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  1. 301Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J141

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions the date Av 1425 Seleucid = July/August 1114 CE. This is a post-divorce settlement. …

    1. Testimony which took place in our presence, we the undersigned: When 

    God, exalted be His name, produced 

    1. the causes for separation between (ou…

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  2. 302Legal documentENA 972.7 + ENA NS 18.10 + BL OR 12299.18

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Also signed by Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Location: Fustat. Dated: 23 Sivan 1436 …

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  3. 303Legal documentENA 1822a.18

    Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dated documents: 1100–38 CE). The main text (not in the margins) on both sides may just …

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    1. אלתי ורתתה [
    2. בראס מאל . . [
    3. אנא עאלמא בה אלאן וממא לם אע[לם
    4. אלתי תתגה לי עלי כל מנהמא פי דלך [
    5. מנהמא ואלתפריד מן סאיר אצנאף אלמ[
    6. כלף . . . . …

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  4. 304Legal documentENA 2728.2

    Legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi. Dating: 1100-1138. Left side of inquiry with regard to an inheritance of a quarter of a house. …

    1. ] אחצר זוג אלבנת אלצגירה אלכתובה אלד[י . .].[פי]ה אלשרט אלמדכור
    2. ]. .ל. מא אלואגב פי אלסתה דנא[ניר . . . .] עליה אלכדאם מנהא ד
    3. ]אדין אלכפן אא.ח אן מא…

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  5. 305Legal documentENA 3215.11

    A very damaged legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca 1100–38 CE). Some details might be extracted with effort. In the …

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  6. 306List or tableENA 4020.62

    This shelfmark includes 3 unrelated fragments. Upper left fragment: Legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128/29 CE. …

    1. ]נאגיה בנת אבו אלכיר
    2. ]מנשפה גסילה
    3. ]ילה ופראש
    4. ]סראויל וכלעה
    5. ]כפנהא ושרחה
    6. ] ורדא מקצור
    7. ]. . ומערקה
    8. ] איצא ואתנין ארדיה
    9. ]ללכפו איצא
    10. ] איזאר ותוב אל
    11. ]מכ…

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  7. 307Legal documentENA NS 16.9

    Legal document. Small fragment from a beginning of a legal document, probably bill of gift, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi, under the authority of …

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  8. 308Legal documentENA NS 16.11

    Deathbed declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138), comprising the right upper corner. An old woman, the widow of Abū ʿAlī Yefet …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא מן סאל[נא אלדכול אלי
    2. אלמנת אלשיך אבו עלי מר ור יפת הזקן נע דידיע בן אלצבאג פדכלנא אלי…

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  9. 309Legal documentENA NS 18.25

    Detailed deathbed declaration made by Abu al-Tahir Mevorakh b. Shela al-murid (government supplier), written by the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The testator …

    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע המ[מנה . . . . . . . . . ס]אלנא אלדכול עלי אלשיך
    2. אבו אלטאהר מבורך בר שלה נע אלמורד פד[כלנא עליה פאלפינאה] אלמריץ …

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  10. 310Legal documentENA NS 19.19

    Legal document. A small fragment, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Halevi, regarding a settlement between a couple, probably after their divorce (a bill of divorce …

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  11. 311Legal documentENA NS 61.25

    Legal document(s). Probably a draft. Small and damaged fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Includes part of a partnership contract between Abū …

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  12. 312Legal documentENA NS 66.2

    Probably a bill of sale for a female slave. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No details preserved.

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  13. 313Legal documentFriedberg MSS 9-004/22

    Deed of sale, probably. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). For "the large dār with the square door" …

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  14. 314Legal documentFriedberg MSS 9-004/25

    Deed of gift of a female slave (waṣīfa). Fragment, containing the first half of 5 lines. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38).

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  15. 315Legal documentJRL B 2970

    Fragment of a betrothal (erusin) document, written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The groom is the son of Binyamin ha-Levi.

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  16. 316Legal documentJRL B 4804

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involves Shemarya the Cretan (אלאקריטשי) and someone making a will. May be directly …

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  17. 317Legal documentJRL B 5478

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Deed of sale for a female slave named Sahar. One of the parties (seller or buyer) …

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  18. 318Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1760/14

    Upper fragment: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/26 CE. Involves Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. [...], Aharon …

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  19. 319Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1770/4

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Large and well preserved. Release granted by Yaḥyā ha-Kohen to Abū l-Waḥsh Sibāʿ, the husband of …

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  20. 320Legal documentL-G Misc. 4

    Ketubba fragment (right lower corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Groom: Yefet ha-Zaqen b. [...] ba-Ḥavura. Witnesses: Peraḥya b. Araḥ; Yefet b. Ṣadaqa. …

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  21. 321LetterMoss. IV,15.2

    Petition from ʿImrān b. Khalaf to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. In which he claims he …

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  22. 322Legal documentMoss. V,385.1

    Long vertical strip from the top of a ketubba written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1130 CE, under the jurisdiction of Masliah Gaon. Groom: …

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  23. 323Legal documentMoss. VII,6.2

    Lease contract for an entire top-floor apartment rented by Abu al-Ḥasan Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Menashshe. from Abu al-Fadl Mevorakh b. Yefet. The place is described …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצרא אלינא אלשיך
    2. אבו אלפצל כגק מר ור מבורך הזקן הנכבד בר כגק מר ור יפת הזק[ן . . . . . ] . . . …

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  24. 324Legal documentMoss. VII,40.2 + T-S Ar.50.73

    Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Join: Amir Ashur. Recto: Document referring to a woman whose husband traveled to Yemen and left …

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  25. 325Legal documentMoss. VII,66.1

    Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 29 Kislev 1448 Seleucid = 25 November 1136 CE. The testator is owed 2/3 dinars …

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  26. 326LetterMoss. VII,147.1

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother or brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). He complains about separation and neglect. (Information …

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  27. 327Legal documentT-S 8.228

    Recto: Legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE) involving a bridegroom and his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl. After a temporary dissolution …

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    1. [ ] כצוץ אללאזמה לה[ ]
    2. חמורה אנה לא אכד להא עמל ולא ט[ ]
    3. ואכתמו עלי בגמיע אלאלפאט אלמחכמ[ה ]
    4. אלי סת אלאהל ארוסתי דא ליכון בידיהא [ ]
    5. מעאני אלא…

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  28. 328Legal documentT-S 8J5.4

    Court notebook in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Fol. 1r: Power of attorney. Dated: Tuesday, 2 Av 1438 Seleucid = 12 …

    Fol. 1r

    1. חצרת אלינא אנן חתומי מטה פרגיה בת מ יצחק נע זוגה אלשיך אבו אלמעאלי
    2. מרור אברהם הזקן יש צו דידיע בן אבו סלאמה ואשהדתנא עלי נפסהא
    3. אנהא קד והבת …

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  29. 329Legal documentT-S 8J5.12

    Two judges inspect together with two government muhandisīn two houses in the Laban (?) lane (near the synagogues) and find that the house of Hibāt …

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    1. חצרנא אנן חתומי מטה יום אלתלתא שלהי ירח שבט אתמז
    2. מע אבו אלחסן בן חאתם ואלמהנדזין אלמוקופאן מן גהה אלסלטאן
    3. לנטר אלאמלאך ו[בירא אלד]אר אלמערופה ב…

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    We, the undersigned, together with Abu ʾl-Ḥasan b. Ḥātim and the two surveyors provided by the Government for the inspection of properties, wer…

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  30. 330Legal documentT-S 8J10.10

    Legal document concerning the breaking off of an engagement agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fiancee: Sitt al-Banāt the …

    1. [בפנינו אנו בית דין הק]בוע בפסטאט מצר[ים] ו[מן] דִ[ח]תִ[י]םִ עימנא
    2. [לתחתא למא סהל אלכאלק תעא]לי דכרُה ותקדّסת אסמאה [אס]באב אלוُצלה
    3. [... ב]ר נתן הזק…

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  31. 331LetterT-S 8J11.10 + T-S AS 149.62

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother the court clerk Ḥalfon, who was active ca. 1100–1138 CE. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:422, …

    1. וצלת כתאבך יאכי וסידי ואלעזיז [עלי וענדי] | אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
    2. עזך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמת[ך ומן] | חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך וכאן
    3. לך ומעך עונא ומעינא פי …

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  32. 332Legal documentT-S 8J17.9

    Court notebook. Location: Fustat. Betrothal (erusin) contract. Fiancé: Yosef b. ʿEli Ibn Qashqūsh. Fiancée: [Sitt al-]Jamīʿ bt. Shelomo, a virgin. Dated: middle decade of Ṭevet …

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  33. 333LetterT-S 8J17.31

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe, in Alexandria, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner of recto). The writer asks …

    1. ] עלי אטאל אללה בקאכם ואדאם עזכם בע
    2. ] . אלליל ואלנהאר מן וקת סמענא ען כיאר
    3. ]אלעטימה למא וסעה כתאב וכל מן פי אל
    4. ס]מעו כבר פמא נסמע אלא מא י . מס
    5. ] מא…

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  34. 334Legal documentT-S 12.164 + Bodl. MS heb. b 12/19 + T-S 8.210

    Marriage contract in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, dated October 1116 (Thursday, 11 Marḥeshvan, 142...). The marriage gift consists of 16 dinars. The bride …

    T-S 8.210

    1. ]א ודנא [
    2. ]תנא דנן [
    3. ]ה מעשה ידיה לית ליה [
    4. ]ביד ממוקדם [
    5. ]דנן בר מ חלפון נע לכ[
    6. ]ר ובריר וקיים[
    7. ] סט אברהם[
    8. ] סט [

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  35. 335Legal documentT-S 12.595 + T-S 12.604

    Ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The bridegroom is possibly Is[aac b. ...]. The name of the bride and further details are not …

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  36. 336Legal documentT-S 12.637

    A damaged Ketubbah of Joseph b. ʿEli (groom), dated [...] Kislev [...]. No other details preserved. Probably written by Halfon b. Menasheshe Halevi. AA

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  37. 337Legal documentT-S 12.700

    Small strip from the top a Ketubbah of Sason b. [...] (groom), in Fusṭāṭ. No further details are preserved. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Halevi. …

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  38. 338Legal documentT-S 16.44 + T-S 12.613

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 11 Iyyar 1437 Seleucid (1126 CE). Change of a will signed by Ḥalfon b. …

    T-S 16.44 + T-S 12.613

    1. שה[דותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא […
    2. אלצ[
    3. אב[
    4. ואפ[
    5. אלאסו[
    6. למתלהא [
    7. כנת מן מ[
    8. אלדאר אלדי א[
    9. אבו אסחק בן ט[
    10. מדעאה …

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  39. 339List or tableT-S 16.207

    Verso: Six lines of accounts of debts on clothing, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated Kislev 1431/ November-December 1119. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. …

    1. ] לבזאז ען תוב אסכנדראני מו דרהם
    2. אלע]שר אלאכיר מן כסליו שנת אתלא אלמואפק לשעבאן
    3. ]דה מן דלך יום אלארבעא אלכח מן אלשהר אלמדכור ה
    4. ] ענדה אול גמעה פי רמ…

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  40. 340Legal documentT-S 18J1.23

    Legal document recording that Sitt al-Husn, daughter of Saadya, sought a gold tiara ('isaba) that she had pawned to the recently-deceased physician Abu al-Murajja b. …

    1. כאן לסת אלחסן בת סעדיה נע הידועה בנת אלחדבא ענד אבו אלמרגא אלטביב בן דינאל רצי אללה ענה עצאבה
    2. דהב פלמא תופי אלתמסתהא מן וראתה פי בית דין פסאלו ענהא …

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  41. 341LetterT-S Ar.7.19

    Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (There is also an incomplete address to their other brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya, but …

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  42. 342Legal documentT-S AS 131.24

    Small fragment from a prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130/31 CE. There is an even smaller fragment …

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  43. 343Literary textT-S AS 145.159

    Completely damaged page from what use to be a Bible. The ink was corrosive so almost nothing left. On top of the page Halfon b. …

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  44. 344Legal documentT-S AS 145.354

    Bill of sale for a female slave, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information in part from CUDL and from Craig Perry.)

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  45. 345Legal documentT-S AS 147.148

    Bottom part from a legal document written under the jurisdiction of Masliah Gaon (although his name does not appear) by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi, so …

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  46. 346Legal documentT-S AS 148.50 + T-S NS 292.84

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from a bill of release regarding a shipment of tamarind to …

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  47. 347Legal documentT-S AS 149.265

    Minute fragment, a few incomplete words, but from what is preserved we can tell it is a ketubbah, contains the dowry section and probably written …

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  48. 348Legal documentT-S AS 152.3

    Legal document, fragmentary, calling for someone to give evidence about a certain person's misconduct and who is subject to a herem (excommunication). (Information from Goitein's …

    1. למא חצרת אלשהאדה אלקאטעה אלתאבתה בחצרה בית דין ע[
    2. הכהן הזקן נע אנה א . . . . עבירה ותגאוז עלי אלשריעה הו ומע [
    3. . . . . . . . . ] . . [ . . . מ]א לא …

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  49. 349Paraliterary textT-S AS 157.50

    Twitch divination (palmomancy) fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See Wagner, E., & Bohak, G. (2008). T-S AS 157.50: A twitch divination text …

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    1. …ב כירא
    2. …אר גמיעא
    3. … [אד]א אכתלג
    4. … [וי]ציב כירא כבירא
    5. … [אכתל]גת אל כُמّרה ולד
    6. … ואדא אכתלג
    7. …ה אלאימן פאנ[ה]
    8. … ואדא אכתלג
    9. …קאל עליה …
    10. … דלך כיר…

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    1. … good fortune (khayra)
    2. … entirely
    3. … [i]f it twitches
    4. … he will [ob]tain great good fortune.
    5. … [if] the head of the penis (kummara) twitch, a …

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  50. 350Legal documentT-S AS 159.230

    Digest of a legal document. Probably in the cursive hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. For a partnership in a shop in New Cairo. One …

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