely legible legal document concerning marriage. It may be a ketubba, but the legal formulae that remain are not unique to ketubbot. (Information from CUDL)
Betrothal contract draft, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 5 Tishrei 5398 AM, which is 1637 CE. The scribe misspelled the number 8 as 80 twice …
Marriage document. Long a narrow fragment from the left side of a ketubba, with only a few words surviving. The hand is by Mevorakh b. …
Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba. Groom: Meshullam. Dating: probably first half of the 11th century. Location: perhaps Fusṭāṭ. The dowry is a total of 277 …
Karaite purchase deed. Ovadya b. Gedalyah Feyruz is buying a lobby and upper hall from the widow Estīta and her two unnamed daughters from her …
Rental contract. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right piece). [..]ār b. Azhar rents from a Jewish woman named [...] bt. ʿAmmār a share in a …
Legal document, dated 689 H, (=1290/91 CE), in a very faded script, with signature(s) at the bottom. One of the parties is al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. …
Debt contract. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Minyat Ghamr. Dated: middle third of Shevat 1543 Seleucid, which is January 1232 CE. Nuṣayr b. Bāqī al-Kohen owes 140 …
Legal document, mentioning a certain Shela. Very damaged. Might be a deed of sale for a property.
Fragment of a document in Judaeo-Arabic. Contains legalistic language but is written in a crude hand - possibly a copy of an original document. Refers …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment, with pinholes in the margin. Very damaged/fragmented. Making provisions for somebody's …
Legal record (#16) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ II 717 AH = 4 July 1317 CE. Buyer: Isḥāq b. Manṣūr b. Abū Sahl the …
Ketubba fragment. Dating: ca. 1130 CE(?). Grand total: 322 dinars. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Badly damaged and faded fragment from a legal deed mentioning Sitt al-Dar
Recto: Testimony by Nissim b. Shemarya that Sason b. Natan had deposited with him seventeen counterfeit nizārī dinars. The counterfeiter was the mutawallī al-sikka, or …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragmentary (top part and bottom part are missing). Mentions a woman and her husband Tamīm(?) (l. 2); Yaʿqūb Ibn al-Aswad …
Legal query, probably to Avraham Maimonides and possibly in Shelomo ha-Melammed b. Eliyyahu's hand.
Recto: Marriage contract, fragment. Groom: Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Berakhot. Bride: Milāḥ bt. Abū l-Faraj (from verso). Dating: Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel …
Recto: Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and supplies for the Synagogue. Dating: ca. 1042 – Nov. 1043. In the hand of Yefet b. David …
…for two days, 4 dir.
…. from him, originally
.... and other (things), 6 dir.
…. and (she) opened a shop, they are known
…. owed …