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Legal document in Arabic script, central portion of either a contract or a deed of sale. Dating: Likely Mamluk or Ottoman era. The name of …
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Prenuptial agreement of a previously divorced couple (a husband who re-accepts his divorcée). Eight lines survive on this fragment, probably in the hand of Natan …
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Legal document concerning a marriage contract, bridal gifts and rights to a property, mentioning the name Abū Saʿd. (Information from CUDL.) A general prenuptial agreement. …
Pre-marital contract containing a stipulation allowing the bride to opt out of a patrilocal household even without proof she had been mistreated: “Whenever she hates …
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End of a document recording a sale, in which an unnamed male is released from obligations concerning some goods he offered his uncle for sale …
Prenuptial agreement. The groom, Abū l-Barakāt, commits to not marrying a second wife or acquiring a female slave. Also mentions [...] b. Yefet.
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Marriage contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 1609 Seleucid, which is 1298 CE. The bride agrees to live wherever (in Egypt) her husband chooses, …
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Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1438 Seleucid = October 1126 CE. This was before the …
Segment of a prenuptial agreement, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents from 1100-1138). It is possible that the agreement reflects special circumstances: the marriage …
A general prenuptial agreement in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Goitein suggests that this document was written before 1134, the year that Ṣedaqa …
Fragment of a general prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The agreement contains remarkable conditions that favor the …
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Ashur, "Engagement and Betrothal documents", 42, no.144). Groom: Aharon. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn. …
Prenuptial contract on the occasion of a betrothal (erusin/shiddukhin). Groom: Moshe b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Bride: [...] bt. Shemarya ha-Kohen (her name is left blank). Stipulating …
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Prenuptial agreement between a Karaite bridegroom and a Rabbanite bride, stipulating a fine to be paid to the Rabbanite and Karite poor by the bridegroom …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ II 717 AH = 4 July 1317 CE. Buyer: Isḥāq b. Manṣūr b. Abū Sahl the …
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Prenuptial agreement between a future husband and his prospective second wife, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday night, 6 …
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Legal record (#43 and #44). Engagement contract, outline. Dated: Thursday, 14 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. In the hand of Meovrakh b. Natan (like the rest of …
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Deed of lease for an apartment (ṭabaqa). In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Ṣafar 919 AH = 2 May 1513 CE. Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) …
Record of a marriage contract mentioning a marriage gift of 5 dinars and payment of 10 dinars at termination of the marriage. The words of …
Contract of friendship between Elʿazar Maymūn and Yom Ṭov b. Sīd. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated: Sunday, 17 Tevet 5324 AM, which is January 1564 …
Legal document. Apprenticeship agreement. Dated: Thursday, 25 Tishri 1339 (September 1027). Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Yefet b. David. Bishr b. Efrayim apprentices …
On Thursday, the 25th of Tishri of the year 1339 according to the Era of the Documents there appeared before the court in the Synagogue of the …
Marriage contract between a Rabbanite man Khalfā b. Saʿūd, son of Farajallah b. Nafīs and a divorced Rabbanite woman Fāṭima. The marriage was commemorated upon …