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Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 12 Cheshvan 1486 (21 October 1174). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Abū Naṣr b. Hillel and Sāda bt. Shemarya. The witnesses are Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Haver and Avraham b. Yaḥyā ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Haver and Avraham b. Yaḥyā ha-Levi. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Cheshvan 1473 (27 October 1161). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Abū al-Faḵr Kahana b. Saʿadya b. Sahlān. The witnesses are Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Haver and Shelomo ha-Levi b. Shemuel. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Get (bill of divorce) written in Ramla, beginning of 1026.

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Av 1476 (16 July 1165). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Elʿazar b. Shemarya and Ṯanā bt. Nadīv. The witnesses are Menashshe b. Yūsuf and Shelomo ha-Levi b. Shemuel. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Damietta. Dated: 25 Av 1477 (25 July 1166). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Shemuel ha-Levi b. Asad and Daryā bt. Peraḥya. The witnesses are Shemuel b. Shelomo and Yeḥezqel b. Nadiv. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Elul 1489 (4 September 1178). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark; this bill was not completed and consequently was not signed.. The divorce is between Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kohen b. Sayyid al-Kull al-Kohen and Riḍā bt. al-Faraj. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Iyyar 1491 (12 May 1180). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Munajjā b. Abū al-Ḥasan and Muʿizza b. [. . .]. The witnesses are Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver and Shemuel b. Yūsuf. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Elul 1492 (2 September 1181). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. It has no names. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Sivan 1524 (26 May 1213). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The fragment is rather irregularly shaped, and the lack of signatures indicates that the divorce was not finalized; it was later completed two months later in NLI 577.4/27. The divorce was to be between Mufaḍḍal b. Mesullam and Nasab bt. Manṣūr, whose father is referred to in this document by his Arabic name, and in the completed bill by his Hebrew name Elʿazar. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu's handwriting in this document is quite poor. The verso contains a note from Abū l-Bayān asking to copy his codex (muṣḥaf). (Information from Goitein's index card and Mediterranean Society)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 12 Sivan 1532 (3 June 1221). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Mūsā al-Dhahabi Ibn Mukarram from Cairo and Sitt al-Waqār bt. Ibn al-Barakāt of Fusṭāṭ. There are two witnesses including Yisrael b. Elyaqim, but the other has not survived. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by Yisrael b. Elyaqim and Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 10 Adar I 1537 (9 February 1226). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Avraham b. Yūsuf and Naṣr bt. Yeshua. The bottom of the fragment has been completely torn away and thus the names of the witnesses are missing. Another bill at T-S 10J2.38 was drafted for the couple a month later. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 10 Adar II 1537 (10 March 1226). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Avraham b. Yūsuf and Naṣr bt. Yeshua. This bill was preceded by the one at T-S 10J2.37, drafted for the couple a month earlier. The bottom of the fragment has been completely torn away and thus the names of the witnesses are missing. It is possible that after the divorce was finalized, the bottom portion was torn away. The verso, where the wife's acceptance of the bill would be written along with witnesses, is empty. (Information from Goitein's index card)

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 shelfmark. The divorce is between Shemuel b. Shela and Sadīda bt. ʿŪḍ. The witnesses are Shemuel b. Peraḥya and Binyamin ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce. Dated: 18 Kislev 1341 (26 November 1029). This Qaraite bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Ṣedaqa b. Mūsā and Umm al-Khayr bt. Mūsā. The witnesses are Ṣedaqa b. Naḥūm ha-Kohen and Wahab b. Avraham, though neither of them were the scribe of the document. On the verso is a note in Arabic script regarding Umm al-Khayr returning engagement gifts. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 21 Tammuz 1437 (14 July 1126). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Sasson b. Mevorakh and Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yaḥyā. The witnesses are Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Chesvan 1373 (5 November 1061). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Yūsuf b. Elʿazar and Sitt al-Dār bt. Yiṣḥaq. The witnesses are Moshe b. Shela ha-Levi and Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 4 Nisan 1377 (2 April 1066). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between ʿAlī b. Daʾūd and Milah bt. Avraham. The witnesses are ʿAlī ha-Ḥaver ha-Mumḥe b. Amram and ʿAlī ha-Kohen b. Yaḥya. This bill was drafted after the first one at T-S NS J247, written in 1062 also written and signed by ʿAlī ha-Ḥaver ha-Mumḥe b. Amram as well as Aharon ha-Kohen b. Yefet, was not delivered. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 16 Sivan 1430 Seleucid, which is 28 May 1119 CE. Husband: Yefet b. Ḥalfon. Wife: Sitt al-Rūm bt. Saʿīd. The witnesses are Yefet b. Ṣedaqa and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by Yefet b. Ṣedaqa and Maʿālī b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen. This bill of divorce is one of forty in the T-S 10J2 binder. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Cairo. Dated: 16 Tevet 1399 (31 December 1088). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Shelomo b. Shimon and Sittuna bt. Shemarya. There are no witnesses, indicating the divorce was not completed. A second bill was drawn up later and can be found at T-S 10J2.11. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Bill of divorce. Husband: Yefet b. Menashshe. Wife: Sitt al-Kull bt. Sar Shalom. Location: Fustat. Dated: Friday, 7 Av 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE. Witnessed by Hillel b. ʿEli (compare T-S 10J2.12), and ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yaḥya. (Information from CUDL and Goitein’s index card)