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Legal documentENA NS 17.10
Court record in the hand of R. Daniel b. Azarya ha-Nasi. Hayyim b. Harun announces his intention to marry a woman in Sahrajt, but people …
- [ב]ארבעה בשבה [דהוא ע]שרין [ו]חמשה יום לירח [ת]מוז דשנת אלפא ותלת [מאה וששים ושבע שנין למנינא]
- דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט [מצרים דע]ל נהר נילוס מ[ותבה כך …
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Legal documentENA NS 18.27
Reuse: Several legal documents, either drafts or court records. In Judaeo-Arabic. The entries on recto are very faded. The one that begins at the bottom …
ENA NS 18, f. 27 ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp. 56, N.H. 2-24-88, (P). Draft of a document containing a punishment for taking a second wife. Prob…
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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 documentBL OR 12299.8
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Settlement of a conflict between a husband, Moshe ha-Sar ha-Adir, and his first wife, Sitt al-Kamāl, …
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/14
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract for a second wife. Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1165–66 CE, as the reshut clause invokes the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (1160–66) and the …
- למא כאן יום אלאחד א[ל]תאלת מחדש [ ]מצרים דעל נילוס
- נהרא מותבה רשותיה דהדרת יקרת[ ]רבינו אדונינו גאונינו
- נתנאל הלוי רכב ישראל ופרשיו יחיד הדור [אב המ…
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LetterT-S 12.242
Letter of a local Jewish leader to his superior in the Egyptian capital. The first part of the letter is irrelevant to polygyny, thus it …
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- ] דכרא אן כאן קד אצדר אליהא [
- ] . י ארגו וצולה ואערף חצרתה אלסאמיה
- ]נאס וקד תופית אלאם מד סבעה
- סנין וכתרת אלשנאעה עלי אלמרה אן זוגהא . . . . .…
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Legal documentT-S Misc.25.6
Responsum regarding polygyny. Only the relevant passages in this responsum are brought in this work.
TS Misc. Box 25, f. 6d+TS A 26.136c, ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp.155-161,N.H. 4-05-88, (P).Responsum regarding Polygyny. Only the relevant pass…
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Legal documentYevr. III B 634 + T-S 8J32.1 + Bodl. MS heb. f 108/61 + Bodl. MS heb. b 13/48
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Tuesday, 5 Adar II 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. Groom: Elʿazar b. Shemarya. …
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Legal documentAIU VII.D.42
Legal document from 1725 CE (1 Tevet 5486) from Fustat/Cairo formalizing a reconciliation between husband, Yosef Mizraḥi known as Khumays, and wife, Nujūm the daughter …
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Legal documentT-S AS 151.244
Legal deed: Betrothal agreement (draft), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, assuring the wife that she would have an apartment to herself, not to …
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J281
A query from a local Dayyan to Avraham Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. Concerning a "wicked kohen" who, while married in Alexandria, took an ensalved …
CUL (ULC) Or 1080 J 281, ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp. 326-330, N.H.06-15-88, (P).Letter to Abraham Maimonides by a local Dayyan, approximately …
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Legal documentT-S NS J620 + T-S NS J624
Legal agreement between spouses. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. The husband of Sitt al-Bahāʾ takes her to court to revisit the …
- [ ] בית דין [ מ]צליח הכהן נע עלי נפסה לזוגתה סת אלבהא
- [ ] בל אלואגב אן יכון [ מ]עישתה פי אלקאהרה ויצטר אלי אלמבית
- [ וליס לה וגה] אן יפרץ להא עלי זוג…
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LetterENA NS 42.14
Letter from a woman complaining of abuse by her co-wife. Dating: ca. 16th century.
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Legal documentT-S 8K13.11
Rough draft of a ketubba (marriage contract), with instructions to the scribe for drawing up the final version. Possibly written by the judge Ḥayyim known …
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- בכך וכך בשבא וג׳ עד עד ס[ו]ף שמותם ש[י]דך ופייס
- כלתא יק[י]רתא >עיין בעניינה במקום האחר< >>דאישת<<>>דשמה פלונית דאישתביא<<
- >>במדינת עכו בשתא שעברה ופדה אות…
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Legal documentT-S Misc.34.50
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Probably from a prenuptial agreement, stipulating that the wife can force the husband …
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Legal documentT-S AS 164.218 + T-S NS J490
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (1066–1108). Rough draft of an agreement between spouses, detailing the conditions that the husband must obey …
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- [ ] ואן דנת ופאתי כאנת אלגאריה מעכשו להא דון [ ]
- //[ ]מערקתין ונצף רדא וחזה וקדם שית אכסו //אלמרה אלדי אתזוג[הא ]// אלאכרי או לא אכסו[הא ]//
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LetterENA NS 16.30
Letter/petition to a local dayyan (judge). A complaint against Sulaymān b. Hānī, the abusive husband of the sender's daughter. Including an episode where the husband …
ENA NS 16, f. 30 ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp.262-263 N.H. 04-26-88, (P). Letter to a local dayyan (judge) concerning marital problems of the wr…
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J173
Letter from the mother of Dā'ūd, in a provincial town, to her son Sulaymān al-Jamal, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. She complains about a lack of …
- מן ואלדת דאוד לסולימאן יצל דוכאן
- אלגמל קצר אלשמע אן
- שא אללה
- כתאבי אליך יאולדי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
- איאם סלאמתך ובעד אבקך אללה יאולדי כ…
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LetterT-S NS 320.20
Recto: Letter from communal leaders, in Alexandria, to the judge Shemuel, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unclear; likely early 13th century, based on handwriting and …
TS NS Box 320, f. 20, ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp.213-216, N.H. 04-14-88,(P).Letter from the Dayyan (judge) Samuel, Alexandria to the Nagid.
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LetterMoss. IV,17
Letter from a woman requesting help in receiving her share from her late husband’s inheritance, with various signatures of support. Mentions government interference as well …
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Paraliterary textT-S Misc.35.22
Maqāma-like work in rhymed Hebrew prose by a certain Shelomo b. Yehuda (not the 11th-century gaʾon, as this fragment is probably 12th–13th century), describing how …
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LetterT-S 13J26.6
Letter from Abū l-Majd, in Qūṣ, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal the judge, in Fustat. Mentions Egypt, Abū l-Riḍā, Ibn Ibrahim al-ʿArīf, Abū l-ʿAlā b. Ḥassūn, Abū …
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- אצגר אלממאליך אלדאעי לה
- אלשאכר לתפצלה אבו אלמגד
- בש רח וענוים יירשו ארץ וג
- יראו את ייי קדושיו כי אין מחסור ליראיו רצון
- יראיו יעשה וג וראו כל ע…
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LetterT-S NS J380
Abū l-Faraj b. Khalaf (?), probably in Minyat Ghamr, writes to his cousin (ibn ʿamma), Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. These cousins had prior correspondence …
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- מן אבו אלפרג בן כלף
- אלדי אעלם אלשיך אלאגל
- רבי אלייה אטאל אללה בק[אה]
- ואדם עזה ונעמה ומן חסן
- אלתופיק לכלה וגמע שמל
- בה קריב ולדי אעלמך בה
- אן וצ…
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LetterENA 2744.2
Letter from Ṣadoq (b. Shemuel or b. Yehuda) Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Moshe b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen Ibn Ghulayb ʿAyn ha-ʿEda Paqid ha-Soḥarim etc., in …
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LetterT-S 10J9.16
Letter by the Jewish community of the village of Qalha, Egypt, apparently to Eli ha-Kohen b. Yahya in Fustat, 2nd half of the 11th century. …
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- בשמך רחמנא
- נעלם סידי אלפרנס אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך
- ותאידתך וסעדתך וסלאמתך אן למא כאן יום סבעה עשר
- בתמוז וצל אלי ענדנא אשיך אבו עמרן מוסה בן …
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