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Two lines from a ketubba of a bride, Malīḥa bt. Ṣed[aqa], divorced from a prior betrothal. AA
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Legal document mentioning the Nagid Yehuda b. Saʿadya. There are phrases about a man's legal competence (as in deathbed wills); quotes him as saying "my …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Very faded/rubbed. Seems to be describing a house.
IB I, 44. Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 21 Adar II 1377 Seleucid, which is 21 March 1066 CE. Maymūn b. Yaʿaqov declares that …
שהדותא דהות באנפנא בתלתה בשבה דהוא עשרין וחד יומי בירח אדר שני דשנת אלפא
ותלת מאה ושבעין ושבע שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצרים דעל ני…
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Legal document. Location: Alexandria. In which witnesses including [...] b. Shemarya testify that a certain Shabbetay and his brother both died in Antalya (this is …
Court order forcing a husband, by threat of excommunication, to write a bill of divorce for his wife and not run away, leaving her 'a …
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Recto: Legal document. Abū Manṣūr Ḥayyim b. Sahlawayh appoints Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Shaʿyā, known as Ibn Tawwazī, to investigate accounts relating to the estate …
Legal formularies. One template is based on the replacement ketubba (כתובה דארכסא) of Sitt al-Malāḥim. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1427 Seleucid = 1115/16 CE. (Information from …
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Fragment of a ketubba from Fustat probably from the year [13]93 = 1081/82 CE.
Legal formularies relating to dowry procedure (i.e. "nedūnya" and "melūg" l. 2, recto). Line 3 on the recto mentions forty "peraḥīm" (flowers) a common Hebrew …
Beginning of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentioning Alexandria (possibly drawn up there) and the authority of …
Formularies of legal documents, mentioning Rav Hayya. (Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.)
Legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (active 1150–81 CE). Seems to be an apprenticeship contract. The speaker (perhaps Abū Naṣr, l. 13) …
Top right strip from a Ketubbah of Ṣedaqa [b. ...] (groom), with no further details preserved. AA
Legal document. Location: Sammanūd. Dated: 1445 Seleucid = 1133/34 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ. Names [...] ha-Kohen ha-Zariz b. Yosef ha-Kohen. The …
Verso: Draft of a deathbed will in which a man gives two houses to two distant relatives, forestalls the possible claims of two other female …
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Legal document. Record of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1125 CE. This document describes release from a partnership in …
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Fragment of a power of attorney in Hebrew. No details preserved.
Beginning of a legal document dated 9 Tammuz 1602 Seleucid = 8 June 1291 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid David I Maimonides and …
Recto: Geonic (?) responsum regarding two orphans who claim property their father had entrusted to another. Verso is barely legible, but seems to be a …
Legal deed in Aramaic. Dated: 133[.] Seleucid = 1018–29 CE. Shemuel b. Avraham ha-Levi ha-Sefaradi is appointing Mevorakh b. Yosef ha-Kohen. as his agent. Above …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed.
Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi? Including an outline for a bill of sale for a Persian (ʿajamiyya) enslaved woman named …
Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Shevat [5321] …
Court copy of a Karaite ketubba (marriage contract), Ramla. Ca. 1030 (per Friedman) or 1010s-1020s (per Olszowy-Schlanger). Bride: Ḥusn bt. David. Groom: Shelomo b. ʿAmram. …
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IB V, 31. Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel. Location: Fustat. Dated: last third of Av, year missing, under the authority of …
Court record: debt quittance. Sitt al-Sāda bt. Mukhtār releases someone in her own name, that of her husband Makhlūf Neʾeman ha-Yeshiva and of her son …
Part of a ketubba. Bride: Muʾnisa bt. [...] (מונסה) and [...]danan b. Abraham. Marriage payment 5+10. Dowry items preserved =22 dinars (but clearly a lot …
Small fragment of a legal document or letter concerning a legal issue. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Mentions anklets (khalākhil) …
Bill of release. Dated: Tammuz 1411 Seleucid = June/July 1100 CE. On parchment. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli, who signed the document together with Yiṣḥaq …
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 …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Sitt al-Kull.
Legal record (#57). Settlement of dispute, outline. Belongs with #55. Stating that a contract shall be written to the effect that Sitt al-Dār bt. Natan, …
Release granted by the wife of Abū l-Makārim al-Kātib to Abū l-Ḥasan, whom she releases from all obligations after having received from him three deeds …
Legal document, in Arabic script. An iqrār document for the lease of a house, for the term of a year. The rent is 9 dinars …
Part of a ketubba for [...] bat Meshullam (bride). Witnessed by Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document giving the testimony of Shelomo (aqūl anā shelomo....), and mentioning Elʿazar and Yeshuʿa and release formulae. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#65) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 22r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 16 Tammuz 5324 …
Recto: Perhaps a letter or brief legal document? Very faded. Verso: A record of the amount of money (35 silver [medin]) received from Eliyyahu Nābī(?) …
Legal fragment. Preserving the date 1441 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, and little else.
Legal document. A damaged legal document, probably a bill of release. Involves Ahuv, sums of 55 dinars, 44 dinars, 13 dinars, and half of a …
Legal: partnership agreement. Dated: Thursday, 10 Kislev 5319 AM (חושה), which is 1558/59 CE.The partners Yehuda Castro and Namir Viryuti (? וריוטי) enter into a …
Marriage document (FGP)Legal formulary. One leaf of paper, from a collection of legal deeds (ספר שטרות). Contains a ketubah for levirate marriage and a deed …
Ketubba fragment. Small piece. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment from the top. Dated: 12 Av 14[..] Seleucid, under the reshut of M[aṣliaḥ? Mevorakh?]. The groom may be Yeshuʿa b. …
Formula of a bill of inheritance. Belong to a book of legal deeds, Another page in T-S J3.15
End of a legal declaration, written and signed by Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Talmid and also signed by ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen (both signed other documents …
Legal deed drawn up in Damascus, 27 September 1084 CE (25 Tishrei 1396 Seleucid). Both qiyyum and shimmush written by Shemuel ha-Nasi 'the third' b. …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) concerning an inheritance or guarantee for a debt, mentioning Abū l-Faraj and the …
Perhaps an order of some kind. Very faded. Opens with "send it" (yusayyirhā) and ends with ושלומך יגדל נצח סלה.