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Legal document regarding the establishment of the Hevra Qadisha, a burial society, with a list of 7 ordinances (monthly payments, age of joining, etc.). Dating: …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A woman gives to a man a gift consisting of two objects delivered …
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Either a letter or a legal query. In Hebrew. Late. Describing the legal arrangements following somebody's death.
Will of Na’ima bt. Yaʿaqov stating that one-half of a house with a store in Malij that she bought from her son for six dinars, …
צוואת נאעמה בת יעקוב בעיר מליג
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Legal document (iqrār) concerning receiving payments for crops. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "contrat du prince Saragah Mache (mamelouk) avec les cultivateurs"]. Loss …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan, 5488 AM = October 1727 CE. Involving three gabbayim and property in the qodesh …
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Bill of sale dated December 481/1088 (original document), in which Khulayf b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAlī sells a house to Hārūn b. Khulayf b. Hārūn, the …
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Court notebook with four distinct records. (I) See PGPID 40206 (II) "the release: Ḥalfon b. Avraham for Netanʾel b. [Ḥalfon ha-Levi?]; 24 dinars and 5 …
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Fragment of a ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Yoel b. Yeshuʿa. Groom: Shelomo b. [...]. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1237–79 CE, as it is written In …
Official document in Arabic script. Dated: 1231 AH, which is 1815/16 CE. On a printed template perhaps from the customs bureau (ديوان كمرك . . …
Legal deed written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be …
Small fragment of a debt contract. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. The number 140 is mentioned. The debt will be repaid in monthly …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involving an agreement between two parties. Dating: written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, and …
Legal record (#63) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 25 Nisan 5324 …
Fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The bride is not a virgin. Dowry apparently of little value. (Information …
Court record. This is a copy of the marriage contract (ketubba) between Shemuel b. Nissim ha-Kohen and Fāʾiza bt. Yūsuf, originally dated Tuesday, 2 Heshvan …
Legal deed in Aramaic copied three times, partially written and signed by Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen and signed by Moshe b. Yahya Majjani. Ca. 1060.
Bottom of an Arabic legal document. There are four witness statements stacked on top of each other. The document itself is missing. It may have …
One of three draft versions of a document concerning an official (muqaddam) in the community of al-Mahalla during the administration of Mevorakh b. Saadya (active …
Fragment of a legal testimony in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Involving Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Kathīr al-Ḥalabī, Salāma, and perhaps …
Karaite betrothal document. Date: Nisan 16 Nisan 5433 AM (1673 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is Farj bt. Yeshūʿa b. Yiṣḥaq and the …
Recto (secondary use): Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Sitt al-Nasab bt. Yefet/Ḥas[an] al-Qaysarānī, the wife of …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving partners (one is named Meshullam); debts (300 dinars from Abū Saʿd) and 400 dinars from somebody else; splitting something equally.
Bill of divorce, fragment. The husband's name is not preserved. Wife: Gharb bt. Abū l-M[...] Tamim b. Bishr. Scribed and signed by the court scribe …
Ketubba fragment.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Ṭevet 1441 Seleucid, which is 1130 CE. Acknowledging the deposit of an inheritance. Abū l-Ḥusayn …
Segment of a court testimony. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (Date: 1100-1138). Regarding dowry arrangements after the renewal of a lost ketubba. …
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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Dating: Likely Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū l-Faraj al-Jabīlī (or al-Jubaylī); the estate of his father; and his …
Small fragment of an Arabic legal deed, probably a Muslim marriage contract (...الصداق المذكور...).
Document in Arabic script. Probably legal, probably late. Very faded. Needs further examination.
Karaite agreement regarding cemetery usage and the authority of communal officials over burial practices. Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography and surnames mentioned. Dated …
Legal document. Minute fragment, from the bottom part of a legal document, might be a ketubah. Only partial names: Yefet, […] Halevi b. Bashar , …
Marriage contract, fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 13 Nisan 1326 Seleucid = 5 April 1015 CE. Groom: Ghulayb. Bride: Muʾammala, described as בעולתא (= not …
Document in Arabic script, occupying one page of a bifolio. (The other pages have Hebrew poetry, including by Ibn Gabirol.) This is catalogued as a …
Deed of sale or gift of property. Damaged. Location: not preserved. Dating: not preserved, but 11th century seems likely, based on the uncommon formulae and …
Legal fragment. Dating: ca. 1046/47 CE. From the bottom of a bill of compensation, from [Ḥusn] bt. Yaḥyā to Abū Naṣr b. Saʿadya and Shelomo …
Small fragment of a legal document. Looks like it involves yibbum (levirate marriage), and there may be a dead brother named Elʿazar. On verso there …
Book of legal formularies. In Aramaic and Hebrew.
Legal deed involving R. Yiṣḥaq Luria Ashkenazi and Rafa'el Kalonymos. Location: Egypt. Dated: Tevet 5319 AM, which is 1559 CE. The deed details the terms …
Small fragment (lower left corner) of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated 624 AH?
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (last couple lines and part of a witness statement). Dated: 710s or 720s AH, which is 1310–29 CE (this …
Legal document. Extremely faded. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion preserved here consists of the identification of the party or parties and …
Court record. Dating: mentions Nisan 1410 Seleucid = March/April 1099 CE (terminus ante quem). Dealing with a complicated lawsuit of a case in which Abū …
Legal document in Hebrew on parchment. Involving [...]DYA known as Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (spelled בן אצבג); the mother of Yefet b. S[...]; Yefet's father, who was …
Legal document(s), probably. In Arabic script. Late. Needs further examination.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 3 Elul 1446 Seleucid, which is 14 August 1135 CE. Husband: Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq. Wife: Ḥasana bt. Shelomo. …
Debt acknowledgement for five dinar to be repaid in monthly installments. Written by Hillel b. Eli in Kislev 1402/October 1090. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, …
Bifolium with four pages. First page: Legal record in Judaeo-Arabic. No signatures. Mentions the government (sulṭān). Dated Jumāda II 488 Hijri = 1095 CE. Second …
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Involving the will of a deceased man; a woman, …