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  1. 1

    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. …

    1. כניסתה לחופה וא[ש]תיר עלוהי עשרה דינרין דדהבא מאוחרין ואלין מה
    2. דהנעילת עלוהי נדוניא שויא [עש]רין דינרין טאבי מ[ע]ליא(!) והוי כלל כתובתא
    3. 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.

    1. [ נימול ל]שמונה ו[בן] שפחה וודאי מ[לין אותו]
    2. [ מ]חללין עליו את השבת ואם אינו
    3. נימול לש[מונה אין מחללין עליו את ה]שבת אבל בני השפחות וודאי
    4. 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 …

    1. ] שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצרנא ענד אלשיך [
    2. ] אעלמו אנני שיך כביר טאען פי אלסן ומא אעלם מא [
    3. ] 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.

    1. זכרון עדות שהיה בפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע במצרים וה[עדים
    2. החותמים עדותם למטה בשטר הזה בתרין בשבה ו
    3. 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 …

    1. [...]
    2. ואהִל [...]
    3. ולם תוכל הדה אלאמראה לזוג אִכִתִ[הא ...]
    4. אלכלכאל <אִלעִצִפִור> פלמא אתצל מתל הדא במטו[...]
    5. יכדם אלצלטאן <<ואכִדִ>> וסאלה אן תעו[...]
    6. 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: …

    1. מצרפה מקדם י מאכר ארבעין
    2. טובא מעליה (!)
    3. זוג אכראץ דהב וכאתם דהב וגלאלא דרי ומעגרהא
    4. וג מנאדיל תניסי ומנדיל רומי וסת מעארק ויזאר (!)
    5. 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 …

    1. אחרם בלא תאכר ולא
    2. אן יצבר ענה אלי יום
    3. אלאתנין פאן חצר ואלא
    4. דלך ליכן אלאמר חגה עליה
    5. 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.

    1. מא יקולו חכמי ישראל ורבניהם פי קהל כרים מן ישראל
    2. יש צו יגתמעו בבית הכנסת ללצלאה ואכתארו אן
    3. יכון שליח צבור אלדי יאם בהם כמא ארשדו לדלך
    4. 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.

    1. ] . . .ל ישועה הכהן בר מנצור
    2. ] .ת ששה עשר יום לחדש סיון שנת
    3. ] מה למנין שאנו רגילין למנות בו
    4. ] . . מושבה וראינו את ישועה
    5. ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

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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 …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי ד[חתמ]ות ידנא לתחתא ב[. . . . . . .
    2. דהוא [. . . . . . . . . .] יומי בירח תמוז דשנת אלפא ותלת מאה ותשעין ותשע
    3. 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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