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Bottom of a legal document, in Arabic script. One witness clause preserved and a technical terminology "al-mutakkhir bi-mā fī tārikhih".Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
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Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Upper document: Legal document. Parties mentioned include Abū l-Faḍāʾil Nāṣir b. Karam b. …
Karaite inheritance documents on a bifiolium. Date: c. 5505 AM (1744/1745 CE). The date Tishrei 5499 AM is given in line 21 (f.1r) as the …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Seems to be an acknowledgment by the Rabbanite Jew named [ʿUmar?] b. Ibrāhīm known as Shams …
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Sharaf (סת אלשרף). The part preserved here consists mainly of the dowry list. (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: …
Acknowledgment for the pawning of an enslaved woman by Bū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb (or Wuhayb), ḍāmin for dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm, for a period of …
Fragment of an agreement specifying the conditions imposed on the kosher butchers licensed by the Palestinian congregation in Fustat and signed by ha-Ḥaver b. Mevorakh, …
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Verso: fragment from a legal manual or formulary discussing protocol for the writing of a receipt for payment of a debt.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Release in the name of Naṣrallāh b. Salmān b. [...] al-Skandarī, in which he declares that he has no further claims …
Small fragment from the upper left corner of a ketubba. The bride is a widow.
Aramaic legal document with a few Judaeo-Arabic words. (Information from CUDL)
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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Deed of remittance, dated 3 Shevat 5316 (= 1556 CE) between Isaac b. ʿOvadya and Zephaniah b. Ḥayyim Saragossi (סרגוסי), possibly including the former's brother-in-law, …
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Portions of 3 lines are preserved. This is part of the binding of a copy of Isaiah, still sewn …
Legal document. Bū l-Majd b. Thābit, known as Meir b. Yakhin, appoints his brother Hilāl/Hillel as his attorney for all his claims and in particular …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 4 Ṭevet 1378 Seleucid = 25 December 1066 CE. In which Shela b. Yefet Ibn al-Sukkarī acknowledges having receiving …
Legal fragment. Marriage contract. Dated: 29 Nisan 1458 Seleucid, which is 1147 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
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Recto: part of a ketubba for [...] bat Yeshuʿa and [...] b. Shelomo. Date not preserved. Mentions Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen b. ʿA[…]. Witnesses are [Ḥal]fon ha-Levi …
Recto: bottom of a marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Yosef b. Shelomo. Bride: Karīmā bt. Nuṣayr known as Elʿazar. The end of her dowry list is …
Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 19 Rabīʿ II 1056 AH = 4 June 1646 …
Legal document. It seems a bill of sale for a male slave (ghulām) possibly named Jarīr. A (low) sum of 6 dinars is named. The …
Yefet b. Shelomo b. Yefet b. Nājī, after having acquired 3 out of 24 shares in a house from Efrayim b. Moshe, also known as …
Legal record (#130) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 42r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). On the fourth of …
Marriage document. A torn and damaged Karaite ketubah. Although no complete sentences have survived, from the remaining words and phrases we can be sure that …
Purchase of a half-share in a shop. Dated Thursday 7th Kislev, 5431 AM (1670 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography, scribe (Barukh Rofe), …
Recto: Legal note, probably a draft of an agreement about a quarrel between husband and wife. The husband is taking upon himself not to be …
Left fragment: Court record. Very faded and damaged. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Settlement of a martial dispute after the …
Marriage contract from Tyre, dated Tuesday, 19 Av, fifth year the sabbatical cycle (ca. 1054). Somebody with a nisba from the town of 'Ibillin is …
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List of people to be excommunicated ('by name'/באסם). On T-S NS 226.145 left halves of ~7 entries are preserved. "In the bar (mashraba) with... and …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (per Weiss). Abū al-Wafāʾ Shemarya al-Dallāl receives a release from Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and his sister Nasab …
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IB I, 23. Draft or notes of court proceedings (legal document) regarding a sale of half a house for 300 dinars. Abu Sahl, Menashshe b. …
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Marriage contract. Location: Tiberias (here called Tiberias Colonia / טיבריא קלוניא). Dated: Thursday, 12 Sivan [4]795 AM = 22 May 1035 CE. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. …
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Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Only a few partial signatures are preserved: [...] b. Shemarya; Ṣedaqa b. Yeshuʿa; Avraham b. Natan …
Legal document referring to commercial transactions, mentioning commodities such as "100 and 1/6 of 100" of ammonia, a brocade mattress (martaba dībāj), two pillows, a …
Marriage-related document, small fragment. Only a few words are preserved:ועל ירתי בתריי לאגבויי לאנתתי דא מכל שפר ארג.
Fragment of a writ agency. Location: Tyre. Dated: 4772 AM = 1011/12 CE.
Recto (original use): Power of attorney. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 16 Ḥeshvan 4835 AM = 9 November 1074 CE. A woman, Nājiya bt. Shelomo b. Hiba …
The image doesn't fit with the description. Karaite ketuba from Cairo.
A Geonic responsum. AA
Legal document, possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, mentioning 60 dinars, the Bet Din, Abū l-Ḥasan, and repeatedly mentions רקעה בדינאר ‘note for …
Small fragment from the top of a legal deed with the Reshut formula for a Nagid, probably from Maimonides family, based on the titles that …
Bottom of a ketubba. Bride: Munā (מונא). Groom: Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa. Witnessed by Avraham b. Natan b. Pinḥas he-Ḥaver (who also signed T-S 10J27.3, dated …
Book of legal formularies. In Aramaic and Hebrew.
Much faded, but seems to be from the bottom part of a legal deed. AA
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (first three lines only). The muqirr is Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, a Jewish …
Legal document, Mamluk era, in Arabic script. Iqrār document concerning a Christian man regarding a fiscal debt. Needs examination.
Bill of divorce. Incomplete. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 9 Ṭevet 1562 Seleucid, which is December 1250 CE. Husband: Avraham b. David ha-Kohen of the city …
Legal fragment. Preserving the date 1441 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, and little else.
Recto: testimony within a legal document or a letter, concerning financial matters (power of attorney) and mentioning Abū l-Ba[rakāt?]. Verso: probably small fragment from a …
Qiyyum shetarot, formulary from Siddur R. Natan of Sijilmasa