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Draft of a legal document. Dating: 13th century. Abū l-Karam b. Ḥananyahu the Judge buys from Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet ha-Levi one quarter of a flour …
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Birth certificate – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 73) – in Turkish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda …
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Minute fragment, very faded, only few words are readable but most probab;y from a legal deed.
Legal fragment, probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or Natan b. Shemuel. Contains phrases typical of bills of divorce. mentions [...]. ha-Levi. Possibly …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 4 Rajab 596 AH = 20 April 1200 CE. Mentions the name Faḍāʾil(?) b. Manṣūr b. Hilāl. Likely a …
Sub-leasing agreement. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 = 15 January 1106 CE. In which Musāfir b. ʿEli, the tax farmer of …
Testimony of what transpired before us, we the witnesses whose signatures are at the bottom of
this document. Thus it was: Musāfir b. ʿAlī,…
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Quittances for 15 dinars and 68 dinars (the latter apparently in Alexandria) to Sitt al-Kamāl, widow of Abū Sahl Mukhtār, witnessed by Yefet b. Ṣedaqa, …
Deed of sale for the purchase by Ibrahim b. Mūsā b. Ṣaliḥ the Jew of two houses and irrigated land to the north of Fusṭāṭ …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وكفى وصلواته على عباده الذين اصطفی
هذا ما اشترى ابرهيم بن موسی بن صلح الاسرائيلي من [دا اود بن ازهر …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient for, and his blessings be upon, his [servants, whom] …
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Legal record from the early thirteenth century explicating a communal conflict. The sermon of local Jewish judge describes accusations concerning women in the city lending …
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Legal record (#28 in the court register). Quittance, drawn up in outline as an addendum to the previous record in the same court notebook. Stating …
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Court record of a legal agreement between a husband, Abū l-Ḥasan Shelomo b. Menashshe, and his wife, Sitt al-Nasab bt. Abū l-Munā, in which he …
Minute fragment, probably from a ketubah. The word גביה might belong to the monogamy clause.
Declaration in front of witnesses in which Ḥalfon b. Moshe states that he sold some property and acquitted the sellers from the sales price.
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Partnership agreement between Avraham Yaʿabeṣ/Yuʿbaṣ and Shimʿon ʿEzrī, duration 24 months. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated Elul 5563 AM which is 1803 CE. The partnership is …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper half). Involves [...] b. Yehuda al-Rāb and Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm, both Jews. Needs examination for content.
Legal document fragment, mentioning the elder Abū [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Court record. Tiqva b. ʿAmram is representing his sister Sitt al-Kull bt. ʿAmram in her engagement (she is titled al-mukhatiba = the engaged (?)) to …
Legal record (#18) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 1 …
Legal document. Fragment of a ketubba, left upper corner. With ornate decorations. Dated: Adar 1817 Seleucid = January/February1506 CE. (Information from Goitein’s index card and …
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Legal document. Ketubba. Dating: early 11th century. Bride: Dalāl. Early marriage payment: 30 dinars. (Information from Goitein’s index card and CUDL.)
Small fragment of a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Very little content remains. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Faḍl …
Partnership contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions 1428 Seleucid, which is 1116/17 CE (but this is not necessarily the date of …
Bottom part of a torn court record involving a widow, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Tishrei 1439 Seleucid = September/October 1127 CE.
Receipt from the association of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – December 3 1950CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 202) – in French …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document written on parchment. Dated Ṣafar 261 AH = November/December 874 CE. This is therefore the oldest Arabic …
Legal record (#34). Divorce settlement(?). Dated: 20 Sivan, 1467 Seleucid. Turfa bt. Bū Saʿd b. Ṭībān, the wife of Bū Naṣr known as Ibn al-Dayyān, …
Ketubba fragment. Written and signed by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Groom: ʿAmmār b. Thābit. Many signatures, including [...] b. Mawhūb, Shelomo b. Maym[ūn], and …
Legal document: marriage contract. Manṣūr b. ... remarried his wife Nājiya (she previously separated from her him by agreed repudiation [ḥulʿ]), for a dowry of …
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Karaite betrothal deed. Bride: Yamān bat David b. Isaiah, of Egypt. Groom: Shela b. ʿAmram al-Qirqisānī, of Tyre. Both the bride and groom are represented …
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Bifolio from a court register, probably from the same pinqas as T-S K22.27 (the latter shelfmark contains five bifolios). Altogether, the six bifolios comprise as …
Small fragment of a legal document, probably. Very little preserved.
Small fragment of a legal document, probably a ketubba. On parchment. Crumpled and in need of flattening and conservation. Involves [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen; someone …
Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Mentions Rabbenu Pinḥas ha-K[ohen?], Nissim, the phrase פי ולאיה נטר perhaps referring to a girl or woman named Naẓar. …
Verso: Hebrew legal document, probably from a draft or formulary. AA
CUL Add.3414 (c?). Noted and copied by Baneth. Goitein looked for this document in 1965 and could not find it; speculated that perhaps it was …
Legal document, or letter with legal content. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Reporting to a group of people (ישמרכם צור …
Legal document. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf known as בן כדורה attests that he owes 71 dinars to Barakāt b. Yosef Ibn al-Lebdī (who died prior to …
Fragment of a ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Yoel b. Yeshuʿa. Groom: Shelomo b. [...]. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1237–79 CE, as it is written In …
Legal record (#116) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 38r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). The date is damaged, …
Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1392 Seleucid, which is 1081 CE. Husband: Ṣedaqa b. Avraham. Wife: Rashīda bt. Yeshuʿa. Witnesses: Mevorakh …
Draft of a legal document, or of a letter containing a record of a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Rabbenu Ḥalfon ha-Sar ha-Gadol. Concerning copies …
Draft of the opening date of a legal document (probably a ketubah). AA
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 20 Av 1473 Seleucid = 2 August 1162 CE. Husband: Thābit b. Abū l-Faraj. Wife: Sitt al-Nās …
Legal document mentioning Abū l-[...] and probably Sitt al-Sāda, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. Fragment of a prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). The wife is permitted to leave her house only with …
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue this MS contains 25 pages, in a late hand. Including formulas of legal deed according to the custom …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower left corner). Dating: [14]41 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen …
Marriage contract written by the Gaʾon Eliyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (served 1062–83). Location: Ramla. Dating: Probably 1064 CE. The property of the bride includes an …
Betrothal contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday 8 Heshvan 5578 AM, which is 1817 CE. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Levi b. Ḥesed b. Seʿadya known as Qayyim. …