Type: Legal document

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Small fragment of a legal document. Probably containing marriage conditions: "...rather he will live there... unless she consents..."
Recto: Bottom of a legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: 5314 AM, which is 1553/54 CE. Verso: Notes for the drawing-up of another legal document, in Hebrew, involving Makhlūf b. דיכאה(?) and Masʿū[d?] al-Mustaʿrib and a sum of 101 Venetian ducats (peraḥim venezianos).
Notice of oath by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu concerning what he knew about the store of Makin. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Legal document with witness statement by [...] b. Shemarya concerning a certain Shabbatay and his brother who both died. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: legal document. Verso: unidentified Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment to the community officials Maḥfūẓ al-Shammash and Sālim al-Zariz, dated Adar 1476 Seleucid era (= 1165 CE). Signed by Menashshe b. Joseph and Mevorakh b. Nathan he-Ḥaver. Also mentions Abū l-Bayān. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Witness statement of the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan, concerning dowry payments. Mentions the name Judah. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from a legal document, in which most of the words are separated by dots. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay the bearer of the note one dinar and a carat. Dated Adar 14[.]1 Seleucid era, probably 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay 10 dinars to the family of Rayḥān. Dated Sivan 1452 Seleucid era (= 1141 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay to the leader (‘al-raʾīs’) 2 dinars. Circa 1141 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Legal deed of quittance, parts of only 8 lines preserved. (Information from CUDL and from Marina Rustow)
Legal document mentioning that a man in Fustat is prepared to pay 1000 dirhams for two and one-half out of twenty-four shares of a well-known house in Alexandria. The fragment contains also instructions to a scribe. The transaction summarized is preceded by another one in which Abu al-Faraj b. Abu Mufaddal al-Marawihi buys a Nubian maidservant. Dated ca. 1250. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 285)
Legal document (witness statement), mentioning the elder Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Tiny fragment from the beginning of a ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1[.]5[.] Seleucid. Very little else is preserved.
Tiny fragment containing a few words in Hebrew script. Verso mentions the Nile in the typical formulation of a legal document.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: 144[.] Seleucid, which is 1128–38 CE. Husband: Yosef [b. ʿEli]. Wife: [Sitt] al-Jamīʿ bt. Shelomo. (They may actually only be betrothed and not married; T-S 8J17.9 fol. 2v, from 1132 CE, is their betrothal contract.) Signed by: Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. On verso the documentation that she received the geṭ. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.) ASE
Legal document mentioning [...] ha-Levi the elder. Very faded. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document concerned with a house and its seller the elder [...] b. Netanel ha-Levi. Probably a draft. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/26 CE. Other names mentioned (many of them relating to the borders of the property): a house named after Muʾammal al-Kātib al-[...]; the daughter of Abū Malīḥ(?); and [...] b. Ṣadaqa. Also mentions the price of 155 [...]. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentioning Abū l-Makārim, Abū l-Faḍāʾil, two legal documents and the Bet Din. (Information from CUDL)