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Fragment from the ornate header of a ketubba with blessings for the Nagid and congregation, with part of the first line of the document preserved (handwriting is probably known). Location: Fustat.
Legal document: ketubba, middle piece, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel he-ḥaver. Further particulars in Goitein's index card. On parchment.
Legal document: ketubba for [...ba]t Mawhūb (bride). Witnessed by Yishaq b. Saʿ[adya], [... b.] Efrayim, Yeshuʿa ha-Levi b. Aharon, Yaaqov ha-Levi b. [...]she, Amram b. Yiftah. Dating: 11th century. AA
Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
The brother of a dead husband grants his paternal first cousin, a childless widow, a release from the obligation of Levirate marriage. Dated 1513/1202.
Legal document, small fragment. Witnesses include Yosef ha-Levi b. Yefet.
Letter from Avraham b. Tahor, in Alexandria, to R. Ḥananel, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: First half of the 13th century. The sender had apparently sold clothing on behalf of the addressee. Mentions Sulaymān b. Abū Naṣr. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter in rhymed Hebrew prose addressed to a "wandering scholar." Sephardi-influenced hand (actually the hand of Samuel b. Jacob - one of the French Rabbis that arrived to Egypt at the beginning of the 13th century. AA) . Middle part only. Discussing a legal matter. On verso the writer seems to be critical of the addressee and a third person, who quotes Rabbi Zadok. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.
Deed of release. Dating: ca. 1232 CE, as the same Elʿazar b. Karmī appears in T-S NS 321.79 + T-S 13J4.5 and T-S Misc.25.2. The parties in this document are Elʿazar b. Karmī and Berakhot b. Tifʾeret ha-Qahal. No details of the case are preserved. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Fragment (lower right corner). Dated: 1448 Seleucid, which is 1136/37 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Involves Abū l-Munā Tiqva (probably identical with Abū l-Munā Tiqva b. Peraḥya from Bodl. MS heb. c 13/1), his wife Sitt al-Nasab bt. MN[...], and a guardian or agent (אפטרופא) named Moshe (or possibly [...] b. Moshe). (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)
Draft of deed of attorney written in Tyre, which includes an accounting between partners after the death of one of them, Menashshe b. Yiṣḥaq, and indicates the use of documents drawn in a Muslim court. Dating: Ca. 1041 or slightly later. According to Bareket, this is in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya, it was drawn up in Fustat, and it is related to T-S 10J6.6 and T-S 8J11.1.
Ketubba fragment (left side only). Dated: [13]77 Seleucid, which is 1065/66 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov. Marriage payments: 5 + 10 = 15. No dowry. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Strip from the bottom part of a legal document with no details preserved. Signed by [... b.] Obadiah. On vellum. AA
Ketubbah of [...] b. Solomon (groom). Dated [...] Sel. in Fusṭāṭ. Written by Emmanuel b. Yeḥiel, Middle of 13th century. Probably under the reign of David b. Abraham Maimuni. AA
Ketubbah of Hillel b. Yeshuʿa (groom), dated [..] Tishri 4[... A.M.]. It is probably a ketuba de'irkasa - replacement for a lost ketubah based on the verb ונסיבנא . AA
Karaite ketubbah, in which only the introductory biblical verses are preserved: 2 Chronicles 26:5; Proverbs 18:22; Psalms 37:23; Jeremiah 7:34. On the top margin pen trials. AA
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father-in-law Abu'l-Faraj, asking him to write a letter to correct his daughter’s (Shelomo’s wife’s) behaviour, since Shelomo is losing his patience with her. Early 13th century. (Information from CUDL)