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Tag: testimony
81 records found
Legal testimony from the year 1225 (1536 in the Seleucid calendar) written under the auspices of Avraham Maimonides (1186-1237). A certain 'daughter of Abu al-Surur' is mentioned. The other side of the page contains a fragment of a legal testimony by the same hand, but probably a part of a different case. In line 6 the scribe clearly intended to have 'the banner of the rabbis' but the last letter in 'the rabbis' is omitted.
Fragmentary record of testimony from the 'Permanent Court' in Fustat dated Sivan 1367/May-June 1056.
Testimony stating that Abu al-Fadl al-Sayrafi Masliah b. Meshullam informed Nahray b. Nissim that his wife had vacated the room on the floor (tabaqa) belonging to Shemuel b. al-Kohen, Nahray's in-law. Dated Iyyar-Sivan 1407/ 29 April 1096 - 27 May 1096, in Fustat. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Court testimony. Dating: 13th century. Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. ʿAbdallāh b. Shemuel attests that the estate, consisting of cloths, textiles and other things, of the late husband of Sitt al-Ahl bt. Elʿazar has been deposited with the widow Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Seʿadya al-Muʿallim. Signed by: Aharon b. Peraḥya. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 200, 563, and Goitein's index cards)
A testimony of a person who received 47.5 "Harf" (each of them equal to 40 "Vuksha" silver) for selling his part of the house in Sana'a. Around 1603-1628. (Goitein, The Yemenites, 150-152) VMR
Legal document between Maḵlūf b. Jacob and Sitt al-Riḍā bat Mufarraj b. Ḵalaf. Record of testimony concerning the sale of a female slave for the price of 17 dinars. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 138, 433, 434 and CUDL)
Left half of a testimony given in court recording a lively dispute between Mubarak, Hillel, Habib b. Khalaf and Salama b. Mundhir mentioning the sums of sixteen, nine, and thirty-nine dinars. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Legal testimony (קבלת עדות). Location: the testimony was collected in Sunbāṭ and the document was drawn up three months later in Minyat Ashna. Dated: Middle decade of Iyyār 1459 Seleucid, which is May 1148 CE. Written by Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen. Signed by Ṭoviyya and by Shela b. Yefet. Testimony of Berakhot b. Aharon ha-Mumhe ha-Kohen and Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq about the sequestering of the belongings of Rafāʾīl b. Abu Runa, probably a Christian, which were deposited with a Jew named Musallam b. Yiṣḥaq by a government official ("ustādh"). The story involves a mule and the denouncing of people to the government. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 488.) Join: Oded Zinger. OZ. ASE.
Testimony fragment of a loan from 1224 in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.
Testimony signed by Aharon ha-Kohen b. Amram and two others regarding the kashruth (ritual lawfulness) of some cheese made by the Karaites (of Samaritiqa), ca 1050.
Bifolio of a court register in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe consisting of four pages and containing four court cases.
1r: Legal document concerning a quittance of debt, dated 1440 Sel. (1129 CE), written under the authority of the gaon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen. Mentions Abū l-Maʿālī b. Yūsuf (known as Ibn Tamar) and Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo.
1v: Will of Kulla b. Shabbat, mentioning Yehuda Ibn al-Sofer, the daughter of Kulla’s brother Abū ʿAlī al-Kohen and Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen b. ʿEli.
2r: Legal document concerning a quittance of debt, dated 1446 Sel. (1135 CE). Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Elʿazar b. Yosef. Mentions Yaʿqūb Abū l-Maʿālī b. Yūsuf, known as Ibn Kujik (כוגך, Kushek, Persian 'Small') and Abū ʿAlī b. Shemuʾel b. Shelomo, known as Ibn al-Dustarī.
2v: Legal testimony declaring that Hassun of Ascalon was the father of Abū Saʿd, the illegitimate son of Wuhsha the Broker. Mentions Abū ʿAlī al-Parnas Yefet b. Maṣliaḥ, Ibn al-Sukkarī, Ḥalfon ha-Kohen b. Yosef and Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Ibn al-Kamūkhī.
(Information in part from CUDL)
Bifolio of a court register in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe consisting of four pages and containing four court cases.
1r: Legal document concerning a quittance of debt, dated 1440 Sel. (1129 CE), written under the authority of the gaon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen. Mentions Abū l-Maʿālī b. Yūsuf (known as Ibn Tamar) and Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo.
1v: Will of Kulla b. Shabbat, mentioning Yehuda Ibn al-Sofer, the daughter of Kulla’s brother Abū ʿAlī al-Kohen and Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen b. ʿEli.
2r: Legal document concerning a quittance of debt, dated 1446 Sel. (1135 CE). Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Elʿazar b. Yosef. Mentions Yaʿqūb Abū l-Maʿālī b. Yūsuf, known as Ibn Kujik (כוגך, Kushek, Persian 'Small') and Abū ʿAlī b. Shemuʾel b. Shelomo, known as Ibn al-Dustarī.
2v: Legal testimony declaring that Hassun of Ascalon was the father of Abū Saʿd, the illegitimate son of Wuhsha the Broker. Mentions Abū ʿAlī al-Parnas Yefet b. Maṣliaḥ, Ibn al-Sukkarī, Ḥalfon ha-Kohen b. Yosef and Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Ibn al-Kamūkhī.
(Information in part from CUDL)
Fragmentary record of testimony (left half missing). Dated: [..]68 Seleucid, so probably 1056/57 CE or 1156/57 CE. Signed by Moshe b. Shelomo and [...] b. Avraham.
Court testimony. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerning fifty new Egyptian dinars which were recorded in the will of Yosef b. Banan and are now acknowledged to be owed to the son of his paternal uncle known as Ibn Banan. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Testimony regarding the proselytizing of two sisters. A new edition with English translation to be published by Amir Ashur
Testimony reporting an event in Sunbat, a small town in the Egyptian Delta, according to which a person was wrongly suspected of improper conduct and unjustly prevented from reading the lection from the Torah. Dated Marheshvan 1402/September 1090. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 77; II, pp. 164-165)
Testimony of receiving a shipment that belonged to a person who passed away, Qayrawan, 978. Avraham b. Kabīr asks for an approval about a shipment of indigo to Qayrawan for the person who previously had the indigo in Fustat, Kimui b. al-Ḥasan. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #106) VMR
Testimony by Avraham b. Kabir concerning the heritage of Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham. Qayrawan, 978 A.D.
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1156 CE. Sitt al-Ahl bt. Sayyid al-Kull, the widow of Hiba b. Abū Saʿd who had drowned near Aden (see PER H 161), declares that she has received from Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Tiqva ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Amʿaṭ, a certain sum from the estate of her late husband. Sitt al-Ahl's father Sayyid al-Kull is also known as the druggist Hillel b. Naḥman. (Information from India Book.)
Court document dated 15 Kislev 1469/26 November 1157 acknowledging that the court had heard the testimony of the wife of the addressee, the Shaykh Abu Mansur b. Shemuel, including testimony enumerating the assets of her son, Abu Imran, which were in her possession. List of these assets follows: Inventory of a silk-weaver's shop. Includes 32 items, most either effaced or partly torn away: 4 looms, 3 combs for silkweaving, 3 wooden rolls on which the bolts of silk were rolled, 2 irons, one for robes and another for turbans, wicker baskets full of warps, various quantities of bleached and other linen (which was woven together with silk), a small pot with weaver's reeds, copper threads covered with silver, and other items not preserved. (Information from Mediterranean Society, 1:412s
s24; Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 1, 412; vol. 2, 150, 312; and Marina Rustow)
