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Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
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Arabic document of sale, consisting of an acknowledgement (`iqrar), dated 633 AH (Khan, ALAD, pp.19, 46)
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Marriage contract (ketubba) appearing to be between two relatively poor families, as evident by the small marriage gift of 14 dinars. Dowry provided by the …
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Court notebook with four distinct records. (I) See PGPID 40206 (II) See PGPID 40207 (III) Entry detailing the maintenance payments (10 dirhams per month) that …
Verso, lefthand page: End of a legal query and responsum from "our rabbi the Rav" (Friedman suggests this is R. Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen) concerning …
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Small fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions a certain Ḥasāna.
Fragment of a Christian marriage contract written in Arabics on parchment and dated Muḥarram 554AH. The bottom half of the contract was reused as writing …
Witness statement. Dated 25 Tevet 1438 Seleucid (1127 CE). Concerning a young man named Sedaqa the Meshorer b. Semah, an agent in a business venture …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic. Dated: 13 Rabīʿ I 591 AH = 25 February 1195 CE. Made by two brothers, ʿAlī and Nāṣir b. …
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
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صح باسم ضعفا اليهود عن
الحكر بقصر الشمع لصفر
سنة خمس عشر وستماية
من الف خمس قراريط
Several small fragments. The first is the end of an extremely faded legal document; the singatures of several witnesses are preserved.
Legal document. Looks like a release. One of the parties is Netanʾel b. ʿAmram. The release migth have been granted upon receipt of a consignment …
Formula of a Karaite ketubah.
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1r-v: Agreement between Sari b. ‘Eli and Sedaqa b. […] with regard to goods left by Musafir b. Yish‘i. Shari undertakes to pay after his …
Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
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 …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. The bride is named (Sitt al-)Khawāt. The scribe uses the unusual spelling דנאן for דנן, which may help in finding …
Engagement contract. Bride: the widow Rashīda bt. Yiṣḥaq b. Sheʾerit. Groom: the widower Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe. Location: Minyat Ghamr. Dated: Wednesday, 3 Tishrei 1627 Seleucid …
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Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Dated: 539 AH, which is 1144/45 CE. The lessee is the trader (tājir) Dāʾūd b. Ḥasan al-Yahūdī (though his …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. One side has four lines preserved; the first line refers to someone named Yūsuf b. Muḥammad. The other side has …
The activity of Elḥanan b. Shemarya as a judge, a holograph: warns someone that he will be banished unless he appears in court the following …
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Legal record (#31). Liquidation of a trust. There appears to be at least one page of the notebook missing at this point, as there are …
Power of attorney given by the cantor Yosef b. Nissim to Yefet b. Natan to deal with the grantor's house, specifically to sue the person …
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Tyre, ca. 1079. Preserves the full name of the groom, Thābit b. ʿEli, and a notable phrase for the promise of …
Legal document in Arabic script.
Fragment of a legal document (upper left corner). Dated: Av 1400 Seleucid = July 1089 CE. Mevorakh b. Yosef makes an acknowledgment. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 11 Marḥeshvan, 142[.]. The original estimate for this shelfmark inferred 142[8] Seleucid, probably based …
Decorated Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Shlomo b. Eliyahu and the bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Ya'aqov Halevi.
Legal document. Copy (nuskha) in Hebrew script of an Arabic-script acknowledgement regarding a sale of a store in Tiberias. Dated: middle decade of Shawwāl 425 …
Recto: Notes for drawing up a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? The two sides (al-ḍiddayn) are Hiba b. Khalaf and the …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The first few lines and the last few lines are missing. Somebody forfeits …
Fragment of a court record, probably a quarrel between partners about amount of money. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active ca. 1066-1108). Mentions …
Legal record (#17a). Alimony owed. Pertaining to the first record on the facing page (Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.11, recto, a). "The maintenance (mezonot) incumbent on Bū …
Legal document. In Hebrew: Location: Damietta (קפוטקייא). Dated: Beginning of Sivan 5488 AM, which is May 1728 CE. Concerning the inheritance arrangements upon the death …
Verso: Part of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing a divorce document and the settling of the dowry with Yaʿaqov, the ex-husband. (Information from CUDL.)
Minute fragment of legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions the phrase אלמדכורה בעד הדא; the year 1440 Seleucid = 1128/20 …
Part of a heading for a large ketubba, with blessings in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL.)
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 …
Small fragment from the beginning of a ketubba from Fustat. No identifying information remains.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). On parchment. The ends of about 15 lines are preserved. Probably a deed …
Small fragment from a ketubba. Part of the dowry list is preserved. AA/ASE
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Probably Av 1[48]5 Seleucid, which is 1174 CE, based on the presence of signatures of both Shemuel b. …
Legal document. (Information from CUDL.) No details preserved.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragment (beginning only). Probably a deed of sale (hādha mā ishtarā...). The (Jewish) buyer is named Bū Manṣūr b. Abū …
Bill of gift and release granted to grandchildren. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One of the parties name is …
Legal document (maḥḍar) in Arabic script, in a very elegant chancery-esque hand. The testimony concerns the deceased Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Dimyāṭī al-Ḥarīrī. It mentions the year …
Recto: Legal document. Dated: Monday, 3 Tishrei 1526 Seleucid, which is 1214 CE. Under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Involves Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Manṣūr …
Dowry deed from Fustat, October 1171 CE (17 Heshvan 1483 Seleucid). It was customary to bring together all the objects of the dowry and to …
Karaite betrothal deed, torn along the right margin. Dated 17 Adar I 5502 AM (1752 CE). Location: Cairo. Th groom is Avraham b. Yosef b. …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Mentioning Ḥasana bt. Shel[omo] and 1 1/3 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)