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A rental agreement with Joseph ג׳לדיטי, priced in Venetian ducats (peraḥ zahav Veneziano). It is dated לצור according to the Pereq Qaṭan, which is probably …
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Probably a fragment of a get (bill of divorce) for a certain Yaḥyā.
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Page from a court notebook concerning the verdict of the court in Fustat, written by Avraham, son of the Gaon, December 1026. See also T-S …
P7 + P11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Partnership agreement. Tamīm ha-Kohen will be the active partner, traveling …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abu l-Majd is to give the …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1443 Seleucid, which is 1131/32 CE. The fragment is from the bottom part of …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 19 Ḥeshvan 1498 Seleucid = 3 November 1186 CE. The betrothal of the orphan girl Sitt al-Muʿazzaza bat Šela b. …
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Probably a legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions 10 dinars. Needs examination.
Karaite marriage contract, dated ca. 1000. Bride: Farajiyya bt. Yehuda. Groom: Yeshaʿya b. Yiṣḥaq. The dower is made in a mixture of regular dinars and …
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State receipt/order of payment issued by the "khazīnat anwāl al-ḥarīr", a branch of the state-run silk monopoly under Meḥmed ʿĀlī Pasha's administration. Date: 6 Rabīʿ …
Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document for Moshe b. Nissim Ṭawīl and Simḥa bt. [...] ha-Levi known as al-ʿAjamī, dated August 1818 CE (Av 5578). Verso: Halakhic …
A formula of bill of release from levirate marriage. Belong to a book of legal deeds, Another page in T-S J3.19
Legal document. Involves a certain Avraham. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. Apprenticeship agreement. Dated: Ṭevet 1462 Seleucid = December 1150 / January 1151 CE. Location: Fustat. Written in the jurisdiction of Shemuel b. Ḥananya …
Debt contract. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Surūr b. ʿUlla owes 6 2/3 dinars to Abū l-Faḍāʾil Ṣedaqa and agrees to a schedule of repayments.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 11 Heshvan = Safar 699 AH = 7 November 1299 CE. Abū l-Bahā b. Mukram (Makārim?) Ibn al-Ṣūrī agrees not …
Deed of sale, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Describes the location of a property relative to the alley of the poor (zuqāq al-masākīn), the mosque, and the …
A leaf from a court register. Contains four different entries, dated to Nissan and Sivan 1409 Sel. (Spring 1098 CE). On left hand side of …
Tyrian marriage contract with a peculiar proposal formula borrowed from Malachi 2:14 (‘my companion and wife in covenant’). Mid eleventh century. (Information from CUDL)
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Receipt for the cost of monthly participation in the association for the assistance of poor women in the costs of marriage – July 1940CE – …
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Formulary. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 5537 AM, which is 1776/77 CE.
Legal documents in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, from the court of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Recto: deed concerning the sale of a book that …
Fragment from the end of a legal document, mentioning Shela, his brother and a half qinṭār of mercury. Reused on recto for calendar reckoning. (Information …
Legal document, iqrār, in Arabic script. More than two-thirds of the document is preserved except for some tear on the top and left corner. Khalīfa …
Court record regarding the sale of a house. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Abū Saʿd buys one-third of a …
Small fragment of a legal deed. Handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel? Dated: [14]56 Seleucid = 1144/45 CE. Involves Berakhot ha-Kohen, Abū l-Faraj b. Menaḥem, and …
Deed of sale for the sale of half a house in Fusṭāṭ, in the ‘Fortress of the Greeks’ (qaṣr al-Rūm known as the qaṣr al-shamʿ). …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبیه وسـ]ـلامه
[هذا ما ا]شترى منه صفقة واحدة وعقدا واحدا جميع الحصة التي مبل…
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Verso: Four drafts of legal documents ca. 1085 CE, in one of which Hiba b. Hillel al-Ṭarabulsī and Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq al-Lādiqī witness that they …
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Legal formulary. For a deed of sale. In the lower margin of verso, there is an unidentified text block in a different hand (magical?). (Information …
Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). The scribe has distinctive nun sofits and qofs that hook to the left at a 90 degree angle. The …
A three line fragment of a draft of a legal testimony. The other side of the page contains a fragment of what is probably a …
Possibly a document (needs examination)
Legal query, probably to Avraham Maimonides and possibly in Shelomo ha-Melammed b. Eliyyahu's hand.
Bill of release. Dating: signed on Wednesday, 29 Kislev 1377 Seleucid = 30 November 1065 CE. In which Natan b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen gives a bill …
Small fragment of a legal document. Looks like it involves yibbum (levirate marriage), and there may be a dead brother named Elʿazar. On verso there …
Fragment from a document, mentioning names such as Sitt al-Ahl and Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL.)
Trousseau list. Gives the prices of items in Greek/Coptic numerals. The sums are given at the bottom, together with a figure for the delayed marriage …
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Karaite betrothal document with faded ornamental designs along the upper border. Date: 14 Adar 5454 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script, maybe mercantile. Long, with a lot of content preserved, however the fragment is crumpled and in need of conservation. Dating: …
Damaged legal deed, probably a settlement, in which a man (Manṣ[ūr]?) accepts a number of stipulations upon himself concerning a house and household goods. He …
Query about niddah submitted to Abraham Maimuni by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu-- see Goitein Nachlass material
Responsum? Small fragment from the bottom of the page, written by the hand of Menashshe b. Ya'aqov (1116-1132. Compare with DK 187, p. 6r, where …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Groom: Seʿadya b. Efrayim. Bride: Turkiyya (? תרכיה). A few phrases from …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Probably a deed of gift. Signed by [Abraham?], a descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon. …
IB IV, 5 (ח8). Legal testimony. Location: Aden. Dating: ca. summer 1131 CE. Concerns the controversy caused by a Persian Jew, the nephew of the …
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P21: Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to: Abū Yaʿqūb; Abū Saʿd and his paternal cousin (ibn ʿamm); …
Power of attorney. Location: Malīj. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Adar I 4807 AM, which is 1047 CE. In which Rayyisa bt. Manṣūr appoints her brother Asad …
Minute fragment from a legal deed mentioning al-Maḥalla and Shelomo ha-Levi. Might connect with T-S AS 214.254. AA
Right fragment: Small fragment of a ketubba written in the Palestinian style. In the hand of the ḥaver Shemuel b. Moshe, the same scribe as …
Legal document(s). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Recto may be a deathbed will. Mentions a house; a …