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Ketubba, small fragment. Location: Fustat. The bride is [...] bt. Berakhot.
אין רשומות קשורות
Verso: Extremely faded legal document or legal notes. In which Karīma bt. Avraham appoints her uncle Efrayim as her agent, it seems to sue [...] …
דיון אחד
Left side: There are two records. In the first, the court gives Shelomo b. Moshe 2 dinars for buying flour for orphans. The second involves …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal formulary. Fragment from a book of legal formulae containing a few types of deeds, among them a bill of release of a slave (גט …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Two fragments from the right side. Concerning a release granted by a creditor to Abū …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Date: Tuesday, 12 Sivan 1814 Seleucid = 6 June 1503 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Yiṣḥaq (Sholal). Likely a …
תעתוק אחד
Verso: Beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr seems to be called al-Sharīf al-Mahdawī (i.e., from al-Mahdiyya), and his name …
Small and faded fragment from a ketubah.
Betrothal contract between Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Arye b. Yehuda. Her father Arye was the ex-husband of Karima al-Wuḥsha, and Sitt al-Ḥusn may …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fictive sale (bayʿ ṭāliq) of half of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for …
Betrothal between two possible cousins (both named Levi), a groom whose father had died and a bride called Baghdad with a wedding gift of 25 …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Two legal documents (iqrār) in Arabic script. The muqirr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān makes a declaration. Needs examination. Dating: Mamlūk era.
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 1v: …
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An elaborate Karaite ketubba from Chufut-Kale (also known in Turkic languages as Qirqayr קירקייר). The groom is Avraham Yerushalmi b. Mordechai and the bride is …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves Abū l-Riḍā, Abū l-Faraj(?), and …
An autograph responsum by Avraham Maimonides (1186-1237) dealing with wine brought by a Karaite and the injunction about preparation of wine by Jews (rabbanite Jews). …
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Avraham b. Moshe ha-Kohen releases his cousin Sāda (i.e., Sitt al-Sāda) b. …
Fragment of a Hebrew deed in which witnesses testify that Ezra b. Shemuel b. Ezra, the representative of the merchants, came to them to complain …
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(1–2) What took place before us, we the witnesses undersigned on this document, on the month of Elul,
(3-4) 4994 AM (= 1034 CE) in Fust…
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Legal document likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. Concerning a man and his wife who was the daughter of the late …
Partnership agreement between Yom Ṭov אלאלוו and Ṣemaḥ b. David אלגג. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Shevaṭ 5329 AM, which is 1569 CE. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Written by …
Legal document mentioning names such as Yaʿaqov, Abraham, [...] b. Yefet, Yaḥyā b. [...], [...] b. Ḥalfon b. [...], Ṣedaqa b. Yosef, 80 dinars, a …
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 …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment from the end. Essentially no details are preserved. Unfinished (the …
Leaf from a court notebook, probably. Looks like the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Several distinct entries, each terminated by a circle with a dot …
Legal document concerning an inheritance. Location: Fustat. Dated: first third of Iyyar, 1414 Seleucid, which is 1103 CE. Labwa b. Efrayim known as Ibn al-Malaṭī …
Legal document. Begins with blessings upon the reigning caliph (al-Ẓāhir). May relate to an inheritance; discusses agricultural matters. Mentions units of land expressed in faddān …
Legal document. In the hand of Yefet b. David. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 3 Nisan [47]88 AM, which is 1 April 1028 CE. Barhūn b. …
Folio from a court ledger in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Recto: Dated Thursday, 23 Av 1400 = 2 August 1089 CE, …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 25 Sivan 5556 AM (1796 CE). The groom Moshe ha-Kohen taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, …
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Acknowledgment of debt (iqrār) by three persons to their master Kashqadām ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Malikī al-ʻAzīzī, dated 11 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 842 H. [1438]. [Described on …
Legal document (iqrār). Receipt of payment in new monies in copper paid to Sayf al-Dīn Ṭūghān by his wife Fāṭimah, dated 29 Ramaḍān 815 [1413]. …
Partnership/investment agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[.]4, probably 1384 Seleucid, which would be 1072/73 CE. (1334 and 1394 Seleucid are also technically possible; the decade word …
Small fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions a certain Ḥasāna.
Financial settlement between Shela b. Yoel Ibn al-Sofer and his divorced wife and the mother of his child, Ḥusn bt. Avraham ha-Kohen. Dating: Probably second …
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. …
Legal document concerning a nasty financial quarrel between Shemarya b. Ḥalfon and his son Eli, detailing that Eli initially took their dispute to a shari‘a …
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Legal record (#101) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 34r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Kislev 532[.] …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Small fragment (lower right corner), and possibly a draft. The name Ibn Shamārī …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Bilbays. Dated: 18 Shevat 1590 (2 February 1279). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Verso: Legal document. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 48[..], which corresponds to the range 1040–1139 CE. Involves [...] b. Muvḥar (possibly Berakhot …
Legal note in Arabic script mentioning "one of the elders of Islam" (شيخ مشائخ الاسلام) mawlānā al-shaykh Aḥmad al-Ṣadīqī (?) al-muʿallim, and a woman named …
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning a dowry with the value of its items. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) In the hand of Yosef b. …
Small scrap of parchment containing the closing line of a marriage contract and its signatures. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 374) EMS
Apprenticeship agreement. Dated: first third of Iyyar 5582 (April/May 1822 CE). Location: Cairo. David Dayyan agrees to teach Moshe al-Farūn(?) (אלפרון) "the occupation and business …
Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Fragment (upper part). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: middle decade of Tammuz 1503 Seleucid Era …
Lefthand fragment: Legal deed. Unclear if any of the details of the case are preserved.
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 …