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Legal document on parchment, or possibly a letter. The dating is 11th-century or earlier based on the usage of Hebrew "zehuvīm" for dinars. The document …
אין רשומות קשורות
Ownership inscription of a book that belonged to Mevasser b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. The book was then purchased by Nadiv b. Saʿadya ha-Levi in 1469 of …
תעתוק אחד
Draft or copy of a legal document. Filling both sides of the folio. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 26 Tevet 154[.] Seleucid = 1228–38 CE (and …
Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Shevat [5321] …
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Elaborate state accounts on both sides, in Arabic script. Dated: Rajab 1238 AH (1823 CE). The main heading at the top of the recto mentions: …
Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom is Ya'aqov b. Moshe. The name of the bride is not preserved. Dated Sivan 5388 AM (1628 CE).
Legal testimony, in Arabic script. Iqrār, ʿAbd al-Sayyid owes his debt in al-Siyūṭ to Sahyūn b. Ghibriyāl.
Bottom part of a legal statement/letter addressed to a higher authority concerning a legal case. Dating: Tammuz 1477 Seleucid (June 1166 CE). Written and signed …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Your servant Solomon son of R. Elijah, (may he come to a) g(ood) e(nd),
swears in this presence: I have not been reading (teaching from)
תרגום אחד
Notes for drawing up legal documents. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel? On recto: "...the freedwoman (al-maʿtūqa)... and the rest of the …
Legal document. Probably from an agreement between husband and wife regarding their domicile in New Cairo. Torn and damaged, only few words have survived. AA …
Non-Geniza. Legal document regarding the sale of a vineyard. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 19th century. Surrounded by sundry jottings including in Russian and Arabo-Hebrew.
These two fragments are covered with sundry jottings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, some of them phrases from legal documents and letters. One of them gives …
Part of a ketubba, with no details preserved. Various jottings are added between the lines of recto and on verso. Ca. 13th century. Contains a …
Recto: Legal document, formally a testimony, possibly related to a business partnership (?). Beginning and end missing, as well as left and right margins and …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Netanel b. Avraham. Bride: and Ṣabiyya bt. [...]. The dignitary Neḥemya b. Avraham he-Ḥaver is mentioned. Dated: 1345 Seleucid, which is …
דיון אחד
Ketubba for David Farāsh known as Buqji (?) b. Avraham and Esther bt. Yaʿaqov Medina. Currency: medin. Dated 2 April 1802 CE (29 Adar II …
Legal document. Looks like a release. One of the parties is Netanʾel b. ʿAmram. The release migth have been granted upon receipt of a consignment …
F. 1r: Betrothal contract between Moses b. Shelomo and Muwaffaqa bint Shemuʾel b. Moses. Location: Cairo. Dated: Kislev 1691 of the Seleucid Era (= 1379 …
זכרון עדות
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Two pieces of one ketubba. Bride: Umm al-Faraj, the virgin. Groom: Toviah b. ___. The dowry list includes a gold drop choker (worth 5 dinars), …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Minute fragment, possibly from a Judaeo-Arabic legal document mentioning a cantor and an inheritance. But almost nothing is preserved.
Marriage document. Draft of a prenuptial agreement, by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Damaged. Aramaic. AA
Will. Only a few words are preserved. Mentions a woman: [...]āl bt. Shelomo b. ʿEzra, and mentions [...]q b. Ibrahim. Dated: 1369 Seleucid, which is …
Court record concerning a divorce. Location: Aleppo. Dated: 18 Adar 4949 AM (1189 CE). The husband, from Fustat but now in Aleppo, divorced his wife …
Right hand side of a long long legal deed in Hebrew, in which Amīna bt. Moshe declares that neither she, nor her husband Shelomo, have …
Verso: Marriage contract dated 1050, between Saadya b. Maymun and Ḥasana bat Levi, mentioning 5 dinars that will be given at the time of the …
Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). Groom: Yosef b. Yefet. Bride: Sitt al-Ahl. Mentions an apartment (ṭabaqa) that is over the cross-street bridge (sābāṭ). Signed by …
Legal formulary for a deed of manumission of a male or female slave.
Upper fragment: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/26 CE. Involves Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. [...], Aharon …
שני קטעים מהסכם קדם-נישואין כללי, משנת 1117, בכתב-ידו של חלפון בן מנשה הלוי. החתן, צדקה בן שלמה, נושא את כֻּלַּה בת יפת. הנישואין לא עלו …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal document in the hand of and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt al-ʿIrāq. (Information in part …
A much faded legal deed written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (see Bareket, The Jews of Egypt, p, 217). On recto description of a legal suit …
Debt contract. In Judaeo-rabic. No signatures. Sulaymān owes Luṭfallah 288.5 kāmilī dirhams. He must pay 12 nuqra dirhams at the end of every month. If …
Draft of a legal document related to a divorce. Dated: Thursday 12 Tammuz 5537 AM, which is 1777 CE. Husband: Raḥamim Levi Ḥazzan b. Naḥum …
Mysterious document with multiple text blocks, all quite faded. It may begin on verso and continue onto recto. At the top of verso there is …
Legal document from al-Mahalla mentioning ha-zaqen b. R. Pinhas. (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, ed., Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, 614) …
Document in Arabic script involving Nissim al-Yahūdī. Dated: 3 [Dhū] l-Qaʿda 1240 AH = 1824/25 CE.
Long and torn strip, only a couple words are preserved on each line, probably from a draft of a legal contract written by Halfon b. …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Maybe a deed of sale, as 'al-mushtarī' ('the buyer') is mentioned at the bottom. Mentions [...] b. …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: First decade of Ṭevet 5561 AM, which is 17–26 December 1800 CE. Moneychanging (sarraflık) partnership agreement between three …
Debt acknowledgement for five dinar to be repaid in monthly installments. Written by Hillel b. Eli in Kislev 1402/October 1090. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, …
Legal fragment. Preserving the date 1441 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, and little else.