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  1. 4651Legal documentENA 4011.67

    Legal document. Dated: Wednesday, 30 Nisan 1456 Seleucid = 25 April 1145 CE. The document describes how ʿAzīza bt. Elʿazar the widow of Abū l-Khayr …

    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנן בי דינא ומאן דחתים עימנא לתתא סוף שטרא דנן כן
    2. הוה בחדש ניסן דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחמשין ושיתא שנין לשטרות באלפסטאט
    3. רשותיה דאדוננ…

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    1. Legal proceedings that took place before us, the court and those undersigned with us on this deed: 

    2. In the month of Nissan, year 1456 AG (=…

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  2. 4652Legal documentAIU XII.134

    A curious text, mostly in Arabic, squeezed onto a torn scrap of paper, perhaps a vow that the writer will not speak about 'the maḥdar …

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    1. صدق على نفسي
    2. قول اني لا اتكلم
    3. حديث المحضر ولتوقيع(!)
    4. في هاذي السنة وشهد
    5. على روحي خالق السماو[ات
    6. ولارض(!) تبارك اسمه
    7. وبه استعين

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    1. ويا س…

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  3. 4653Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    Legal record (#43) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …

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    :(Documents 42-44) Folio 11r

    1. את זו וזו את זה מכל מין תביעה וטענה שיש לכל אחד מהם על חברו הנז׳ מצד כל מה שהיה ביניהם מיום
    2. שנברא העולם עד היום ו…

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  4. 4654Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1636/3

    Legal fragment. Ending only. Signed: Yosef b. Shelomo. Late. There are pen trials and some Latin script below.

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  5. 4655Legal documentYevr. II A 1241/10

    Karaite betrothal document. Date: 17 Tammuz 5519 AM (1759 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously married bride is Hana bt. Yeshūʿa b. Yosef and the groom …

    1. ביום ששי בשבוע והוא שבעה עשר יום מחדש תמוז יא׳׳ל שנת חמשת אלפים וחחש מאות ותשעה
    2. עשר שנים לבריאת העולם ואלפים ושבעים שנים למספר יונים בעיר אלקאהרה הס…

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  6. 4656Legal documentENA NS 30.10

    Partnership agreement between Moshe and Yiṣḥaq, specifying each party's liabilities. Written in Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Friday, 19 Av 5330 AM = 21 July 1570 …

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    [.........................................................]

    1. משה [...] ע. [......
    2. ושלשה מיטיקאליש ושני ש[...פרחים] ז…

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  7. 4657Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 85

    Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Lessor: "Shaykh al-Islām" ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-ʿIbādī(?). Lessee: Shemuel b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī al-Rūmī. The property is a first floor …

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  8. 4658Legal documentT-S 6J2.25

    Legal document. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Unusual format. The trustee ("al-neʾeman") Yefet b. Elʿazar, who is the representative of …

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  9. 4659Legal documentT-S 13J8.2

    Legal document recording Surūra bt. Shelomo’s suit for maintenance from her husband Surur b. Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Jāsūs. For the expenses, Surūra was ceded one-half of …

    סרורה בת שלמה הרופא תובעת מזונות שבעלה סרור בן יעקב בן אלגאסוס חייב לה

    מתוך חוב, שנאגי בר אהרן כהן בן טובי היה חייב לאביו של סרור. (בשטר מובא

    1. בית די…

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  10. 4660Legal documentYevr. II K 38

    Karaite decorated ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Eliyyahu b. Yosef. The bride is Esther known as Marhaba d. Nahum Hakohen b. Aharon

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  11. 4661Legal documentT-S NS 226.70

    Small fragment of a legal deed. Some names partially preserved: [...] known as Ibn al-Shofeṭ, and [...] al-Ṣiqillī. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe …

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  12. 4662Legal documentT-S NS 31.23

    Draft of a legal record from the court of the Nagid. Location: Cairo. Concerning the dissolution of a partnership in Damietta, between Saʿīd and Khalaf. …

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  13. 4663Legal documentT-S AS 151.257

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Concerning a financial settlement, mentioning various sums of money: 26 Malikī dinars (used in Yemen) …

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  14. 4664Legal documentT-S 6J8.3

    Fragment from the beginning of a legal document concerning Shemuel b. Eliʿezer. (Information from CUDL)

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  15. 4665Legal documentBL OR 10653.9

    The poetic introduction of a "Yemenite Ketubba" dated Nisan 1368 (=1057 CE?), see BL OR 10653.8 for transcription.

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  16. 4666Legal documentT-S AS 183.23

    Deed of gift (ahdā...). No signatures. Al-Sadīd ʿUmar b. Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān gifts something to Makārim b. Isḥāq b. Makārim al-Yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (the Jewish …

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  17. 4667Legal documentT-S 8J10.17

    Husband who intends to travel abroad allocates 20 dirhams per month, namely, five per week, for his wife, plus some wheat, the 20 dirhams to …

    1. חצר אבו אלפרג בן גזאל אל
    2. קיסראני אקני מן רוחה טאיע
    3. גיר מגבר אנה יקום ל[זוגתה
    4. אם אולאדה פי כל שהר בכ
    5. דרהם כל אס //ביע// ה דראהם וובתין(!)
    6. קמח טייב וח…

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    1. Abual-Faḍl, son of Ghazal the Alexandrian, came

    2.  And obligated himself with a qinyan of his own free will

    3. And not under duress, (so) that…

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  18. 4668Legal documentENA NS 49.23

    Fragment of a legal deed, with the first few lines missing. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 22 Adar II 5456 AM = 26 March …

            [.........................................................................]

    1. ...................................]ת .. מ.[....................…

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  19. 4669Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/43

    Legal document. On parchment. Appears to be a writing exercise, because there are multiple efforts and because there are inconsistencies (on recto Abū l-Maʿānī states …

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  20. 4670Legal documentT-S 12.131

    Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Bride: Bahiyya bt. Yosef, a virgin. Early marriage payment: 20 dinars. Dating: ca. 1040 CE (per Goitein). There is a …

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  21. 4671Legal documentENA 3975.3

    Contract of lease. In Arabic script. Involves Ismāʿīl b. Ḥasan b. al-Ḥāmī and his three sons, the 13-year-old Bū ʿAlī, the 12-year-old Ṭāhir, and the …

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  22. 4672Legal documentT-S AS 151.41

    Legal document(s), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Describing the features of a house. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  23. 4673Legal documentT-S AS 146.213

    Late. Minute fragment from a top of a legal deed (...מעידים עדות ברורה...), mentioning אדוננו הנגיד Our Master the Nagid. AA

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  24. 4674Legal documentT-S AS 147.92

    Legal document mentioning a certain Nadīv and Menashshe b. ʿOvadya. Signed by [Eliyyahu] b. ʿEli ha-Meʿulle, whose name is surrounded by little characters spelling יגדל …

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  25. 4675Legal documentT-S NS 224.104

    Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Rubbed and faded. Probably either a legal document or a letter. For …

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  26. 4676Legal documentT-S AS 151.267

    Minute fragment. Few words from a top of a legal deed. AA

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  27. 4677Legal documentT-S 16.136

    Marriage contract (ketubba) from Tyre, ca. 1079.

    1. ומייקרין [...]
    2. כחלכת נשייא [...]
    3. ונקיו ומני[ית לה הדה] סת [אלבית]....[...]
    4. דשמריה דנן ורצת [וצבת] בכל דהוא עבד ב[עסק זיווגה ...]
    5. [ת]ריין שהדין קדמינ…

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  28. 4678Legal documentAIU VII.D.6

    Draft of a legal declaration. Dated Tuesday the 28th of Tevet, but the year has been left blank. The parties are known from other documents …

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  29. 4679Legal documentT-S Misc.10.16

    Document in rudimentary script naming sums of money to be paid for a period of time in the year '52, using the Islamic calendar.

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  30. 4680Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 102/43 + Bodl. MS heb. e 101/13

    Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …

    Bodl. MS heb. e 101/13

    1. נקול מן אתבת כטה אכר הדא אלמסטור אנה למא כ[אן פי יום
    2. שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ותלתין ותרתי שנין לשטרות [
    3. מותבה רשותיה דאדונינו נגידי…

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  31. 4681Legal documentT-S AS 154.423

    Fragment from a legal document, mentioning dirhams and a witness statement. (Information from CUDL)

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  32. 4682Legal documentT-S 16.246

    Recto: Marriage contract, fragment. Groom: Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Berakhot. Bride: Milāḥ bt. Abū l-Faraj (from verso). Dating: Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel …

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  33. 4683Legal documentT-S AS 153.484

    Small fragment of a ketubba containing a portion of the trousseau list. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  34. 4684Legal documentENA NS 77.417

    Legal query, perhaps. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Concerning the principle of טוען וחוזר וטוען. Mentions a previous response from al-Rayyis. Dating: probably 12th or 13th …

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  35. 4685Legal documentMoss. Xa,2.128

    Legal document? - needs examination. No image

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  36. 4686Legal documentBL OR 8661.1

    Deed of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar II 1461 Seleucid, with the signing deferred until Tammuz 1461 Seleucid, which is 1150 CE, under the authority …

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  37. 4687Legal documentT-S 12.9 + T-S 16.196

    Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] כל
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]נהם ר יוסף אלמעולה פענד דלך
    3. . . …

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  38. 4688Legal documentT-S AS 152.351

    Fragment from the bottom of a bill of release. Only a few letters from the signatures are preserved, including the name Tamīm. AA

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  39. 4689Legal documentT-S NS 225.48

    Minute fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)

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  40. 4690Legal documentT-S NS 264.27 + T-S AS 145.360 + T-S NS 224.181 + T-S 12.537

    Marriage contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 1609 Seleucid, which is 1298 CE. The bride agrees to live wherever (in Egypt) her husband chooses, …

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  41. 4691Legal documentT-S 16.120

    Bottom of a ketubba. Bride: Munā (מונא). Groom: Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa. Witnessed by Avraham b. Natan b. Pinḥas he-Ḥaver (who also signed T-S 10J27.3, dated …

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  42. 4692Legal documentMoss. VII,27

    Legal record of the same case on the recto, which offers us an alternative vantage point against which we may evaluate the narrative imposed on …

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  43. 4693Legal documentT-S AS 147.65 + T-S 6J2.31 + T-S 6J8.12

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38), with a reshut formula indicating that it was drawn up in the time of Maṣliaḥ …

    1. ]דנא לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא אלשיך אבו אלמנא
    2. ]קאל לנא כאן ענד וצולי מן דמשק וצלת עלי ידה
    3. . . . . . . . . . . ]על[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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  44. 4694Legal documentT-S 8J6.20

    Deed of remittance, dated 3 Shevat 5316 (= 1556 CE) between Isaac b. ʿOvadya and Zephaniah b. Ḥayyim Saragossi (סרגוסי), possibly including the former's brother-in-law, …

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  45. 4695Legal documentT-S AS 147.66 + T-S 8.199

    Prenuptial agreement. The groom, Abū l-Barakāt, commits to not marrying a second wife or acquiring a female slave. Also mentions [...] b. Yefet.

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    1. [ ]ן הזקן הנכבד יש צו בר כגק מר ור יפת הזקן הנכבד [ ]
    2. אלדי דכלת בה עליה אלמכתתב פי כתובתהא וכאן דלך פי א[ שנת אלף וארבע]...
    3. מאה וארבעין ושבעה …

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  46. 4696Legal documentT-S 13J1.15

    Part of a power of attorney, in which Ḥusayn b. Hillel (known as Qiṭōs), appoints Yosef b. Maḥfūẓ, to collect a debt owed to him …

    1. [מה שהיה לפנינו אנו הזקנים הח]תומים למטה [בשטר ה]רשא[ה זה]
    2. [בחמישי בשבת] בעשרין וששה יומין בירח תמוז שנת השמטה שהיא שנת
    3. [ארבעת אלפי]ם ותמאניה מאה ו[…

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  47. 4697Legal documentT-S 18J1.12

    Bill of sale in which a Nubian female slave named 'Salt' is sold for 15 dinars. Dated 24 Tammuz 1395/ 30 June 1084. (Information from …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן [שה]די דחתמות ידנא לתחתא בחד בשבה
    2. דהוה עשרין וארכעה יומי בירח תמ[וז ד]שנת אלפא ותלת מאה ותשעין וחמש
    3. למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסט…

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  48. 4698Legal documentT-S AS 209.327

    A legal deed regarding division of money between partners involved in the silk industry (אלקזאזה ואסתעמאל אלתיאב). There is an agent named Elʿazar; [...] b. …

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  49. 4699Legal documentENA NS 50.7

    Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan, 5488 AM = October 1727 CE. Involving three gabbayim and property in the qodesh …

    1. בעהי׳׳ת
    2. בפנינו עדים חותמי מטה הודו שלשת בני היצהר(?) טובים לשמים ולבריות הגבאים המפוארים של הקדש
    3. ארגז המסתערב יצ׳׳ו ה׳׳ה החכם השלם והכולל כמה׳׳ר חיי…

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  50. 4700Legal documentBL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8

    IB IV, 6-7 (ח7). Copy of a court record from Aden. Dating: Summer 1131 CE. Concerning a controversy over Jewish communal leadership in Yemen. Goitein …

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    1. ולמא כאן יום אלסבת תאני יום אלכלאם אשתמעו גמיע אלצחאבנא (!)
    2. אלגרבא וגאו אלי ענד אלשיך אבו סעיד וקאלו לה אש עולת
    3. אן תפעל פקאל להום לאני וחדי מא…

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    1. וכאשר היה יום השבת, למחרת אותם דיבורים, התאספו כל חברינו היהודים
    2. הסוחרים הזרים והלכו אל השיך אבו סעיד ואמרו לו: 'מה אתה מתכוון 
    3. (3–4) לעשות?' …

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