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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: [..]19 AM, which is either 1858/59, 1758/59, or 1658/59, or conceivably 1558/59 CE at the very earliest. Of …
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End of damaged legal document on parchment from 11th century Fustat. Involving [...] known as al-Ṣāʾigh. Signed by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef and a certain Yefet …
Bifolio of a court notebook with legal and communal entries. (1) In which the goldsmith Bū l-Faraj b. Bū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī grants permission to …
Probably legal document(s) or letter(s) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal testimony. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Thursday, 24 Shevat 1816 Seleucid = Shaʿbān 910 AH, which is 1505 CE. The document first lists the assembly …
Deed in which Abū Saʿd Efrayim b. ʿEli the Jew acquires the lease of a plot of land in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Futūḥ Ghālib b. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, his blessings and peace be upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet and his family.
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 22 Adar II 1472 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. Husband: Yaʿaqov b. Binyamin. Wife: Sitt al-ʿIrāq bt. …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Qaraite. Groom: Ṣedaqa. Location: Fustat(?). Dating: 1020–30s(?). Witnesses: Avraham b. Khalaf ha-Kohen; Netanʾel b. Revaḥ/Rawḥ ha-Levi; Barakāt b. Mubārak; Hiba b. Yosef; …
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Instructions for writing legal documents, in particular those dealing with debts, with formulaic examples in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Ketubbah of [...] b. Solomon (groom). Dated [...] Sel. in Fusṭāṭ. Written by Emmanuel b. Yeḥiel, Middle of 13th century. Probably under the reign of …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. It appears that Meshullam takes over the responsibility for the six years of alimony payments (farḍ) to a certain female relative …
[...] Mr. Meshulam [told us]: “This
[woman] is my relative and I must [...] her. Whatever the court charges her,
I will pay it for her.…
Legal document dealing with inheritances, apparently of two women, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written in a rudimentary hand (Goitein calls it a "most miserable script"). Location: Cairo. Dated: Av 1[3]82 Seleucid, which is 1071 CE. …
Bill of divorce (get), from Mahalla al-Kabirah. The husband's name is Mu'amar b. Tuviah. The wife [Ma]l[ih]a? d. Ma'ali. Signed by Nissim b. Shiloh (signed …
Shiddukhin document (or a draft of one) for the daughter of Ḥalfon b. Moshe. The conditions include sums in peraḥim and discussion of living arrangements. …
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 46 (Document of Sale).
Document of sale dated 447 AH. There are many parties to this sale. The buyers are Marqūrah and Buṭrus, the two sons of Rabābīl, who …
Legal record (#51) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 18r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated in Tishrei 5323 …
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Power of attorney. Location: Tinnīs (= Ḥanes). Dated: Sunday, 13 Tishrei 4750 = 15 September 989 CE. The paqid Ṭoviyya b. Yaḥyā of Aleppo appoints …
Part of a large ketubba. The names of the bride and groom, date, location and witnesses are not preserved, but it was written under the …
Bill of exchange pledged for the rental of river floodland in which the amount paid is to the Jewish owner of the land – 18 …
Legal document (זכרון עדות). Dating: likely early 13th century. Involves Abū Manṣūr al-Shā[...], Ṭāhir b. [...], something being certified for a woman, and a sum …
Legal document of some kind. In Arabic script. Involving Ibrāhīm ʿAdda and Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAṭiyya. Needs examination.
Verso: Formulary for a deathbed release (or at least a release in the setting of old age and frailty) granted by a woman to a …
Court records. Large fragment, containing at least two distinct entries. Damaged and faded. There is a testimony that begins on line 25 of recto and …
Late legal document in Hebrew: Shemuel rents a property from Avraham for 4 months for the price of 115 "peraḥim" per month. Information from Avraham …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Avraham Hakohen b. Moshe and the bride is Esther d. Eliyyahu Halevi. AA
Legal document, probably a prenuptial or engagement document. Groom: Maymūn b. Yosef. Bride: Sitt al-Dalāl. There are conditions about financial support, place of residence, and …
Document describing the four borders of a certain area, mentioning 'the alley of the poor' (zuqāq al-masākīn), the house of Muḥibb(?) al-Dawla, and the house …
Legal records in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE).
Minute fragment, only two words, but might be from a ketubah. AA
Bottom part of a torn court record involving a widow, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Tishrei 1439 Seleucid = September/October 1127 CE.
Ketubba for Sittūna bt. [...] and Yaʿir b. Khalaf, dated Nisan 13[..] of the Seleucid Era (= 989–1089 CE) in Egypt. Total dower: 100 dinars …
Verso: Engagement agreement in Hebrew. Date: 8 Kislev 5459 AM (November 1698 CE). The recto contains accounts in Judaeo-Arabic from the first of Tūt of …
Left side: See Friedman, Teuda, 3, 72 and SDG index card
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Bilbays. Dated: 17 Adar II 1483 Seleucid, which is 15 March 1172. Husband: Manṣūr b. Avraham. Wife: Sitt al-Bayt bt. …
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Legal document mentioning ‘our lord, the great Nasi’ and Sitt al-Hanāʾ (cf. T-S NS 226.12 (PGPID 4242) and ENA 3778.7 (PGPID 11352)). Dating: Likely early …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Lease document for a house in Fusṭāṭ, owned by Abī Saʿīd b. Makārim b. Abī Saʿīd al-Yahūdī, the overseer of …
Fragment from the end of a legal document. Mentions [...] b. Menaḥem and Hillel b. Yeshuʿa and the phrase "four cubits of land" (used in …
Ketubba (marriage contract). In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. The portion preserved here is mainly the trousseau list. The grand total of marriage payments …
Judicial record of an inspection of the state of the two Rabbanite synagogues in Fustāt, in the Roman fortress (qaṣr al-shamʿ), and an authorized and …
Small fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Describing the location of a house, so probably a deed …
Recto: Unusual Aramaic-Hebrew legal document, or rather an addendum to a legal document, perhaps describing irregularities in certain words? Each entry refers to a portion …
Legal document, late, in Arabic script. Probably a record of payment to the bureau of silk looms "dīwān anwāl l-ḥarīr". Needs examination.
Part of a Qaraite ketubba for a bride Rayyisa and an unnamed groom, preserving the bride’s trousseau list. Olszowy-Schlanger (1998:349-51) dates it to the 11th …
Ketubba fragment. The beginnings of ~9 lines are preserved, including part of the dowry list.
Small fragment containing an order, maybe for 2.5 dirhams' worth of meat.
Fol. 2: Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dated: first decade of Adar I 1437 Seleucid = January/February 1126 …
Part of a deed, in which Yefet b. Aharon confirms that he has received the sum of 8 3/4 dinars from persons, including Avraham and …
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Legal document, concerning the will of [Avraham] b. Peraḥya [Yiju]. Dating: probably 1160–65 or 1160–69 CE, as it was drawn up under the authority of …