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  1. 1Legal documentBL OR 5524.1

    Get (bill of divorce). Location: Damsīs. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevat 4810 AM = 16 January 1050 CE. Husband: Menahem b. Yefet. Wife: Riḍā bt. Avraham. …

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  2. 2Legal documentBL OR 5524.2

    Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: New Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 11 Ḥeshvan 1409 Seleucid = 20 October 1097 CE. Husband: Ṭahor b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen. Wife: Banāt …

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  3. 3Legal documentBL OR 5524.3

    Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 24 Tammuz 1439 Seleucid = 24 June 1128 CE. Husband: Sheʾerit b. Ḥalfon. Wife: Turfa bt. Avraham. …

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  4. 4Legal documentBL OR 5524.4

    Geṭ (bill of divorce). On parchment. Location: al-Maḥalla ha-Gedola (al-Kubrā). Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1458 Seleucid = 16 June 1147 CE. Husband: Abū l-Fakhr b. …

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  5. 5Legal documentBL OR 5524.5

    Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 20 Av 1473 Seleucid = 2 August 1162 CE. Husband: Thābit b. Abū l-Faraj. Wife: Sitt al-Nās …

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  6. 6Legal documentBL OR 5524.6

    Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 9 Ḥeshvan 1475 Seleucid = 8 October 1163 CE. Husband: Manṣūr b. Bū Saʿd known as Ibn …

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  7. 7Legal documentBL OR 5524.7

    Geṭ (bill of divorce). Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver; also signed by Shemarya b. Avraham. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 9 Shevaṭ 1475 …

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  8. 8Legal documentBL OR 5524.8

    Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 26 Av 1484 Seleucid = 7 August 1173 CE. Husband: Abū Saʿd b. Abū ʿAlī. Wife: [Sitt …

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  9. 9Legal documentBL OR 5566B.9

    Court records. Large fragment, containing at least two distinct entries. Damaged and faded. There is a testimony that begins on line 25 of recto and …

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  10. 10Legal documentBL OR 12299.19

    Bill of divorce for Bayān b. Abu l-[...] and [...] bt. Sedaqa. Dated: 145[.] Seleucid = 1138–48 CE. Witnesses: Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver and Mevorakh …

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  11. 11Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/133

    Verso: Four drafts of legal documents ca. 1085 CE, in one of which Hiba b. Hillel al-Ṭarabulsī and Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq al-Lādiqī witness that they …

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  12. 12Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/133

    Recto: Court record regarding the complaint of a man that his divorced wife penetrated forcefully into his house, April 1085 CE (6 Nisan 1396). Verso: …

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    1. (1-3) On Thursday, 6 Nissan 1396 AG (=9 April 1085 CE) according to the dating to which we are accustomed in Fustat-Mitzrayim, situated upon …

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  13. 13Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J140

    Court record. This is a copy of the marriage contract (ketubba) between Shemuel b. Nissim ha-Kohen and Fāʾiza bt. Yūsuf, originally dated Tuesday, 2 Heshvan …

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  14. 14Legal documentENA NS 37.26

    Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving a divorcee named Miryam bt. Avraham. Little else remains. Dating: ca. 13th century, based on handwriting and the dating of …

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  15. 15Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/11

    Letter with legal content, signed by Shelomo b. Nisan ha-Kohen and [...] b.Yehuda, to multiple addressees. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerns the oil merchant (al-zayyāt) Yūsuf b. …

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  16. 16Legal documentJRL SERIES B 4878

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the financial arrangements upon the divorce of Mansūba and Avraham. Needs further examination.

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  17. 17Legal documentJRL SERIES C 70

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Probably Cairo. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century. Mikha'el b. Moshe appoints Refa'el b. Shuʿa Berakha as his agent for …

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  18. 18Legal documentMoss. VII,18

    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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  19. 19Legal documentMoss. VII,80.2

    Bill of divorce. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Elul 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE. Location: Cairo. Husband: Elʿazar b. Avraham. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq.

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  20. 20Legal documentMoss. VII,87.3

    Bill of divorce. Dated: Thursday, 27 Adar I 1540 Seleucid, which is 1229 CE. Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. מימאן(?). Wife: [Miryam] bt. Ḥabīb. On …

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  21. 21Legal documentT-S 8J5.16

    Legal document regulating payments after a divorce. Dated: Thursday, 24 Ṭevet 1406 Seleucid = 4 January 1095 CE. Arye b. Yehuda from Fusṭāṭ married a …

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  22. 22LetterT-S 8J16.6

    Letter addressed to Abu al-Faraj, son of Daniel the teacher, in the “habs Bunan” neighborhood. The writer describes that the wife of his son is …

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    1. כאדמה מנצור
    2. בר שמריה . .
    3. בר
    4. אלדי נעלם בה אלשיך אבו אלפרג אדאם אללה
    5. ס]לאמתה וודע לה פי ולדה וחסן עאקבתה . . . .
    6. אלכאדם שדיד אלשוק אליהא גדא ומ…

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  23. 23LetterT-S 8J22.22

    Letter from a file of Avraham Maimonides' court. Recto: Letter from a divorcee, the wife of Manṣūr, to the Nagid, asking him to intervene because …

    1. סעא אלי מצר
    2. מלאח בנת סרור בן
    3. צאמן מחלה אלימן
    4. אלממלוכה זוגה מנצור צאמן סנהור תקבל אלארץ טאיעה ללה תעאלי אמאם
    5. מגלס סיידנא אלנגיד ירים בוראו מעלתו אנהא…

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  24. 24Legal documentT-S 10J28.14

    Fragment of an effaced court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1417 Seleucid, which is December 1105 CE. Among other matters, Ḥalfon b. …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . . ] אל . . . . . . . . .…

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  25. 25Legal documentT-S 12.664

    Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1533 Seleucid = 1221/22 CE. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. [...]. Wife: Sitt al-Hanāʾ bt. [...]. Signed by Eliyyahu the Judge. …

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  26. 26Legal documentT-S 28.5

    Legal document. Location: New Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 18 Shevaṭ 1405 Seleucid = 7 February 1094 CE. Declaration by the beadle Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, that …

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  27. 27Legal documentT-S AS 157.277

    Legal document. Testifies that a certain woman "has never received a bill of divorce." Mentions Munajjā b. Masʿūd and Abū Saʿīd the khādim, both of …

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  28. 28Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.4

    Legal record (#6). Divorce settlement. Dated: Monday, 20 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Abū Saʿd al-Zayyāt b. Khalīl attests, acting as agent for his sister Sitt al-Fakhr, …

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  29. 29Legal documentAIU VII.D.35

    Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. The date is mostly torn away. Husband: Yeshuʿa Kohen. Wife: Sutayt. Signed and probably written by David b. Shelomo.

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  30. 30Legal documentAIU VII.D.37

    Bill of divorce (get). Fragment (lower right corner). No details preserved. Written and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver. Also signed by Ḥalfon b. Mevorakh …

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  31. 31Legal documentAIU VII.D.106

    Fragment (upper right corner) of a legal document from the first half of the 12th century, dealing with financial arrangements for the divorce of Yaʿaqov …

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  32. 32Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/7

    Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 5 Av 1443, which is July 1132 CE. Connected with the same case …

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    1. 1 למא ורד אמר הדרת אדוננו מצליח הכהן ראש ישיבת גאון
    2. יעקב תכון
    3. 2 משרתו לנצח בגמע אלזקנים ותקריר אלפרץ לזוגה מ צדקה המשורר
    4. 3 בר צמח הזקן נע ולולד…

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  33. 33Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 68/102

    Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15[..] Seleucid, which is 1188–1288 CE. Probably in the second half of this range, to judge by handwriting (which …

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  34. 34LetterCUL Or.1080 J202

    Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. "R. Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen spoke with Rab[benu?] ha-Meʿulle, and he said to him, 'I heard that Abū l-Faraj al-Jub[aylī?] divorced …

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  35. 35Legal documentENA 972.2

    Bill of divorce (get). Fragment (left side). Dated: 135[.] Seleucid, which corresponds to the range 1038–48 CE. Wife: [...] bt. Yeshuʿa. Written and signed by …

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  36. 36Legal documentENA 972.7 + ENA NS 18.10 + BL OR 12299.18

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Also signed by Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Location: Fustat. Dated: 23 Sivan 1436 …

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  37. 37Legal documentENA 972.10

    Bill of divorce from a betrothal (erusin). Very faded. No signatures. Dated: Looks like [4]903 AM, which would be 1142/43 CE.

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  38. 38Legal documentENA 1157.14

    Bill of divorce. Dating: 13th century? Signed and probably written by Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov (ha-Ṣarfati?) and Ṣadoq b. [...]

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  39. 39Paraliterary textENA 1822A.101

    Left fragment: Magical text with the header ללמטלקה = for the divorcee

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  40. 40List or tableENA 2700.32

    List of dowry details, part of the settlement of a divorce. Goitein suggests that the list of goods at the top is what the husband …

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  41. 41Legal documentENA NS 17.28

    Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Friday, 26 Kislev 1401 Seleucid = 2 December 1089 CE. A divorced man, David b. Mevorakh Ibn [...], now remarrying …

    1. [סת אלבית בת י]וסף נע אם ולדי אבו אלעלא אד[ ]
    2. [ ] ביננא משאגראת אפצת אלי אלפרקה פא[ ]ת [ ]
    3. [ב]רי וטלקתהא בעד אן אבראתהא ואבר[א]תני בראאת קא[טעאת כל …

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  42. 42Legal documentENA NS 36.29

    Verso: Draft of a legal document regarding a ketubba payout following a divorce. The dating is likely early nineteenth century based on the verso note …

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  43. 43LetterENA NS 45.3

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably early 13th century. The writer complains that the Rayyis does not trust him to deliver letters for him, thus he …

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    1. ומא כפא ען אלחצרה באן אלראיס אלאגל שצ יקע(?) ללממלוך
    2. אנה מא ותק בי אן יוגה אלכתב עלי ידי וסלמה/ם/ לר יוסף . . 
    3. וצייעהם תם אן אלממלוך תגאסר ונ…

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  44. 44Legal documentENA NS 47.27

    Court record of divorce. In Hebrew. Dated: Friday, 4 Tammuz 5279 AM = 3 June 1519 CE. Husband: Elʿazar b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Wife: Esther bt. …

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  45. 45Legal documentENA NS I.46

    Bill of divorce (geṭ). Husband: [...] of Malīj. Wife: [...] bt. Yosef of Malīj.

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  46. 46LetterMIAC 166

    Letter in Hebrew between brothers discussing the travel of the sender's son to Mandatory Palestine and request for sixty pounds (ששים פונט). Based on the …

    1. ראשית כל הנני להודיעכם כי ב׳׳ה כלנו
    2. בריאים ודורשים בשלום
    3. שנית להודיעך אחי כי בני חקשה נפשו
    4. לבקר את הארץ בחופש שלו ובכך 
    5. אבקשך אחי שתשאל את אחי אליהו…

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  47. 47LetterMoss. VII,207.1

    Informal note addressed to a judge. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108). In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman came to Hillel with a bill …

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  48. 48Legal documentMoss. VIII,98.2

    Formulary for a bill of divorce. There is also Hebrew poetry (אופן(?) ליהודה הלוי זל).

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  49. 49LetterNLI 577.1/36

    Letter fragment, in Arabic script. Possibly a letter of appeal or a divorce document narrating the writer's circumstances. He was married for 14 years until …

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  50. 50Legal documentNLI 577.6/18

    Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 25 Sivan 1459 Seleucid, which is 1148 CE. Husband: Yosef b. ʿAbdallāh. Wife: Kala bt. Abū Saʿīd. …

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