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Type: Legal document
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Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla (בעיר אלמחלה הגדולה הסמוכה לצען). Dating: Likely late 11th century, based on the reference to the court of David ha-Nasi ha-Gadol (=David b. Daniel?) in the validation. Witnesses to the main document were ʿOvadya b. Avraham ha-Levi Rosh ha-Qahal; Seʿadya b. Elʿazar; and Yeshuʿa b. Avraham (now missing). The validation is signed by the scribe Yosef b. Moshe ha-Levi (also the scribe for the main document?); Yaʿaqov b. [...] ha-Kohen; and [...] b. Menaḥem ha-Kohen. The document itself concerns ʿĀliya bt. Yosef ha-Kohen Peqid ha-Soḥarim and Yeshuʿa b. Elʿazar (not the same one as in Bodl. MS heb. d 65/13, if the dating of the present document is correct). Needs further examination for the details of the case. On verso there are two more lines containing the draft of the beginning of a legal document. Join was made by whoever catalogued the JRL fragments. ASE
Query in Judeo-Arabic addressed to an unidentified legal authority concerning a husband's financial obligations towards his wife. The text mentions several objects including the wife's household effects and gold and silver jewelry, and the existence of three children. Undated. Recto is largely effaced and appears to be unrelated.
Fragmentary record of testimony from the 'Permanent Court' in Fustat dated Sivan 1367/May-June 1056.
Court proceedings (possibly in draft form) from January/February of 1182, involving Ibn Ibrahim and Abu Zikri b. Atiyya. The mention of 'lie' (line 6) and 'one of them threatened me' (right margin) suggests that the matter at hand was some sort of dispute. Regarding the use of qadh instead of qad in line 4 see J. Blau, Dictionary of Mediaeval Judaeo-Arabic Texts (Jerusalem: 2006), p. 535 as well as his Studies in Middle Arabic (Jerusalem: 1988), p. 212.
Verso of document (possibly a draft) of court proceedings from January/February of 1182.
Legal. Small fragment: very little content remains. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Faḍl is mentioned.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions flax; someone's brother Yaʿaqov; Abū ʿAlī; and the Franks.
Legal fragment regarding Menashshe ha-Zaqen.
Payment order by the well-known trader Abu Zikri Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef al-Sijilmasi, who orders Ibn (or Abu?) al-Ḥasan al-Hud (?) to pay the bearer of this certificate half a ratl of 'sharab ward' (rose sherbet). A person identified as Abu al-Ḥasan al-Hud appears in T-S10J6.3. Recto contains business letter. Mid-twelfth century. (Information from Goitein, Mediterranean Society, I, p. 241)
Legal fragment.
Legal fragment scribed and signed by [Mevor]akh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver. Also witnessed by Shela ha-Levi b. Shemuel. Needs examination for content; perhaps a release.
Letter or legal query addressed to Ḥananel b. Shemuel, probably identical with the well-known judge of the early 13th century (and son-in-law of Moses Maimonides). None of the substance remains except that the writer asks for guidance regarding a certain matter.
Legal document: Bill of divorce. Dated: Monday 14 Tammuz 1454 Seleucid (1143 CE). Location: Minyat Zifta. Husband: Yakhin ha-Kohen b. ʿUlla ha-Zaqen. Wife: Rūma bt. Ḥasān. Scribed and signed by the judge Shabbetay b. Avraham ha-Ḥaver. Also signed by Yeshuʿa b. Shemuel ha-Melammed. The attestation on verso that she received the get is signed by Yosef b. Shemarya and Seʿadya b. Natan.
Recto: Deed of a sale. Dated 145[.] Seleucid, which is 1138–48 CE, which is consistent with the reshut clause invoking the Nagid Shem[uel b. Ḥananya]. Also mentions the name Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen ha-Zaqen. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Daniel 1 and Ashpenaz the Chief Eunuch.
A very damaged bill of divorce. On verso very faded document, hardly legible. AA
Note in Arabic script. Consisting of three lines. Probably legal, since it opens with a name (Hiba b. Yehuda al-[...] and a number (728?). Needs further examination.
Legal fragment preserving the signature of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu and little else.
This very fragmentary legal document mentions a community leader with the Hebrew honorific 'Sar ha-Sarim' ('Prince of Princes'); on the application of this title, first in the 11th century, and most prominently to the Egyptian Jewish leader Mevorakh b. Saadya, and its later more common use, see Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, esp. pp. 220-221 and note 32): someone with the title 'Behir ha-Yeshiva,' possibly the merchant Yehuda ben Moshe ibn Sighmar (see Cohen, ibid., pp. 116-117): and finally, a certain Rabbi Efrayim. The settlement involves a payment to the poor. The verso is blank.
Legal fragment. Dated: 4[..]3 AM, which just means prior to 1233 CE, but probably substantially earlier. Written in Hebrew, in a calligraphic script. Involves Mori Moshe ha-Levi b. Mori [...] b. Mori Faraj. The elder David b. Yiṣḥaq is named, possibly the well-known Qaraite courtier of the mid-11th-century. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Involves [Avra?]ham b. ʿAllān; six gold coins that had been deposited with someone; ʿAṭiyya ha-Sh[...]; Salmān. The signatures of Salmān and ʿAṭiyya appear on verso.
