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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 …
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IB I, 8. Court proceedings from Fustat dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' …
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Legal document. Formula of a Bill of manumission of a slave girl. Recto: Recto: A formula writ (מודע, ‘notification’) for invalidating the manumission of a …
Testimony about what took place in our presence, we the witnesses signed
below on this deed of disclaimer: A son of B appeared before us
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Fragment a bill of compromise (פשרה) written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions two people and their brother; a house called Dār al-Jazīra; …
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Draft of a deed of compensation in the hand of the court reporter Yefet b. David Shekhanya, around 1030 CE. It was given to Efrayim …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) under the reshut of Masliah Gaon (1127-1138). …
Response to the inquiry on the recto, in which the judge replies, “I learned that this girl was engaged several times, but it is not …
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Fragment of a legal document having to do with a house, described in detail. Mentions Sitt al-Ḥasan.
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).
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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Several small fragments. The first is the end of an extremely faded legal document; the singatures of several witnesses are preserved.
Legal document in Hebrew, very damaged. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 ___[month missing] ___52 AM. Based on the paleography the year is most likely 5552 AM …
Small fragment from the top of a ketubba. In the hand of Yefet b. David (early 11th century).
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Bill of divorce (get) from Rashid, for Shemuel b. Avraham and Diamante bt. Yosef, dated 6 September 1751 CE (16 Elul 5511 AM).
Legal document relating to a release, mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan Nānū the trader and Avraham ha-Sar. Signed by Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE). (Information from …
IB I, 37. Legal record (#9). Deposition in court. Bū Naṣr al-Kohen Ibn Mukhtār, Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār ('the perfumer in the alley of the candles'), Abū …
Deed of guardianship in the hand of Avraham, son of the Gaon. Dated: Iyyar 1337 Seleucid (April or May 1026). Eli b. Yefet (known as …
Bill of divorce. Husband: Riḍā b. [...]. Wife: Ẓarīfa bt. Malik(?).
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: ca. 1337 CE, since the same witnesses appear on T-S 13J2.18 from that year. Groom: ʿOvadya b. Avraham b. Shelomo. Bride: …
Legal document. In the hand of Yefet b. David. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 3 Nisan [47]88 AM, which is 1 April 1028 CE. Barhūn b. …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly the draft of an iqrār or other legal deed. Written on (or reused for?) a page of magical instructions in …
Power of attorney. Mainly in Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar 1539 Seleucid, which is 1228 CE, under the jurisdiction of Avraham Maimonides. The physician Elʿazar …
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Recto: Legal document in the distinctive hand of Elḥanan b. Shemarya. This is a notification (moda'a) that the release that Ṣāliḥ granted a certain Nāshī …
Marriage agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1459 Seleucid, which is 1147 CE. The document is in need of conservation, and several names and words are …
Fragment of a legal document written in large calligraphic letters. (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment, either a will or something to do with the disposition of the property of a certain Ibn al-Raqyan (בן אלרקיין) who is now …
Small fragment from a legal deed regarding a payment to a woman, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108). Involves Abū l-Saʿd b. Abū …
Legal document of communal let(?), signed by [...] b. Nāḥūm, Hilāl b. [...], Thābit b. [...] and Muʿammar b. Yiṣḥaq. May be a petition involving …
Folio from a court notebook. Recto: Statement about the debt of a parnas. Dating: ca. 1151 CE, mentioning a timespan in 1462 Seleucid rather than …
Owed by the elder Abū Saʿd the parnās, b. Ḥātim to the Estate
of the Jerusalemites: from the beginning of Rabīʿ al-ākhir of the year
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Legal document, tiny fragment. Probably from a ketubba. Mentions 5 dinars.
Legal declaration. After the death in Sicily of Abū l-Surūr b. Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥibrī, his brother Futūḥ claimed his inheritance and the court establishes that …
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: [..]45 (probably 1345 Seleucid = 1034 CE). Groom: Avraham ha-Levi. Bride: Durra bt. Shelomo, a virgin and a rich woman. …
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Possibly a deed of sale or lease of a property. Needs further examination.
Digests of legal documents. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Document #1: Manṣūr/Elʿazar b. M[...] sells 1/8 of a house for 14 dinars. Specifies …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Dating: ca. 1080 CE. Groom: Yosef b. Yeshuʿa b. ʿAllūn. The bride is not a virgin. Marriage payments: 3 + …
Draft of an Arabic-script legal document or credit instrument. Documenting a debt of 20 dinars. Written on 11 Shaʿbān [.]39 AH. Mentions names such as …
Minute fragment of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). A man releases a woman from claims; no other …
Deed of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Kislev 1526 Seleucid = 19 November 1214 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. This partnership release …
Minute fragment, extremely damaged. Only few words can be read מגלימא דעל כת[פיה] so this is probably a fragment from a ketubah. The shape of …
Left fragment: Court record. Very faded and damaged. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Settlement of a martial dispute after the …
Legal document. Possibly a will. Only the lower left corner is preserved.
Upper left piece of a document in Arabic script, likely legal. Needs examination.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is Murhaf b. Fāris al-Dawla Nushtakīn "one of the greats of the Ḥāfiẓī regiment" (احد الحافظية …
Table of contents of a responsa collection
Minute fragment from a ketubah.
A declaration by the community of Qal'a
Legal document. In Arabic script, in a relatively difficult hand. An iqrāq document: "aqarr al-Muslim hujjatuhu min Abī Bakr". Includes signatures and dates: Ramaḍān x62 …
Court declaration in which Moshe b. Yeshuʿa testifies to having received all due him from Abū Ghālib Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, working for him in …
Marriage contract (ketubba) with an elaborate fleur-de-lis frame. Fragment. What remains is mostly the trousseau list. An item called 'Bunduqī' (Venetian) appears. Some of the …
Halakhic monograph regarding bill of divorce (get). See Y. David, The Get and its formulas, p. 128