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Legal documentMoss. IV,71.1
Document concerning the manumission of slaves. (Information from CUDL)
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Legal documentT-S K25.147
Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). Rudimentary hand. Entries include Dustarī/Tustarī fabric, other garments, and a female slave valued at 30 dinars. The …
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Legal documentT-S AS 148.114
Legal entries in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Entry at upper right: mentions the 17th of Jumādā, the name of a witness …
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Legal documentT-S 6J12.9
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerning the sale of a male slave (ghulām) possibly named Bakhtiyār. One of …
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Legal documentT-S NS 205.43
Small fragment of a draft of a legal deed concerning the sale of a female slave. The space for her name has been left blank. …
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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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List or tableT-S AS 200.388
Small note detailing the value of two mattresses/sofas (martaba) (24 and 9 dinars respectively) and a female slave (18 dinars).
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Legal documentT-S AS 157.314
Deed of sale for a female slave. Price: 20-some dinars. Very few specifics preserved.
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Legal documentT-S AS 161.124
Bill of sale for a female slave. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Legal documentT-S AS 151.258
Legal document concerning a sale of a slave, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Legal documentENA 4020.47
Verso: Bill of sale for a slave. Incomplete and unsigned. Dated: Monday 26 Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid, which is 1091 CE. Seller: Meshullam b. Hiba known …
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LetterT-S AS 147.18
Note by a man to his friend, saying that he is sending money with an enslaved woman to him to pay two people as well …
- קד סיירת לך מע אלגאריה 1/8 𐋪𐋦
- תפציל אלפצה ברסם ופא עווץ אלביאע
- ח דראהם וברסם ופא ללכהן מכרם
- חק אללחם אלבקרי אלדי וזנה עני 1/8 𐋦
- וקטיעאת לך תרכב בהם…
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LetterAIU VI.B.87
Fragment of a letter in Arabic. May describe transactions involving a female slave belonging to a noble woman ("al-sharīfa al-kabīra") who may still be owed …
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Legal documentENA 4010.13
Bill of sale, probably, for a female slave. Fragment (lower right piece). Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Buyer: Mevorakh. Seller: Yequtiʾel. Few details preserved. Signed …
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Legal documentMoss. VII,58.1
Recto: Deed of sale for an enslaved person. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 23 Ḥeshvan 1542 = 31 October 1230 CE, under the authority of Avraham …
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LetterBL OR 10578A.6
Recto: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 'ha-Rav Rabbenu Yeḥiel.' Dating: probably 13th century. Alludes to a dispute (waqaʿa fī hādhā kalām). Verso: …
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Legal documentT-S 12.93
Bill of sale for a female slave. Not completed. In the hand of Hillel b. Eli. Dated: Friday, 2 Tammuz 1409 Seleucid, which is 4 …
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Legal documentENA 4011.48
Recto: Bill of sale of for a Nubian female slave named Mulḥ. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Unsigned. Location: Fustat. Dated: 7 Kislev …
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Legal documentT-S NS J319 + T-S NS 190.108 + T-S NS 190.114
Legal document in the form of a letter addressed to the Gaon (Maṣliaḥ?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by Yefet b. Shelomo and Elʿazar b. [...]. The …
- בשמך רחמ
- אלעביד אלממאליך יקבל [.]ל[
- וראש ישיבת גאו[ן
- ויעטר כלל עמו ישראל [. . .] וכן יהי רצון [
- יהדרה אל אן מוצלהא מר יוסף הלוי בר [
- הו ואביה מ הלל …
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Legal documentT-S NS J445
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Deed of sale for a slave. Mentions 'the noble elder' (al-shaykh al-jalīl) Abū ʿAlī b. al-Sukkarī. …
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/2
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary, so difficult to figure out the details. Sets out provisions for the care of a minor boy until he comes …
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Legal documentHalper 341 + Halper 348
Recto: bottom of a marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Yosef b. Shelomo. Bride: Karīmā bt. Nuṣayr known as Elʿazar. The end of her dowry list is …
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Legal documentENA NS 66.2
Probably a bill of sale for a female slave. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No details preserved.
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Legal documentFriedberg MSS 9-004/25
Deed of gift of a female slave (waṣīfa). Fragment, containing the first half of 5 lines. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38).
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Legal documentJRL SERIES B 5478
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Deed of sale for a female slave named Sahar. One of the parties (seller or buyer) …
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LetterT-S 12.422
Poem in Hebrew. 17 lines in praise of a dignitary, then 2 lines of blessing in Judaeo-Arabic, then it ends. "From your grateful slave, Shemuel." …
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LetterT-S 12.432
Recto: Letter (upper part). Line 7: "As for the matter of the [..]ar, I asked Abu l-Ḥasan about it, and he said that he talked …
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Legal documentT-S 8J8.4
Deed of sale for a Persian (ʿajamiyya) female slave named ʿAbīr ("Perfume"). Written in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (active 1150–81). Buyer: the perfumer …
- אקנינא אנן חתומי מטה מן אלשיך אבי [אלחסן בן אבי] אלימן הזקן היקר נע'
- קנין גמור חמור בכלי הכשר לקנות בו [ ] ברצונו בלי אונס כלל
- בביטול כל מודעין ותנא…
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Legal documentT-S 13J3.16
Document concerning the sale of a female slave named Saʿāda. Dated: 27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid, which is 5 April 1198 CE. (The main bill of …
- שהדותא דהות באנפנא [אנן ה]חתומין למטה כן הוה
- למא חצל עקד אלביע ללגא[רי]ה אלמדעוה סעאדה
- מן אלשיך אבי אלברכאת מר ור [יפ]ת הזקן היקר סט
- בר כגק מר ור מש…
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Legal documentT-S 18J1.19
Deed of sale of a female slave, signed by Avraham b. Shemaya and Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe. Dated Av 1430/ August 1119.
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] ואן יסתכדמהא [. . . . . . . . . . .
- למקנא ולא] קנואה ולאורות[ה ולאחסו]נא ולזבונא ולשח…
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Legal documentT-S 18J1.12
Bill of sale in which a Nubian female slave named 'Salt' is sold for 15 dinars. Dated 24 Tammuz 1395/ July 1084. (Information from Mediterranean …
- שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן [שהד]י דחתמות ידנא לתחתא בחד בשבה
- דהוה עשרין וארבעה יומי בירח תמ[וז דש]נת אלפא ותלת מאה ותשעין וחמש ש[נין
- למניינא דרגיליננא ב…
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Legal documentT-S 18J1.30
Deed of sale of a female slave named Sa'ada. Dated Av 1501/ July 1190. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 139, 140, 434, and from …
- שהדותא דהוה באנפנא אנן שהדיא דחתימין שהדותנא לתחתא סוף שטר זביני דנן פי אל
- תאסע עשר מחדש אב יהפך אבלנו לששון ולשמחה שנת אלפא וחמיש מאה וחדא שנין למנ…
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Legal documentT-S NS 342.87 + T-S NS 342.118
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Outline for the sale of slaves (bayʿ jalb). Seller: Moshe b. Mevasser. Buyer: …
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LetterT-S AS 149.96
Letter from Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov (active ca. 1131–50), either in Aden or in India, to (his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī) Yehuda ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
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Legal documentENA 2558.14
Verso: Legal document (bill of sale?) involving a Nubian female slave and the daughter of R. Yosef and someone's wife. Very faded. Dated: 1 Elul …
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Legal documentT-S J3.20
Page from a collection of legal deeds. Contains bill of release from levirate marriage, and a bill of release of a slave
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Legal documentT-S NS J32
Legal document in which Abu al-Baqa gives to his married son Mukaram the rights to one half of the black female slave named Musk he …
- למא כאן יום אלאתנין והו יום אלואחד ועשרין
- מן שהר תמוז חצרת אנא ואלמלמד אבו
- סעיד שצ ושהדנא עלי אלשיך אבו אלבקא
- אלמערוף באבן אלמצן אנה קד אוהב אל.
- ולד…
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Legal documentT-S NS J449
Bill of sale for a Nubian female slave. Dating: 1204–38 CE. THe seller and the buyer are named Hiba and Mevasser. On verso there is …
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LetterT-S 8J10.9
Letter requesting to buy through “Ibrahim, the slave merchant” a female slave for the Nezer (Diadem [an honorifc]). (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:452; and …
- אלי אברהים אלנכאס יוצל אליה
- כתאבי חתי ישתרי ללנזר
- אלוציפה וכדהא א[דעהא
- ענד מן סהל אלי אן תנחדר
- גיבהא צחבתך ומהמא כסרת
- עליהא מן מונה או כרא
- מרכב או ג…
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Legal documentMoss. VII,69.2
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves a Nubian female slave named ʿAlam, but it is not a deed of sale (or …
- ] מר ור דויד הכהן בר מר ור שלמה הכהן סט
- נ]וביה תדעא עלם מן מר ור נתן היקר בר מר ור יוסף
- ] אבו אלוחש סבאע אלארגואני יש צו ולמא כאן אלאן כלפתני
- ]קן בר…
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State documentMoss. VIII,479.4
Verso: Probably a fragmentary state document, mentions al-Majlis and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh". Recto: Regarding selling of a slave girl. (AA)
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Legal documentENA 2716.1
Bifolio from a court notebook. Probably a dowry evaluation (taqwīm): consists almost entirely of a list of valuable items and sums of money (in one …
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Legal documentT-S AS 145.354
Bill of sale for a female slave, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information in part from CUDL and from Craig Perry.)
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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.
- [ נימול ל]שמונה ו[בן] שפחה וודאי מ[לין אותו]
- [ מ]חללין עליו את השבת ואם אינו
- נימול לש[מונה אין מחללין עליו את ה]שבת אבל בני השפחות וודאי
- מחללין עליו…
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Legal documentT-S 6J2.4
Bill of sale for a female slave. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1470 Seleucid, which is 1158/59 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. One of …
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LetterT-S 8J22.18
Letter from Alexandria to the family of Yeshuʿa b. Sahl in Fusṭāṭ. (Yeshuʿa b. Sahl might actually be the sender.) Mentions: "the wheat.... If you …
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Legal documentT-S 16.20
Legal document. Elʿazar b. Yefet sells to Shelomo b. Ṣedaqa his female slave named Ṭāʾūs ('Peacock') and her 10 year old son, named Mubārak ('The …
- שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימין לתתא פי אלעשר אלאכיר מן
- חודש אלול דשנת אלפא וחמש מאה וחמשין ותרין שנין למנין שטרות למנינא
- דרגילנא (!) לממני ביה …
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Legal documentT-S 16.188
Bill of sale for a female slave. Location: New Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Ṭevet 1416 Seleucid = January 1105 CE. Abū Saʿd Ḥalfon (lines 18, …
- שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימין לתחתא בשטר זבנא דנן
- בתלתא בשבה דהוא חמש עשר יומין בירח טבת שנת אלפא וא[רבע
- מאה ושתת עשר שנין למנינא דרגילינאנא(!…
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Legal documentT-S Ar.29.49
Court records. The first record is in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. It begins on verso and continues onto the right-hand page of recto. …
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Legal documentT-S 8J8.5
Deed of sale for a female slave between Bu al-‘Izz b. al-Shaykh bu ‘Imran al-Sharabi and Bu al-Ḥasan, the teacher, executed in the presence of …
- אקני מן אלשיך בו אלעז בן אלשיך בו עמראן אלשראבי נע'
- אן כל גראמה אן יגרמהא אלשיך בו אלחסן אלמלמד
- מן סבב דהב אלעהדה בתאע אלגאריה אלדי אשתראהא
- אלשיך בו…
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