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Marriage contract (ketubba). Only the heading and first lines preserved. Dated: 1391 Seleucid, which is 1079/80 CE. The groom is named Naḥum. Handwriting of Hillel …
דיון אחד
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Spanish-influenced hand. Partnership contract between Bū Yūsuf and Ismāʿīl. Mentions the date Adar I 834, perhaps [4]834 AH = 1073 CE. …
אין רשומות קשורות
Minute fragment. Bottom part of a legal deed, signed by Yeshuʿa b. Yiṣḥaq.
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Record detailing the action of a court in Fustat in preparing a claim to an estate in Aleppo, made by a man name Sālimو residing …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (right side only). Apparently a deathbed will. No names are preserved. …
תעתוק אחד
Torn late legal deed on parchment regarding inheritance. At one point the deed shifts to the first-person: זרע מאשתי (child/descendant of my wife). Requires further …
Fragment of a bill of sale for a slave (based on the term ולשחרורי). The seller (המוכר) is named Yosef. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal document, probably a draft as it appears incomplete at the bottom. Consisting mainly of an inventory of goods and their values, likely for an …
Fragment of a deed of sale in Arabic script. Mentions payments in installments starting the beginning of Ramaḍān.
Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Shaʿbān 1104 AH = 14 April 1693 CE …
Bill of divorce. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated 1066 CE (Sivan, 1377 Seleucid). Husband: Ṣadaqa b. Moshe. Written and witnessed by Aharon ha-Mumḥe b. Efr[ayim]. Blank verso.
Letter or legal document. In Arabic script. Ending, "And Avraham b. Abū Saʿd b. Tammām al-Mutaṭabbib (the physician) wrote it on this date."
Recto (secondary use): Legal agreement. Yosef b. Saʿadya al-Anṭākī stands security for Ibrāhīm b. Azhar. Mentions Nuṣayr b. Fahd. (Information in part from Goitein's index …
Legal deed with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Mentions "our late father."
Another fragment from ENA NS 18.17a, not a direct join Description from PGPID 15840: Quittance from Ulla b. Tahor (or Tahor b. Ulla - his …
Recto: deed of sale for part of a house. One of the parties is Abū Naṣr Manṣūr Ibn al-ʿAynzarbī, "one of the entourage of al-Ḥāfiẓ" …
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad], his prophet, and …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Legal document likely in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel (or less likely Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?). Dated: Ḥeshvan [14]50 Seleucid, which is approximately October 1138 …
Legal document, probably some kind of testimony, signed by [...] b. Yefet, ʿOvadya b. Ṭahor and [...] b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, followed by another legal document, …
Query addressed to R. Yosef 'the Rav' concerning a case of inheritance. Headed by the unusual בשמ רחמ וחנינא. Involves several brothers, one minor. Quite …
Unidentified genre of document in Arabic script. Repeatedly mentions "iḥsān mawlāhu ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan." Also mentions 101 dinars and the month of Rabīʿ II. Reused …
Registration certificate for an Egyptian Jew in the schedule of the elections – December 1930CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 45) – in …
Order of one pound of meat from al-muʿallim Ṣadaqa (cf. T-S AS 177.468).
Recto: legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions Shabbetay the blind (סגיא נהור), a house (al-dār), quires (karārīs), …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 11 Rabiʿ I 852 AH = 15 May 1448 CE. Possibly a deed of sale for a property. Needs …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). On parchment. The ends of about 15 lines are preserved. Probably a deed …
Recto: part of a ketubba for Ḥusnā bat [...] and Khalaf b. Hiba ha-Levi (ליואה). Dated Thursday, 27 Shevaṭ 1[..]6 (c. 11th century CE?). Location: …
Two records of a legal transaction involving Sitt al-Sāda bt. Abū l-Surūr Ibn Maṭrūḥ, mentioning al-shaykh al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, and Yosef. Written and signed (both …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Very damaged. Some of the letters have left holes in the page. Might be a …
Power of attorney. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 4850 AM (8 January 1090 CE). Given by ʿAmram b. Yosef of Tyre to Shelomo b. …
Legal document, fragmentary, c. 16th-17th century, from Egypt, concerning a property (אלקצר, ‘hall, ground-floor building’) in the quarter סוליימאן כ[א.]שה. The principal parties are Moshe …
Recto: legal document concerning debt, referring to Ibn Mardūk, Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen b. Mordekhay […] b. Saʿadya. Verso: unidentified Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a late ketubah. The groom is Nissim and the bride Najma.
Fragment of a legal document preserving one signature, Saadya b. Mevorakh (likely the son of the Nagid, Mevorakh b. Saadya, d. 1111), with the court's …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active 1165–1203). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tishrei 14[..] Seleucid, which corresponds to the range …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by al-Masīḥī al-ʿAmīd Abū l-Faḍl b. Abī l-Majd b. Bishāra al-Naṣrānī acknowledges a debt that he owes to …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. No names preserved. Refers to a period of 12 months, an …
Partnership agreement between Eliyyahu Palombo, Yaʿaqov Reqaḥ, and Merkado Ḥūba(?) (חובה), from Cairo, dated 1796 CE (Av 5556 AM). The main text of the document …
Legal fragment. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Involves a woman named Jawhara, and a man [...] al-Levi Sulaymān.
Minute fragment, from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1437 Seleucid = 1125/26 CE. AA. ASE.
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). Lease or deed of sale for a portion of a dār (hādha mā [istaʾjara/ishtarā...]). Handwriting looks …
Legal document, letter of ḍamān, in Arabic script. Mentions al-Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn.
Ketubba. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 3 Ṭevet 5581 AM = 8 December 1820 CE. Bride: Sūsār (or Sūkār?) bt. Yehuda Nabālī. Groom: Moshe b. Yaʿaqov …
Legal document from Cairo, dated January 1821 (Shevat 5581). It seems to be a partnership agreement between various traders active in the early 19th century, …