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Type: Legal document
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Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Includes the phrases "her husband," "from the house," and "the scribes of the gentiles."
Legal document involving a dispute between Abu Saʿd Kohen, Abū l-Makārim, payments in installments, and the sale of cheese. One of the parties resorted to the Muslim courts ("al-goyim"). The sum at stake is a matter of 12 dinars. Join: Oded Zinger.
Fragment of a legal document. Yehuda takes an oath.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document, mentioning an Abū l-Maʿālī.
Late certificate in Hebrew, probably issued in Fusṭāṭ, attesting that R. Yiṣḥaq known as Hoja (?) Shtiwi, who has since moved to Alexandria, has been examined and is an expert in kosher slaughter and the checking of the lung.
Fragment of a betrothal (erusin) document, scribed and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The groom is the son of Binyamin ha-Levi.
Fragment of a betrothal agreement between Bayan and Sitt al-Nasab. Among the provisions included is the groom's assurance that he will not prevent the bride from traveling from Fustat nor will he force her to travel against her will. (A similar set of arrangements, also pertaining to a woman named Sitt al-Nasab, is reflected in T-S 16.35.). Verso is blank. No date.
Late records in Hebrew, perhaps of a court: one entry is a copy of a legal testimony. But the rest seems to be more like accounts, so perhaps it is a private copy of a legal testimony. Needs further examination.
Small fragment from the beginning of a ketubba from Fustat. No identifying information remains.
Legal document from Fustat dated 24 April 1798 (8 Iyar 5558), stating that Me'ir ben Naʿim has invested 5500 muayyadis with the Karaites ("bnei mikra") Moshe Kagicha (?) and [blank].
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), possibly appointing Avraham b. Uri Shabbetay Ashkenazi as someone's agent (or vice versa?) for some purpose in the locales of Azemmour and the Casbah of Settat, presumably those in Morocco. One of the more elaborate signatures is that of Yaʿaqov Toledano. Needs further examination.
Fragment from a legal manual or formulary discussing protocol for the writing of a receipt for payment of a debt.
Fragment from a legal manual or formulary discussing protocol for the writing of conditions attendant to a debt agreement, including procedure when a debt document is lost. Includes a slightly-modified citation from the Mishneh Torah, Laws of Debts 23:11.
Fragment of a legal testimony involving [...] Peraḥya b. Kathīr al-Ḥalabī. Someone's father, Yaʿqūb, is mentioned, as is Abū l-Surūr.
Fragment from a court testimony (a power of attorney) delivered in 1095/6. The date appears in a similar small fragment in the same hand and apparently part of the same page preserved in B3475. The verso is blank.
Fragment from a court testimony (a power of attorney) delivered in 1095/6. A similar small fragment in the same hand and apparently part of the same page is preserved in B3476. The verso contains illegible faded writing in a different hand.
Some sort of receipt or legal documentation in Arabic. Late. Mentions a building and various sums of money and bears a seal.
Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic involving Mūsā b. Yeshuʿa. Very damaged.
The end of a ketubba. There is some sort of reshut clause at the end of the document, invoking Rosh Galutenu ... Nagidenu. . . and his son Ḥalfon. The remaining witness names are [... b.] Khalaf, [... b.] Yaʿaqov Kohen, and Neḥemya b. Yaḥyā.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (right side only). Apparently a deathbed will. No names are preserved. A man makes financial arrangements for a woman (presumably his wife) in the event that he should die. If she remarries, she will lose her rights. There is also a reference to his daughter (or perhaps daughter's daughter). The verso is blank.
