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Lease of land belonging to the Qodesh, ca. 1180. Written on the surviving upper part of a leaf, this is a draft of a deed …
In thy Name, oh Merciful!
We, the undersigned honest and able elders, declare: We had once decided
and agreed to lease the parcel in…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic (missing its upper part). Dating: late 11th century or early 12th century. In which Abū l-Khayr Mubārak b. David and Sitt …
אין רשומות קשורות
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 …
Legal document in Arabic script. "min al-wariq" and "wa l-mablagh min l-wariq" can be readable. Needs examination.
Marriage contract. Location: Abyār. Dated: Friday, 4 Ṭevet 4831 AM = 10 December 1070 CE. Groom: Fuḍayl b. Yosef. Bride: Sittūnā bt. Ṣāliḥ. (Information from …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
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Legal document. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the upper left corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: [..]61, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE, …
Court records in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, probably drafts or copies. On recto: mentions partners in silk and a quantity of qinṭārs; …
Very damaged fragment of a legal document
Recto: Legal document in Hebrew. Dated: First decade of Tammuz 5495 AM, which is 1735 CE. Unsigned. Mentioning the following individuals: Jacob Bonsenyor (בונשיניור), Nissim …
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Legal document in which Abū l-Khayr b. Nājī ha-Parnas releases ʿAmīd al-Dawla Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef from any obligations for goods sold by the latter …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Written under the rule of the Nasi David b. Daniel b. Azarya (1082–94 CE). Ḥasana bt. Shaʾul, the widow of Yiṣḥaq …
Legal document mentioning [...] b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī. Scribed and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya and Yiṣḥaq …
Autograph order from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer (also named Abū l-Majd?) two dirhams for baking matza (khabīz …
Deed of sale of a house in Fustat dated Dhū l-Qaʿda 643 AH = March/April 1286 CE. Refers to Fustat and the Mamṣūṣa quarter and …
Power of attorney granted to ʿEli b. Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen, and referring to the woman Mulk bt. Moshe. Dating: late 11th or early 12th century. Three …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Adar (אדר הנהדר) 1810 Seleucid = 20 February 1499 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Natan …
דיון אחד
Legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic dated "195" since creation, probably meaning 4800+195 = 4995 = 1234/5 CE. Both have to do with a controversy between judges …
Legal fragment, probably. Mentions Manṣūr and his brother(?).
Legal document mentioning Sitt al-Dār bt. Saʿadya written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). AA
Partnership agreement. Late. The partners are Eliyyahu b. Yeshaʿya ha-Kohen and [... b. Yaʿaqov. ne partner contributes 20,000 medins and the other 10,000 medins.
Legal document. Record of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1125 CE. This document describes release from a partnership in …
תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya.
Fragment from a bill of release, or rather a receipt ("sheṭar shover ze" / שטר שובר זה). AA. ASE.
Legal document. Location: Bilbays. Dated: First decade of Sivan, 1564 Seleucid, which is 1253 CE. Under the reshut of David I Maimonides. Concerning a settlement …
Partnership agreement from Cairo, for partners in the "ṣarraflık trade" who were working for a state bureau (דיואן אלמירי) under Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha's administration. Dated …
Fragment from a book of legal formulas
Legal document written and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 21 Elul 1404 Seleucid = 15 September 1093 CE. In which Saʿadya …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal document (end only) signed by witnesses including Menaḥem ha-Levi b. Tamim and Efrayim b. Ḥayyim. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document mentioning Hārūn, 50 dinars, and a provision for "his female slave." A will? (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. According to Ashtor, "an agreement concerning a levirate marriage, second half of the 15th century." However the basis for the dating is not …
Formularies for marriage-related legal documents (get, halitzah, yibbum). ASE.
Fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-[...]. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from …
Legal document(s) or letter(s) concerning a legal case. Both sides—one in Arabic script, one in Judaeo-Arabic—are first-person declarations about the details of some financial case …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Friday, 18 Tammuz 5319 AM, which is 23 June 1559 CE. Partnership in a muqāṭaʿa (Ottoman Turkish: mukata’a) …
Recto: Otoman-era legal document in Persian, probably dealing with the sale (فروخت = "he/she sold" in l. 5) of a plot of land (قطعه زمین). …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Written under the authority of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (the first three lines consist of his …
Legal deed written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be …
Lower lines from a legal document issued in Cairo (מצרים), badly damaged. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The signature that is …
Fragment of a partnership document (per FGP), involving R. Shemuel, Abū l-Faraj al-Yatom, Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan, Abū l-Bishr. Written by Mevorakh b. Natan, during the reign …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 2 Sivan 1395 Seleucid, which is 9 May 1084 CE. Husband: Kathīr b. Yehoshuaʿ. Wife: Mawʿā bt. Moshe. …
Certificate of the Qodesh. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 20 Shevaṭ 1564 Seleucid = 21 January 1253 CE, under the authority (reshut) of the Nagid David I …
Fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1127–38 CE, due to the fact that we find part …