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Legal document concerning the financial claims of Yeshu'a Abu al-Khayr against Ovadya. Goitein describes the endeavor as "civil law" (אלחק פי מא בינהם) adjudicated by …
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Agreement between Shelomo b. Kathīr and Barhūn b. Sahlān, the husband of his daughter Fāʾiza, in which Barhūn undertakes to redeem the silver vessels belonging …
פאיזה זוגה ברהון בן סהלאן
Court ledger. Containing multiple legal records/testimonies. Location: Probably Alexandria, since Goitein identifies the handwriting as belonging to the teacher Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī. One …
Court record in the handwriting of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dated: Thursday, 21 Ṭevet 1357 = 2 January January 1046 CE. Manṣūr b. Mukhtar and his …
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Copy of a legal case that was inserted into a 'legal file' that was kept in the court, December 1027. Documents describing unique or interesting …
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Court record. Dating: mentions Nisan 1410 Seleucid = March/April 1099 CE (terminus ante quem). Dealing with a complicated lawsuit of a case in which Abū …
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Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/45v: Continuation of previous document (PGPID 6535). The clothing and household goods are divided between the two girls. The …
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3 entries in a court register. (a) Marriage portion of Munā the freedwoman of Ibn Futayḥ marrying Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Avraham al-Tinnīsī. 10 + …
4 entries in a court register. (a) Record of marriage conditions. Groom: Abū Zikrī al-Kattanānī b. Aharon. Bride: Sitt al-Nās bt. Isḥāq. Delayed marriage payment: …
Court record in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: middle decade of Adar 1528 Seleucid = end of February 1217 CE. In …
Court record written by Avraham b. Shemaya, concerning a settlement between Abu Surur b. Natan and Moshe b. Moshe. Dated late Nisan, year is missing, …
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Verso: Addendum or subsequent court record concerning Abū l-Munā and 90 jars of wine as well as other commodities and someone named Ṣāʿid. This record …
Recto and verso: Court record written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 23 Ḥeshvan 1410 Seleucid = 21 October 1098 CE. Containing an …
Beginning of a court record dated Shevat 1411/ February 1100. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Court record in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dating: No earlier than late 1097 CE, as it contains a copy of an …
Court record written by Shemuel b. Avṭalyon (active in Fustat ca. 1007–55). Dealing with a dispute between Yeshuʿa b. Ghulayb ha-Kohen and Yoshiyya b. Maymūn. …
Court record in which the orphan Avraham b. Shemuel al-Andalusi brings his guardians for the second time to court demanding they deliver a balance. The …
Court record. Dated: Tammuz 1538 Seleucid = June/July 1227 CE. In which the son of one of two sisters whose father, Bū Mansur b. Abū …
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 18 Adar 1409 Seleucid, which is February 1098 CE. Dealing with a lawsuit of Mevasser/Bishāra b. Ḥalfon against Shelomo …
Court record possibly in the hand of Ghalib ha-Kohen b. Moshe, August 1, 1038. In the court of the Jerusalem community in Fustat. Community members …
A page from the court register of the Jerusalemite synagogue ,written by the court's scribe, Yefet b. David (according to Elinoar Bareket). A dispute between …
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Court record concerning the release of payment in installments between Yeshu’a b. Avraham and Yaqub b. David. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS
Court record concerning the claims of Avraham ha-Levi b. Toviah, later referred to as Abu Ishaq b. Tiban, who has received 34 out of the …
Court record concerning evidence of possession of a compound in Fustat, mentioning lanes and buildings in the city. July 1130.
Fragment of a court record containing testimony about a negotiation between Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-Majd and Abū l-Barakāt b. al-Dayyān (a.k.a. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu). …
Deed of acknowledgment of a debt of 76.25 black dirhams to be repaid in weekly installments by Bū l-Fakhr b. Bū l-Futūḥ al-Levi, who works …
Court record of the settlement of accounts and debts after the death of Moshe b. Isḥāq, written by Efrayim b. Shemarya. Moshe b. Yequtiʾel releases …
Court record of a case in which a man appoints an agent to deliver a bill of divorce to his ex-wife, releasing her from any …
Fol. 1r: Court record or draft of a legal document. Dating: Probably 11th century. Concerning Mubāraka bt. Shemuel al-Qābisī who had sold her female slave …
Court record dealing with a disagreement about a delayed dowry payment to the divorced wife of al-Qaysarani. Ten dinars were supposed to be paid in …
Outline of a story probably intended to be written up as a court record. Describing an inheritance dispute concerning two brothers and two sisters. One …
Court record dealing with a loan of one dinar that, according to Ya'ish ha-Kohen b. Avraham, was given by him to Yosef b. Avraham. Yosef …
Court record. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 23 Kislev 1401 of the Seleucid Era (= December 1089 CE). On the day when Elʿazar …
Court record bearing the signature of judge Shelomo b. Yosef, late Head of the court of the Academy,' Fustat, Kislev 1405/December 1093 (date and day …
Three court record entries, two dated Tevet 1339/December 1027 and one Shevat 1339/January 1028.
יהודי אנדלוסי תובע שבית דין של שלושה שנקבע לעיין בדינו יתכנס. אסיפת
Legal document concerning the long dispute between Avraham b. Shemual al-Andalusi and the gaurdians who executed the will of his father - Yosef b. Binyamin …
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Legal document, part of the court register in the Jerusalemite synagogue in Fustāt. A financial dispute between Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq b. Yoshia and Binyamin b. …
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Legal document, part of the court register of the Jerusalemite synagogue in Fustāt. The parties involved are Shelomo b. Kathīr and Barhūn b. Sahlān the …
Court record written by Efrayim b. Shemarya. A woman named Muluk claims to be the only heir of Tiban, the grandson of her maternal uncle. …
Court record written by Yefet b. Ṭoviyya. In which Yefet and Yosef b. Binyamin the banker, as guardians of Avraham b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi, collect a …
Court record fragment of the transfer of part of a house as a gift from a mother to her daughter. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, …
Court record from the court of Shemarya b. Elhanan. Around 1000. A claim by Avraham b. Sa’da against his brother Tabian, regarding trades of small …
Recto (secondary use): Court record written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (1125–50). Wherein it is stipulated that a husband who travels to the …
Draft of a court record in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Concerning Yehuda b. [...] who arrived with two powers of attorney, one from …
Court record of a divorce settlement initiated by Ḥasana bt. Yiṣḥaq against her husband Perahya. (Information from Niessen and Shivtiel, p. 613.) EMS
Testimony which took place [...]
below. Thus happened [...]
(our) master Peraḥya Ha-Lev[i...]
Ḥasana daughter of (our) I(ord) Ysh[...]
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Legal record (#20). Loan contract (with interest?!). Faḍā'il b. Yosef and his mother Sitt al-Banīn bt. Avraham borrow 27.5 dinars from Sitt al-Ukhuwwa bt. Ḥalfon. …
Legal record (#37). Concerning earthenware vessels. The beginning of the record is missing, and it was not completed. Makārim al-Abzārī b. Avraham attests that he …
Leaf from a court ledger, with records in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Recto: Deals with the sale of a house in the al-Mamṣūṣa …
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Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/46v: A renewed betrothal contract dated Tammuz 1493 Seleucid = June/July 1182 CE. Groom: Abū l-Baqāʾ Sheʾerit b. Yefet. …