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Legal document concerning the lease of a house by ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Aḥmad the preacher, from Mūsā b. ʿAdī the Jew, in the district of …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless Muḥammad the prophet and his family and save them.
This is wha…
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Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Dated: 539 AH, which is 1144/45 CE. The lessee is the trader (tājir) Dāʾūd b. Ḥasan al-Yahūdī (though his …
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Recto: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Verso: A scrawled record of a property lease dated 23 Nisan 1539 Seleucid = 1228 CE. The renter is …
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Legal deed, apparently settling accounts at the end of a lease. Probably from a Rabbanite court. In Hebrew. Dated: Sunday, 5 Av 5404 AM, which …
Lease contract for an entire top-floor apartment rented by Abu al-Ḥasan Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Menashshe. from Abu al-Fadl Mevorakh b. Yefet. The place is described …
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Rental contract of some kind. In Arabic script. The bottom 19 lines are preserved. Involving an agent named Abū l-Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl (l. 1), a drug …
Sub-leasing agreement. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 = 15 January 1106 CE. In which Musāfir b. ʿEli, the tax farmer of …
Testimony of what transpired before us, we the witnesses whose signatures are at the bottom of
this document. Thus it was: Musāfir b. ʿAlī,…
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Sub-leasing agreement of a tax farm of silk production for the town of Bush and its surroundings, which was worth 3.5 dinars. Dated Tammuz 1458/ …
Lease of a ruin belonging to the Great Synagogue of Ramla, ca. 1038. The "people of the Great Synagogue," i.e. the representatives of the congregation …
(1-2) Record of the testimony given before us, we the Court and the witnesses, who have signed at the bottom of this deed. This happened to p…
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Lease of land belonging to the Qodesh, ca. 1180. Written on the surviving upper part of a leaf, this is a draft of a deed …
In thy Name, oh Merciful!
We, the undersigned honest and able elders, declare: We had once decided
and agreed to lease the parcel in …
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Lease of an apartment to a parnas as settlement of a debt, AD 1029-1031. The qodesh owes Yaʿaqov b. Mevasser (whom we shall find six …
(1-2) . . . . previously… service to the heqdēsh, will bring many advantages…
(3-4) mentioned, to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr after havin…
Recto: Lease of a compound in Ascalon, ca. 1120(?)-1146. A compound in Ascalon is leased by the representatives of the qodesh to to Shelomo ha-Zariz …
.... we leased (a compound ….)
(that stands) in its place and is inhabited …. its buildings, trees, and ....
this (deed) of lease I…
Lease of a date plantation owned by the Qodesh, ca. 1150 CE. A deed of lease is drawn up by the court, by which a …
(We acquire from Hiba)
. . . . as a complete and solemn acquisition, with an instrument that is proper to acquire with,
(from now on, w…