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Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The fragment is torn and thus is missing portions of the document. What remains indicates that the divorce is between Natan ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Khawāt bt. [. . .]. The date that is left is for the 28 of a month between 1449 and 1460 in the Seleucid calendar (1138-1149 in Julian). (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Maḥalla. Dated: 12 Adar 1457 (26 February 1146). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Yoshiyya b. Daʾūd and Sitt al-Yumn bt. Saʿadya. The witnesses are Zakkāy b. Moshe and Elʿazar b. Sasson. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by Elʿazar b. Sasson and Natanel ha-Levi b. Naḥman. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Alexandria (referred to as No-Amon). Dated: 22 Tammuz 1461 (18 July 1150). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Baqā b. Shemuel and Ṭalb bt. Yiṣḥaq. The witnesses are Yiṣḥaq b. Yūsuf and Surūr b. Avraham. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Yiṣḥaq b. Yūsuf and Surūr b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Kislev 1461 (17 November 1149). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark; this bill was not completed and consequently was not signed. The divorce is between Yiṣḥaq b. [. . .] ha-Ḥaver and Yamān bat Beraḵot. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 19 Adar II 1464 (17 March 1153). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark; this bill is partially effaced. The divorce is between Menashshe b. [. . .] and [. . .] bt. Shela. The witnesses are Saʿadya b. Mevorakh and Mevorakh b. Natan. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Saʿadya b. Mevorakh and Mevorakh b. Natan. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 19 Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 20 July 1155 CE. This bill of divorce is one of forty in the T-S 10J2 folder. Husband: Manṣūr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Kohen. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Bū Naṣr. Witnessed by: Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver; Shelomo b. Shemuel ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by the same two witnesses. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 12 Cheshvan 1486 (21 October 1174). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Abū Naṣr b. Hillel and Sāda bt. Shemarya. The witnesses are Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Haver and Avraham b. Yaḥyā ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Haver and Avraham b. Yaḥyā ha-Levi. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Cheshvan 1473 (27 October 1161). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Abū al-Faḵr Kahana b. Saʿadya b. Sahlān. The witnesses are Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Haver and Shelomo ha-Levi b. Shemuel. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Get (bill of divorce) written in Ramla, beginning of 1026.

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Av 1476 (16 July 1165). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Elʿazar b. Shemarya and Ṯanā bt. Nadīv. The witnesses are Menashshe b. Yūsuf and Shelomo ha-Levi b. Shemuel. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Damietta. Dated: 25 Av 1477 (25 July 1166). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Shemuel ha-Levi b. Asad and Daryā bt. Peraḥya. The witnesses are Shemuel b. Shelomo and Yeḥezqel b. Nadiv. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Elul 1489 (4 September 1178). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark; this bill was not completed and consequently was not signed.. The divorce is between Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kohen b. Sayyid al-Kull al-Kohen and Riḍā bt. al-Faraj. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Iyyar 1491 (12 May 1180). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Munajjā b. Abū al-Ḥasan and Muʿizza b. [. . .]. The witnesses are Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver and Shemuel b. Yūsuf. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Elul 1492 (2 September 1181). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. It has no names. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Sivan 1524 (26 May 1213). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The fragment is rather irregularly shaped, and the lack of signatures indicates that the divorce was not finalized; it was later completed two months later in NLI 577.4/27. The divorce was to be between Mufaḍḍal b. Mesullam and Nasab bt. Manṣūr, whose father is referred to in this document by his Arabic name, and in the completed bill by his Hebrew name Elʿazar. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu's handwriting in this document is quite poor. The verso contains a note from Abū l-Bayān asking to copy his codex (muṣḥaf). (Information from Goitein's index card and Mediterranean Society)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 12 Sivan 1532 (3 June 1221). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Mūsā al-Dhahabi Ibn Mukarram from Cairo and Sitt al-Waqār bt. Ibn al-Barakāt of Fusṭāṭ. There are two witnesses including Yisrael b. Elyaqim, but the other has not survived. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by Yisrael b. Elyaqim and Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 10 Adar I 1537 (9 February 1226). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Avraham b. Yūsuf and Naṣr bt. Yeshua. The bottom of the fragment has been completely torn away and thus the names of the witnesses are missing. Another bill at T-S 10J2.38 was drafted for the couple a month later. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 10 Adar II 1537 (10 March 1226). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Avraham b. Yūsuf and Naṣr bt. Yeshua. This bill was preceded by the one at T-S 10J2.37, drafted for the couple a month earlier. The bottom of the fragment has been completely torn away and thus the names of the witnesses are missing. It is possible that after the divorce was finalized, the bottom portion was torn away. The verso, where the wife's acceptance of the bill would be written along with witnesses, is empty. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Bilbays. Dated: 18 Shevat 1590 (2 February 1279). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Shemuel b. Shela and Sadīda bt. ʿŪḍ. The witnesses are Shemuel b. Peraḥya and Binyamin ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce. Dated: 18 Kislev 1341 (26 November 1029). This Qaraite bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Ṣedaqa b. Mūsā and Umm al-Khayr bt. Mūsā. The witnesses are Ṣedaqa b. Naḥūm ha-Kohen and Wahab b. Avraham, though neither of them were the scribe of the document. On the verso is a note in Arabic script regarding Umm al-Khayr returning engagement gifts. (Information from Goitein's index card)