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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 25 Sivan 1442 = 22 June 1131 CE. Husband: Zekharya b. [...]. Wife: Khulla bt. Maʿālī. Signed …
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Fragment of a partnership agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). No names preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Legal testimony written by a Muslim notary on paper. Dating: Ottoman period. At least one witness's attestation has been preserved: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-? Later …
Ketubba fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated [..]24 Seleucid. Bride: [...] bt. S[...], virgin. It is a very small strip.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1444 Seleucid = August/September 1133 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Legal document. Fragment (right part only). Sitt al-Kull (named 2 lines from the bottom) makes a declaration that involves the will of the widow of …
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Left side of an ornate ketubba fragment. Based on the names mentioned and David Ben-Naʿīm's signature, the dating is likely mid-nineteenth-century. Only the bride's first …
Ketubba fragment (upper right corner). Dated: 1367 Seleucid, which is 1055/56 CE. Groom: Avraham. Bride: Wuḥsha bt. Yeshuʿa. The trousseau list mentions golden earrings (akhrāṣ …
A fragment of a Palestinian deed (maʿase) settling a marital dispute, affirming that the wife will be receive room and board from her husband's estate …
Draft of a legal document or documents, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Regarding a partnership in a tax farm, on …
Legal document in Hebrew, investment partnership. Dated 30 Iyyar 5551 AM (June 1791 CE). Location: Cairo. David Kariyo (Carillo) invested quantities of silk, cotton, and …
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Verso: Notes for drawing up a marriage document. Groom: Avraham b. [...]. Bride; Mubāraka bt. Faraḥ (maybe the same as in T-S Misc.8.97 (PGPID 3922)). …
Legal document. Location: Damietta. Dated: Monday, 7 Nisan 1452 Seleucid = 17 March 1141 CE. In a matter of inheritance, ʿAmmār b. Makhlūf had been …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. The last three lines of the main document are partially preserved (... 14[..] Seleucid... on the Nile... …
Legal query (in a different hand than recto) concerning the case of a widow holding a statement of trustworthiness, who had declared that she possessed …
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Laws of ketubah from Cairo - needs examination. No image
Legal record (#13b). Loan contract. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Barakāt b. Abū l-Ḥasan declares that he owes 30 dirhams to Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
A damaged legal document in Hebrew. It seems to be dealing with the payment of the ketubah of a woman, who speaks in first person. …
Power of attorney. Mainly in Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar 1539 Seleucid, which is 1228 CE, under the jurisdiction of Avraham Maimonides. The physician Elʿazar …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Mentions the name [...] b. Abū ʿAlī b. Muqla(?) b. [...].
Fragment from a bill of release. Probably after payment of a debt owed to the orphans. Probably written by Natan b. Shelomo (active 1122–50 CE).
Betrothal (qiddushin) contract, with an elaborate floral border. Location: Salonica. Dated: Monday, 2 Ṭevet 5590 AM, which is 28 December 1829 CE. Groom: Vilaysid (? …
Legal document with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions "the two gates" (? al-bābatayn).
Legal document from Fustat/Cairo, dated March 1802 CE (Adar II 5562 AM). Me'ir ben Naʿim had borrowed 150 reals from the old woman Raḥel known …
Bookbinding with several mirror-image imprints of Hebrew text, including one legal document issued in the city of DM[...] (=Damascus? Damietta) in the year 17[..] Seleucid, …
P6: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Refers to [Sitt al-Sāda bt.] Evyatar ha-Kohen the Palestinian Gaʾon, who is the wife of …
Minute fragment from a legal document, mentioning the name Abū l-Surūr and nothing else. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in which a deposited estate is handed over to the heirs. Mentions people including al-Dhahabī, Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen (called Zayn), and Ibn Ghazāl. In …
The end of a ketubba. There is some sort of reshut clause at the end of the document, invoking Rosh Galutenu ... Nagidenu. . . …
Marriage document. A large damaged piece from a ketubah, from the 12th century, 1127 onward, based on the title יהי שמו לעולם כירח יכון עולם, …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1 Kislev 1359 Seleucid, which is 22 November 1047 CE. An undertaking by Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli b. Khalaf Ibn Zaffān …
A memorandum of testimony that was before us, we the witnesses who sign below on this
document: Toviya b. Eli b. Khalaf said in our presenc…
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from a bill of release regarding a shipment of tamarind to …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century. Little remains: two signatures and the date 5[.]30 AM and the word Miẓrayim.
Fragment from legal deeds written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). On recto a reverence is made to 'al-wakil al-goy' = the gentile representative. …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed, only few partial signatures, one is by [Zeda]qa b. Yeshu'a. AA
Karaite betrothal deed. The groom taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, but if his wife will become childless he can …
Invoice from a Jewish synagogue in Cairo – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 169) – in Hebrew and French. (information from Ḥassanein …
Small and much damaged fragment from a legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38) under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). There are …
Court record. Abū Saʿīd Khalaf/Ḥalfon (aka "Segulat ha-Nedivim" or simply "al-Segulat") received 18 dinars from Abū l-Maʿālī Shemuel the trader, who had been guarantor on …
Part of a ketubba for [...] bat Meshullam (bride). Witnessed by Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document (iqrār) mentioning ʻAlāʾ al-Dīn ibn Ḥasan, dated 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 800 H. [1398]. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "The prince Shahab …
Fol. 1r: Legal record (deed of release). In the hand of the cantor Yefet b. David. Dated: Monday, 25 Shevaṭ 1338 Seleucid, which is 1028 …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday 28 Tevet 1448 Seleucid, which is 24 December 1136 CE. Husband: Ṣadaqa …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragment from the right side of huge and beautiful deed. A father gives to his two sons a house (it …
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Fragment from the ketubba of [...] Ṭayyib ha-Levi (groom) and ʿAwz bat [...] (bride). Location: Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL.)
Small and torn fragment written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138), contains remnants of list of legal actions took place in court. AA
Minute fragment from the bottom pf a legal deed. Only part of the signatures are preserved: [...] b. Avraham, [...] b. Aharon
Legal fragment from Fustat, involving the business dealings of Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy among others, dated [Iyya]r 1089 CE (1400 Seleucid). The month could also …
Document in Arabic script. Looks legal and Mamluk-era. There is an ʿalāma or witness statement in the upper corner. Needs examination.
Small fragment (upper left corner) of a legal document. Involving Ṣedaqa b. Netanʾel; no specifics are preserved. (Information from CUDL)