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Late document from the records (some sort of constitution?) of the Azouz synagogue in Alexandria. There is writing on Page 1 and 3, and a …
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal documents, four entries on the recto and verso. Possibly drafts from a court notebook, including one completely crossed out. Location: Cairo. Dated in multiple …
תעתוק אחד
Two fragments of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Dated 20 Av. Concerning a divorce, mentioning [...] the doctor b. …
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Apparently nearly complete, with only the first few lines missing. Dated: Wednesday, [..] Rajab 1163 AH = June/July 1750 …
Folio from a court ledger. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 1496 Seleucid, which is January 1185 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …
דיון אחד
Recto: see PGPID 1305. Verso: distinct document, also in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, dealing with a business partnership between Saʿadya al-Nīlī, Abū Isḥāq …
Legal document. Location: Al-Maḥalla. Involves [...] b. Yefet ha-Zaqen and [...] b. Peraḥya ha-Levi ha-Zaqen and contains the curious phrase "I have leased myself to …
Small fragment from a legal deed regarding a passageway belonging to Efrayim the elder and his wife (?). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 …
Conditional divorce agreement. Date: Monday 29th Tishrei 5560 AM (1799 CE The groom is 'Uziel b. 'Uziel b. Yeshu'a and the bride 'Aziza d. Yehuda …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Lower right corner. Signed by Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen and Ḥalfon b. Shelomo ha-Levi.
Legal record (#80) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 27v-28r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Av 5325 …
Deed of sale in which a father sells to his son a quarter of the apartment belonging to him in a house in the al- …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
IB VII, 25. Legal testimony about the customs of the merchants of Fustat regarding partnerships. The testimony describes how partnerships are established. Dated: middle decade …
נקול אנן שה[די] דחתמות ידנא לתחתא אלדי נעלמה ונשהד בה
אלשהאדה אלקאטעה במא גראת בה אלעאדה במצר בין אל
תגאר פי אלשרכה ודלך אדא דכלוא מנהם גמאע…
We, the undersigned witnesses, say what we know and testify to, an
irrefutable testimony about what is the custom in Miṣr between
merchants (…
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Conditional divorce agreement between a betrothed couple. Dated Tuesday, 8th Elul 5549 AM (1789 CE). Yosef b. David known Fayrūz b. Ṣemah is taking upon …
Possibly a legal document about an engagement. Mentions R. Yehuda.
Legal query. In Arabic script. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ al-ajillāʾ." Regarding a woman who sold a property; what happened next is not entirely clear. Mentions …
Legal document. Dated: Av 1452 Seleucid = July/August 1141 CE (month based on the phrase יהפך לשמחה). Involves 16 dinars; possibly silk which was purchased; …
Ketubba from Yemen. Date unknown. The first two lines, which included the date and the place, are now missing. The city Ṣanʿā' is mentioned in …
Legal document. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe; also signed by the teacher Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 4 Kislev 1437 …
A few words in Judaeo-Arabic: "The copy of the great excommunication (ḥerem gadol) which is said...." On verso Hebrew alphabet jottings and a couple Arabic …
Legal document. The elders of the community orchestrate a settlement concerning the companies of grave diggers (aḥzāb al-ḥaffārīn). One is led by Wusayd b. ʿUqayb …
Legal document (shetar) mentioning a partnership and a certain Berakhot ha-Kohen. Dating: Early 12th century. The deed was written in two copies. Signatories: Yiṣḥaq b. …
Deed of sale of an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt al-Kull and notably …
Fragment of a Hebrew deed in which witnesses testify that Ezra b. Shemuel b. Ezra, the representative of the merchants, came to them to complain …
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(1–2) What took place before us, we the witnesses undersigned on this document, on the month of Elul,
(3-4) 4994 AM (= 1034 CE) in Fust…
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Deed of acknowledgement (iqrār). In Arabic script. Concerns a debt of 2 dinars contracted by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā, the Christian bath attendant (al-ḥammāmī) from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, lord of the universe.
Abū al-Ḥasan - this patronymic being his name - I…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Receipt from the committee of Jewish pious endowments in Egypt for the value of rent on a residence in the qodesh of the Jewish quarter …
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Karaite marriage contract (previously catalogued in PGP as betrothal document per Ktiv metadata). Dated 6 Nisan 5528 AM (1768 CE). The key clause that qualifies …
Related to BL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8 (PGPID 491) and contains more information about Ḥalfon's oath and the matter with the Persian Nasi. Join: …
Partnership agreement. Mentioning 30 dirhams and dated to the 1st decade of the month [... of the year] 1490 Sel. (= 1178/79 CE). Mentions [...] …
Small fragment of an Arabic legal deed, probably a Muslim marriage contract (...الصداق المذكور...).
Early modern legal fragment in Hebrew. The paleography points to the likelihood that the document is c. 17th-19th-century. Based on the limited text available this …
Deed of sale of real estate. Only the recto was photographed. Location: Tyre. Dated: 4[.]60 AM, which could be 999/1000, 1099/1100, or 1199/1200 CE. Of …
Large legal document. Fragment (left side only). Written in a large square hand. Dating: Might be 11th century. Concerns a partnership in a shop and …
Monetary sales papers from the Nadā, Ḥalfūn, and Partners Bank in Cairo for Kẖawaja Elli Kohen in al-Ẓāhir in Cairo – February 24 1940CE – …
Damaged fragment written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE), probably from a court ledger, as this was originally a bifolio. Remnants of Arabic …
Formulary for a legal document involving marriage and a sum of ducats (peraḥim). Late.
P4: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Deathbed will of Yefet b. Yaʿaqov. He wills that his share in …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written on parchment. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1140–59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Groom: Abū Karam b. [...] …
Legal fragment.
Bill of gift and release granted to grandchildren. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One of the parties name is …
Record and validation of a deposition regarding a compound partly dedicated to the synagogues. The document bears two dates, 4 Iyyar [1]358 Sel. and 2 …
The witnesses named in this deed testify that they know that the compound
which is in the blind alley known as the Lane of the Poor in …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Minute fragment of an Arabic document. On parchment. Probably legal.
Deed of a gift of a house in the Darb al-Silsila, Mamṣūṣa quarter, Fustat, in Arabic. A Jewish physician gives a house newly erected by …
Minute fragment of a legal deed, looks like the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.