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Formulary for a Karaite marriage document, edited by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
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דיון אחד
Legal or official document, probably some sort of a receipt, in Arabic script. Baqā b. Bū l-Fakhr owes some sums to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment of a ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Yoel b. Yeshuʿa. Groom: Shelomo b. [...]. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1237–79 CE, as it is written In …
Deed of release, in Hebrew, given by Avraham b. Moshe al-Talmid to Banat b. Khalaf al-Baidayani and her daughter Durra bat Yeshua. Dated ca. 1030. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
IB I, 30. In this incompletely preserved contract written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), Yosef Lebdi provided merchandise worth 460 dinars with which …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document, mentioning Yehoshuaʿ the Parnas, a dispute between siblings over an inheritance, and Ḥalfon. Signed by Berakhot b. Peraḥya, Shela b. Yefet and Yiṣḥaq …
Legal document. Testimony in court, between brothers Moshe Sofer, Yisḥaq Sofer aka Maqaṣīs, and some of their family members. The paleography supports a dating estimate …
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 document concerning the rent of a qāʿa in Ḥārat Zuwayla. In Arabic script. Dated: start of Muḥarram 1044 AH (1634 CE) along the lower …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 25 Sivan 5556 AM (1796 CE). The groom Moshe ha-Kohen taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, …
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Dated: 539 AH, which is 1144/45 CE. The lessee is the trader (tājir) Dāʾūd b. Ḥasan al-Yahūdī (though his …
Bottom of a document written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (fl. 1150–1181 CE), also signed by Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi (= the cantor …
Two pages from the ketubah of Yosef and Esther
Recto: Legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Involving a bridegroom and his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl. …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Draft of a court record regarding inheritance, sent to a religious authority or more experienced court scribe for corrections and approval (the first three lines …
Legal document acknowledging a debt on account of a dowry. Date: 29 Sivan 1293 Sel. (982 CE). Location: Fustat. The groom is Yosef ha-Kohen b. …
ומאתים ותשעים
Bottom of a Muslim marriage contract. On parchment. Some of the surviving phrases refer to the bride's brother Yūsuf, as her representative, giving her in …
Most likely a legal document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to read. Contains a date (l.3) Dhū al-Ḥijja 442. Needs examination.
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Aharon b. Avraham. The bride is Esther known as Ruhma d. Gedalya b. Shlomo. AA
Ledger of a qāḍī court, possibly. Bifolio, with three of the four pages each containing a distinct deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Each about ten lines. …
2 דיונים
Minute fragment of a legal deed, looks like the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Legal record (#63) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 62-64) Folio 16v
Legal document dated Av (5)276, written ארע״ה (ie, 1+200+70+5), of Creation (= 1516 CE). The document concerns a trading partnership, and refers to trade in …
Fragment from a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: probably ca. 16th century. Involves a sum of money (המעות הנז), a certain Meʾir and a certain …
Marriage document. A torn and damaged Karaite ketubah. Although no complete sentences have survived, from the remaining words and phrases we can be sure that …
Dowry deed from Fustat, October 1171 CE (17 Heshvan 1483 Seleucid). It was customary to bring together all the objects of the dowry and to …
Legal document written in dense small letters. It looks like a deed of agency. There is a remnant of a name in l. 6 ([...] …
Legal document written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. A father disinherits his younger daughter Sitt al-Nās (and her husband) …
Fragment of a long legal document settling business accounts, involving a Mūsā who has gone missing, Berekhya, Sulaymān b. Yaʿaqov, Abū l-Surūr b. Natan, Maṣliaḥ, …
תרגום אחד
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: 1126–29 CE, based on the mention of the state official Abū Najāḥ ibn Qannāʾ (who …
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 Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday night, 3 Iyyar 1740 Seleucid, which is 1429 CE. (Date erroneous in Goitein, corrected according to the document following …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions items including an herb or hashish (ḥashīsha), a chest, indigo, silk, a ḥawwāla, something from al-Muʿaẓẓamī, the …
Legal deed with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Mentions "our late father."
Three leaves, all of which belong together. One side of each fragment contains an elaborate trousseau list, with values given in both Hebrew numerals and …
Drafts of an agreement for buying siddurs: al-Thalāth Raḥamīmāt Shemini, Emor, and Naso (שלש רחמים שמיני אמור ונשא); Niṣf batāʿ al-Hallel (חצי הלל). Dated 5 …
:Right side of bifolium, recto
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 …
Legal record (#38) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 13-19 on f. 14r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Kislev …
Fragment of a bill of acknowledgement of a debt by Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel ha-Levi to Abu l-ʿAlā. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138). …
Decorated, torn Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Yeshu'a b. Yosef and the bride is Esther known as Karima d. Shlomo
Legal document. Fragment (left side). In Arabic script. The name Muḥammad appears in line 2 and the profession al-Ṣayrafī appears in line 3. Line 4 …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Unusual format (written like a letter, with text going up the margins of recto and onto verso). Unusual hand, too (distinctive …