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Legal document. Left side only. Several names and a partial date are preserved. Needs examination.
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Deed of restitution written in Jerusalem regarding alimony, in the hand of Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen Gaon, June 1071 CE, based on Gil's inference of [Tammuz] 4831 …
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Draft of sale contract for 12 out of 20 shares (the whole house constituted 24 shares) in the Qadi Badr alley of the al-Mamsusa quarter, …
Fragment from a legal deed. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi. One of the parties is Eliyyahu ha-Levi, who is …
A few fragments stuck together. The main one is a piece from a document written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (dates: 1100–38). Mentions some neighborhoods …
Beginning of a will in the handwriting of Hillel b. Eli (but this is worth checking against Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's earliest documents). Testator: Hillel b. …
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Legal fragment, probably, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Mneashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Very few words are preserved: bi-danānīr... ḥisābunā... raʾs al-māl...
Fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). On parchment. involving Abū ʿAlī [Ye]fet b. Avraham and …
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: …
Legal record (#76) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 26v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Tammuz 5325 …
Leaf from a court ledger, with records in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE). Recto: Deals with the sale of a house …
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Recto: Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Dating: ca. 530 AH (= 1135/36 CE). (However, Goitein read the year 55[.] AH somewhere, which would be …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[هذ]ا ما اشترى مكارم بن أبي الفرج بن يوسف الـ[ ]
[ السمـ]ـرة واضح الجبهة وبها غضون مقرون خفي وبقرن جبهتيـ[ـه ]
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what Makārim ibn Abī al-Faraj ibn Yūsuf the [ … ] bought [ … ]
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A 13th/19th-century Ottoman era debt acknowledgment document with a seal. Muḥammad Ḥusain acknowledges (aqarra wa ashada) in his sound mind that he owes 900 Kuruş …
لما كان في يوم الخميس المبارك في ٢٦ محرم سنه ٦٠[١٢]
اقر واشهد على نفسه وهو في حال
خيرته المعلم محمد حسين الى المعلم
حييم النصري انه يكون مل…
IB I, 15. Three testimonies regarding collateral deposited by Yosef al-Lebdi the India trader. Lebdi owed Ḥasan b. Bundar, the representative of the merchants in …
Small fragment from the top of a ketubba.
Fragment (lower left corner) of a legal document from Fusṭāṭ. Dating: mid-12th century. Signed by Moshe b. Netanʾel ha-Shishi ha-Levi and [Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammd b. Ḥayyim] …
Betrothal (erusin) contract, Karaite. Fragment (upper right corner). Groom: Yehuda b. Khalaf(?). Bride: Miriam bt. Shelomo, a widow. Miriam has a paqid (representative), Faraj b. …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe legal. There is also a mirror image imprint of another unrelated Arabic document.
Legal record (#26a). Loan contract. Dated: Monday, 14 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār ('the perfumer in the Alley of the Candles') owes 15 …
Deed in which Abū Saʿd Efrayim b. ʿEli the Jew acquires the lease of a plot of land in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Futūḥ Ghālib b. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, his blessings and peace be upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet and his family.
Thi…
Legal document in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century if not earlier. Might be a join with ENA 3656.1, but it is too hard to tell. …
Recto: agreement regarding a three-storey house. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: Adar II 1432 Seleucid = February/March 1121 CE. The parties involved are Yeshuʿa b. Yeshuʿa …
Probably part of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1730 CE (8 Heshvan 5491 AM), involving the partners Moshe ʿAzarya and Yosef Benṭora/Binṭora(?) and a debt of 16,495 diwani …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a shop (ḥānūt), dyeing, and a period of 6 months (a lease?).
Acknowledgment of receiving a Torah scroll - needs examination. No image
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Recto mentions: two orphans, the release of a buyer, a guarantee, Sitt al-Ḥusn, Sitt al-Nasab, …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Draft, with many corrections. Concerning someone's will. Mentions Abū l-Wafā "my sister's son."
Opening lines of an incomplete legal deed from the year 1522 Seleucid = 1210/11 CE. AA
Karaite prenuptial agreement. Dated Sunday 21st Heshvan 5511 AM (1750 CE). Location: probably Cairo, "on the property" of the prospective groom Shalom Levi. The prenuptial …
Deed of lease. Dating: The year-long lease begins on [Ṭevet] 1525 Seleucid = [Shaʿbān] 610 and ends on Kislev 15[26] Seleucid = Rajab 611 AH. …
Legal document: acknowledgment (ʾiqrār) written for or by Avraham Ibn Yijū. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ I 548 AH (17 June 1153 CE), after his return to …
. . . . . . . . . .] . . . . . ا . . . له بني ادم له ما لهم وعليه ما عليهم لم يشترط عليه مالا ولم يجتعل عـليه
جعلا واقر ان اخاه بو البشر بن بو ا…
Legal document, concerning a house. In Arabic script. One of the parties is the daughter of Saʿīd b. ʿAllūn al-Ṣaydalānī ('the pharmacist') al-Yahūdī. Concerns a …
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 51
Opening of a dowry list, written under the jurisdiction of David Maimuni in the hand of Emanuel b. Yehiel. The bride's name is Rivqa. The …
Legal record (#34) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 12v-13r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Heshvan [5322 …
Financial agreement (partnership?) between Daniel b. Eliyya and Yaʿaqov b. Avraham, dated 1512/13 CE ([5]273) and citing sums in peraḥim.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Probably a deed of sale for an enslaved person. There are several clauses …
Unidentified, dark and damaged. Might be from a legal deed of some sort.
Legal fragment. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Involves a woman named Jawhara, and a man [...] al-Levi Sulaymān.
Minute fragment with few words, seems to be from a ketubah.
Possibly a bill of sale "abīʿ" for Ḥusain b. al-Ṣayrafī, or a fiscal document. Needs examination.
Legal document, possibly in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. It mentions the names Abū ʿImrān and Abū l-Ḥusayn, 80 dinars, and various garments (Information …
Tiny fragment of a legal document. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Phrases include: "...for food... and two dinars and dirhams... with them …
Legal document. Court record (copy). This document concerns the settlement of an account between Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Yefet and Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭoviyya b. Avraham …
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Lower fragment: Letter. In Hebrew. Late. Only the address is preserved: to 'my brother' Yehoshuaʿ Zam[...].
Possibly legal document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal fragment, with release formulae. The party mentioned is Sitt [...].
Recto (original use): Isḥāq b. Avraham appoints Furāt b. Yosef as a power-of-attorney against neighbors who had taken possession of the house he had inherited …
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Legal document concerning the debt owed by Abū Saʿd b. Manṣūr to Maʿālī b. Natan ha-Levi. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and signed …
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