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Legal document. The bottom part of a quittance from Fusṭāṭ, ca 1150s, in which the trader Abū l-Maʿālī Shemuʾel b. Yehuda Ibn Asad is released …
תרגום אחד דיון אחד
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 …
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document in Arabic script, involving an adult woman (al-marʾa al-kāmil) possibly named Sadīda. Needs examination for content.
Legal record (#16) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
תעתוק אחד
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right piece). Likely the will of a certain Shemuel. Mentions his …
List of commodities, such as dishes and veils, probably part of a trousseau list. Includes a white head scarf, black and white cloth, embroidered sleeves, …
Recto: Several drafts of legal documents. Item #1: Legal document regarding a business partnership (but not the original partnership agreement). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: end of …
Prosbol document (registration of a loan at the court, thereby exempting it from automatic cancellation in the Sabbatical year). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 27 Elul …
בה' בשבת בא אלינו
חוסין ברב' משה
ויאמר לנו [שמעו] אתם בית דין הנה מסרתי דברי
לכם והודעת…
27 of the month of Elu'l Fust'a't'
On Thursday
There came to us
H'usayn son of R. Moses
and said to us, Hear ye! You are the court. …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
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Left lower fragment of a settlement concerning books, including al-Ḥāwī fī l-Ṭibb and books of poetry. Involves parties including Abū Saʿīd; Abū Naṣr b. Yosef …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Unidentified text in Arabic script, maybe legal or maybe literary about law (mentions nikāḥ). Reused for a book binding.
Fragment of a ketubba. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) in an unusually large and beautiful script. The dowry includes a …
דיון אחד
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary, so difficult to figure out the details. Sets out provisions for the care of a minor boy until he comes …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a release granted from a man to a woman.
Legal fragment in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (or possibly Natan b. Shemuel?). On parchment. Concerning the sale of a sixth of a compound …
A Palestinian marriage contract from Ḥaṣor. The groom ([...] b. Yefet) is to pay 10 dinars as the “security” of the marriage contract. (Information from …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document. Commenda. Following the Talmudic isqa method whereby the agents have some responsibility for losses, the active partner or partners (Abū Sa‘d and his …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
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 …
Legal document mentioning [Abū] Yaʿqūb Yosef b. Avraham, possibly in the hand of Sahlān b. Avraham. Might be setting out conditions for a partnership. Includes …
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
Small fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Probably a settlement of a marital dispute. The husband is probably …
Deed of compensation (שטר פיצוי) in the scribal hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. In …
Judicial record of a discussion on the legality of the Rabbanite synagogue in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood in Cairo (al-Qāhira), during the reign of al-Mustanṣir …
IB VII, 5. A note (ruqʿa) with a merchant's disposition for his property in contemplation of death. He specifies that his daughter should not marry …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal record (#51) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 18r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated in Tishrei 5323 …
Small fragment of a legal document. On parchment. No details preserved.
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya (ca. 1181–1209).
Court record notebook containing various subjects. Dated on recto: dar 1465 Seleucid (1154 CE). Part from a legal deed signed by Hiyya b. Yiṣḥaq from …
Calligraphic get (bill of divorce). Dated the 19th of Kislev 5422 AM (1661 CE). Location: Damascus. Moshe b. Avraham known as Ibrahim repudiates Malkah known …
Legal fragment. On parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions the terms khulṭa, lādan, and musk.
Minute fragment from the upper right corner of a legal document (זכרון עדות . . .).
Official record of some kind in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 742 AH ("לישמעאל"), which is 1341/42 CE. Very faded and barely legible. Mentions numerous people including Yosef …
End of a marriage contract. The total sum is 180 dinars. Written and signed by the cantor Mawhūb b. Aharon and four others (in Alexandria). …
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 …
Arabic legal deed concerning a property – a house which includes a stable - outside the walls of Cairo, outside Bāb Zuwayla and Bāb al-Kharq. …
Legal document labeled in line one as a zikhron ʿedut (deed of testimony). Location: Fustat. Date: 6 Kislev 1542 Seleucid = 13 November 1230 CE, …
Legal record (#130) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 42r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). On the fourth of …
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4980 AM, which is 1219/20 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. Involving Yefet ha-Rofe and his wife Sitt al-[..]Mʿ, …
An agreement for cancelation of engagement. Dating: probably 16th century (looks like the handwriting of Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya).The two parties declares they have no …
Part of a legal document. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: Wednesday, 1 Adar II 5323 AM = 24 February 1563 CE. Signed by Pinḥas b. Moshe …
Legal deed. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Very faded.
Deed of sale in Arabic script. A Rabbanite Jew sells to a Qaraite Jew a house in Cairo in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood, in a …
Top part of a ketubba. Dated: Thursday, 25 Adar 1770 Seleucid = 1 March 1459 CE. Location: Cairo. Two lines of the reshut formula are …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Cairo. Dated: Nisan 1[.]83 Seleucid. Husband: [Mu]sāfir b. Avraham.
Small fragment of a legal document. It seems signed by Avraham b. Sahlān. Dating: No later than 1032 CE. Involves someone giving something to his …
Original use: Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba or at least a marriage-related document: "... and they will act in accordance with the traditions of the …
Document in Arabic script, five lines preserved, possibly a draft. Contains formulae from an Islamic marriage contract (hādhā mā aṣdaqa al-Shaykh Bayān... Samawʾal...). Needs examination. …