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Legal documentYevr. II K 12
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The name of groom is nor preseved. The Bride is Esther known as Zubayda . dated to 16[...]
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Legal documentBL OR 5524.1
Get (bill of divorce). Location: Damsīs. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevat 4810 AM = 16 January 1050 CE. Husband: Menahem b. Yefet. Wife: Riḍā bt. Avraham. …
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Legal documentHalper 339 + T-S 20.124
Lower part of a marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Avraham b. Shabbetay. Groom: Yefet b. Nissim. Bride: Sitt al-Dār bt. Yiṣḥaq. Location: Fustat. …
- כניסתה לחופה וא[ש]תיר עלוהי עשרה דינרין דדהבא מאוחרין ואלין מה
- דהנעילת עלוהי נדוניא שויא [עש]רין דינרין טאבי מ[ע]ליא(!) והוי כלל כתובתא
- דא מהרא ותוס…
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Legal 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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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/2
Legal document(s). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1392 Seleucid = December 1080/January 1081 CE. (The first deposition is from 10 Ṭevet, the second is from 21 …
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Legal documentT-S G2.137 + T-S AS 91.190
Fragments of responsum by a Gaon, dealing with children of female slaves.
- [ נימול ל]שמונה ו[בן] שפחה וודאי מ[לין אותו]
- [ מ]חללין עליו את השבת ואם אינו
- נימול לש[מונה אין מחללין עליו את ה]שבת אבל בני השפחות וודאי
- מחללין עליו…
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Legal documentL-G Misc. 98
Legal document. Ketubba. Dating: early 11th century. Bride: Dalāl. Early marriage payment: 30 dinars. (Information from Goitein’s index card and CUDL.)
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Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1864/5b
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps legal or having to do with a waqf, or having to do with the text that Yosef Rosh ha-Seder copied (see …
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Legal documentT-S 24.81
Three related court records. In the hand of Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī (active ca. 1201–43). Location: Alexandria. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 4800 + 167 …
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Legal documentT-S AS 179.20
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Damaged and faded.
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Legal documentT-S AS 156.63
Fragment of a power of attorney in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 50/12
Legal document. Debt contract. Date not preserved. The names of debtor and creditor are very effaced. The sum of money is given in Kāmilī dirhams, …
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Legal documentT-S AS 145.27
Responsum, dealing with purchases; quoting Leviticus 25:14. (Information from CUDL)
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Legal documentCUL Or.1080 5.15
Trousseau list for the marriage of Sitt al-ʿIzz and Yeter ha-Levi. On parchment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel. The value of …
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Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J62
Fragment of a will, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, in which the donor, an old man being in good health, specifies the legacies made by …
- ] שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצרנא ענד אלשיך [
- ] אעלמו אנני שיך כביר טאען פי אלסן ומא אעלם מא [
- ] לאנני לא אמן אלופאה בגתה ואכלץ איצא זוגתי אלת[י…
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Legal documentJRL Gaster ar. 119
Ottoman-era legal document or letter with legal import, in Arabic script. Probably demanding for a sum of money to be paid in dirhams. Needs examination.
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Legal documentT-S AS 145.206
Recto: halakhic query, probably addressed to a member of the Maimonides family. Verso: document containing many names such as Yiftaḥ, Isaac, Zechariah, Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and …
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Legal documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.13 (Michaelides 13)
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic. Dated: 13 Rabīʿ I 591 AH = 25 February 1195 CE. Made by two brothers, ʿAlī and Nāṣir b. …
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Legal documentT-S NS 288.230
Fragment of a responsum dealing with a quarrel between 4 congregations in one town in Morea, Patras: the Romaniotes, two Sicilian, and the Castilian. The …
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Legal documentT-S AS 145.358
Legal fragment. Dating: mentions Av 1486 of the Seleucid Era = July/August 1175 CE. Describing how after lengthy litigation it was determined that [...] known …
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Legal documentT-S NS 224.162
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script involving Jewish silk traders (al-qazzāzīn al-isrāʾīliyyīn). Two signatures are preserved. Underneath, the tops of the letters are …
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Legal documentT-S 12.653
Fragment of a ketubba (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1444 Seleucid, which is 1132/33 CE. Groom: Ismāʿīl b. Yosef. …
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Legal documentMS R1891, fol. 2 + MS R1891, fol. 1
Collection of responsa by R. Hayya Gaon. The first about Deutronomy 18:8, published by Wertheimer, ' קהלת שלמה עמ' פ-פא (תרגום בעמ' כא-כח). The 2nd …
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Legal documentT-S 12.778
Legal document. Containing testimonies about a certain document (kitāb) that is deposited with the Nasi Abū l-Ḥasan, which is a debt contract for 200 dinars. …
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Legal documentT-S AS 179.239
Rental contract. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right piece). [..]ār b. Azhar rents from a Jewish woman named [...] bt. ʿAmmār a share in a …
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Legal documentMIAC 158
Receipt from a synagogue of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – 1943CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 158) – in Hebrew and French. …
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Legal documentT-S AS 151.263
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions a sum of Malikī dinars (the gold coins of Yemen in this period, worth "somewhat …
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Legal documentJRL Series B 3857
Fragmentary record of testimony from the 'Permanent Court' in Fustat dated Sivan 1367 = May/June 1056 CE.
- זכרון עדות שהיה בפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע במצרים וה[עדים
- החותמים עדותם למטה בשטר הזה בתרין בשבה ו
- יומ]י[ן] בירח סיון אלפא ותלת מאה ושתין ושב[עה] שני[…
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Legal documentENA NS 48.16
Query and response in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya, who was the leader of the Jerusalem congregation in Fustat between 1007 and 1050. Bareket …
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- ואהִל [...]
- ולם תוכל הדה אלאמראה לזוג אִכִתִ[הא ...]
- אלכלכאל <אִלעִצִפִור> פלמא אתצל מתל הדא במטו[...]
- יכדם אלצלטאן <<ואכִדִ>> וסאלה אן תעו[...]
- ואכדהא באליד <<ובעד פור>> ועאד…
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Legal documentT-S AS 167.178
Top of a legal deed. In which Abū l-Fakhr [Saʿadya] b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī acknowledges receipt of a sum from a certain Abū l-Ḥasan.
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Legal documentT-S NS 225.25a
Legal notes (heading only) for the prenuptial agreement for the marriage (milāk) of [...] bt. Maʿālī and Mūsā the brother of al-Sh[...]. Written by Halfon …
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Legal documentYevr. II A 1294
Marriage contract, template. Written in codex form. The original text is from a ketubba dated Wednesday, 21 Heshvan 5515 AM, which is 1754 CE. Groom: …
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Legal documentT-S 10J7.13
Trousseau list enumerating items of a dowry which amounts to 30 dinars and part of a house. Dated ca. 1090. Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. Bride: …
- מצרפה מקדם י מאכר ארבעין
- טובא מעליה (!)
- זוג אכראץ דהב וכאתם דהב וגלאלא דרי ומעגרהא
- וג מנאדיל תניסי ומנדיל רומי וסת מעארק ויזאר (!)
- וסת מכאדר מנהא מכ…
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Legal documentT-S AS 178.343
Document in Arabic script, likely a deed of sale. Needs examination.
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 56/48
Legal document in Arabic script. Only one of the witness signatures (Mūsā b. [...]) is preserved, with an additional note at the bottom. Reused on …
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Legal documentT-S 8J22.14 + T-S 13J16.11 + T-S 13J22.21
The activity of Elḥanan b. Shemarya as a judge, a holograph: warns someone that he will be banished unless he appears in court the following …
- אחרם בלא תאכר ולא
- אן יצבר ענה אלי יום
- אלאתנין פאן חצר ואלא
- דלך ליכן אלאמר חגה עליה
- תצגע ולא תצבר וערפנאה
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Legal documentT-S Misc.28.102
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning a dispute over who had the right to lead the congregation in prayer.
- מא יקולו חכמי ישראל ורבניהם פי קהל כרים מן ישראל
- יש צו יגתמעו בבית הכנסת ללצלאה ואכתארו אן
- יכון שליח צבור אלדי יאם בהם כמא ארשדו לדלך
- אלחכמים והו קו…
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Legal documentT-S AS 152.304
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed, only few partial signatures, one is by [Zeda]qa b. Yeshu'a. AA
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Legal documentT-S NS 288.185
fol. 1r: partnership agreement; fols 1v-2r: related accounts; From the year 1792. (info FGP). Names: Rahamim Navaro, Moshe's Mar widow and his son Shemuel, Avraham …
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Legal documentT-S 12.691
Bill of gift and release granted to grandchildren. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. One of the parties name is ʿAmram. AA
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/33
Marriage-related document. Includes a menstrual purity clause, so no earlier than late 12th century. The handwriting is probably known.
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Legal documentT-S 8J39.13
Hebrew court testimony by Yehoshuaʿ b. Mansur saying that his wife has no debts to him.
- ] . . .ל ישועה הכהן בר מנצור
- ] .ת ששה עשר יום לחדש סיון שנת
- ] מה למנין שאנו רגילין למנות בו
- ] . . מושבה וראינו את ישועה
- ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
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Legal documentT-S AS 201.463
Ketubba fragment. The groom's name is Nissim. The payments amount to 100+ dinars.
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Legal documentT-S AS 150.117
Legal document mentioning ‘our lord, the great Nasi’ and Sitt al-Hanāʾ (cf. T-S NS 226.12 (PGPID 4242) and ENA 3778.7 (PGPID 11352)). Dating: Likely early …
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Legal documentT-S 20.116
Fifty-two closely written lines of a legal verbiage written by Hillel b. Eli, dealing with the settlement of the debt of half a dinar owed …
- שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי ד[חתמ]ות ידנא לתחתא ב[. . . . . . .
- דהוא [. . . . . . . . . .] יומי בירח תמוז דשנת אלפא ותלת מאה ותשעין ותשע
- שנין למניינ…
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Legal documentT-S 12.54
Bill of divorce, Qaraite. In Hebrew. T-S 12.54 and T-S 12.70 are two very rare examples of Qaraite bills of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, …
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Legal documentT-S NS 306.39
Torn fragment from the top of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). No details preserved.
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Legal documentT-S AS 176.1
Legal document concerning state affairs. Dating: 419 AH = 1028–29 CE. Involving the amīr Dhakhīrat al-Dawla, the chief judge (qāḍi l-quḍāt), the Diwan of Zakāt, …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.34.95
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a shop (ḥānūt), dyeing, and a period of 6 months (a lease?).
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Legal documentMoss. III,257
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue this MS contains 25 pages, in a late hand. Including formulas of legal deed according to the custom …
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