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Rental contract. In Hebrew. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Sivan 54[..], so 1640–1739 CE. Location: possibly Cairo, based on the reference to Ḥārat al-Saqāliba in line 4. …
תעתוק אחד
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 …
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal record (#40) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Document #40) Folio 10r
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Legal document. (Information from CUDL.) No details preserved.
Fragment from a document in Arabic script, probably legal or at least dealing with legal matters. Mentions a house, testimonies, and assertions about what is …
Bottom of a legal document. None of the content is preserved. About 20 signatures are preserved.
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Court record in the hand of Avraham b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: 24 Elul, year missing. (A prior description suggested that it is dated Elul …
Fragment from the beginning of a legal deed, probably a prenuptial agreement. In the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Dated: Probably Kislev …
Power of attorney. Fragment (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1336 Seleucid, which is 1024/25 CE. In which Ḥusnā bt. Yeḥezqel b. Masʿūd al-ʿAqrabānī, appoints …
דיון אחד
End of a legal document. Involves Dalāl bt. Yaʿaqov. Signed by David b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen and Elʿazar b. Saʿadya. The qiyyum is written and signed …
Fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic script. On parchment, and verso is blank, suggesting that it is a legal document. The first line preserved …
Ottoman-era document with a seal imprint. Needs examination.
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groomm [...] Halevi b. Avaraham Halevi Yerushalmi. The groom is Esther known as Mas'uda d. Yosef Halevi.
Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions iqṭāʿ lands (maqāṭiʿ). Dated: 684 H = 1285/86 CE. Needs examination.
Court record of a case in which an orphan girl wishing to dispose of a piece of property that was held in trust by the …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
A notary's draft concerning three houses and two ruins forming the object of a settlement. Among the most detailed description of houses in Cairo. Description …
Her name is both Sitt al-Rutab and Sitt al-Fakhr. He releases Sitt [al-Rutab] from all claims and concedes to he…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small and stained fragment from a top of a legal deed dated 1443 era of douments = 1132.
Legal document fragment dated Tammuz 1009 CE (1320 Seleucid) involving a certain David b. [...], mentioning a guardianship.
Legal document mentioning [...] al-Ṣayrafī b. Khalfa. Small fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). On parchment. Bill of compromise. No names preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Formula for a validation by the court in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108), including an interesting addition. (Information from Goitein's index …
Fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The bride is not a virgin. Dowry apparently of little value. (Information …
Legal document(s). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, yet bearing the PGP tag of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe(?). Recto: Mentions Shemuel and the of wife …
Lease of a ruin belonging to the Great Synagogue of Ramla, ca. 1038. The "people of the Great Synagogue," i.e. the representatives of the congregation …
(1-2) Record of the testimony given before us, we the Court and the witnesses, who have signed at the bottom of this deed. This happened to …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Ishāq b. Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār rents a house from 1 Muḥarram for four dinars, “pays in advance.” (Information in …
This is what Isḥāq ibn Saʿīd the Jew leased [ ]
all the house that belongs to her, in her ownership and possession [ ]
its boundar…
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). The names of the parties are purposely erased. Date not preserved. One man purchases …
Marriage contract in which the bridegroom promises to feed and clothe the son of his future wife, a divorcee, to let him learn a craft, …
Bill of release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower left corner). Dated: 1428 Seleucid = 1116/17 CE. Almost none of the content …
Verso: A woman pawns pieces of her trousseau against loans. The date 26 May 1050 CE appears in lines 4–5. Information from Goitein's note cards. …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly state or legal. Mentions a qāḍī. Needs examination.
Probably a partnership agreement, less likely a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Mentions the names Shaʾul Ibn al-Najera and his son Yosef b. Shaʾul, …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Maybe a legal document on recto and records of payments on verso. But needs examination.
Lower fragment: Prenuptial agreement, draft. Late. Currency: peraḥim. The groom is not permittted to take the bride out of Egypt (or possibly Cairo), not even …
Reused for legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), which mention Sutūt the wife of Khalaf b. Qashqūsh; a real-estate …
Legal document. On parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Involves [Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi al-Jubaylī, known from …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Bilbays. Dated: December1209/January 1209 CE. This document is a partnership agreement in a perfume- and dye-manufacturing shop. The partners, Faḍā’il …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal record (#41) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 11 Sivan [1873 …
Legal record (#32) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(.Document 32 contd) Folio 8v
List of legal documents, including: (1) For the purchase of a female slave. (2) "A copy of it" for the Rayyis Abū l-Karam. (3) Lease …
Beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Related to BL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8 (PGPID 491) and contains more information about Ḥalfon's oath and the matter with the Persian Nasi. Join: …
Legal record. Location: Damietta [אי כפתור]. Dated: [2]7 Tishrei 1467 Seleucid = 25 September 1155 CE. Somebody testifies that as he was returning from the …
Testimony. Dated: Shawwāl [6]54/October–November 1256. In which Ibrāhīm b. Ismaʿīl is certified as a Khaybarī Jew originally from al-Jawf, and therefore entitled to privileges granted …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The people recording their testimony at the end of this court record testified [that they…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Legal record (#20) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 19-20) Folio 5v