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Karaite bill of release, mentions Farja[llah] Ḥakim ben Mordekhay Ḥakim and Elʾazar Rofe.
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Qaraite court record(s) regarding an agreement that followed two cases of theft (סרקה/سرقة) committed by a certain Yaʿaqov Feyrūz. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5547 AM = …
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Karaite instruction for writing a ketubah.
A Qaraite (specifically Tustari) post festum calendar listing the dates of the new moons by observation for the years 1357–59 Seleucid, corresponding to 1045–48 CE. …
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Short story by Yūsef Zeki Marzūq about a mother enduring the torment of her spouse throughout the process of her son who growing up marrying …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic (16th century per FGP) from Yosef b. Adīda (?) to Yefet b. Farḥān regarding flax shipments. People named include ʿAbd al-Karīm …
Fragment of a Karaite ketubba, 11th-century Fustat. Information from FGP.
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Qaraite deed of betrothal for Khalaf b. Maḥfūẓ (groom-to-be) and Amat al-Qādir bt. Efrayim b. Manṣūr b. Furāt (bride-to-be). Location: Probably Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 17 …
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ואנחנו עמ[ך] … |
וארשתיך לי ב|
נתחיל בשעת רצ|
עדן אלהים ובחיי ה|
ככם אלף פעמים ויברך |
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Writ of agency written in Tyre, approximately 1025. Description from PGPID 22171: A Karaite legal deed in which the bride, Dhukhr, who is in Tyre, …
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Qaraite calendar listing the dates of the new moon by observation, along with correspondences between the Qaraite, Rabbanite, and Islamic calendars. The upper fragment preserves …
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Karaite betrothal document with faded ornamental designs along the upper border. Date: 14 Adar 5454 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is …
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 7 Shevat 5483 AM (1723 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is Badra bt. Yaʿaqov b. Daniel ha-Levi ha-Rofe and …
Karaite betrothal document, with some water/liquid damage toward across middle lines. Date: 15 Heshvan 5485 AM (1724 CE). Due to discoloration/damage, parts of the document …
Karaite betrothal document. Date: 17 Tammuz 5519 AM (1759 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously married bride is Hana bt. Yeshūʿa b. Yosef and the groom …
Conditional divorce agreement between a betrothed couple. Dated Tuesday, 8th Elul 5549 AM (1789 CE). Yosef b. David known Fayrūz b. Ṣemah is taking upon …
Conditional divorce agreement. Date: Monday 29th Tishrei 5560 AM (1799 CE The groom is 'Uziel b. 'Uziel b. Yeshu'a and the bride 'Aziza d. Yehuda …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated Monday, 8th Adar I 5398 AM (1638 CE). Mordekhay b. El'azar b. Aharon betroths Esther bt. Ya'aqov b. Avraham. Unlike most …
Elaborate Karaite ketubba, dated both according to the creation and to the 'counting of the Greeks'. The groom Yosef b. Mordechai b. Shalom is taking …
Karaite bill of divorce (get). Dated 16 Sivan 5392 AM (1632 CE). The divorced couple are named as: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel known as Ibn al-Bardī …
Karaite betrothal deed from Cairo. Dated 15 Sivan 5519 AM (1759). The betrothal involves the groom Yosef b. Gedalya b. Aharon aka Ṣaʿīr and the …
Karaite marriage contract (previously catalogued in PGP as betrothal document per Ktiv metadata). Dated 6 Nisan 5528 AM (1768 CE). The key clause that qualifies …
Karaite betrothal deed. The groom, Ḥayyīm b. Nissīm known as Revaḥ, taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 10 years, except in the …
Karaite betrothal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated 4 Sivan 5516 (1756 CE). Groom: Moshe b. Yahūda b. Aharon. Bride: Qamr bt. Israel b. Raṣon ha-Rofe. The …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 25 Sivan 5556 AM (1796 CE). The groom Moshe ha-Kohen taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, …
Letter from the influential Karaite scholar R. Simḥah Yiṣḥaq Luzki (b.1716-d.1760/1766 CE) to the Karaite community of Cairo or perhaps the Karaite Jews of Egypt …
Long letter to Ishaq Noah b. Avraham in Kokizov. The writer is mentioning the communities in Jerusalem and Damascus, and referring to the observation of …
Karaite ketuba from Damascus. The groom is Tosef Halevi b. Yehuda. The previously married (baʿūla) bride is Esther known as Zubaida d. 'Ovadyahu b. David. …
A Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Aharon b. Binyamin Halevi and the bride is Esther b. Avraham the physician. Dated 15 Kislev 5399 …
Karaite ketubah. The groom is Yeshu'a b. Mordechai and the bride is Esther known as Situta d. Shemuel. 28 Adar 5400 AM (1640 CE).
Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Avraham b. Yehuda and the bride is Esther known as 'Aziza d. Aharon. Dated 29 Kislev 5405 AM …
An elaborate Karaite ketubba from Chufut-Kale (also known in Turkic languages as Qirqayr קירקייר). The groom is Avraham Yerushalmi b. Mordechai and the bride is …
Karaite ketubba from Cairo, the date is mostly lost to damage but can be inferred as no earlier than Sivan 15 5519 AM (June 1759), …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Sa'adya b. David b. Reuven. The previously married bride is Esther Mas'uda d. El'azar Hakohen b. Aharon. In …
Decorated, torn, Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Dated on Thursday in 5566 AM but most of the date is lost to damage. The groom's name is …
Decorated Karaite ketubba from Cairo. Date: 12 Sivan 5570 AM (1810 CE). The groom is Shelomo b. Eliyyahu Ḥazan. The bride is Esther known as …
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yosef b. Yehuda Hakohen. The bride is Esther known as Qamar d. Eliyahu. Dated 25 Adar 5581 …
Legal document (deed of sale). In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Venue: The house of Shelomo b. Aharon Kohen Khāzinī. Dated: Thursday, 19 Heshvan 5527 AM, which …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 8 Elul 5588 AM = 1243 AH, which is 1828 CE. Involves Nissim ha-Levi b. Yequtiel and Menashshe b. Yūsuf …
Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 29 Adar 5539 AM (=Ṣafar 1193 AH), which is 1779 CE. Avraham Fayrūz b. Eliyyahu Fayrūz known as Shuwaykh makes arrangements …
A Karaite engagement deed recorded in the home of Shemuʾel b. Yeshūʿa Melamed (probably the brother of one of the witnesses listed). Dated Wednesday, 15 …
Legal resolution by the Karaite community regarding the issue of marriage before the completion of the betrothal period. Dated: 18 Adar I 5398 AM (1638 …
Court record approving a payment for Ya'aqov Berakah the cantor b. Moshe for his service in communal prayers for five years. Dated Tuesday, 12th Nisan …
Acknowledgment of payment for a residential qāʿa. Dated Thursday, 29th Tammuz 5417 AM (1657 CE) Venue: Dar Simha Synagogue (Cairo). Ṣadaqa b. Ya'aqov Qayyim and …
Legal document regarding two business partners and a debtor. Date: 10 Iyyar 5454 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo, Dār Simḥa Synagogue. The partners are Moshe …
Karaite bill of release. Date: 5 Iyyar 5452 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. Venue: Dār Simḥa Synagogue. Moshe b. Aharon Kohen, the wakīl of Masʿūda …
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 …
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 …
Drafts of an agreement for buying siddurs: al-Thalāth Raḥamīmāt Shemini, Emor, and Naso (שלש רחמים שמיני אמור ונשא); Niṣf batāʿ al-Hallel (חצי הלל). Dated 5 …
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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 …