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Type: Legal document
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Legal fragment preserving the names Yehuda and Sitt al-Ḥusn in the body, signed by [...] b. ha-Ḥazzān and Yisrael b. Shelom[o].
Legal fragment preserving the name [...] b. Ḥalfon.
Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 29 Adar II 5556 AM, which is 1796 CE. Groom: Yehuda Mercado. Bride: Sara bt. Yiṣḥaq Sukkarī. There is a colorful frame.
Recto: Fragmentary document in Hebrew and Aramaic written in large, ornate letters, with a reference to the exilarch in the header. There are symmetric rows of perforation at the top and the bottom. Perhaps from a masṭara used for the verso (which is 90 degrees to recto)? Verso: remnants from a few lines, not clear what language.
Ketubba dated 18 March 1866 (5626) from Bucharest. Presumably entered Gaster's collection directly from Romania rather than via the Geniza.
The left half of a trousseau list (?) for Sitt al [...]. The name ha-Sar Rav Netanel appears at the bottom.
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 21 December 1876 (5637), with a handwritten note at the bottom, "this is the form of the ketubbot in the Maghreb according to the custom of the inhabitants..." ASE.
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 16 September 1891 (5651), with a note at the bottom, "this is the form of the ketubbot in the Maghreb according to the custom of the Castilian exiles."
Typewritten transcription of BL OR 10653.9, which is the poetic introduction of a "Yemenite Ketubah" dated Nissan 1368 (=1057 CE?).
The poetic introduction of a "Yemenite Ketubba" dated Nissan 1368 (=1057 CE?), see BL OR 10653.8 for transcription.
Legal document in Arabic script. Late. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.25. Mentions Da'ūd (?) ... al-Yahūdī and repeatedly mentions a sum of 1248. There are multiple signatures at the bottom as well as an inked seal.
Legal document in Arabic script. Late. Part of a pair with BL OR 10655.24. Repeatedly mentions a sum of 1248. There are multiple signatures at the bottom as well as a seal. ASE.
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1421 Seleucid, which is 1110 CE. One of the parties is Hibatallāh b. Ṣadaqa. Signed by :Ḥalfon b. Berakhot and Shemarya b. Shemuel.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: Kislev 13[..] Seleucid, which is 988–1088 CE. The wife's name is Nājiya.
Formulary for a Palestinian Ketubba, no. 10. See DK #1, ULC Or. 1080 Box 3, f. 10. Information from Goitein's note card.
Remnants of seven lines of a trousseau list (?). The names Elazar ha-Zaken and Sitt al-Kiram appear in the first two lines, followed by an itemized list of valuable objects. There is wide space between the lines.
Recto and verso: Dedication of a Torah with Targum. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1403 Seleucid, which is 1091 CE. There are several names: Elʿazar b. Yosef... Yefet b. Menashshe and his mother Ḥasana bt. Saʿdān and her niece.
Testimony or narrative about events in Florence (פירנצה). Dated: 17 Tevet 5609 AM (January 1849). A man who was known as an impious alcoholic fell ill and began screaming, while covering his face, "Save me from these cruel ones who want to eat my flesh! Save me from the evil host that wants to swallow me!" People came running to help, asking, "What do you want?" He marveled that they could not see the hosts of מ״ח(?) that were coming to torture him. He begged them to bring a man to recite Psalms to protect him from this fate, and they did so. The text ends abruptly here. The handwriting is similar to that of JRL SERIES G 54.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: A Monday in the last decade of Tammuz 1[4]34 Seleucid, which is 1123 CE. In which Elʿazar/Manṣūr b. Yefet/Ḥasan ha-Kohen transfers property rights for half of a well-known house in al-Qālūs to his wife Sitthum aka Sitt al-Jamīʿ bt. ʿOvadya. The full names of the couple may be found in T-S NS 323.19 (probably the beginning of this document, but not a continuous join) and T-S 12.82 + T-S 12.553 (probably a distinct document). Joins: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL.) ASE
Legal document, draft?, written on a page that had already been used for writing exercises in enormous Arabic script. People named are Abū l-Walīd and Avraham b. Simḥa and most of the document has to do with describing the geographical location of a certain apartment.
