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Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Elul 1492 (2 September 1181). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), possibly appointing Avraham b. Uri Shabbetay Ashkenazi as someone's agent …
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document in Arabic script. Describing the borders of a house or property. Perhaps a document of sale. Mentions a house known by the name …
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 46 (Document of Testimony).
P7 + P11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Partnership agreement. Tamīm ha-Kohen will be the active partner, traveling …
תעתוק אחד
Karaite bill of release, mentions Farja[llah] Ḥakim ben Mordekhay Ḥakim and Elʾazar Rofe.
Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). Wide space between the lines, in which someone has copied some of the text as writing practice. [...] bt. …
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Fragment of a ketubba. Eight lines from the trousseau list, mentioning such things as necklaces of yellow amber (salāsil kārib, which Goitein understands as kahrubāʾ), …
דיון אחד
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions the name Maḥfūẓa and possibly the terms of …
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a sum of 28 (dinars? dirhams?); [...] b. Yoshiyahu; Mevorakh; and Aharon. Dating: probably 11th century. Verso is in a …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragmentary (right side only). Dating: Unclear if this is the date of the document itself, but the document mentions the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Possibly legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The upper section is in a neater hand and the bottom section is written more …
Small fragment (lower left corner) from a deed of manumission of a female slave. Only a few words are preserved, including part of a signature …
Recto: Legal testimony. Dated Sunday, 2 Shevaṭ 14[..] Seleucid (or 146[.]?). The protagonists are Abū l-Fakhr and Abū Saʿd b. Naḥman. The witnesses state that …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Avraham b. Israel is the groom. The bride is Esther known as Karima d. Nissim b. 'Amram.
Karaite document corroborating (יאייד=يؤيد) the terms an earlier legal deed that had been issued in the beit din at the Dār Simḥa Synagogue. Dated 2 …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid = beginning of January 1124 CE. …
2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Husband: Moshe b. David. Wife: Fāḍila bt. Mevorakh. Dated: Thursday, 21 Sivan 1391 Seleucid = 11 June 1080 CE. Location: Cairo …
Torn fragment from the top of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). No details preserved.
Long and narrow strip from the ketubah of Sitt al-Sada, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). AA
Marriage document. Small fragment of a ketubba, probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions Shemuʾel b. Khalaf, 15 …
Recto: Legal document written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Dated: Iyyar 1456 of the Seleucid Era (= May 1145 CE). Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal document in Arabic script written on paper, nearly complete. Starts with the formula ا]شهدني]. Involves Sulaymān b. Dāʾūd (?) known as Ibn ʿIzza (?) …
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108). Rough draft of an agreement between spouses, detailing the conditions that the husband must …
Small legal fragment(s) in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Mentions a certain Shelomo and a ketubba.
Damaged Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Ovadya and the bride Esther.
Recto: Legal document, probably a deed of sale for an enslaved person. This can be deduced because a seller certifies that something is free of …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Upper right corner.
Fragment from a legal document, maybe a draft or copy. Recto refers to a sum of good dinars; garments (ḥulla, thawb, miʿjar) of different colors …
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 …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era. Mentions al-muʿallim Saʿīd b. [...]. Needs examination.
Betrothal agreement between Perahya b. Arah and Sitt al-Ahl whose trustworthiness is mentioned in the document. Both the bride and groom are fatherless. The bride's …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
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 …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (right side). Dated: Ṭevet 144[.] Seleucid = 1128–38 CE. Settlement between Sitt al-Milāḥ and her …
Agreement contract for the printing of a book of sermons and exegesis on the Torah between the owner of a press in Jerusalem and Rabbi …
Record of statement of release issued by the court of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1538 = 3 May 1227 CE. …
Verso: Document in Arabic script mentioning the words al-waraq (paper) or more likely al-wariq (silver money), 28 dirhams, and a date, which looks like the …
IB VII, 18. Legal document. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Dating: 1120–38 CE, based on the involvement …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Calligraphic, with a decorated margin. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar I 5377 AM, which is 1617 CE. Also dated 1929 Seleucid, …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Date: Not preserved, but it was drawn up under the authority of the Nagid David, probably more likely David I …
2 דיונים
Verso (original use): Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 495 AH = 1101/02 CE. Recto (reuses): Documents or drafts in Arabic script. One is …
Monograph, Rabbinica. Fol. 1r-1v: specimen writ of divorce, with a few instructions in Judaeo-Arabic. There are two witness names listed: Reʾuven b. Yaʿaqov and Gilʿad …
Legal deed. The trader (tājir) Abū l-Murajjā S[ā]lim b. Natan he-Ḥaver gives 30 dirhams per month to his daughter Fakhr from his divorcee, the freedwoman …
Will of Yaʿaqov b. Dunash b. Yehuda Resh Sidra, dealing mainly with expenses for his burial in Jerusalem. He appoints his brother-in-law Natan b. Shelomo …
Legal fragment. On parchment. Probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions collaterals; a period of 10.5 months beginning in Tishrei; granting somebody permission …
Fragmentary court record, apparently settling or recording accounts between partners. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 20 Tammuz 1404 = 17 July 1093 CE. Mentioning the title …
1בחמשה בשבה דהוא עשרה יומין בירח
Recto: Fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel? Involves Avraham, someone's brother-in-law Yaʿaqov, the obstinacy of a legal rival (kathīr …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Dated: 29 Tevet 1443 Seleucid, which is 19 January 1132 CE. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli. Wife: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. …