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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid, which means no later than 1188 CE (and probably several decades earlier). The husband appears to …
אין רשומות קשורות
Possibly a promissory note. In Arabic script. "I owe the shayh [...] X dinars... in the year...." Needs further examination.
Legal testimony. Location: Qalyūb. Dating: 1205–37 CE, as the document is intended to reach Avraham Maimonides. The community asks the Nagid to reappoint Tamīm b. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Folio from a court ledger in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Recto: Dated Thursday, 23 Av 1400 = 2 August 1089 CE, …
Legal document, fragment.
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 …
Bottom of a rental contract concerning a certain Sheʾerit. On verso Hebrew text, probably pen trials or exercises. (Information in part from CUDL)
Quittance from uncle named Yeshuʿa b. Avraham to his nephew, Saʿdān, after the latter returned a piece of land which had been taken illegally by …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal document in Arabic script. Likely a deed of sale for real estate. The borders are specified, including the house of ʿAṭāʾ al-Anmāṭī and the …
Draft or summary of a legal document describing the boundaries of a property, apparently in an exclusive neighborhood. South: one house known by the name …
Power of attorney in Hebrew. Someone is appointed to sue Yeshuʿa. Some unusual formulae, and unusual hand. Late? T-S AS 206.304 and T-S AS 206.304 …
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Minute fragment from a document, probably legal, invoking the authority of the Rosh Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov.
Power of attorney. From the court of the Gaʾon Eliyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Location: Ramla. Dated: Sunday, 7 Elul 4825 AM = 11 August 1065 …
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 …
תעתוק אחד
Legal document labeled in line one as a zikhron ʿedut (deed of testimony). Location: Fustat. Date: 6 Kislev 1542 Seleucid = 13 November 1230 CE, …
Bill of release. Location: Damīra. The city is referred to as עיר דמירה הקטנה in Hebrew ("the city of little Damīra"). The release is granted …
Rental contract. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right piece). [..]ār b. Azhar rents from a Jewish woman named [...] bt. ʿAmmār a share in a …
A legal declaration regarding lease of a land
Guarantee for a debt. Yūsuf b. Saʿīd agrees to cede 3/4 of a house and half of a ruin situated opposite it, to the orphan …
Legal document. Dated: Friday, 21 Tishrei 5527 AM (1766 CE). Previously the congregation had appointed as their head Shelomo Kohen b. Aharon Kohen and as …
Ketubba fragment. Bride: Sitt al-Majd. Decorated with thin red geometric designs/frames. On verso there is a related legal document dated Sivan 1556 Seleucid, which is …
דיון אחד
Recto: Legal testimony. Location: [Banhā] al-ʿAsal. Dated: 1584 Seleucid = 1272/73 CE, under the authority of [David I Maimonides]. None of the content of the …
Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for an enslaved person. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? One of the parties …
Legal document mentioning a certain Yiṣḥaq al-[...] and claims about sums of money. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Probably 1100–27 CE (based on the absence …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 6 Tishrei 1530 Seleucid, which is 1218 CE. Inventory of a dead perfumer's shop, taken for purposes of dividing the …
Fragment from the middle of a legal document. In Hebrew. Hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya? Concerning an inheritance and its division. Dating: one …
Marriage document. Damaged and creased document. Contains list of items, commonly found in dowry lists included or attached to a ketubah. Here, not as usual, …
Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: End of Tammuz, 5562 AM = July 1802 CE. Yisraʾel leases his cheese shop in Ḥārat al-Ṣaqāliba to Yosef Medina …
Marriage contract of Hayyim b. Moshe and Aziza b. Shelomo. Dated July 1492 (24 Tammuz 5252 AM). Location: נקאוץ "on the water springs," likely Naqāwūs …
Upper left corner of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār).
Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dated: 1457 Seleucid = 1145/46 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. …
Small fragment of a legal deed. Handwriting of Natan b. Shemuel? Dated: [14]56 Seleucid = 1144/45 CE. Involves Berakhot ha-Kohen, Abū l-Faraj b. Menaḥem, and …
Legal document in which Aharon b. Abū al-Riḍāʾ and his wife, Labwa (“Lioness”) bt. Abū Ghālib, release each other from all claims. Labwa releases Aharon …
The testimony which took place before us, we, the undersigned witnesses: On the middle ten days
of the month of Tammūz 1555AG (June 1244)…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: draft of a legal query to the Nagid regarding a man who has been sick for one year. Followed by a draft of a …
Legal fragment. Dated: 1358 Seleucid, which is 1046/47 CE. Involves [...] b. Avraham b. Mukhtār; possibly his wife; and a girl under 11 years of …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment from the top. Dated: 12 Av 14[..] Seleucid, under the reshut of M[aṣliaḥ? Mevorakh?]. The groom may be Yeshuʿa b. …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ II 717 AH = 4 July 1317 CE. Buyer: Isḥāq b. Manṣūr b. Abū Sahl the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document, signed by Yefet b. Netanʾel ha-Mumḥe. Dated: 1413 Seleucid = 1101/02 CE.
Fragment from a ketubba. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Faraj. Signed by Efrayim b. Ṣadoq (active late 10th century) and Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. AA
Agreement in which Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen and Nisim b. Ya'aqov, who bought half a house from Makki b. Abu Sahl for sixty dinars, rent …
Receipt for a night in the dormitory of a synagogue and the Zionist man was staying in Cairo – 15 July 1949CE – Museum of …
Fragment of a ketubba. Eight lines from the trousseau list, mentioning such things as necklaces of yellow amber (salāsil kārib, which Goitein understands as kahrubāʾ), …
Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Refers to the dates Adar 1408 and Kislev 1409 Seleucid (1096/7 and 1097/8 …
P4: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Deathbed will of Yefet b. Yaʿaqov. He wills that his share in …