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Small fragment from a ketubah.

Trousseau list as part of a ketubba. Mentions cloth and currency. (Information from CUDL)

Trousseau list as part of a ketubba. Mentions cloth and currency. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document mentioning Shela b. [...], Fusṭāṭ and the Gaʾon. Signed by [...] b. Ṣedaqa, Yefet b. Saʿadya and [Jose]ph b. Yefet. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Hebrew-Aramaic legal document. Verso: Arabic jottings. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Minute fragment, from the bottom part of a legal document, might be a ketubah. Only partial names: Yefet, […] Halevi b. Bashar , […] b. David, Yeshua b. Sh[…], [Ya'a]qov. AA

Legal document mentioning Ṣedaqa the elder, signed by Ṭoviyya [...] b. Joseph. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document concerning a legal dispute about money. Dated to the Second Adar 1436 of the Seleucid Era (= 1125 CE). Mentions Abū l-Faḍāʾil and Abū ʿUmar. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38), with a reshut formula indicating that it was drawn up in the time of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). It seems that Yeshuʿa b. Yiṣḥaq grants power of attorney to Faraj b. ʿUkaysh for all his business affairs in Egypt and to claim the goods which he has deposited with Yosef b. Abū l-Faraj and the son of his maternal aunt Saʿīd b. A[...]. The business has to do with combed flax. Also mentions the agent Yaḥyā. (Information in part from CUDL.) ENA 4011.13 (dated 1129/30) is related but is not a join. Join: Alan Elbaum.

Prenuptial agreement. The groom, Abū l-Barakāt, commits to not marrying a second wife or acquiring a female slave. Also mentions [...] b. Yefet.

Drafts of a legal document (on top) and of a letter (on bottom). The beginning of the legal document is dated Monday, 17th Adar II 1559 of the Seleucid Era (= 1248 CE) and mentions the name Abū Saʿd. The beginning of the letter is to Ḥananel b. Shemuʾel. Verso: jottings. (Information from CUDL)

Formula of a 'pesuka de-gita' - bill of divorce (get) by proxy, written by Hillel b. Eli. This formula is unique as it approved the scribe as a witness, according to the Babylonian (and later the Egyptian) halakha, as opposed to the Palestinian one. See Y. David, The divorce among the Jews, I, p. 16. AA

Bottom part of a ketubah. No further details. AA

Legal document mentioning [...] ha-Kohen ha-Parnas, [...] bat Ḥalfon, widow of [...], [...] b. Ḥalfon and Abraham b. Moses. (Information from CUDL)

A fragment of a dowry list. Location: al-Maḥalla. Bride: Milāḥ (מלאח). On verso a colophon: a collection of Biblical verses for 9th Av, by Zakkāy b. Moshe who was a dayyan in al-Maḥalla 1127–50 CE. For a list of books in his library see Allony, The Jewish Library, no. 27 (TS NS 298.9). AA

Legal document from Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the elder Sulaymān and Abū l-Bahā. It is dated but the date is lost. (Information from CUDL)

Bill of rent between Moshe Hakohen and Shemuel. A store owned by a gentile is involved. Signed by Menhaem b. Avraham. The year 53[...] = 1539-1638. AA

Recto: legal document concerning debt. Verso: document, mentioning Abū Jacob. (Information from CUDL)

Court record fragment of the sale of a European slave by a mother to her son. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 331, and Goitein's index cards)

Court record fragment of the transfer of part of a house as a gift from a mother to her daughter. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 331, and from Goitein's index cards)