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Legal document in Hebrew and Aramaic, with some Judaeo-Arabic. An individual claims that his house was destroyed and that he rebuilt and renewed its interior …
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Legal document. Probably from an agreement between husband and wife regarding their domicile in New Cairo. Torn and damaged, only few words have survived. AA …
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Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī (Mahdiyya) to his nephew Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ. Describes a dispute between the sender and another merchant, Abū Yaʿqūb. Mentions …
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Damaged legal draft or record written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Bifolio, with writing on both sides. Involves a certain Avraham; [...] bt. …
Upper end of a large deed of sale in Arabic script, in which a Christian, Yuḥannas b. Andūna b. Qusṭanṭīn b. Basnada(?), sells 1 and …
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Deed in which Abū Isḥāq Abzārī gives the Nagid Avraham Maimonides the right to buy back the burj, a tower in the ancient Byzantine fortress …
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An incomplete deed of a sale of one quarter of a house by a public leader, Ibn al-ʿAjamī, to the wife of a money assayer …
Parchment fragment with pen trials and drawings. Recto: monumental Hebrew characters with full masoretic vocalization and decorative flourishes; a sun or other concentric shape with …
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Legal document: bill of sale in which Makhlūf b. Jābir b. Nāṣir buys a house in al-Muʿizziyya (Cairo) from […] b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2v: …
Legal document: deed of sale in Arabic for the purchase of part of a house. Abū l-Faraj Ṣemaḥ b. Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ the money-changer buys …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفی
هذا ما اشترى صيمح ويكنى أبا الفرج بن صدقة بن صيمح الاسرائيلي الـ[ـ…
Letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, probably in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, ca. 1050. Mentions the sale of a house that may have …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל] אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך וצאנך ווקאך ומן תופיקה
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[ כת]בת עדה כתב …