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Karaite bill of sale in Judaeo-Arabic dated Thursday 29th Shevat 5548 (1787 CE). Location: Cairo, Darb Abū Qamr. The document was likely a draft given …
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Karaite pre-nuptial agreement. Dated Monday 17th Sivan 5524 AM (1764 CE). Location: probably Cairo, in the home of Naḥūm Kohen Gabbay. The groom is Shelomo …
Verso: Dowry list of a prospective Karaite bride (no groom is listed). Dated 3 Elul 5530 AM (1770 CE). The main heading states that the …
Karaite prenuptial agreement. Date: 28 Heshvan 5506 AM (1746 CE). The groom is listed solely as Yosef, therefore one of the witnesses' names may contain …
Karaite agreement to give a bill of divorce in case the husband will be absent for more than one year. Undated, perhaps because this document …
Karaite engagement agreement between Yahūda b. Yeshūʿa Levi aka Hīti and ʿAzīza bt. Yahuda Levi. Dated Friday 13 Tevet 5515 AM (1755 CE). Location: the …
Karaite betrothal deed (qiddushin) between Yaʿaqov b. Avraham Barakha and Raḥel bt. Avraham b. Yosef Rofe aka Ṣaʿīr. The groom is taking upon himself that …
Karaite conditional divorce document. Dated Monday 23rd Tevet, 5529 AM (1769 CE). Yosef b. Shelomo aka Maʿānī is taking upon himself to give a conditional …
Karaite conditional divorce document. Yaquti'el b. Nissim Fayruz is taking upon himself to give a conditional bill of divorce to his future wife Sitūta b. …
Karaite agreement regarding inheritance and estate arrangements. Dated Wednesday 3 Elul 5532 AM (1772 CE). Location: Cairo. The court procedures center on the estate of …
Legal document listing funds from the estate of a deceased man. Dated 9 Av 5523 AM (1763 CE). The estate is connected to the income …
Legal document regarding the transfer of marital payments and trousseau items between David known as Naqāsh, father of the bride ʿAzīza, and the groom Shalom …
Karaite betrothal deed. Date: 28 Nisan 5533 AM (1773 CE). The groom is Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ḥakīm and the bride Qamr b. Yeshūʿa. …
Karaite testimony about a debt incurred by a certain ʿUziel Gabbay b. Yeshūʿa to the poor of the Jewish community totaling to 10,316 fiḍḍa (medin). …
Bifolium with multiple document entries, probably a fragment from a court register. Dated in fourth entry on 2v as Thursday 2 Kislev 5496 AM (1735 …
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Writing exercises of Atbash Hebrew alphabetical order and the phrase "מנצפ׳׳ך צופים אמרום" that display the surname Mosseri in the heading. Based on the format …
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Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet. On the verso a partial date is offered in the heading with the day of the week "יום ג" …
Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet that display the surname Meṣlīḥ/מצליח in the heading. Based on AIU IX.A.46 in this series and other writing exercises …
Letter in Ladino, sent from Salonica (שילאניקי) to Cairo (spelled erratically as מישרייאם). To be delivered to ("en mano de") Yiṣḥaq Qatin[?] (אין מאנו די …
Recto: Legal declaration from Cairo, 1737 CE (18 Shevat 5491), in which the witnesses testify that Shelomo b. David Valensi divorcd his wife Sarah bt. …
Legal document from 1725 CE (1 Tevet 5486) from Cairo formalizing a reconciliation between husband, Yosef Mizraḥi known as Khumays, and wife, Nujūm the daughter …
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1730 CE (8 Heshvan 5491 AM), involving the partners Moshe ʿAzarya and Yosef Benṭora/Binṭora(?) and a debt of 16,495 diwani …
Legal document draft or court register entry draft. Dated to the first third of Heshvan 5591 (1730 CE). Location: Cairo (noted in l. 8). The …
Partnership agreement dated November 1739 CE (first third of Heshvan 5500 AM) between Nissim Kaspi b. Moshe and Moshe Kohen b. Yehudah Kohen. Signed by …
Legal document dealing with the sale of a ruined house or building. Dated December 1719 CE (9 Tevet 5480 AM). Location: possibly Jerusalem, based on …
A document that has been folded twice. The outer face (pages 1 and 4) contains legal documents relating to business partnerships; a Moshe and a …
Letter in Italian addressed to Seid Barda et Abram Amram, Cairo, 29 Maggio (May) 1719 CE. Livorno is mentioned in the first lines. There are …
Letter in Spanish from Abram Nunez (?) to Sehid Barda, Cairo, dated 1712 CE (4 Nisan 5472 AM). The letter is on Page 1 and …
List of donations received from dozens of men and families and some calculations. Arranged by months and parshiyot, and many names are repeated in different …
Accounts in Ladino including for March 1722 CE (mentions Rosh Hodesh Nisan 5482). Currencies used are ducados and muayyadis. The handwriting is very close to …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Karo y Frances & Company (see tags). Dated 1796/7 CE (5557).
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement between Efrayim b. Shemuel and כואנדה bt. Eliyyahu Sūsī, in a beautifully illuminated frame. The prospective bride's name is also listed as …
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Letter in Ladino from Reʾuven Miris or Mires and addressed to Avraham Krispin (Crespin) who on the address section is listed as being in "Mitzraim" …
Deed of sale for multiple properties in Cairo, explaining how they exchanged hands in a complex succession of guardianship procedures, inheritance, and a widow's ketubba …
Another 28 folios from the ledger of donations collected in the years around 1800 CE. These entries are for the year 5559 (1798/99). ASE.
Legal document from Thessaloniki, dated May 1722 CE (20 Iyyar 5482 AM). Shemuel Laros aka Bekhor (בכור) declares that a certain Raḥel does not owe …
ENA 1822a.83a: Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals dated in one recto entry as 8 Tevet [54]92 or 6 January 1732CE. On the recto …
Birth records. In Italian. Dated: 1721 CE through 1743 CE.
Letter in Ladino. Dated: 10 Nisan 5528 AM = 1768 CE. The writer's name is Yedidya Tariqa and his location (Chania = כאניה) is listed …
Drafts of court records that were copied into the register of the court in Cairo. Regarding items sent from Salonika to Rashid and various marital …
Business letter, perhaps a draft or a copy from a letterbook. Dated: 12 Tammuz 5559 AM, which is 15 July 1799 CE. Dealing mainly with …
Kashrut certification document in Hebrew. Dated 25 Tammuz 5524 AM (1765 CE). Location: issued in Carpentras, France (קארפינטראץ). The signatures of two kosher butchers appear …
Legal document dated 23 August 1797 (1 Elul 5557 AM), in which the brothers Yeshuʿa and Daniel ha-Levi acknowledge an investment by Me'ir ben Naʿim.
Legal document regarding real estate. Dated 1 Adar 5522 AM (1762 CE). The opening lines offer a cardinal direction-based description of a building's location and …
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 26 Adar 5487 AM (1727 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously married bride is Najma bt. Yeshūʿa bt. Moshe and the groom …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Monday 2 Adar 5497 AM, which is 1737 CE. ʿEzra b. Eliyyahu Rofe Fayrūz acknowledges a debt of 31 golden …
Karaite bills of debt on a bifolium. Dated 1 Shevat 5498 AM (1738 CE). Both documents deal with a qāʿa residence on Darb al-Furn, a …
Karaite betrothal deed. Date: Sunday 8th Adar II, 5548 AM (1788 CE). Location: Cairo. Avraham b. Nissīm b. Yaʿaqov aka Ḥīna is the groom, Badra …
Karaite legal document dealing with property on Darb al-Furn (in Cairo). Dated Sunday 29 Iyyar 5471 AM (1711 CE). The current owner Aharon aka ʿAbalkarim …
Karaite agreement regarding a partnership in rural cheese production (אלגבן אלריפי) mentioning the specific type(s) "אלכשכבאן אלכזין". Dated 22 Heshvan 5515 AM (1754 CE). The …