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Type: Legal document
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Declaration about a money related issue, perhaps related to a partnership. The person making the declaration makes a statement concerning his own money and money of a third person and a profit he made which the third person has perhaps taken from him.
Deed of release (שטר אביזאר). The handwriting may be known. Involves [...] b. Shelomo known as Abū Saʿd and Sahl b. Ḥasan b. Salāma.
Deathbed declaration of a man who had sold his daughter, Sitt al-Sada, and her son two-thirds of two shops with the apartment located above theirs. (Information from Goitein, Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 58, 363)
Recto: draft of a will for Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. ʿAdiya, mentioning Ibn Maṭrūḥ. Verso: jottings in Arabic and Hebrew script. (Information from CUDL)
Will of a dyer, before going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar, 4975 AM = 1526 Seleucid, which is April 13, 1215 CE. Information from Goitein's notes.
Legal document dealing with Abu al-'Izz b. 'Amram who undertakes to pay 80 dinars to David Abu al-Fadl b. Yosef for wine. The latter had to wait six months for this payment, after selling wine to Abu al-'Izz. Dated 1531/ 1219-1220 (Goitein), Fustat. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 198, and Goitein's index cards.) There are addenda on verso, not edited here.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Involves [...] Khalaf the parnas and Abū l-Faḍl the parnas of Cairo. Possibly the former is standing guarantee for the latter (the word ḍāmin appears in the second line).
Marriage document, fragment. "Delayed marriage payment and dowry, 38 dinars...."
Small fragment from a marriage contract.
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Signed by [...] b. Eliyya ha-Dayyan.
Small fragment of a marriage contract. Big blocky letters. Containing the beginning of a dowry list.
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Involves a woman "[sit]ting in the house of her widowhood"; children; and a son named Abū Manṣūr.
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ḥeshvan 13[..] Seleucid, which is 989–1088 CE. The bride's name appears in l. 3 but is difficult to read. The document was torn up and covered with other jottings in Hebrew script and Arabic script.
Odd-looking legal document. On parchment. In Hebrew. Involving a lease (שכירות). Dated: Thursday, 16 Elul 5[2]09 AM, which is 4 September 1449 CE. Almost nothing else is preserved.
Legal fragment (upper part). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involves the glazier (zajjāj) Elʿazar/Manṣūr b. Meshullam/Muslim/Musallam. Also involves [Abū l-]Faḍl al-ʿAsqalānī, a son named Ḥalfon, and a sum of dinars. May be related to Moss. VII,123, which also involves Elʿazar/Manṣūr al-Zajjāj.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mostly legalese.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Lev. Mentions: [Abū l-]Faḍāʾil Yosef; Qurrat al-ʿAyn Sitt al-Milāḥ; her late father [Abū l-Faḍl] Shela Yedid ha-Qahal; the appointment of an agent; monthly payments of some sort. The same people appear in UPenn E 16510.
Legal document. Probably a deed of sale for a quarter of a house. Names mentioned: Shelomo; Elʿazar ha-Levi; and maybe a woman. On verso there is an undeciphered note in Arabic script.
Formularies for marriage documents in Hebrew. Including one related to levirate marriage.
Minute fragment of a legal document. Same hand as the unusual Palestinian ketubba T-S 8.129; the Khalaf ha-Kohen ha-Gizbar mentioned here may be identical with the [...] ha-Kohen ha-Gizbar mentioned there. This fragment also mentions [...] b. Mawhūb, Ḥasan, the phrase שלא מוכרחים, and the term לעסק. ASE
