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Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1862/4b
Legal query addressed to Yehosef ha-Rav. Small fragment.
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Legal documentENA 3844.6
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a man who had a debt to the heqdesh. He pawned his wife's property against her well, promising her that …
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Legal documentBL OR 10126(3).14
Cryptic document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed ב, then "in which your slave Abū l-[...] asked Sayyidnā (=you) . . . the letter from al-Muʿaẓẓam to al-Qāḍī …
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- אלדי סאל חצרה סיידנא פיה ממאליכהא אבו אלרצא אל
- אבואני א . . כתאב מן אלמעטם אלי אלקאצי אלמכין [[אל]]
- משארף אלאסכנדריה באלוציה פי אן יטלק לה רבע אל …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.39.417
Legal query in Arabic script. Dating: Late? A completely-preserved query with regard to a jointly owned house including a qāʿa and riwāq (شركة في دار …
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Legal documentT-S Ar.44.207
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Concerning the estate of a deceased man and a transaction carried out by his widow. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
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Legal documentT-S AS 149.217
Legal query. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary. Mentions that a shimmush (court record? or simply a contract?) was drawn up between Reuven and Shemuel.
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Legal documentJRL SERIES A 1684
A very damaged fragment. The upper text block is the end of a legal query probably written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (active in the first …
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Legal documentT-S 13J31.2
Legal query addressed to the Gaʾon Moshe (b. Netanʾel) ha-Levi concerning the claims of a creditor against the widow of the man who owed him. …
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Legal documentENA NS 7.90
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic (fa-yuftūnā sādātunā).
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Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.22
Entry in court notebook (#58). Legal query. Regarding a partnership in which one party has contributed all the capital and in which the ṣāḥib al-māl …
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LetterT-S 8.14
Letter from Menashshe b. Moshe (of Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya?) to a judge (in Fustat?). In Judaeo-arabic. Concerning a power of attorney for which 1 dinar was …
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Legal documentENA 2808.15a
A legal query, possibly addressed to R. Yiṣḥaq ha-Sefaradi (per Goitein, Palestinian Jewry, 309–11), concerning an adopted woman who fled her marriage to a foster …
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- אלדי נסאל חצרה רבינו הרב המובהק אדאם אללה עזהא
- ותבת איאמהא תפתינא פי מא ילזם פי הדה אלנובה ודאך
- אן וצלו מנד זמאן נסא שבויים וכאן פיהם צבאיא…
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In (Your) N(ame).
This is what we ask your excellency, our master, the prominent Rav, may God make your exalted position permanent
and yo…
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Legal documentT-S K26.24
Legal query, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the purchase of half of a house in Muslim courts. On a reused Aramaic Targum.
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Legal documentT-S Misc.28.102
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning a dispute over who had the right to lead the congregation in prayer.
- מא יקולו חכמי ישראל ורבניהם פי קהל כרים מן ישראל
- יש צו יגתמעו בבית הכנסת ללצלאה ואכתארו אן
- יכון שליח צבור אלדי יאם בהם כמא ארשדו לדלך
- אלחכמים והו קו…
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Legal documentT-S NS 264.76
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a legal query ("mā yaqūl sayyidunā. . . ").
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Legal documentT-S Ar.35.239
Legal query, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a man who had a deposit but claimed he had lost it. There are sundry other jottingss and drafts, …
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Legal documentAIU III.B.134
Legal queries and responsa of Shelomo ibn Aderet. All having to do with marriage laws. Late.
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Legal documentAIU III.D.7
Legal queries and responsa. Late.
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Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1862/3c
Legal query in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning prayer/liturgy.
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Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1862/9
Legal query with responsum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded.
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 98/58
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Concerning a certain Kohen who is seeking a restraining order against his divorcee and to prohibit her from entering …
- מא יקול הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרנו ורבנו אדונינו
- נגידנו אברהם הרב המובהק הפטיש החזק נר המערבי
- דגל הרבנים אור העולם ירום הודו ויגדל כבודו פי שכץ כהן …
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Legal documentENA 2742.6
Legal query addressed to Yehosef Rosh ha-Seder. Concerning a muqaddam who demanded that his name be included in the kaddish as had been done for …
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Legal documentENA NS 29.13
Legal query addressed to Abū ʿImrān, perhaps Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. The question regards a certain Tamīm in Qalyūb. It seems that he refuses …
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Legal documentT-S NS J496 + T-S 10J21.15
Legal query, draft, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Regarding the money left by a dead husband. In the margin: "As for the 70 …
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Legal documentT-S 10J22.8
Legal query and responsum regarding joint ownership of a house. The person who holds three quarters of the house demands from the man holding one …
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Legal documentT-S 12.284
Recto: Fragment cut out from a poem of Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver. In the margin is a fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Verso: Legal query …
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Legal documentNLI 577.5/11
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding a partnership in a house and the death and inheritance of one of the partners. This is the original JA …
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Legal documentT-S 8J22.29
Beginning of a query submitted to Maimonides, beginning by telling about a local man who is now living in another city (the rest is too …
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- מא יקול הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת הוד ועטרת [ראשינו
- מר ורב מר משה הרב הגדול בישראל יהי שמו לעו[לם
- פי רגל יכן לה בית פי בלד וסאפר והו פי בלד אכר //א…
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Legal documentT-S 8J27.14
Fragment of a question mentioning a woman and a daughter, the father having been absent 16 years.
- . . . . . ] תעוקני [[רא]] וקד אעגבהם אלדין מן אן יקס/א/הא
- . . ] אבוהא מא יקדר יחצר וואלדת אלצבייה תעיש
- מ]ע אלדין חצורהא וואלדתהא מעהא לקבע אלקדושה
- .…
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Legal documentT-S 8J7.18
Request for a responsum concerning a carpenter who let his Muslim employees work making doors on a Saturday. He was ordered flogged by some scholars, …
- מא יקול סיידנא אלריס שצ פי רגל סאכן פי דכאן פי סוק אן
- שארע פלמא כאן יום אלסבת אלדי הוה וצט אלעיד ראו גמאעה מן
- ישראל אלדכאן מפתוחה ופיהא נגארין יעמלו…
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LetterT-S 8J14.14
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Elʿazar Shammāʿ (candle maker or seller) to Abū l-Fakhr b. Abū l-Maʿālī. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Only the opening and the …
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- עבדו ומודה חסדו השוגה בא[הבתו
- ישועה בר אלעזר שמאע
- בש] רח
- ] חכמה ולשונו חבר משפט תורת אלהיו בלבו לא תמעד אשוריו
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- ואלגואב…
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Legal documentMoss. VIII,403
Legal query in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel addressed to the judge Shelomo ha-Talmid, aka Shelomo b. Natan ha-Levi. With his autograph response. Also …
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Legal documentT-S 12.799
Question to Muslim jurisconsults. In Arabic script. Concerning a case of inheritance: ما يقولوا سادتي الشيوخ اطال الله . . . . وتاييدهم في رجل …
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Legal documentT-S 13J26.21
Query about a debtor who had taken an oath before the Jewish court and then had recourse to a Muslim court. (Information from Mediterranean Society, …
- פי ראובן לה דינא ענד שמעון . . . . . מקסט פי כל שה[ר
- בקסטה פאסתחק בעץ אל(!) אלמבלג פחצרא אלי מושב
- בית דין וטלב ראובן מן כצמה אלמסתחק פאדעא
- אלעדם פאל…
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Legal documentT-S G1.64
Rough draft of a question probably sent to a Gaon in Palestine.
- יורינו אדונינו גאון נטרה רחמנא וברכיה ויהב ליה אגריה לה
- על כן המו מעי יהיו ימיו סמוכים לימי גאולה אמן אמן [נצח] סלה
- מא יקול סידנא אלרייס אלגליל בקאה…
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Legal documentT-S AS 146.145
Small fragment from a legal query in Hebrew regarding partnership, but too little remains. AA
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Legal documentENA 3957.4
Legal query. In Arabic script. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ al-ajillāʾ." Regarding a woman who sold a property; what happened next is not entirely clear. Mentions …
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Legal documentT-S NS J295
Rough draft of a question probably sent to a Gaon in Palestine.
TS NS J 295, ed. Ashtor, Mamluks, vol. 3, p. 2 (Doc. 2)with corrections by Goitein D.B. 2-27-89 (p.)Private letter, first half of the 13th century
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Legal documentT-S Ar.54.48
Legal query addressed to Great Rav Elʿazar of Alexandria (ha-Gaon, ha-Nasi). Concerning two men who had an argument over chess. "The two spread out the …
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Legal documentT-S Misc.35.17
Legal queries addressed to Shemarya b. Elḥanan regarding marital laws. One in Hebrew and one in Judaeo-Arabic (this one crossed out)
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LetterT-S NS 342.11 + T-S NS 342.82 + T-S NS 342.104 + T-S NS 342.72 + T-S NS 342.75 + T-S NS 342.73 + T-S NS 342.1 + T-S NS 342.70
Legal query addressed to the Gaʾon (probably Maṣliaḥ) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Concerning a man who remarried after the death of …
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Legal documentAIU III.D.5
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "sayyidnā al-shelishi" regarding a man who died and left his entire estate to one of his two cousins, but …
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 98/28
Legal query involving Sitt al-Ḥusn and the property of an orphan. With responsa from Moshe Maimonides, Sason ha-Dayyan, and Shelomo b. Natan. There is another …
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LetterT-S 16.62
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Nissim of Qayrawan to the Tunisian port of Qabis, c. 1000. The letter concerns legal questions asked by the addressee from …
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- לכבוד התלמידים היקרים במדינת קאבס אוהבי תורה מסלסלי
- . . . . הדרה] מפלפלי תושיה מתלתלי קווצות משלשלי שבצות בוחרי נבחר
- . . . . .ח]ר א[. . . . . …
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Legal documentNLI 577.4/41
Recto: Legal query involving partners in the royal mint whose money was stolen. In particular, when one of the partners runs away and hides so …
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Legal documentBL OR 5563D.11
Legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides, probably in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, about a partnership.
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Legal documentJRL Gaster heb. ms 1861/2
Left side of a page of legal queries in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (found by Amir Ashur).
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Legal documentENA 4020.40
Query addressed to R. Yosef 'the Rav' concerning a case of inheritance. Headed by the unusual בשמ רחמ וחנינא. Involves several brothers, one minor. Quite …
- בשמ רחמ וחנונא
- מא תקול חצרה הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרינו ורבינו יוסף הרב
- המובהק ה[פטיש] החזק סנהדרא רבא ראש הסדר [יח]יד הדור ופלאו ממזרח
- שמש עד מבו[א…
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Legal documentT-S AS 153.226 + T-S NS J326 + T-S Ar.18(2).73
Legal query sent to the Judge Anaṭoli about a debt. In the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. See Mordechai Akiva Friedman, "Responsa of Abraham Maimonides …
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LetterT-S 6J7.23
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Written by Hananel b. Shemuel. He exhorts the addressee to assist al-Shaykh al-Nafīs, evidently concerning a legal query which the latter …
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