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The partners are ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Moshe ha-Levi and Avraham b. Yehuda ha-Rofe.
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Premarital agreement between the prospective groom Raḍī b. Shemuʾel Berakha and bride Ḥabība bt. Naṣr Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār, who is represented by her maternal aunt Ḥabība bt.
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Incomplete document entry in which Farjallah b. Naṣr b. Yaʿaqov al-Levi sells a maqaʿd (מקעד) property to his cousin ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov al-Levi ha-Somekh. The entry notes that the property is held in a pious endowment (indicated by recurring references to כלו/خلو status) and that Farjallah had previously purchased the maqaʿd from a Rabbanite Jew, whose name was left blank in l. 24.
Dated 12 Nisan [5322] AM (1562 CE), based on the year mentioned in the preceding entry on f. 10v. Avraham b. Yehuda al-Ḥakīm appears before a communal judge (Shemuʾel ha-dayyan) in the home of Shelomo Fayruz regarding his services in weighing beef.
Legal record (#78) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 27r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Av 5325 …
There is a one-year break in chronological coverage between the entries on f. 10v of the court register and the preceding folios from early 1561 CE. Shelomo Shuqayr appears before one of the judges of the Karaite community (Shemuʾel [ha-dayyan]) in the home of Yehuda al-Ḥakīm to testify that he will only resell meat in certain monetary increments over the original cost he pays. […] The lower lines deal with what Shelomo will charge for grilled meat that he purchased raw.
Partnership agreement between the goldsmiths Mūsa b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Levi and Raḍī b. Shemuʾel Berakha.
Court case recorded in the home of Yehuda ha-Dayyan regarding premarital contact between Yosef b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ḥawwāsh and his fiancée Trkiya(?)
Debt acknowledgment between ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Moshe ha-Levi and ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ha-Kohen b.
Business agreement related to payments, shipment of goods, and a shop run by multiple members of the same family: ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. Sulaymān Fayrūz, his mother Estīta bt. Yosef Fayrūz, and his father Sulaymān. […] ʿAbd al-Laṭīf also swears to transfer any funds from the shop to Yosef b. Shalom Pineḥas. Estīta then swears an oath to transfer the goods and payments sent in her name to her son and to not allow any debtors to lay a hand on them.
Release agreement between the recently divorced couple ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. Shemuʾel known as al-Ḥawwāsh and Estīta bt.
Farjallah al-Kohen aka al-Shuqayr, who had been betrothed to a certain ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Khiḍr al-Fūlādī. The deceased woman's father appears before the court in order to demand the return of the dowry he had given ʿAbd al-Raḥmān while his daughter was still alive, consisting of gold ashrafī jadīd coinage and a ring weighing two mithqāl.
Communal charity agreement in which ʿAbd al-Raḥim b. David ha-Ḥazzan Fayrūz agrees to make monetary contributions to the pious endowment that are earmarked based on him receiving the synagogue honors of three years ʿaliyot for Torah readings.
[Es]tīta(?) bt. Avraham b. Yehuda Rofe receives her meuḥar marital payment of 13 gold jadīd from her ex-husband Moshe ha-Levi.
Debt settlement and release between members of the Fayrūz family in Cairo: Yiṣḥaq b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Fayrūz, Shaykh al-Yahūd; Shelomob.
Dated 24 Adar II 5323 AM (1563 CE). Farjallah b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Levi and his brother Reʾuben al-Levi testify that they gave permission to their maternal uncle, Avraham b.
Communal list (record #19) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7v-8r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but surrounding …
Legal record (#20) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tishrei 5321 AM …
Marital dispute resolution in which Yiṣḥaq b. Abu l-Farj al-Fūlādī ackowledges a debt of two gold ashrafī to his wife Ẓarīfa bt.
Debt acknowledgement between Sulaymān b. Shemuʾel Shuqayr and ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Yehuda al-Ḥakīm for 10.5 gold judad that were guaranteed by a certain Aḥmad b.
This gap indicates that certain entries in the register were not recorded sequentially but with space between them that was used for future entries (unless the scribe forgot to add the final digit). Yosef b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq and ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. Moshe al-Maghribī reach an agreement before the court for Yosef to marry Abd al-Laṭīf's daughter, Trkīya (תרכיה), who is previously unmarried (בכר).
This gap in time points to the likelihood that the scribe left spaces open between early entries in the court register which, in turn, could be used for much later non-sequential entries. Yehuda b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kohen al-Badrī acknowledges a debt of 17 ashrafī judad to Shemuʾel b.
He stands before the court in disagreement with a certain Hārūn b. Yosef al-Kurdī, who Hārūn b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq claims has been making "excessive and deficient statements" about his wife in front of another community member, Yosef b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Ḥawwāsh. Hārūn b. Yosef al-Kurdī then testifies that he heard the rumors from: Hārūn b. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥawwāsh and Ṣedaqa b. Yosef al-Naqqāsh. Ṣedaqa b. Yosef al-Naqqāsh then testifies before the court about a conversation he overheard between Raḥel and Reʾuben b.
The same person from the previous entry (#55), Shimʿon b. Yaʿaqov ha-Levi ha-Somekh al-Qudsī, forfeits (גלק) a sum of 60 gold ashrafī to Shemuʾel ha-Levi connected to a partnership that Shemuʾel had with his brother ʿAbd al-Jafār.
Purchase agreement between Yehuda b. Moshe and Avraham b. David ha-Levi Shaykh al-Yahūd, in which the latter party sells "חזקת גמעה פי כנס סוק אלצאגה" (l. 3). The exact meaning of what Yehuda b. Moshe is purchasing is unclear, but it relates to the sweeping (כנס) of the Goldsmiths Market (סוק אלצאגה) in Cairo.
in the Goldsmiths Market of Cairo between ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Khiḍr al-Fūlādī and Avraham b. David al-Levi Shaykh al-Yahūd.
Legal record (#108) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 35v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 26 Tevet 5326 …
Betrothal agreement between the prospective bride and groom Yiṣḥaq b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kohen al-Kurdī and Estīta bt.
Brief entry stating that Farjallah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Kohen Shuqayr and [...] bt. Yiṣḥaq Fayrūz married each other before two witnesses, but this is clearly not a ketubba nor does it follow common formulae in other entries from the same court register (except the neighboring record #110).
Brief document stating that Trkīye bt. Farjallah b. Naṣrallah al-Levi and Yosef b. ʿAbd al-Dāʾīm b.
Legal record (#64) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 2 Iyyar [5324 …
Agreement with two sections (1): The spouses Avraham b. Moshe ha-Levi, known as Ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī, and his wife Esther [bt. Yosef] al-Rumiyya agree to no longer prevent Yehuda b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kohen aka al-Kurdī from marrying their daughter Sulṭāna (who is only named in the neighboring entry).
Debt acknowledgment between ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. Moshe al-Maghribī and Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov al-Levi ha-Somekh.
Dated 16 Tammuz 5324 CE (1564 CE). ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Khiḍr al-Fulādī and Moshe b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī ha-Levi testify that they received three gold ashrafi (coins) from Avraham b.
Dated 21 Shevat 5322 AM (1562 CE), a chronological leap of 13 years before the previous entry on 13v (PGPID 41077). Shelomo Feyruz appeared before a session of the beit din at the synagogue (probably Dār Simḥa) and summoned ʿAbd al-Jawād al-Kohen over rumors that the latter he had been spreading about him. The court rules that ʿAbd al-Jawād is incorrect in spreading rumors and that "the law is with/upon" Shelomo in this matter (עליה אלדין). ʿAbd al-Jawād then swears an oath that he did not/does not believe the rumors he was spreading.
Avraham al-Ḥaqqān and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Khiḍr al-Fūlādī. Each party agrees "not to return to bringing news" about the other (לם עאדת תגיב כבר), which might translate idiomatically as: "not to start spreading rumors again" about one another.
Debt settlement and partnership dissolution between Yiṣḥaq b. David al-Kohen, aka בעלם(?) (ʿIlm?), and Yosef b. […] As per the terms of the debt settlement, Yiṣḥaq b. David al-Kohen agrees to repay his former partner the rather large sum of 75 gold ashrafī in monthly installments of 3 ashrafī (25 months) starting in the month of Kislev (5325 AM).
Shemuʾel known as al-Sīrjānī, appears before the court to release her husband Aharon b. Eliyyahu Yakīn from debts/money she lent him during his travels in al-Shām and since he returned to Egypt.
In this follow-up document, Hārūn b. Abd al-Ḥaqq al-Kohen known as al-Mawardī makes an oath on the Ten Commandments in connection with the complex legal case (record #73) regarding rumors that spread about a gathering he hosted in Dammūh.
Legal record (#62) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 7 Nisan 5324 …
Betrothal agreement between the prospective groom and bride: Ṣedaqa b. ʿAbd al-Daʾīm al-Levi al-Qudsī and Farj bt. Avraham b. David ha-Levi. The groom's marital payments are: 50 dirham + 30 [gold ashrafī] + 25 gold ashrafī judad.
In this record, Ibrahīm b. Yehuda ha-Rofe testifies that for the rest of his life he will never remarry his ex-wife Ḍara(?)
Dated on the same day as the previous entry: at the beginning of the month of Adar I 5325 AM (1565 CE). Avraham b. David al-Levi releases ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Khiḍr al-Fūlādī from debts related to their partnership accounts and relinquishes his claim to seek any further compensation, some or all of which was related to business activities involving a non-Jewish broker/middleman (simsār).
Dated 20 Iyyar 1873 Seleucid/5323 AM (1562 CE). Farjallah b. ʿAbda al-Bāqī al-Levi acknowledges a debt of gold jadīd coinage to his maternal uncle Avraham b.
Incomplete dispute resolution against further physical altercations/insults between Raḍī b. Shemuʾel Berakha and the brothers ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Shelomo, Aharon, sons of Shemuʾel al-Fūlādī and their paternal cousin ʿAbd al-Jaffār b.
ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Ḥakīm b. Yehuda ha-Rofe ha-dayyan appears before Shemuʾel ha-dayyan, in the latter's own home, in order to rent a portico (riwāq) property. […] residence of Farjallah b. Yehuda al-Levi the cook (al-ṭabbakh)." MCD.
The legal parties mentioned on each side of the family feud include: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Shelomo, and Aharon sons of Shemuʾel al-Shāmī al-Fūlādī; Yehuda, Yiṣḥaq, and Moshe sons of ʿAbd al-Karim al-Kohen Kurdī.
Praises for God and a long list of names of God in Judaeo-Arabic.
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Prayers and praises for God in Judaeo-Arabic.
Dated: Tevet 1744 Seleucid = November/December 1432 CE. Husband: Shemuel b. [...] b. Shemuel. Wife: Sarah bt. [...]. The blanks in the date were never filled in, and there are no signatures, so this document was never actually used.