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Recto: Letter in Arabic from Isrā'īl al-Ṣayrafī to Yaʿqūb al-Ṭawīl, appears to be dated 6 February 1797 (8 Sha'ban 1211). Verso: There is the remnant …
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Engagement (shiddukhin) agreement between Nissim Zeraḥya and Miryam bt. Shelomo ha-Levi. Dated 1749 CE (21 Heshvan 5510), Rashid. Currency: the gold zeri maḥbūb coin (זהובים …
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Ketubba for Yosef ha-Levi b. ʿOvadya and Bayda bt. Qaʿarṭī (קערטי) Bibas. Currency: real. Dated 1792 CE (16 Sivan 5552), Cairo. The final lines of …
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Ketubba for Yosef b. Aharon Shunina (or Sonina) and Esther bt. Avraham Shunina (Sonina). Currency: medin. Dated 22 May 1716 CE (1 Sivan 5476 AM). …
Marriage contract recorded on vellum. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 29 Adar II 5556 AM = 8 April 1796 CE. Groom: Yehuda Mercado. Bride: Sara bt. …
Receipt issued issued in connection with a wikala in Arabic. Dated: Muḥarram-Rabīʿa al-Awwal 1182 AH which is May-July. The receipt is signed and stamped by …
12369.7 and 8 are drafts of several Judaeo-Arabic letters and documents by Yisrael al-Gevili (אלגוילי) writing in Cairo it seems circa 1755/6 CE (the lower …
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 …
Bottom part of an illuminated ketubba. Location: Rashid (Rosetta), l. 2. Dating: late 18th century based on the presence of Aharon Ṭawīl's signature, where he …
Legal document dated 20 March 1798 (3 Nisan 5558 AM), Cairo, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 2000 muayyadis from Ṣevi Ḥayyūn.
Partnership agreement between Eliyyahu Palombo, Yaʿaqov Reqaḥ, and Merkado Ḥūba(?) (חובה), from Cairo, dated 1796 CE (Av 5556 AM). The main text of the document …
Page from a communal register of contributions. Dated Vayelech Parsha (=29 Elul) 5559 AM which is September 1799.
Late letter in Hebrew from Yosef b. Emmanuel Ergas in Livorno to Abram Segre. Dated 3 Adar 5489 AM which is 1729 CE. The address …
Bill of divorce. Dated 13 Sivan 5505 AM which is 13 June 1745 CE. Location: Cairo. The husband's name is listed solely as Menaḥem b. …
Dated inscription of an owner's name in a book ('if the book gets lost, and you don't know who owns it, return it to me'). …
Accounts in Ladino listed in western Arabic numerals. Dates are provided at the bottom of each entry and indicate what is most likely the year …
Marriage contract. Dated: Sunday, 14 Tishrei 5557 AM = 16 October 1796 CE. Location: Cairo. Groom: David Gabbay b. Seʿadya. Bride: ביתו bt. Khalīfa Pinto. …
Legal document. In Hebrew: Location: Damietta (קפוטקייא). Dated: Beginning of Sivan 5488 AM, which is May 1728 CE. Concerning the inheritance arrangements upon the death …
Form letter from the community of Hebron. In Hebrew. Dated: 5539 AM, which is 1778/79 CE. The name Refa'el Ḥannuka is filled in in big …
Account book in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in multiple locations to the early 18th century, for example שנת הנה ישעך בא (=463=1703). There may also be dates …
Account calculations. Dated 26 Elul 5539 AM (1779 CE). It may not be in the same scribal hand, but the date probably coincides with the …
Accounts in Judeo-Arabic that list a wide array of individuals and quantities which may indicate payments given the recto's heading "עלם אל מדכול מן טיבית" …
Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document, dated 18 June 1795 (1 Tammuz 5555), for Moshe b. [left blank] and Sara bt. David Russo. Verso: A geomancy casting; …
Legal document dated 25 Tammuz 5548 AM (July 1788 CE), Cairo, in which the undersigned acknowledges receipt of 80 reales, from Yiṣḥaq Aripol for part …
Large list of names and sums of money (probably donations) dated Passover [Nisan 15-22] 5555 AM (April 1795 CE). The right column lists 43 full …
List of communal accounts, some of which are dated Pesaḥ 5554 AM (April 1794 CE) on the recto. Requires further examination. MCD.
List in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew of donations collected before various Shabbatot of the year 5556 = 1795/96CE. The weekly parshas are listed such as "אחרי …
Acknowledgement of debt between David b. Elʿazar Kandiote (קאנדייוטי) and Shabbetay ʿAdda (עדה). Dated Kislev 5527 AM (= 1766 CE) and signed by Ezekiel Ḥefeṣ, …
Legal document from Cairo dated 15 Shevaṭ 5505 AM (= 1745 CE), describing the appointment of Joseph ha-Levi as cantor. The location given for the …
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בהיות שהבית הכנסת שבפנים חארת אלקראיין שהיא תוך המבוי שאצל הכ'ורונפש הנודע בק׳׳ק
כ'אלתי מסעודה כיון שנתעוללו על הקהל הנז׳ הגוים ה…
Bifolium from Mitzrayim, 1790–92 CE, apparently from a ledger of betrothal and marriage contracts. About nine are preserved, complete with names, and trousseau lists, and …
Court register fragment. Join: Matthew Dudley. Dated Kislev 5480 AM in one entry, which is 1719 CE. (the dating info in FGP is incorrect). Verso: …
Fragment of three legal document entries, probably from a court register. Dated Kislev 5480 AM (Nov.-Dec. 1719 CE). (1) engagement deed and dowry list between …
Recto: Accounts in Spanish mentioning the year 1747 (5507). The righthand side of verso appears to be the same, also in Spanish. The lefthand side …
Court register fragment. Join: Matthew Dudley. Dated: Kislev 5480 (1719 CE) Verso: sale of a one-year tax-farming partnership within the Ottoman customs house of Old …
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 from Cairo. Dated 15 Sivan 5519 AM (1759). The betrothal involves the groom Yosef b. Gedalya b. Aharon aka Ṣaʿīr and the …
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. Dated 25 Sivan 5556 AM (1796 CE). The groom Moshe ha-Kohen taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, …
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: 7 Shevat 5480 AM, which is 1720 CE. Groom: Nissim b. ʿAmram b. Shemuel. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Yeshuʿa b. …
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 …
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. Dated: Thursday, 29 Adar 5539 AM (=Ṣafar 1193 AH), which is 1779 CE. Avraham Fayrūz b. Eliyyahu Fayrūz known as Shuwaykh makes arrangements …
Legal document. Dated: Friday, 21 Tishrei 5527 AM (1766 CE). Previously the congregation had appointed as their head Shelomo Kohen b. Aharon Kohen and as …
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 …