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Decorated Karaite ketubba from Cairo. Date: 12 Sivan 5570 AM (1810 CE). The groom is Shelomo b. Eliyyahu Ḥazan. The bride is Esther known as …
תעתוק אחד
Deed of release in Hebrew. Location: Damascus. Dated: Sunday, 13 Nisan 4755 AM = 17 March 995 CE. Yaḥya b. Zekharya the judge and Zūrʿa …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Bill of divorce. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, which corresponds to the range 988–1088. Husband: Manṣūr b. Ṣāliḥ. Wife: Sittūna bt. Ḥalfon. Written and signed by [...] …
אין רשומות קשורות
Few fragments of a rotulus, joined together. written by the scribe who is known to write many such rotuli for the owner known as Ibn …
Legal document, possibly a draft, in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand. Specifying the conditions of the betrothal (erusin) between Yefet al-Kohen and [... bt. ...]n b. Khalaf …
Agreement that the physician Abū l-Ḥasan Yosef b. Yoshiyya(?) al-Tinnīsī will pay 14 dinars to Hilāl b. Sahl al-Ṣahrajtī, the silk merchant. (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Location: Fustat. Involves Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū Kathīr b. ʿImrān. There is a …
IB I, 22. Draft of an oath to be taken by Yosef Lebdi in which he enumerates his assets. Due to the litigation between Yosef …
Joseph b. David—may he rest in Eden!—will swear, on behalf of David, the son of his brother Solomon—may he rest in Eden!—
that he never c…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 16 Shevaṭ 5567 AM, which is 25 January 1807 CE. This is a more complete copy of the same …
Small and damaged fragment from a legal deed. Refers to Monday, the 19th or 29th of a month. The name Maḥāsin is preserved. Might also …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment (upper left corner). Involving Elʿazar ha-Levi and Abū l-Munā known as Ibn Naṭira, Yefet al-Zajjāj, and Shemuel. May be …
Marriage contract. Bride: Rayyisa bt. Saʿadya, the Karaite. Groom: Yaḥya b. Avraham, the Rabbanite. Dated: 1117 CE. Written in Fustat in the Karaite style. Early: …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document (or 2 documents) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The one on the right involves a marriage. The one …
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). This portion contains only part of the trousseau list.
דיון אחד
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Bifolio with accounts, and a legal or administrative document written on one of the four pages. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman era (the …
Small fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Containing part of the trousseau list. This is the wife's first marriage …
Leaf from a court ledger. On recto, written at 90 degrees to the other text blocks: Draft of the deathbed will of Abū l-Ḥasan. Dating: …
Fragment from the bottom of a bill of release. Only a few letters from the signatures are preserved, including the name Tamīm. AA
Legal document in Hebrew. Dated in the final third of Adar II 5415 AM (1655 CE). Location: Cairo. Moshe Kolon returns a deposit of jewelry …
Legal document between Maḵlūf b. Jacob and Sitt al-Riḍā bat Mufarraj b. Ḵalaf. Record of testimony concerning the sale of a female slave for the …
Fragment of a power of attorney, written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). No names preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–1138).
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 530 AH, which is August 1136 CE. A wine-making partnership, the amount of the partnership being 1,510 dinars. …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Date missing. Fragment of a Hebrew contract of partnership in which a woman named Summāna ("Quail") invests 8 dinars. She will …
Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the authority of Masliah Gaon, with a partial …
Fragment of a marriage contract from the 11th century. Beautiful handwriting and partially vocalized (e.g. the word כימֻכְֿת/kaymukht/shagreen leather). On verso there are a few …
Marriage document. Fragment from a ketubah, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108), from Fustat. Only part of the date is preserved: Tuesday, 19th of …
Fragment from the beginning of a kettuba. The bride's father's name is Munajjā ha-Parnas (ZL) and the groom is Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. There is a later …
Quittance (bottom part only) written and signed by Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, also signed by Elʿazar b. Avraham. Reused on verso for accounts in Arabic script …
Qaraite formulary for a bill of debt drawn up in the city of Sh[ām = Damascus?]. (There is also some text that seems like it …
Deed of lease. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 27 Tammuz 1613 Seleucid = Shawwāl 701 AH, which is June 1302 CE. The elders of the Qaraite …
בשם ייי אל עולם.
הדא מא אתפקו עליה משאיך אליהוד אלקראיין ברוכים יהיו והו אן יאג'רו ללשיך
אלאג'ל אלצאפי אבו אלמחאסן ופקה א-ללה תעאלי אבן אלשיך …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal fragment regarding a partnership. Involves Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen; Minyat al-Qāʾid; 20 dinars; splitting shares equally; and Ṣedaqa Neʾeman [ha-Yeshiva].
Qaraite ketubba. Dated: [13]52 of the Seleucid era, which is 1040/41 CE). Mentions the names Ṣemaḥ, Ḥizqiyya, Mevorakh b. Barhūn, and Ṣedaqa b. ʿAllūn. (Information …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves an Abū l-Faraj. Otherwise consists entirely of elaborate release formulae.
Legal document in Arabic script. The flap on verso should likely be unfolded and read as part of recto. Needs examination for content.
Deed of sale of a house in Fustat dated Dhū l-Qaʿda 643 AH = March/April 1286 CE. Refers to Fustat and the Mamṣūṣa quarter and …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions a woman and her father Munajjā (possibly …
Recto: Draft contract. Dated: 1845(?) CE (l. 6, verso). In which ʿAfīf and Avraham Abū Aharon receive an ʿisqa investment of 40,000 arayot from Yaʿaqov …
Legal document. The case involves a house worth 75 dinars and an orphan boy who has yet to come of age. People named include Mevorakh …
Legal or official note. In Arabic script. Possibly concerning a debt (القرض).
Torn and damaged fragment from a court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Likely a draft as the date appears to …
Fragment of an ordinance (taqqana) concerning the Jerusalem community in Fustat. The community decides to choose ten men who will manage the community with Efrayim …
Fragment from a legal document or letter. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions (Abū l-)Faraj and Dāʾūd, the court of 'our master' (Maṣliaḥ …
Legal record (#84) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 6 Tishrei 5325 …
Recto: record of the testimony of Zerubabel and Nisan b. David, and referring to Isaac b. Zerubabel. Late? Verso: list of the quoted authorities in …