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Opening lines of an incomplete legal deed from the year 1522 Seleucid = 1210/11 CE. AA
אין רשומות קשורות
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. …
דיון אחד
Digest of a partnership contract for a period of one year between Abū ʿAlī b. David and Netanʾel b. Nadiv. Written mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, but …
Verso: Part of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing a divorce document and the settling of the dowry with Yaʿaqov, the ex-husband. (Information from CUDL.)
Record of the birth of a child in May 1197 CE. Dated according to two Jewish calendars, the Coptic calendar, and the Muslim calendar. (Information …
Recto: Legal document. Dated: beginning of Ṭevet 1457 Seleucid = December 1145 CE. In which Yaḥyā b. Ṣedaqa confirms that a house which he had …
Fragment of a deed of sale of a property, here describing the property.
Legal document concerning the breaking off of an engagement agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fiancee: Sitt al-Banāt the …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Damaged legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Regarding manufacture of wine between [...] b. Yeshuʿa al-ʿAkkāwı known as Ibn Bunān (appears also …
Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Regarding the sale of an enslaved woman. Nāṣir b. ʿAlī b. Salmān is the buyer. Fragment (upper right corner). …
Leaf from a court ledger. On recto, written at 90 degrees to the other text blocks: Draft of the deathbed will of Abū l-Ḥasan. Dating: …
Ketubba fragment. Opening only. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1[4]31 Seleucid = 1119/20 CE. Bride: Ḥusna/Ḥasana bt. Tiqva.
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Top part of a legal document in Hebrew. Very faded/damaged. Dated: Tuesday, 27 Nisan of an unknown year; likely 11th century. Bill of release (וכתבתי …
Beginning of a Muslim marriage contract. There may be a partial name in the second line after the basmala: [ʿAf]īf(?) al-ʿAṣṣār. (Information from Yusuf Umrethwala, …
תעתוק אחד
Account of repairs of a house, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A previous version of this shelfmark description listed the date range …
2 תעתוקים
Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dividing up a store. No names mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index …
Possibly a legal formulary. On parchment.
Quittance, large but faded, from Yakhin b. Mevorakh ha-Levi. Seven signatures, mostly faded or fragmentary. 11th century.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment, with pinholes in the margin. Very damaged/fragmented. Making provisions for somebody's …
Legal fragment preserving the signature of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu and little else.
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Refers to 100 dinars; ʿUlla; capital; and seven manns of …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī was which first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: 1127–38 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon …
Several notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1213–37 CE, as Avraham Maimonides is referred to as the Nagid. Either a letter or legal jottings, but in any …
Minute fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions a certain Shem[uel] and an agent (wakīl).
Fragment from a legal document, mentioning Abū l-Munā and perhaps a partnership. On verso refers to a sum collected by a gentile. (Information in part …
Bifolio from a collection of legal documents from Yemen. The first document on f. 1r is in a different, cruder, hand to the rest, and …
Recto: Official-looking Arabic letter, with an ʿalāma at upper left. Dating: probably early Ottoman-period. From "the poor slave" to "al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʿĀlim al-ʿAllāma Badr al-Dīn …
Legal record (#59) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 58-59) Folio 15v
Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Dated: 29 Shevat 5535 AM = 30 January 1775 CE. Groom: Eliyyahu Goren b. Nissim. Bride: Hermoza bt. Nissim Navaro. Total …
Recto: fragment of a document in which one of the parties is Shemuʾel. Verso: part of another document, in which one of the parties (the …
Bottom of a marriage contract. Dating: ca. late 10th century based on the dates of the witnesses. The dowry is 75 dinars. Signed by: Efrayim …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
Partnership document in the "silk business" (עסק המשי). Date: Kislev 5562 AM (1801 CE). Location: Cairo. Several people are named in the opening lines. The …
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. Agreement between Ḥasan b. Hārūn and his father-in-law Ḥasan b. Isḥāq b. Mūsā concerning Ḥasan's fiancee Maḥfūẓa bt. Ḥasan b. …
Marriage contract in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 11 Marḥeshvan, 142[.]. The original estimate for this shelfmark inferred 142[8] Seleucid, probably based …
2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים
Small fragment of a legal document, probably. None of the content is preserved.
Court testimony in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Thursday, end of Kislev 1530 Seleucid = 20 December 1218 CE, under the …
Verso: Fragment from a deed of betrothal (qiddushin). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: 1100–38. The marriage will take place on Shabbat …
Legal record (#14) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Legal record (#12). Claim of money owed. Dated: Thursday, 18 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faraj b. Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān brings a claim on behalf of …