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Type: Legal document
7560 records found
Bill of divorce. The date, location, and names of the husband and wife are not preserved. Signed: Hillel ha-Ḥazzan b. ʿEli and ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yaḥyā.
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Sitt al-Kull.
Responsum of Avraham Maimonides. Autograph. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioned in India Book I, p. 276.
Legal or state document. In Arabic script. After the basmala: "[...] in the name of Jurayj(?) b. Ḥayyūn from the money/property of...." Needs further examination.
Reused on recto for Hebrew liturgical text for Rosh Hashana, probably related to the Zikhronot of the additional service. (Information in part from JRL online catalogue.)
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Minute fragment from a marriage deed. On recto probably from a marriage agreement or ketubah, with monogamy clause and probably a stipulation about domicile. On verso probably the qiyyum (legal establishment of this deed) under the authority of Masliah Gaon. Only part of the date survived: Ad[ar … 14]48 (only תמ remains) = 1137. AA
Legal testimony, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document or documents. Dating: Late. In Hebrew. Mentions the city of Fez (verso, line 2). Involves a woman and her husband Yiṣḥaq. Mentions the dowry (nedunya) and 80 gold coins.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a draft. Recto contains the upper portion of a legal testimony, possibly a record of a purchase, in the name of Hibat Allāh b. Abū l-Riḍā. Verso contains another portion of a legal testimony.
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Contains the phrases ״שקולים ברצון״ and ״אלא בלב שלם ובדעת״. Compare T-S 16.142.
Partnership agreement in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (active ca. 1180–1210). The parties are Abū Saʿīd and [Abū l-]Riḍā. On verso there are the remnants of a halakhic treatise or responsum in the same hand. AA
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small fragment (upper left corner). The paties are Abū l-Faraj and Ṣedaqa b. Berakhot. AA
Two minute fragments from the end of a legal deed. Signed by Yosef Hakohen b. Halfon. AA Hebrew and Judeo Arabic
Will, fragment. Preserves the middle part of the last 5 lines. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: The hand looks late, probably no earlier than 13th century. Mentions various items of real estate and also mentions something that will go to 'the orphans.'
Deed of sale, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very fragmentary. Describes the location of a property with reference to neighoring landmarks. Mentions Kātib al-Jaysh and Ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ.
Legal document or documents. Only the final words on each side and the signatures are preserved. On recto: [...] b. Ḥalfon (ZL). On verso: Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe (ZL) and Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver.
Legal document, fragment. In Hebrew. Mentions a payment of 3 muayyadis/medins per month. There is a Yaʿaqov. It looks like the document was abandoned at the point where the date was about to be written.
Legal document, fragment. In Hebrew. Mentions R. Eliyya and R. ʿAbde'el (=ʿAbdallāh) and possibly someone's wife.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
