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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Kislev 5580 AM, which is 1819/20 CE. Partnership agreement for a sarraflık business. On verso there are sums.
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Small fragment of a Yemenite style marriage contract. See Friedman, JMP, I, p. 184, n. 109. AA
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: [..]3[.], which must be 143[.] Seleucid, meaning 1118–28 CE. Also signed by Nissim …
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Legal fragment (lower right corner). Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involves a man named Namir known as al-Ḥakham(?) …
Legal document. Copy (nuskha) in Hebrew script of an Arabic-script acknowledgement regarding a sale of a store in Tiberias. Dated: middle decade of Shawwāl 425 …
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: [..]45 (probably 1345 Seleucid = 1034 CE). Groom: Avraham ha-Levi. Bride: Durra bt. Shelomo, a virgin and a rich woman. …
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Upper part of recto: Legal query probably in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi, addressed to Moshe Maimonides. Concerning a cantor who quarreled with a congregant …
Legal deed, not completed. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1155 Seleucid, which is 1143/44 CE, under the authority of Yehoshua …
Marriage contract (ketubba); line two begins with the phrase "on the river," the only clue to establishing the provenance of the document. Dated 4844 A.M. …
Court register fragment with three document entries. Dated Kislev 5480 AM (Nov.-Dec. 1719 CE). (1) engagement deed between Ishaq Halevi b. Ovadia and Simha d. …
Legal document. Agreement between Abū l-ʿIzz Moshe b. Abū l-Barakāt and his newly divorced wife. She agrees to accept 30 instead of 70 dirhams due …
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Bifolium from the book of legal formularies of Hayya Gaon.
Legal document, investment partnership. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 5555 AM = May/June 1785 CE. Involving Meʾir Ben-Naʿīm investing 100 reales with Yiṣḥaq Zamero. Signed; Yiṣḥaq …
Recto: legal document mentioning Moshe ha-Kohen b. [...], [...] al-Ḥusayn, sister-in-law of [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Three fragments from a deed of betrothal (erusin). Probably (but not necessarily) Qaraite. The groom is Yefet, and the bride Sirwa (or perhaps Surūr[a]). There …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Abū al-Wafāʾ Shemarya al-Dallāl receives a release from Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and his sister Nasab for all …
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Legal fragment (upper right corner). Dated: Iyyar 14[..] Seleucid = 1089–1188 CE. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Acknowledgment made by Abū Saʿd Shemuel ha-Levi. The handwriting is distinctive …
Fol. 2: Deed fragment in which 'the people of Haifa's fortress' are mentioned, 11th century. CUDL description: Recto: the very beginning of a legal document …
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Power of attorney in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. A man, [...] b. Yefet ha-Levi, appoints his wife Sitt [...] as his agent. (Information …
Contract related to tax farming in New Cairo, likely a partnership agreement between two men. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions the …
Legal document, damaged, perhaps regarding a partnership. Protagonists include Moshe ha-Kohen known as Abū ʿImrān. and Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlā. Witnesses include [...] ha-Kohen …
Verso: Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1156/57 CE, based on the date of the document on recto. Begins, "Thus claimed Abū l-Faraj Amīn al-Dawla …
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. …
Incomplete Karaite betrothal deed. The groom taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, but if his wife will become childless he …
Minute fragment containing part of a signature (Natan ha-Kohen).
Betrothal contract between Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Arye b. Yehuda. Her father Arye was the ex-husband of Karima al-Wuḥsha, and Sitt al-Ḥusn may …
Legal notes notarized by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dating: Early 13th century. (1) Location: New Cairo. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq had paid 30 dinars and Abū l-Faḍāʾil …
Verso: Legal document written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: end of Kislev 1441 Seleucid = December 1129 CE (the date appears both …
Beginning of a legal document, possibly a will or a deathbed declaration, ‘we the undersigned testify...' Dated: Monday, 6 [...] 1556 Seleucid = 1244/45 CE. …
Fragment of a legal document involving the execution of the will of a certain Avraham. Mentions Adoniya b. David, Shemuel ha-Levi b. Avraham, ʿAllūsh, and …
On recto a late engagement (shiddukhin) deed. Groom: Shabbetay b. Yeshuʿa. Bride: [...] bt. David Mizraḥi. Dated: 1 Ḥeshvan 5605 = 14 October 1844 CE. …
Legal document. Looks like a release. Signed: ʿUlla ha-Levi and Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo.
Ketubba fragment. Location: Wardūnya, a suburb of Baghdad (ורדוניא דבגדד), on the Tigris river (דגלת). Dated: 13 Nisan 13[..] Seleucid, which corresponds to the range …
Letter containing a legal query addressed to "our honorable elders." Dating: ca. mid-12th century. On parchment. Describing a squabble between a person claimed to be …
Three pages containing Geoncc legal queries. Published by ורטהיימר, קהלת שלמה, עמ' עה-עט (תרגום בעמ' ב-יד) [= גנזי ירושלים תשמ"ב, עמ' ט-כא]. A new version …
Rental contract for a property (ṭabaqa) for a period of three years. Lessor (al-mālik) ʿAlī Nāfiʿ. Lessee: Mūsā/Moshe/Moses Schlesinger (موسى شليزنجر) from Austria(?), who signs …
Legal deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1413 Seleucid, which is July/August 1102 CE. The blind teacher Abū Saʿīd …
Fragment of a deed of sale for 12 out of 24 shares of a house. In Arabic script.
Bill of divorce. Incomplete. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 9 Ṭevet 1562 Seleucid, which is December 1250 CE. Husband: Avraham b. David ha-Kohen of the city …
Legal fragment. Appears to be the settlement of a marital dispute between Yūsuf and Sitt al-Ahl. Dating: Mentions the date Shevat 1437 Seleucid, which is …
Legal document. Long and narrow strip from a bill of gift, 11th century, probably from Acre or Tyre, since נחלת אשר is mentioned and [הים] …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document from Fusṭāṭ, dated ‘the middle decade of the month Ḥeshvan’, mentioning a man named Zayn and a …
Minute fragment, opening line of a court record. The name Ze[daq]a the elder is partially preserved. AA
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Ṣafar 605 AH = 1208 CE. Needs examination for content.
Recto: A partnership contract that is the subject of the legal queries to Daniel b. Azarya, the Palestinian gaon, edited in Gil, Palestine #395 (PGPID …
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Court proceedings. There are two drafts, possibly of the same document. Involving Nissim and Shemuel ha-Ḥaver and Abū l-Karam and Peraḥya. The hand of the …
Accounts with Coptic numerals. On margin formulae from a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Money order of the qodesh. Issued by Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi. The administrators of the compound of the Jerusalemites are to pay 9.5 dirhams to …
Legal document. Dated: Friday, 1 Kislev 1515 Seleucid, which is 7 November 1203 CE. Deathbed declaration of Abū l-Khayr b. Abū l-Barakāt the supplier (al-mūrid). …
Left side of a page of legal queries in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (found by Amir Ashur).