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Fragment of a legal deed, probably regarding a partnership between Yosef and Yaʿqūb. Looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions a period of …
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Legal document; marriage document. Three unrelated texts: Two contracts (ketubah and deed of sale) and a commentary on Genesis 12. Fol. 1: commentary on Genesis …
An elaborate Karaite ketubba from Chufut-Kale (also known in Turkic languages as Qirqayr קירקייר). The groom is Avraham Yerushalmi b. Mordechai and the bride is …
Recto: Legal document; bill of release. Location: Sunbāṭ (סונבאטיה). Dated: first decade of Shevaṭ 1460 Seleucid = January 1149 CE, under the authority of the …
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Verso: Part of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing a divorce document and the settling of the dowry with Yaʿaqov, the ex-husband. (Information from CUDL.)
Recto: bottom line of a court record, (written and?) signed by [Avraham] b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver, [Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel] the Spaniard, Menashshe b. Shemuel, Ḥalfon b. …
Marriage document (ṣadāq) between Mulūk b. Surūr b. ... and Fāṭima bnt. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Marqūra in the Fayyūm, dated Rajab 444 AH. (AP)
Fragment from the top of a ketubba (or engagement contract?). Bride: Ratab or Rutab (רתב) bt. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen ha-Sar. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen [b. …
Betrothal register (53b according to Friedman) between Manṣur b. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq b. Saʿīd b. Pinḥas to Zahara bt. Yaʿaqov haKohen the scribe. One of …
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IB VII, 10e. Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered …
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Legal document. Location: Tinnis. Dated: 7 Tishrei 4750 AM, which is 9 September 989 CE. Action concerning an estate in Nisibis [Naṣībīn], Mesopotamia, brought before …
שנת ארבעת אלפים ושבע מאות וחמשים שנה לעולם בחנס מצרים באו לפנינו סה…
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated (line 3): 5 Ṣafar 445 H = 1062/63 CE. Mentions the term ḥawṭa or ḥūṭa (=confiscation?) in the first …
Minute fragment of a legal deed, looks like the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Friday, 15 Kislev 1417 Seleucid, which is 24 November 1105 CE. Groom: Yefet …
Large sheet of paper covered with copious pen trials and jottings mainly in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with some Arabic script. There are several entries very …
Recto: Unidentified writings in Arabic script, maybe accounts or scribal practice. Verso: Fragment of a legal deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), involving a debt. The beginnings …
Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated at …
:Left side of bifolio 4v (Documents 31-33)
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IB V, 3 (ח24). Deed of release. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Shevaṭ 1447 Seleucid, which is …
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. On parchment. One of the parties is a Jew (al-Isrāʾīlī). A certain Ibrāhīm b. Salāma is mentioned. There is …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (middle of the right side). Faded and smudged. Verso blank.
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Concerning a certain Kohen who is seeking a restraining order against his divorcee and to prohibit her from entering …
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A very damaged fragment. The upper text block is the end of a legal query probably written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (active in the first …
There are several distinct items on this fragment, all but one in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. (I) The main text block was edited …
Fragment (left side) of an illuminated ketubba from Cairo with an elaborate floral design that was rendered with watercolor paint inside a predrawn grid. The …
Original use: Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba or at least a marriage-related document: "... and they will act in accordance with the traditions of the …
Possibly a record of a birth. In Arabic script. "In the name of God the most gracious, the most merciful: the blessed ________ was on …
Recto: Leviticus 13:1-2. Verso: indistinct text, probably part of the same legal document as T-S AS 28.170. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Extremely faded legal document or legal notes. In which Karīma bt. Avraham appoints her uncle Efrayim as her agent, it seems to sue [...] …
Note/order addressed to Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Instructing him to collect four dirhams from the bearer, the 'boy' (ṣabiyy) of the sender. The note …
A letter containing a court ruling demanding the return of a deposit.
Ketubba fragment for Dalāl bt. Yosef and Shelomo b. Natan. Date and location not preserved. Witnessed by Yeshuʿa b. Shabbat (שבאת), Aharon b. Efr[ayim], Ḥalfon …
Recto: unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe a draft petition since it contains a taqbīl in the top line and ends with ṣalwala and ḥasbala. …
Recto: Trousseau list. Groom: Yeshuʿa b. Avraham. Bride: Mubāraka bt. Ṭoviyya. Marriage payments: 20 + 30 = 50. Value of the dowry is 480 dinars …
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Legal document. Karaite court record in Judaeo-Persian from 951 CE signed by [...] b. Ismāʿīl, Abraham b. Padāwī (פדאוי) and Saʿīd ha-Le[vi]. "The present document …
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Legal document. Dated: 1 Shevaṭ 5313 AM = 16 January 1553 CE. Reconciliation agreement between Yiṣḥaq and his wife, in which she agrees to not …
Bottom of a legal document, in Arabic script, with witness clauses. Probably a document of Iqrār dated to the month of Rabīʿ I, but the …
Recto: Draft of a power of attorney written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Names: ʿImrān; Ḥalfon (the agent - אפטרופא); and [...] b. …
Formulary for a marriage-related legal document.
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: [..]45 (probably 1345 Seleucid = 1034 CE). Groom: Avraham ha-Levi. Bride: Durra bt. Shelomo, a virgin and a rich woman. …
Legal query to the jurisconsult Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Abū l-Fatḥ (active in Egypt after 1183/84 CE) regarding liability for damaged property. The …
Settlement of a marital dispute. Made after problems between [...] bt. Shabbetay and her husband Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, and also …
When there appeared before us, we the undersigned, [ son of ], (may he) r(est in) E(den), and [his] wif[e] wh[o ]
Is now married t…
Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment from near the bottom. Dated: 41[.] AH, corresponding to the range 1019–29 CE. Mentions a …
Verso: "It seems a boy made a joke. He began a marriage contract for ʿOvadya b. Aharon he-Ḥaver ba-Sanhedrin Gedola and ended with a Mi …
Fragment from a legal document, probably a deathbed declaration. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt …
Possibly legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The upper section is in a neater hand and the bottom section is written more …
This shelfmark contains four fragments. Two are late and literary. One is so small that it preserves only a few Hebrew words. The documentary fragment …
Fragment (bottom) of a legal document from Fusṭāṭ. Concerning a petition from a group of people ("al-mustaghīthīn"). The court validates a document and gives it …
Fragment of a ketubba. The trousseau is listed in ll. 3–9. (Information from Goitein's index card.) The hand is probably known; Natan b. Shemuel?
Part of a large, finely decorated ketubba. Dated 13[.]2 Seleucid; Goitein read 1342 Seleucid = 1030/31CE, but could be 1372 or 1392 (=1080/81 CE) as …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Recto: Acknowledgment made by Najm b. Naḥrīr the 'mawlā' of Suʿadāʾ(?) bt. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-ʿAlawī(?) b. al-ʿAbbāsī(?) and Hilāl …