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  1. 1

    Legal documentENA NS 30.8

    Legal deed. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 11th century, based on the presence of the witness Ṣāliḥ b. Yivḥar, who signed T-S 10J26.8 in Tripoli …

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    Legal documentT-S 8J8.1

    Legal query addressed to Yeḥiʾel b. Elyaqim (active 1213–33). Concerning a marital dispute and property claims.

    1. שאלה נשאלה מלפני הדרת יקרת מרנו
    2. ורבינו יחיאל הרב המובהק הפטיש החזק יהי שמו לעולם
    3. ראובן ואשתו נעשה ביניהם מריבה ועשו זקני יושר פשרה
    4. ביניהם שירד הבעל …

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    Legal documentBL OR 10118.10

    Legal document. In Hebrew with one phrase in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 16 Av 53[3]7 AM, which is 1577 CE. Reconciliation of a marital …

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    LetterLehnardt 6

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Might be from a family member of Sitt Ghazāl to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (cf. Bodl. MS heb. …

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    Legal documentT-S NS 149.174

    Recto: Legal note, probably a draft of an agreement about a quarrel between husband and wife. The husband is taking upon himself not to be …

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    LetterMoss. VII,27

    Letter in Hebrew from the communal head of Ṣahrajt, a small Delta town, reporting on the local communityʼs handling of a particularly problematic case of …

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    Legal documentMoss. VII,27

    Legal record of the same case on the recto, which offers us an alternative vantage point against which we may evaluate the narrative imposed on …

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    Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 878

    Legal document related to a divorce. Dated: Thursday 12 Tammuz 5537 AM, which is 1777 CE. Husband: Raḥamim Levi Ḥazzan b. Naḥum Levi Qayyim. Wife: …

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    LetterT-S 10J10.13

    Letter from Naḥum b. Manṣūr, in Malīj, to the parnas Abū Kathīr, in Fustat. The scribe is the cantor Ibn al-Jāzfīnī, who adds messages of …

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    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. שלום שלום מאדון השלום ומעושה במרומיו שלום קד עלם בורא הכל במא
    3. ענדי מן אלשוק אלי מולאי וסידי אלפרנאס אלגליל שיכי ועזי וגאהי ואלדי
    4. הו…

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    1. In Your name, Oh Merciful,

    2. Peace and peace again from the Lord of Peace and from Him who makes in heaven peace. The Creator of All knows 

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    Legal documentT-S 13J2.22

    Settlement of a marital dispute. Made after problems between [...] bt. Shabbetay and her husband Ṣedaqa. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, and also …

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    1. When there appeared before us, we the undersigned, [   son of   ], (may he) r(est in) E(den), and [his] wif[e] wh[o      ]

    2. Is now married t…

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    Legal documentNLI 577.7/3

    Legal document. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Thursday, 4 [...]n 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130/31 CE. Under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Involves a woman …

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    Legal documentMoss. VII,35

    Legal document. Location: Sammanūd. Dated: 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/34 CE, under the reshut of the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. Names [...] ha-Kohen ha-Zariz b. Yosef ha-Kohen. …

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    Legal documentT-S 8J11.15

    Legal record describing a husband trying to seize property, and declaring that his father-in-law’s accusations are false, even though the latter presented the court with …

    1. אדעי מר אבו אלמנא בן חלפון יוסף
    2. החזן נט רח עלי מר מבורך בר סבע זוג סמר דא
    3. אנה דכל אלי אלאסכנדריה ואכד כתובתהא מן ענד
    4. אלאמראה אלתי כאנת מודועה ענדהא …

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    LetterENA 4101.16a

    Letter from a woman to a communal official. In Hebrew. The purpose of the letter is to advocate for herself in her marital dispute that …

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    Legal documentENA NS 51.28

    Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 1 Shevat 5578 AM, which is 1818 CE. Declaring that Rica bt. Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) …

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    LetterJRL SERIES B 4620

    Note addressed to al-Talmid al-Jalīl. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that exactly what a certain ḥaḍra knew would happen with Abū Saʿd and his divorcee …

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    Legal documentT-S AS 147.170 + CUL Or.1080 J175

    Legal document. Dated: 1424 Seleucid = 1112/13 CE. Sason b. Yefet and his wife Hilāla bt. Hiba each claimed ownership rights over a small house. …

    1. דאר [. .אח]דהמא [. . . . . .
    2. מנהם אלדאר לי [. . . . . . . .
    3. אתפקא גמיעא [. . . . . . . . .
    4. לכל ואחד מנהמ[א . . . . . . .
    5. משאע גיר מקסום ואקנינא
    6. מן כ…

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    Legal documentT-S 6J2.2 + T-S 8J11.17

    Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Elul 1355 Seleucid, which is 13 August 1044 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David; also …

    044

    1. ]ו[
    2. ]שמים וארץ בכלי הכשר [
    3. ]וחתמנו היות זכות ל ך נכתב
    4. ] יתסר יומין לירח אלול שנת
    5. ]וחמשין וחמשה שנין למנינא
    6. ]בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילס (!) נהרה
    7. יפת ה…

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    LetterT-S Ar.7.9

    Family letter from a son to his father, Abu al-Muna al-Muwaffaq. Two main family matters are discussed. First, the son states that his brother-in-law, a …

    1. בשמ רחמ ממלוכהא
    2. חסן
    3. אלדי אעלם בה אלשיך אלאגל אלמופק
    4. אלצדר אלעאלם אלפאצל אדאם אללה
    5. עלוה וכבת עדוה יא מולאי אשתהי מן
    6. תפצלך אן תכלי אכי אבו אסחק יגי
    7. יע…

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    LetterT-S NS 304.10

    Letter from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), probably in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), probably in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. …

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    Legal documentYevr. III B 636

    Verso (original use): Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: Prior to 1144 CE. Groom: Tamīm b. Yefet ha-Kohen. Witnesses: Ṣemaḥ b. …

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    Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 68/104

    Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reconciliation between al-Muʿallim Manṣūr al-Dajjājī (same as in T-S NS 297.76?) and his wife, in which Manṣūr submits to various conditions …

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    Legal documentT-S NS 320.142

    Legal fragment. Appears to be the settlement of a marital dispute between Yūsuf and Sitt al-Ahl. Dating: Mentions the date Shevat 1437 Seleucid, which is …

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    Legal documentT-S NS J118

    Fragment of a legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Concerning a family dispute. A woman, Maḥfūẓa from the Ḥātimiyya(?) family, …

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    LetterT-S NS J262

    Letter segment, apparently to the Nagid.

    TS NS J 262, ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, p.269, N.H. 04-26-88, (P).Segment of a letter, apparently to the Nagid.

    1. וזוגתה פי נאר אן לא יעלם [ ]
    2. והי…

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    Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1372

    Reconciliation agreement between husband and wife. Dated: 6 Tammuz 5415 AM, which is 1655 CE.

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    Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 946

    Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Tammuz 1837 Seleucid = 932 Hijri, which is 1526 CE. It lays out the settlement of at least …

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    LetterENA NS 75.20

    Left fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. There is an address: to [...] al-Dawla Moshe ha-Zaqen ha-Sar the tax farmer (ḍāmin), in Damīra. But it is not …

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    Legal documentENA NS 75.20

    Right fragment: Small fragment of a ketubba written in the Palestinian style. In the hand of the ḥaver Shemuel b. Moshe, the same scribe as …

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    Legal documentT-S 8J23.23

    Legal query. Dating: Early 13th century (per Goitein). Concerning the wife of a Kohen who traveled 2 or 3 times without letting her know how …

    1. מא יקול סידנא ירום הודו ויגדל כבודו פי
    2. אמראה בעלהא כהן סאפר דפעה ותנתין
    3. ותלאתה ולם תעלם וקת ספרה ומא
    4. כלא להא לא מא תאכל ולא מא תשרב
    5. תם חלפת באימאן ת…
    1. What does our lord- may his splendour be exalted and his honour increase- say concerning 

    2.  a woman whose husband, a Kohen, has travelled, once, t…

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    Literary textENA NS 69.1

    List in Judaeo-Arabic of at least seven of the "blemishes" (ʿuyūb) a woman can have, such as a bad odor, a propensity to sweat, a …

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    LetterJRL SERIES B 5150

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Apparently describing the situation of an ʿaguna (a woman abandoned by her husband without a divorce). "Their summoning to the court. . …

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    LetterCUL Or.1080 1.87

    Responsum in a literary style concerning a dispute between husband and wife, written in the hand of Yeḥiʾel b. Elyaqim (active 1213-1233 CE). (Information from …

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    LetterT-S 6J3.17

    Letter likely from Yedutun ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing advice concerning the domestic affairs of the recipient. "This small piece of paper contains a short letter …

    1. אלדי אערפך בעד אלתהני [באלסל?]אם [.]
    2. ותקביל ידיך אננא קד סירנא לך צחבה
    3. צאפי אלרד[ה אלמ?]עמולה וקד אגתמענא בר
    4. שלמה וקאל אן טרא בינה ובין עמך מקאמאת
    5. ו…

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    (1-5) I inform you, after the blessings [of greeti]ngs and kissing your hand, that I sent you with Ṣāfī the completed [...]. I met with Mr. Sol…

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    Legal documentNLI 577.5/21

    Legal query in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Regarding a man who wishes to divorce his wife and pay her …

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    LetterT-S Misc.25.105

    Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 2 Nisan 1551 Seleucid (1240 CE). The writer seems to be asking the addressee to assist a certain man against his …

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    LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1510

    Recto: Letter from an unknown man to a communal authority. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is seeking help in a convoluted case involving marital trouble and …

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    LetterENA 4100.28a

    Letter from a communal leader to a Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that he fulfilled what had been requested of him in the letter …

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    LetterMoss. V,355

    Letter from the wife of Khalaf b. Harūn to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, seeking help against her cruel husband, written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. …

    1. אלממלוכה אבנה אברהם אלחזן נע
    2. זוגה כלף בן הרון אלמערוף באבו אל
    3. מעאלי
    4. בשמ רחמ
    5. אש[רי] משכיל [א]ל דל ביום רעה ימלטהו ייי
    6. אל[לה...]..לת..ה יסתגיב הדרת אד…

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    1. (1-3) The servant, the daughter of Abraham the cantor, m(ay he rest in) E(den), the wife of Khalaf b. Hārūn known as tāj al-maʿālī (the Crown…

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    Legal documentT-S 16.246

    Recto: Marriage contract, fragment. Groom: Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Berakhot. Bride: Milāḥ bt. Abū l-Faraj (from verso). Dating: Under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel …

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    LetterMoss. V,336.1 + Moss. V,338.1

    Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to Avraham ha-Sar (for the same addressee, see T-S Misc.28.64 and T-S 8J40.2). He reports that he met …

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    LetterT-S NS 320.6

    Letter from Masʿūd b. Mawhūb to his brother Sābiq b. Mawhūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is agitated about the news he heard from Umm Subayʿ …

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    LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1452

    Letter draft from the Qaraite community of Cairo to the Qaraite community of Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown. Regarding a marriage-related legal case that reached …

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    Legal documentT-S G1.52

    Legal declaration, probably the concluding page of a deposition, signed by Shem Ṭov al-Ḥāmī. In Hebrew and Ladino. Dating: Late. Shem Ṭov declares that he …

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    LetterT-S 16.272

    Letter from an Alexandrian judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1180. Full of interesting details about the tensions in the community during the early years of …

    1. . . . . . . . .] אלי ודלך [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    2. . . . . . . . .].יסה ומ. . . . . . לקעודי [. . . . . . . . . . . . …

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    LetterCUL Or.1080 J21

    Letter from Ṭoviya b. Moshe, in Jerusalem, to his daughter, in Fustat, April 1040 or 1041. "The following description of the writer's well-being is altogether …

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    1. כתאבי אליך יא בנתי מן אלקדס אלמחרוס לתלת בקי מן שהר רגאב (!) ממא אעלמיך יא
    2. בנתי מא פי קלבי מן אמריך אן פי קלבי אלנאר בסבביך ואללה ביניך ובין …

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    I am writing to you, my daughter, from Jerusalem, may God keep it, on the 27th of Rajab. I wish to tell you, my daughter, what I think about yo…

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    LetterT-S AS 170.226

    Letter/petition from a man to a group of judges asserting that he pays sufficient support to his wife [...] bt. Ḥayyim(?) b. [..]hā(?) and to …

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    LetterDK 232.1 (alt: II)

    Petition from the wife of Abu'l-Faraj the Silkweaver, to Shemuʾel ha-Nagid b. Ḥananya (in office 1140–59). She is an "unprotected woman" (marʾa munqaṭiʿa) whose father …

    232a

    1. הדרת אדונינו ואור עינינו ומחמד לבינו ועטרת
    2. ראשינו ותפארת דורינו //אדונינו// שמואל הגיד (!) הגדול
    3. שר השרים ונגיד הנגידים ועז כל בית ישראל
    4. הקדוש …

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    LetterT-S 10J15.9

    Letter from a woman to her husband (ṣāḥib al-bayt). In Judaeo-Arabic. After the greetings, which include wishes for the husband's recovery from illness, she continues, …

    1. I inform you, master of the house, may God always give you happiness, strengthen your well-being,  

    2. cure your sorrows, destroy your enemies and…

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    Legal documentT-S 8J14.2

    Letter in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Ḥisday ha-Nasi (a Qaraite communal leader) concerning a husband who wishes to divorce the wife he …

    1. יקבל אלארץ אללה תע אמאם מ הדרת מעלת יקרת צפירת
    2. תפארת מרנו ורבנו אדוננו נשיאנו מלכא חסדאי הנשיא הגדול ראש
    3. כל גליות בית ישראל ירום ונשא וגבה מאד וינהי…

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