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Type: Legal document
7560 records found
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). Name: Nāṣir b. ʿAlī b. Salmān(?). Verso: Probably also a legal document, written after recto was already torn. Mentions the name Manṣūr. Needs further examination.
Legal document: deed of acknowledgment (iqrar) for Mahasin b. Said b. Hilal al-Yahudi al-Attar, first five lines only. Probably 11th century.
Document - needs examination.
Document Includes several signatures - needs examination.
letter in Arabic script. The first word is כתאבי in Hebrew script. Also on top of the page ב, mentioning Jews. Recto also contains marginalia in Judeao-Arabic - needs examination.
Official document in Arabic script. Ṣaḥḥa...
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Containing detailed summaries of business transactions and mentions Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad (end of line 11). Needs further examination
Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dating: Fatimid. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, likely a draft. Mentions 'our Salmān b. Hārūn.'
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Needs examination.
End of a legal document in Arabic script. Might be dated 29 Jumādā I 510 AH, but this is difficult to read and more or less a guess. Mentions a sum of 8 dinars. There are two witness signatures preserved. On verso there are records of receipt of money, some mentioning rent; might be related to the legal document on recto.
Recto: End of a legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved. Verso: Complete legal document in Arabic script. No witness signatures. Dated: First decade of Rabīʿ II 525 AH, which is March 1131 CE. Needs examination for content.
Recto: End of a document Verso: Possibly another document - needs examination.
Recto: Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic jottings Verso: Arabic document of sale, consisting of an acknowledgement (`iqrar), dated 633 A.H. Khan, Documents, pp.19, 46 (FGP)
Legal query in Arabic script. Dating: Late? A completely-preserved query with regard to a jointly owned house including a qāʿa and riwāq (شركة في دار تشتمل على قاعة ورواق). Needs further examination. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Dated: 539 AH, which is 1144/45 CE. The lessee is the trader (tājir) Dāʾūd b. Ḥasan al-Yahūdī (though his name is written دواد instead of the usual داود). Complete document; needs further examination. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)
Letter or document including signatures - needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. On verso, unidentified text in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Rent receipts, late. Including list of names and some numbers and dates written out (not in numerals), arranged in eight horizontal columns separated by lines.
Ledger of a qāḍī court, possibly. Bifolio, with three of the four pages each containing a distinct deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). The date is difficult to read but appears to be in the 600s AH (approximately 13th century CE if this is correct). Each about ten lines. Needs examination. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card)
