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Legal document. Unsigned. Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Tammuz 1540 Seleucid, which is 1229 CE. In which Shelomo b. Eliyyahu purchases from Abū l-Faḍl …
אשתרות אבי אלברכאת בן ר' אליה ס'ט מן אבו אלפצ'ל בן מחאסן יערף באבן אלכאמכי
אלכהן ס'ט מצחף נביאים בכמסה וסתין דרהמא נ…
A record of a testimony.
Abu'l-Baraka't, son of R. Elijah - (may he come to a) g(ood) e(nd) - bought from Abu'l-Fad'l b. Mah'a'sin, who is …
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Small fragment of a legal document or documents. Mentions someone titled Peʾer ha-Qehilot, Sitt al-Nasab, Yeshuʿa, and Bū l-Faraj "the husband of her mother." Likely …
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Legal fragment.
Deed of sale bearing many signatures. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel (dated documents: 1128–64). A few words from the reshut formula are preserved, …
Very damaged betrothal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). The fiance is Avraham and the fiancee is ʿĀliya. She is young, …
Legal document mentioning Hārūn, 50 dinars, and a provision for "his female slave." A will? (Information in part from CUDL)
Ketubba. Dated: Tuesday, 28 Sivan, 142[.] which can fit either 1111 or 1115 CE. Groom: [...] b. Yehuda. Bride: Turfa bt. Yefet. Witnessed by Yakhin …
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Legal record (#5). Postponement of oath. Dated: Wednesday, 10 [Iyyar 1467 Seleucid]. Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen al-Tājir agrees to the postponement (imhāl) of the oath of …
Ketubba, small fragment. Wide space between the lines. Groom: Elʿazar ha-Kohen.
Partnership agreement from Cairo, for partners in the "ṣarraflık trade" who were working for a state bureau (דיואן אלמירי) under Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha's administration. Dated …
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Fragment from the top of the ketubba of Muʾammala bt. David. In the hand of Yefet b. David (early 11th century). AA/ASE
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Legal document (fragment) in which Qurra bt. Shelomo, as sole heiress of her father, asks to be given 20 dinars of the 35 he had …
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Formulary for a legal document, for an abandoned wife (ʿaguna) to appoint a representative (called אפטרופא/"guardian") to receive her bill of divorce and ketubba payment …
Fragmentary record of testimony (left half missing). Dated: [..]68 Seleucid, so probably 1056/57 CE or 1156/57 CE. Signed by Moshe b. Shelomo and [...] b. …
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Verso: Deed of sale in which Sitt al-Ikhwa bt. Futūḥ known as Ibn Zabqala sells to her brother 1/8 of a house belonging to her …
the second ten days of the month of Sivan 1552 (21-31 M…
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Two pages from the ketubah of Yosef and Esther
Legal record (#82) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 28v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 29 Av 5325 …
Draft of a deathbed declaration of Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. ʿAdiyya Ibn Maṭrūḥ, who had sold his daughter, Sitt al-Sāda, and her son two-thirds of …
Top of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108) or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Concerning arrangements upon somebody's death, probably …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of a legal document. None of the substance is preserved.
A Karaite ketubba draft or formulary dated Wednesday, 8th Kislev 5448 AM and 1999 Era of documents (1687 CE), from Cairo. The groom is Aharon …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: Kislev 13[..] Seleucid, which is 988–1088 CE. The wife's name is Nājiya.
Mamluk era, legal document. Probably a sale contract, partially legible. Second part of the date is legible 7xx H.
very damaged fragments of a legal deed
4 bi-folios from a book of legal formulas
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. Recto contains the lower left corner of a document, with perhaps the remnants of a witness signature at the bottom. …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Separate documents on recto and on verso. The document on recto deals with …
Partnership agreement, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides, involving a certain [...] b. Sulaymān known as al-Ashyāfī (seller of ophthalmics) and …
Power of attorney. In Hebrew. Location: Tiberias, Palestine. Dated: Friday, 1 Adar 4811 AM, which is 15 February 1051 CE. It seems that ʿAmram appoints …
Fragment from a bill of divorce of Hiba ha-Kohen from Fustat. Written by the same scribe who wrote T-S AS 147.254. AA
Rental contract in Arabic script. Lessee: Sālim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abū l-Ḥasan the baker (? al-khabbāz). Lessor: Barakāt b. Abū l-[...] the Jew. The …
The end of a ketubba. There is some sort of reshut clause at the end of the document, invoking Rosh Galutenu ... Nagidenu. . . …
Fragment of a legal document. Dated: 1424 Seleucid = 1112/13 CE. Signed (on verso): Yehuda b. [...]; [...] b. Yaʿaqov. Mentions an Arabic document; various …
Legal document. Release between Araḥ b. Natan (Musāfir b. Wahb) and Shelomo b. Shemuʾel. Dating: ca. 1100 CE, as the scribe is Avraham b. Natan …
Fragment of a geṭ. Probably very late, compare JRL SERIES A 960 (PGPID 28375).
Legal record (#51). Disposition of inheritance. Dated: Monday, 13 Tammuz 1467 Seleucid. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Skandarānī appeared before the court bearing a power of attorney …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning a house, 10 dinars, and Ismāʿīl b. M[...]. (Information in part …
State document in Arabic, from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr) in Alexandria, a branch of the state silk monopoly. Dated 5 Dhu …
Verso: Fragment from the bottom of a document, maybe an Ottoman-era legal or official document.
Ketubba fragment with an elaborate floral border pattern. Dated [5]5[..] AM, thus 1739-1839 CE. Based on the dating the location is likely "[Cairo near] Fustat …
Draft of a marriage contract (ketubba) under the authority of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to as "Nagid" (therefore post-1213 CE). There are numerous other …
Legal document, in Arabic script. A rental agreement regarding a property in Fusṭāṭ between Bū l-Faraj al-Ḥanīzī (?) and Bū Naṣr b. Khalaf al-Isrāʾīlī. The …
End of a legal document in Arabic script. Might be dated 29 Jumādā I 510 AH, but this is difficult to read and more or …
Legal record (#121) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 40r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 3 [...] 5329 …
Legal document mentioning the alley known as al-Azraq; the synagogue; oil; Bishāra; a Kohen; the ruin of a house; and social service officers (farānisa). (Information …
Legal document. A small fragment, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), regarding a settlement between a couple, probably after their divorce (a …
Damaged fragment of a bill of loan. Partial signatures: [... Hako]hen b. Sa'id, Khalfon b. [...], Bahalul, Avraham ha-Sh[ar?]. on Verso the beginning of another …
Court record of a legal agreement between a husband, Abū l-Ḥasan Shelomo b. Menashshe, and his wife, Sitt al-Nasab bt. Abū l-Munā, in which he …
Testimony that took place before us, we the undersigned, as follows: when the Creator, exalted be His invocation
and sanctified be His name…
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Two drafts of a bill of divorce (get) from Cairo for Makhlūf b. Yiṣḥaq and Zahrah bt. Yaʿaqov, probably dated Sunday, 17 December 1[8]26 CE …