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  1. 1Legal documentENA NS 16.1

    Legal document. Small fragment from a legal document, probably a bill of release. An amount of 9 dinars is mentioned. Location: Fustat. Signed by Maṣliaḥ …

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  2. 2Legal documentENA NS 3.21

    Legal document. Damaged fragment of a bill of sale of immovable property. 10-11th century. Name mentioned: Ya'aqov b. Dav[id]. Hebrew. AA

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  3. 3Legal documentENA NS 53.20

    Legal document. Deed on mint partnership from 1563, in Cairo, between Yitsḥak d’Molina and Shlomo al-Faranji. Wednesday, Elul 1 5323 AM. Published אברהם דוד, 'יהודים …

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  4. 4Legal documentENA 4009.16

    Legal document. A torn deathbed declaration. The will is by a woman, for the terms used are צואתה אשר ציותה קודם מיתותה. Shemuʾel HaKohen and …

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  5. 5Legal documentENA 3475.5

    Legal document. A damaged legal document, probably a bill of release. Involves Ahuv, sums of 55 dinars, 44 dinars, 13 dinars, and half of a …

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  6. 6Legal documentENA NS 3.17

    Legal document. Fragment from a Hebrew bill of release, 10-11th century. Contains reference to A Muslim legal document and which is invalid and can not …

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  7. 7Legal documentT-S AS 160.158

    Legal document; Literary text. Recto: paraphrase of sections of Esther with biblical phrases in Hebrew (including Esther 8:8; 3:13); Coptic numerals. Verso: further paraphrase of …

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  8. 8Legal documentENA NS 77.7 + ENA NS 77.16 + ENA NS 77.17 + ENA NS 77.18 + ENA NS 64.7 + ENA NS 16.4 + ENA NS 77.167 + ENA 77.168

    Legal document. Seven fragments joined together (by Moshe Yagur and Alan Elbaum) to form a court record. On recto (should be verso) a court record, …

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  9. 9Legal documentENA NS 17.30

    Legal document. An agreement between Shlomo b. Avraham and the mother of his daughter (probably divorced) regarding her support. The year is [1]403 (1092) in …

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  10. 10Legal documentENA NS 19.8

    Legal document. A large damaged שטר אביזריה (= Bill of compensation), written by Hillel b. Eli (1066-1108). A certain Yosef is mentioned and also a …

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  11. 11Legal documentENA NS 3.7

    Legal document. Damaged. On recto title: זכרון עדות (= bill of testimony) in square Hebrew script. On verso, in different hand, a refutation of a …

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  12. 12Legal documentENA NS 3.6

    Legal document. Bill of release, damaged, relating to a quarter of a house. No names preserved. Probably early 12th century (familiar hand but still unidentified). …

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  13. 13Legal documentT-S NS 211.1 + T-S J3.16

    Legal formulary. Fragment from a book of legal formulae containing a few types of deeds, among them a bill of release of a slave (גט …

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  14. 14Legal documentT-S NS 324.37 + T-S 13J5.6

    Legal document in Hebrew. Partnership agreement. The partners are Zikrī b. Khalaf, Moshe, and Reʾuven. They were merchants in jewels (הביעה של הכרזה חבשייה...) together …

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  15. 15Legal documentENA 2712.10 + T-S NS 320.111

    Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1000–38 CE). Two fragments from the top. Seems to be the resolution/settlement of a …

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  16. 16Legal documentENA 3215.11

    A very damaged legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca 1100–38 CE). Some details might be extracted with effort. In the …

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  17. 17Legal documentENA NS 19.19

    Legal document. A small fragment, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Halevi, regarding a settlement between a couple, probably after their divorce (a bill of divorce …

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  18. 18Legal documentENA NS 53.21

    Legal document. Will from 1527 CE (1 Shevat 5287 AM) drawn up by Shul or Sol (Sul, Shol = שול), the wife of R. Shelomo …

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  19. 19Legal documentT-S NS J558

    Legal query or responsum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Apparently concerning a brother whose two sisters each own a share of a house, and he swore that he …

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  20. 20Legal documentMS 8254, fol. 11

    Legal document. Bill of attorney, written by Yosef b. Shemuʾel Halevi and approved by Maimonides, in his own hand. Published: מע"פ פרידמן, ר' משה בן …

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  21. 21Legal documentT-S AS 160.282

    Legal Document. Damaged legal document, probably a deed of release. A slave girl is mentioned. Names: Sālim b. al-Lakāf, Mufaḍḍal b. Būs[a'd]. A partnership with …

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  22. 22Legal documentT-S 12.139 + ENA NS 3.26 + T-S 12.653

    Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dated: 1444 Seleucid = 1132/33 CE. Groom: Shemuel aka Ismāʿīl b. Yosef. …

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  23. 23LetterMIAC 170

    Letter covering family matters – [dated June 29 1923] – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 170) – in Hebrew. (information translated from Ḥassanein Muḥammad …

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  24. 24Legal documentT-S NS 172.15

    Legal document draft. The undersigned witnesses attest to the appearance of a certain Yahuda ha-Kohen before a rabbinic court. The draft was left incomplete in …

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  25. 25LetterT-S 10J20.21

    Letter written by Mevorakh b. Natan and signed in full by the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. The latter rebukes the muqaddam, or head of the …

    1. עזרי מעם ייי עושה שמים וארץ
    2. מן שר שלום הלוי גאון יעקב החוסה
    3. בשם ייי ביר משה הלוי גאון יעקב
    4. ביר נתנאל הששי בחבורה זצל
    5. אלדי נעלם בה אדירנו נכבדנו וחשו…

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  26. 26LetterT-S 12.43

    Letter segment concerning some legal issues with the signature of Shemarya. The first concerns Nissim al-Iskandarani who has entered into a business partnership with an …

    1. ומתלמידינו הי]ושבים לפנינו המקום יגדיל[
    2. ]עלי נסים אלאסכנדראני משאט אל[
    3. וכל מא] יחצל לה מן פצל אללה פיהם כאן להא אלנצ[ף
    4. פאדא קראת יאהובנו כתאבנא ה[ד]…

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  27. 27Legal documentENA NS 77.309 + ENA NS 77.307

    Legal document. Small fragment from a bill of sale. On parchment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Drawn up under the …

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  28. 28Legal documentENA NS 77.352

    Marriage document. Small fragment of a ketubba, probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions Shemuʾel b. Khalaf, 15 …

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  29. 29LetterT-S 10J14.1

    Verso: Letter from Hananya b. Yehuda to Yehi'el the judge b. Elyaqim. The writer asks the addressee to come to Jerusalem and decide in a …

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    1. למי כל חמדת ישראל הלא מרנא ורבנא יחיאל הדיין לפניו יום
    2. יום ידרושון ותורתו יחפצון לעשות ככתוב יושר דברי אמת
    3. ול[כן] נדרשתי ללו שאל משא משאל לח…

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  30. 30Legal documentT-S Misc.35.16

    Legal document related to remission of debts. Location: Fustat. Dating: 966–1011 CE. The legal parties mentioned in the document include: Saʿa[dya], Yishmaʿel, Salāma and Yefet. …

    . [.....] מכוחינו מתביעת ר סע[......]

    2. [.....]ה ועד עולם ומחלנו להם [.....]

    3. [.....]יהוד גמור דלא למהדד [.....]

    4. [.....]ם ולא לערערם בכלום [...…

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  31. 31LetterT-S 24.51

    Letter in the hand of Shemuel b. Natan to a circuit judge (Goitein's index cards). Nine persons mentioned by name acting as a board of …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]ואלמקאבלה עלי אל . . . . . . ולם מאעד.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . אסת]חלאף אל . . נה עלי מא תסתחקה כמא יגב
    3. . . . . .] כתאב אל…

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  32. 32LetterT-S 10J17.22

    Letter from a man of high standing to the Nagid Shemuel (in office 1140-1159), dealing with a case of clothing, and a man who had …

    1. אשרי תמימי דרך ההולכים בתורת ייי [[אשרי]]
    2. אשרי איש ירא את ייי במצותיו חפץ מאד
    3. הדרת אדונינו ואור עינינו ונחמד לבינו אדונינו
    4. שמואל הנגיד הגדול שר השרי…

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  33. 33Legal documentENA NS 47.24

    Court register fragment containing the remnants of 14 documents, most of which are fully intact. Dated Tevet-Kislev 5460 AM which is1699-1700CE. On the recto two …

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  34. 34Legal documentT-S NS 292.79 + T-S AS 146.104 + T-S AS 146.283 + T-S AS 147.159

    Legal deed involving R. Yiṣḥaq Luria Ashkenazi and Rafa'el Kalonymos. Location: Egypt. Dated: Tevet 5319 AM, which is 1559 CE. The deed details the terms …

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  35. 35Legal documentT-S NS 309.12

    Document that tells the story of Aharon ha-Levi and Ḥalfon, who collected money on behalf of the Rambam (Maimonides) for ransom of captives. They sent …

    TS NS Box 309, f. 12, Goitein, Palestinian Jewry, pp.317-318, C.B. 05-09-88 (p)

    1. ]הדיין המ[ופלא נתתי לו ד אמות שלי
    2. שבארץ ישראל ואגבן [הרשיתיו וכו'
    3. בת…

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