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Type: Legal document
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Document in Arabic script dated January 1824 CE (Jumāda al-Awwal 1239). Needs further examination
Legal document dated 23 August 1797 (1 Elul 5557), in which the brothers Yeshuʿa and Daniel ha-Levi acknowledge an investment by Me'ir ben Naʿim.
Document in Arabic script from the year 1823/4 CE (1239). Needs further examination.
Most of a late legal document in Hebrew in which Seʿadya Amaryo known as Simana (?) acknowledges that he owes 18 reales, equivalent (?) to 90 silver muayyadis, to his sister Tehila bt. Raḥamaim Amaryo.
Order of payment to Abu al-Surur Kohen, probably Abu al-Surur Farah b. Yeshua ha-Kohen, from Abu Zikri (Yehuda b. Yosef ha-) Kohen of 13 and a half dirhams for almonds. Both men were involved in the India trade. This is one of more than 80 orders of payment signed by Abu Zikri. This document is part of the India Book corpus: V, 42b. (Information from S. D. Goitein and M.A. Friedman, India Traders of the Middle Ages, 14-15)
Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document for Moshe b. Nissim Ṭawīl and Simḥa bt. [...] ha-Levi known as al-ʿAjamī, dated August 1818 CE (Av 5578). Verso: Halakhic discussion in Judaeo-Arabic involving the annulling of vows.
Legal document from Fustat dated January 1802 CE (Shevat 5562), in which Nissim Romano acknowledges that he has received 180 silver muayyadis from the orphans of Shelomo b. Ṣahal, which it seems he will repay within 15 days.
Fragment of a late legal document, signed Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, probably an engagement (shiddukhin) document for [...] b. Ḥayyim and [...] bt. Moshe.
Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document, dated 7 November 1791 (10 Heshvan 5552), Fustat, for the cantor Khalīfa Khufayf (?) b. Aharon and Simḥa bt. Yaʿaqov b. Barukh. Verso: Legal document involving real estate, dated March 1792 (Adar 5552), Fustat.
Rent receipt, late, for Av[raham?] Gatenio.
Late legal document recording a settlement, perhaps between business partners. Sums listed are in perahim.
Legal document. Damaged and late legal document. Late legal document, a שטר סילוק (bill of release of a debt) per FGP, involving Avraham Ḥalabī and his (ex?)-wife Esther. Mentioning שעבוד כתובה
Hebrew. AA
Fragment of an illuminated frame, probably for a ketubba that was never filled in.
Late legal document in which Yosef acknowledges an investment from [...] Kohen of 20,000 silver muayyadis.
Legal document dated July 1788 (Tamuz 5548), Fustat, in which the undersigned acknowledges receipt of 80 reales, perhaps from Yiṣḥaq Aripol.
A calligraphic get (bill of divorce) dated 5 March 1879 (10 Adar 5639), במתא במבי דעל כיף ימא, which may be Bombay (!). See #5 here for a ketubba from Bombay (or at least במבי) from the same period: http://notrikon.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post.html. The spouses divorcing are Sulaymān Ḥayyim b. [Eliyya?]hu Ḥayyim and Esther bt. Yosef. It is signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Raḥamim and Yehuda b. Avraham.
20 small fragments. Image 4 and Image 14 and Image 17 are fragments of legal documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Images 5 and 15 are from a printed work on the laws of Shabbat in Ladino. Images 6 and 16 are a Judaeo-Arabic letter (right side of recto, left side of verso) regarding business in foods/drugs (pepper, wormwood) and mentinoing Abū l-Surūr, from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother (Abū Saʿīd?). Image 7 lists the names of various Nasis, Hizqiyah ha-Nasi and Shelomo ha-Nasi ben David ha-Nasi Rosh ha-Golah. Image 9 is another literary printed fragment in Ladino. Image 13 + Image 19 is a list of materia medica on one side, mentioning Abū Saʿd on the other, and preserving the remnants of an Arabic document.
A record that Me'ir ben Naʿim paid the rent for a qāʿah somehow related to "Argaz Sefaradim" (?) from 26 August 1812 (18 Elul 5572) through January 1813 (Shevat 5573). Signed by Yehudah Pietro (?).
The main fragment is a late letter or legal query in Hebrew regarding some sort of legal dispute.
Two legal documents (or two drafts of the same document?) regarding the widow of Maymūn Boṭon and her sons Shalom and David and Yaʿaqov. A Shalom b. Yehudah Boṭon is also mentioned.
