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Type: Legal document
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Note in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Stating that the ḥerem stam will be issued by the Nagid in the synagogues for the benefit of the children and heirs of Hilāl the Alexandrian, whose will was not taken down in sufficiently clear form. People obviously owed him money. Information from Goitein's note card.
Trousseau list. Entries include a copper vessel, a bath tub, and a female slave named Warda born into slavery (muwalladat al-jins). (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Bifolium from Mitzrayim, 1790–92 CE, apparently from a ledger of betrothal and marriage contracts. About nine are preserved, complete with names, and trousseau lists, and values of marriage gifts. The currency used is the riyal (ריאליס). There is also a lovely illustration of three birds. ASE.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Possibly Jumādā I 1024 AH, which would be 1615 CE. Waṣala min al-muʿallim Dā'ūd.... possibly involving rent from a ṭabaqa, a qāʿa, and a riwāq. There is also a dead man named [...] al-Dīn. There are some notations in Hebrew script on both recto and verso.
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4856 AM, which is 1095/96 CE. (But this is tricky to read and merits further examination.) People: Yūsuf; Abū Saʿīd Maymūn; al-Qāḍī Ibn ʿAmmār; R. Yiṣḥaq. Concerning business in Egypt and al-Mahdiyya.
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal testimony in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Before 1146 CE. Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham ha-Zaqen Ibn al-Amshāṭī testifies that the letter is his letter and written in his hand. He further testifies that he has received from Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi (d. before 1146) all of the [...]. Also mentions Ibrāhīm al-Kohen al-Siqillī. ASE
Document in Arabic script. Possibly legal (ashhadanī...) but it is quite small and seems informally written. Needs examination.
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Only the beginnings of eight lines are preserved. Mentions names like Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh and Abū Ṭālib ʿUmar(?) b. al-Ḥasan(?), which makes it seem like a legal document.
Legal document or receipt or a similarly formal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 17 Rabīʿ al-Thānī 1013 AH, which is September 1604 CE. Signed: Ibrāhīm [...].
Recto: Legal document, probably. Bottom only. In Arabic script. Witness signatures are preserved.
Multifragment. (a) Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by ʿAmram b. Raḥamim and Yaḥyā b. Yiṣḥaq. (b) Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso the name Sar Shalom b. Ḥiyya appears. It is not immediately clear whether (a) and (b) are related.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving partners (one is named Meshullam); debts (300 dinars from Abū Saʿd) and 400 dinars from somebody else; splitting something equally.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mentions the date 9 Av 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. The issue involves a man and his daughter Maḥfūẓa a sum of dinars (35? 55?), and living arrangements in a mustaraqa (a kind of mezzanine, see Goitein, Med Soc III, viii, A, 2). Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel; Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen b. ʿEli; Ḥiyya ha-Kohen b. Yeshuʿa. On the facing page there is a text about bills of divorce, in a different hand.
Legal document. In Arabic script. May mention a Rabbanite Jew in line 6. There is at one witness signature preserved at the bottom.
Contract of a lease. In Arabic script. Fragment: only the first 3 lines are preserved here. The tenant may be Ṣadaqa b. ʿAyyāsh.
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Specifying a period beginning in Muḥarram and ending in Jumādā I.
Recto: Fragments and/or copies of documents in both Arabic script and Hebrew script. The Hebrew-script text may be in the hand of Ḥillel b. ʿEli? Abū l-Faḍl leases his house to somebody. The names Yefet b. Moshe ha-Zaqen and Netanel b. Moshe ha-Zaqen appear. On the other side there are pen (and ink) trials.
Fragment from a legal deed. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi. One of the parties is Eliyyahu ha-Levi, who is titled פאר [ה . . . .] רצוי הנשיאות. Another is Abū l-Riḍā. May concern a loan of 85 dinars to be repaid over a period of 2 years. AA. ASE.
Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded/damaged. Needs examination.
