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Bill of divorce (get) from Fustat, scribed and signed by David b. Shelomo.

Fragment (lower right corner) of a bill of divorce (get). Scribed and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver, and also signed by Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Mevorakh ha-Hazzan.

Two drafts of a bill of divorce (get) from Cairo for Makhlūf b. Yiṣḥaq and Zahrah bt. Yaʿaqov, probably dated Sunday, 17 December 1[8]26 CE (17 Kislev 5[5]87). The other possibility for the date is 5[3]87 CE (1[6]26 CE).

Bill of divorce (get) from Rashid, for Shemuel b. Avraham and Diamante bt. Yosef, dated 1751 CE (16 Elul 5511).

Page 2 is a calligraphic letter in Hebrew to the elders of Alexandria, dated 1697/8 CE (5458), signed by three men, on behalf of a woman who, along with her infant son, had been abandoned by her husband Ya'aqov al-Luzio (? אללוזייו or possibly אללומיו) b. Avraham. Ya'aqov had moreover sent to tell her that if she attempted to follow him, he would steal away in the dead of night and she would be left to wander the land. The writers of this letter ask for the addressees' help to bring Ya'aqov before a court before he escapes from Egypt, and make him give her the get and pay her ketubbah in full (6000 mu'ayyadi) as well as the cost of food that he has been negligent in providing for his wife and his son all this time. Page 1 is a puzzling set of drafts of letters and perhaps legal documents in Hebrew, including one that opens in the same manner as the letter on Page 2, but others of which have nothing to do with it. Needs further examination. ASE

Bill of divorce, calligraphic. Only the last few lines are preserved.

Bill of divorce (get). Dated: Thursday, 2 Adar I 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. Shemarya. Wife: Esther bt. Namir. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. The attestation on verso that she received the get is signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī.

Bill of divorce (get). On vellum. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: Monday, 10 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 1143 CE. Husband: Abū Naṣr b. Dinar(??). Wife: Sutūt bt. Abū l-Ḥasan. Signed by Zakkay b. Moshe and Tamīm b. Yosef ha-Levi. The same two witnesses also sign the attestation on verso that she received the get.

Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15[..] Seleucid, which is 1188–1288 CE. Probably in the second half of this range, to judge by handwriting (which is likely known). Husband: al-Rayyis Yaḥyā [...] al-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-[...]. Signed: Pinḥas ha-Kohen; ʿOvadya b. Yehuda ha-Dayyan. On verso, apart from the note that the wife received the get in front of witnesses, there is a list of three men somehow related to the case: Abū l-Riḍā b. al-Nagid; [...]r b. al-Sukkarī; and Abū l-Majd b. al-ʿAwwād. This part is also signed by ʿOvadya b. Yehuda ha-Dayyan and one other person.

Bill of divorce. Scribed and signed by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Also signed by ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yaʿish. The husband may be named Ḥal[fon]. There is no note that the geṭ was delivered, unless that note was written on the corner that has been torn away.

Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday 5 Tamuz 1369 Seleucid, which is 1058 CE. Husband: Khalaf b. Shelomo. Wife: Nasāba bt. ʿAmmār. Scribed and signed by Aharon ha-Mumḥe b. Efrayim. Also signed by Ṭoviyya b. Hillel.

Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Date missing. Husband: [...] b. Ṣadaqa. Wife: Nasāba bt. [...].

Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Probably Av 1[48]5 Seleucid, which is 1174 CE, based on the presence of signatures of both Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active 1165–1203) and Mevorakh. b. Natan (active 1150–81) Husband: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Salāma. Wife: Ḥusn bt. Abū l-Yumn. Signed: Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef; Shemuel ha-Levi b. Seʿadya. The attestation on verso that the wife received the get is signed by Shemuel ha-Levi b. Seʿadya and Mevorakh b. Natan.

Bill of divorce (get). Drawn up in Fustat. Dated 14[..] Seleucid, perhaps 1453, which would be 1141/42 CE. Husband: Surūr b. Sibāʿ. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yaʿaqov. Witnesses: Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver and Yeḥezqel b. Natan. Verso contains the attestation that the get was delivered.

Bill of divorce (get). Date and location are not preserved. Husband: Abū l-Barakāt al-Bilbaysī. Wife: Sitt al-Dār. Witnesses: Yosef ha-Levi b. Shemuel and Moshe b. Elazar.

Bill of divorce. Dating: 13th century? Signed and probably written by Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov (ha-Ṣarfati?) and Ṣadoq b. [...]

List of three bills of divorce, apparently notes of a court scribe. (1) Husband: Sālim b. Avraham. Wife: [...]b al-Dīn bt. Maṣliaḥ. (2) Husband: David b. Yaʿaqov. Wife: Shams bt. Ḥalfon. (3) Husband: Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen. This one might be followed by a piece of a 4th entry.

Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the police (shurṭa). Needs examination. Verso: Bill of divorce dated 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111/12 CE. Location: Fustat. There are two addenda, at least one of which certifies that the wife received the get. The document is quite damaged.

Bill of divorce from a betrothal (erusin). Very faded. No signatures. Dated: Looks like [4]903 AM, which would be 1142/43 CE.

Qaraite bill of divorce formulary