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Legal documentF 1908.44G
Legal testimony dated 1151 CE (1462 Seleucid). Witnessed by Yeshuʿa b. Shemarya, Shela b. Yakhin, and Natan b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Abū l-Maʿālī b. Shemuel b. …
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Unknown typeT-S Misc.20.149
6 lines of a document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe describing the circumstances in which ḥujaj or other documents should be drawn up …
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Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.9r–10r
Legal record (#16). Inheritance settlement. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. It is a complicated settlement with multiple sections. (1) Sitt al-Ahl bt. Barakāt b. …
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 68/99
Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 11 Tammuz 4912 AM = 15 June 1152 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Witnesses: …
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Legal documentT-S NS 321.102
Court record. A husband is approving in the Jewish court a gift he gave to his wife in a Muslim court. Written by Avarham b. …
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Legal documentBL OR 10589.8
List of court cases in Judaeo-Arabic. One involves the payment of a capitation tax (jāliya), another involves a Jew who sued someone in Muslim courts. …
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Legal documentHalper 337
Court record in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. A litigant named Moshe has claimed that his loan of 50.5 dinars to Ṣadaqa was guaranteed …
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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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Unknown typeYevr.-Arab. II 1346
Legal testimony? In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman-era. it is a first-person narrative recounting the events of several years, involving financial disputes, a shofar, the Muslim courts, …
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Legal documentT-S 8J10.12
Legal document concerning claims of the wife of Abu al-Makarim b. Da’ud against him. The town of Minyat Zifta in Egypt and Muslim courts are …
- ]מרא[
- ]פאצלי אזאדה אללה עלוא ונפאד [
- ז]וגה אבו אלמכארם בן דאוד אלמערוף באלמחצ
- ]לה לם תרא מנה מקאצד מרציה
- ]גייש עלי באלגוים ואסחבני אלחאל
- ] אלי מניה …
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Legal documentMoss. VII,131
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. It appears that Meshullam takes over the responsibility for the six years of alimony payments (farḍ) to a certain female relative …
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[...] Mr. Meshulam [told us]: “This
[woman] is my relative and I must [...] her. Whatever the court charges her,
I will pay it for her.…
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LetterT-S Ar.7.6
Letter in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (per Goitein) to an unidentified person. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's mother and sister were involved in an …
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Legal documentT-S 13J8.31
Court record from 22 Sivan (4)802 A.M. (June 1042) regarding the marriage of a minor.
- חצר פי בית דין נוחים אבן מימון וכוליף אבן פוריח זברג פי אסבוע ופאת
- סרורה אבנה נוחים זוגה כוליף אבן פוריח וסאלאנא אלחצור ענדהמא פי
- מלאך סת אלדאר אבנה…
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LetterT-S AS 145.15
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (introduced with his usual motto) to the community in Cairo concerning a lawsuit between Hiba b. Abū l-Faraj …
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LetterENA 4100.17
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Not complete. Dated: 8 Tammuz יֿהֿ אֿבֿ כֿֿשֿ, which may be 5338 AM, which is 1578 CE. The writer is surely a …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. f 108/63
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. From several people, probably addressed to Sayyidnā al-Rayyis. The senders are currently being held in prison and it …
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- . . . רהג אלבלד ואפתכהה וקאל ק[
- ואלחזן וגמיע מן יעתזו בה פאת[
- נכאטבה וכנא מגתממין פי מצוה . . . [
- קד הגם עלינא סכראן פאל . . . ושתם [
- גדיד ארי…
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LetterENA 2875.40
Letters in Judaeo-Arabic, probably copies of letters sent in the name of Avraham Maimonides. There are at least two letters sharing the same folio. Only …
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LetterT-S Misc.11.55
Recto and verso are both late family letters in Judaeo-Arabic by the same writer, perhaps to different recipients. The writer goes into great detail about …
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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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LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1465
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; mentions the currency ashrafī. The letter deals in great depth with a …
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LetterNLI 577.3/11
Letter from a Qaraite, in Jerusalem, to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Hārūn Ibn Saghīr, in Cairo. To be read to the whole Qaraite community. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
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Legal documentT-S 13J8.1
Court record concerning a grain dealer who promises to pay his former wife 4 dirhams every week for his five-year-old son, who was staying with …
- בתרין בשבה כד בתשרי שסד חצר בבית דין ר יוסף בן ר צדקה
- אלפאמי ומטלקתה גניה בת ר חסן ואקנינא מנה לרצונו ותאותו
- בלא אונס אן ידפע אלי ר סלאמה אלזיאת באל…
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On Monday, 24 Tishrei (1)364 AG (= 21 September 1052 CE), R. Joseph b. R. Ṣedaqa
the keeper of a grain store and his divorcee Gh[aniyya] b…
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Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 354
Letter, or rather a legal query, from [...] ha-Kohen b. Avraham to a communal authority addressed as 'exilarch.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, perhaps 13th or …
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Legal documentT-S Misc.23.8
Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. A woman (Ḥasana bt. Menashshe ha-Kohen the …
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LetterT-S 12.16
Letter, in Judaeo-Arabic with an opening in Hebrew, from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to Shelomo b. Sa'adya and the community of Rafah, concerning a dispute over an …
- יאשיהו ראאש (!) ישיבת גאון יעקב בי(!)
- יאשיהו ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב בירבי
- שלום ועתרת שלום וסוגי שלום וסוכת שלום
- עם מצעדי שלום וברכות ונחמות וישועות תהי…
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LetterDK 236 (alt: 27, XXXI - XXXIX)
Letter from a judge of Cairo to a cantor of al-Maṭariyya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating uncertain (Goitein's index card suggests 14th century). The sender is publicizing …
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- בייי בטחתי
- הדרת התלמיד המצויין החזן הבקי בכל ענין
- אשר בר . . ו החן נרבד החבר הנכבד
- הוד הנדיב[ים . . . . . . ]. . ל [. . . . . . . .
- ישועה בימי…
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Legal documentT-S 24.74
Legal testimony. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. No witness signatures. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 27 Adar I 1415 Seleucid, which is 1104 …
- מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו החתומים למטה כן הוה חצר אלינא
- בבית דין באלקאהרה אלמעזיה יום אלכמיס אלסאבע ואלעשרין
- מן אדר ראשון שנת אתטו מ פרחיה הכהן בר טרפון …
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Legal documentT-S 13J21.31
Recto: Statute for tenants of the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1215 (according to Gil, but his handwriting comparison may not be sound, and this document could …
- יעתדר ען וזנה אלאגרה פי כל
- שהר בחאלה מן אלאחואל פאן כמא
- יכדי ויתצדק מא יאכלה יתצדק
- מא יזנה אגרה תם אחרמנא
- באסם מן יסכן פי דאר או טבקה
- בגיר אלקימה אל…
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LetterMoss. IV,9 + T-S NS 312.98 + T-S 8J31.4 + T-S 6J9.12
Letter from Yeḥiel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem, to a certain Menaḥem (probably the judge Menaḥem b. Yiṣḥaq b. Sasson), probably in Cairo. Dating: Early …
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- לקח הרצועה שהקדשנו ולא החזירה
- ואינו מבקש מחילה אין זה ושב ורפא
- לו והשם יודע כי מיד שראיתי כתב
- כבודך אמרתי לקהל למחר אלך לבית
- הכנסת להתיר הנ…
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LetterT-S Ar.18(2).4
Letter from Avraham b. Saadya the Hebronite, (the muqaddam of?) Bilbays, to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Sefaradi, Fustat, beginning of the twelfth century. Discusses in …
- בשמ רח
- אורה ושמחה ומרגוע והנחה וצהלה ורוחה והשקט ובטחה
- ונוס אנחה וגודל במנוחה והעדר ש[כח]ה ורצות מנחה אלה
- וכמוהם וכפלי כפליהם יהיו לכגק מר ור יצחק ה…
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