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Type: Legal document
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Legal document. Small fragment. Perhaps a marriage contract (...tosefta ve-nedunya...).
Legal document. Tiny fragment. Mentions dinars and silk.
Legal document; probably a witness statement. (Information from CUDL)
Legal testimony. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Av [possibly 5348 AM?? אבנש]. In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Shaykh al-Fakhr Mūsā b. Hārūn al-Shāmī takes an oath that he will not leave(?) [...] from the teacher Alkūsh(?) to another teacher, except with the consent of the first teacher. Witnesses: מכטרה (?) ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Ibn Fayrūz, Farajallāh b. Yosef b. Fāḍil. There is also a potentially third witness signature in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document; witness statement from Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the Nagid and a certain al-Marjānī (‘the coral merchant’). (Information from CUDL)
Probably a legal document, mentioning Mufarraj b. Isaac and Joseph b. ʿAzarya. Arabic jottings below. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal document. Tiny fragment. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active c.1181–1209).
Legal document. Small fragment. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active c.1181–1209).
Legal document, small fragment. Mentions 'all kinds of merchandise' (in the margin).
Legal document, tiny fragment. Mentions 5 dinars.
Fragment from the bottom part of a ketubah with partial signatures and a qiyyum - approval of the signatures. The groom name is Natan. Signed by Yosef Hakohen b. Moshe, Tahor Halevi b. [...]. The qiyyum is signed by [...] b. Zadoq, [...] Halevi b. Nethanel. AA
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. The bride is named (Sitt al-)Khawāt. The scribe uses the unusual spelling דנאן for דנן, which may help in finding a join.
Order of payment in which Abū l-Faraj is instructed to pay 15 dirhams to the bearer, who is a plasterer (jabbās). The sum is also written in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals at the top. There is also a note in Arabic script on verso, unclear if/how related. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document of communal let, signed by Nāḥūm, Hilāl ibn [...], Ṯābit b. [...] and Muʿāla b. Isaac. (Information from CUDL)
Legal agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: 4754 AM, which is 993/94 CE. Two cantors, Naḥum b. Yosef al-Baradānī and Palṭiel b. Efrayim, divide up liturgical and communal responsibilities (and wages) between them. Among other things, they are appointed to draw up marriage contracts and bills of divorce. The former, Naḥum b. Yosef al-Baradānī, is otherwise known from the writings of R. Hayya Gaon. (Information from Friedman, "Palestinian Ketubbot from the Geonic Period," Teʿuda 1 (1980), p. 68). On verso there are liturgical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: probably part of trousseau list, mentioning vessels and values. Verso: marriage (betrothal) settlement, mentioning the sum of 10 dinars, signed; names mentioned: Manṣūr, Ḥiyya b. Isaac and [Nath]an b. Shemuʾel he-Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document concerning a transaction, mentioning Abū ʿAlī and Qalyūb. (Information from CUDL)
Testimony from the wife of Abū Naṣr al-Ḥalabī, the daughter of Abū l-Majd(?). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document issued to Abū l-Faraj; signed by [... b. N]athan ha-Levi and Baraka ha-Kohen b. [...]. (Information from CUDL)