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Type: Legal document
7560 records found
Letter or legal query/responsum. Fragment. In Hebrew. Late. Concerning a theft or somebody accused of a theft.
Either a letter or a legal query. In Hebrew. Late. Describing the legal arrangements following somebody's death.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps a bill of sale, describing in detail a house and its surroundings.
Perhaps a will ("this is my waṣiyya that my own hand wrote. . ."). Mentions the date: Tevet 1472 Seleucid, which is (if this this has been read correctly) 1160/61 CE.
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely legal, but may also be a letter. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.
Draft of a court record. Location: Fustat. Mentions Mordekhai Ḥefeṣ, who was a ḥaver in the Bet Din of the Nagid in Egypt at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century. "Adonenu" in line 3 may be Natan Sholal or Yiṣḥaq Sholal. On recto there is a text in Hebrew, possibly documentary.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 141[.] or 142[.] Seleucid, which is 1098–18 CE. Looks like the hand of Hillel b. Eli, in which case the date is close to the beginning of that range. Names: Nissim b. Avraham; Mevorakh; Abū l-Faḍl. Mentions a moneychanging shop and a sum of 6 dirhams/month. The substance of the document is difficult to determine from what remains.
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning courts, an istiḥlāf, a ban of excommunication.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the financial arrangements upon the divorce of Mansūba and Avraham. Needs further examination.
Legal fragment.
Multifragment. (a) Legal fragment. Involves a woman [...] bt. Avraham and Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. [...]. (b) Tiny legal fragment. Probably a release. There are only two words remaining: abrā and denan.
Fragmentary court record concerning marital payments. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps a tafsīr; cites Exodus 2:25 (line 4).
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving a sum greater than 100 dinars; mentions [...] al-Ṣayrafī al-Levi.
A legal deed 1180. NO IMAGE. (data from FGP)
Legal document in Hebrew. Late. Involves [...] b. Shemuel ha-Levi and the payment of the ketubba.
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a quarter-dār. Mentions "in the land of Marseilles" (מרשיל[יא), but the context is missing. Likely in the hand of Eliyyahu the Judge (this information provided by Amir Ashur).
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions various numbers and Abū l-Faḍl.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal testimony, fragment. Mentions the young ʿEli b. Ḥalfon and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (but not in his handwriting).
