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Bill of sale for a house. Faded. Location: Damascus. Dated: Late Tevet 4874 AM = early January 1114 CE (beginning of second line one can …
דיון אחד
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Sunbāṭ (סמבוטיה). Dated: Monday, 1 Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid, which is 2 October 1133 Seleucid, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Avraham …
Legal records or drafts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly from a court ledger. There are at least two distinct records in at least two distinct hands. (I) …
אין רשומות קשורות
Karaite bill of release of a debt, dated 30 Shevat 5594 AM (1734 CE). The document was recorded in the home of the brothers Eliyahu …
תעתוק אחד
Small fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dated: Friday 21 [...] …
Legal document concerning a female slave, witnessed by a judge Muḥammad Mūsā, dated 28 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 810/1407.
Verso: "It seems a boy made a joke. He began a marriage contract for ʿOvadya b. Aharon he-Ḥaver ba-Sanhedrin Gedola and ended with a Mi …
Long and narrow damaged fragment written by Efraim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Probably court records. Not much text has survived (two entries on recto, …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions "his wife Sitt al-Dār" and then quotes her speech. Very faded and damaged, almost nothing …
Legal document in Hebrew. Partnership agreement. The partners are Zikrī b. Khalaf, Moshe, and Reʾuven. They were merchants in jewels (הביעה של הכרזה חבשייה...) together …
Very damaged fragment of a ketubah. The bride's name is Husn. AA
Recto: Legal deed (part) for the sale of a house with an orchard on the Jazīra, "between the two rivers and the two bridges." Sold …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document (iqrār). Acknowledgment made by al-muʿallim Yaʿqūb b. Ismāʿīl. In Arabic script. Needs examination for content.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Minyat Zifta. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. Yosef. Wife: Bita bt. Shelomo (ביתה בת שלמה). Dated: Thursday, 5 Nisan 1446 Seleucid, which …
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
Very damaged text in Hebrew characters, unidentified, possibly legal. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Deed of sale or lease. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The seller (or lessor) receives 6 dinars from a woman. …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Join: Amir Ashur. Recto: Document referring to a woman whose husband traveled to …
Several fragments of a legal document. Details are difficult to extract. Mentions an inheritance and involves a woman (possibly Siwār, but this could also be …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (lower left corner). Witness signatures partially preserved. Mentions a sum, "half of which is 1 1/4 dinars." Then the …
Legal record (#120) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 39r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 7 Sivan 5333 …
A Karaite bill of divorce. Yosef b. Mordechai Levi is divorcing his wife Sultana d. Elya Kohen. In Haskoy, Istanbul. The date is given according …
Recto (original use): Legal document describing a gathering to assess a bride's dowry. Fragment (right side only). Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Probably in the hand of …
Statement originally accompanying a will belonging to Abu al-Baqa. The will has not been found, but from this document it is clear that it comprised …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Marriage contract. Location: Tiberias (here called Tiberias Colonia / טיבריא קלוניא). Dated: Thursday, 12 Sivan [4]795 AM = 22 May 1035 CE. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document, unfinished, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138). Jayyida who possessed two thirds of a house was in need of fifty dinars. She received …
Legal document from Fusṭāṭ in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyya, written under the authority of Avraham Maimonides and dated Tammuz 1531 Sel. (= 1220 …
Fragment of a quittance document (שטר אביזארי). Written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Ṭevet 4837 AM = 14 December 1076 CE. …
Damaged ketubbah of Joseph b. ʿEli (groom), dated [...] Kislev [...]. No other details preserved. Probably written by Halfon b. Menasheshe Halevi. AA
Confirmation of a former deed of sale in which Yosef and Maymūn sons of Yaʿaqov al-Ghallāq (? אלגלאק) are interested. The document in question was …
Document concerning the sale of a female enslaved person named Saʿāda. Dated: 27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid, which is 5 April 1198 CE. (The main bill …
Small fragment of a legal document. Mentioning Abū l-Fakhr al-Kātib... a man known as Ibn Ayyū[b]... and a woman known as [...]. On verso there …
One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). …
Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Sahlawayh b. Ḥayyim. Groom: Ḥesed (presumably Abū Naṣr al-Tustarī). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Legal note(s) in Arabic script. The most preserved one: "The buyer: [...] b. Ḥammūd b. ʿAmmār.... on the defects (al-ʿuyūb)... from the aforementioned price." The …
Upper left fragment: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi known as Sayyid al-Kull. Mutual release or …
Legal testimony in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Before 1146 CE. Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham ha-Zaqen Ibn al-Amshāṭī testifies that the letter is his letter and written …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 29 Tammuz 5437 AM = 29 July 1677 CE. Concerning the moneychanging (ṣarf) partnership between Eliyyahu b. …
Partnership dissolution and settlement of outstanding debts. Dated Monday 19 Sivan 5410AM (1650). Venue: residence of Eliyya Levi, presumably in Cairo. Yiṣḥaq Shāmī, Rosh Mish[meret], …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew, with one signature in both Hebrew and Latin script. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 5624 AM in the month of Shevat which is …
Deposition (modaʿ) in court made by one Abū Saʿd. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tammuz/Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 1155 CE, under the authority of the Nagid …
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 …
Bifolio from a court ledger. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Three records at least: 1) Settlement of a complex marriage dispute involving …
Lower part of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated 5 Jumādā I 556 AH = 2 May 1161 CE. Mentions Aḥmad the agent (al-wakīl); …
Page from the record book of the law court of the Yeshiva, perhaps Yoshiyahhu Gaʾon. From the same ledger: ENA 4010.28, ENA NS 8.15, and …
Torn fragment from the top of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). No details preserved.