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Fragmentary court record. A certain person appears in court with a bill of appointment, probably signed, or connected to 'Our Master R. Shlomo'. (This might be Shlomo, Masliah Gaon's father, who was the Head of the Yeshiva in Damascus). AA

Legal document mentioning [...] b. Abū l-Barakāt, Zayn Ibn Jamīʿ al-Ṣayrafī, the late elders Abū l-Riḍā and Jacob al-Lebdī, the leader Abū Saʿd ‘Sixth in the Academy’, Abū l-Ḥasan al-Talmid and Joseph b. Alloni. Also mentions the dates 509 Hijra (= 1115/1116 CE) and the death register of the year 510 Hijra (= 1116/1117 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Legal document including a statement of Judah b. Ḥasdāl (חסדאל), mentioning Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd and Indian dates. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Possibly the settlement of a dispute between two men, one of whom is Yaʿaqov. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document mentioning the Qadi and the capital. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment of a marriage contract from the 11th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 411)

Legal document dated 21st Shevet (year lost), mentioning Ibrahim and Maḥfūẓ the beadle. (Information from CUDL)

Court record regarding real estate. Description of its location and neighbors, In Hebrew. Signed by Avraham Krispin. From the year 1761. AA

Legal document dated 22nd Tammuz (year lost), mentioning Yeshuʿa b. Ṭahor. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document from Tyre between Musafir and Amram reagrding a payment of a debt. AA

Small fragment, probably from a ketubah. Only small part from the dowry list preserved. AA

Legal document mentioning [...] the translator (המתרגם). (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment from a late legal deed regarding payment. AA

Bill of release for part of a debt. Dated: 1 Av 5279 AM, which is 9 July 1519 CE. Location: Possibly Constantinople ("פה קוצטנטינה רבת . . ." appears in the top line, though this is not actually part of the document). The original debt was 23,500 levanim, owed by Yehuda b. Avraham Loya (or rather Leviya = ha-Levi?) to Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov known as Menaḥem. This document certifies that he has paid the remaining balance of 15,950 levanim. Someone named Avraham b. Ḥayyim also acknowledges something related to the debt payment. There are several signatures, all mostly torn away.

Bottom part from a legal deed. Only signatures preserved. From Fustat, at the period of Masliah Gaon, for the term יעקב - probably Geon Ya'aqov Yeshiva is intended. Signed by Yehezkel b. Nathan, and Nathan Hakohen b. Shlomo. This Nathan used to add tiny letters above and below his name, to mark the date. here we find חא[...]תמג which means: חדש אדר [...]תמג- Month of Adar (or Elul), [1]443 = 1132. AA

Fragmentary opening formula of a legal document written in Shīrābād (שיראבד). The fragment is labeled "L19" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification of Early Judeo-Persian texts. OH

Recto: legal document mentioning a market. Signed by Ḥalfon b. [...] and [...] b. Joseph. Verso: Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragments, few from legal deeds.

Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking the elder Khalīl to pay the bearer of the note one raṭl of [...]. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document, possibly a draft, in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand. Specifying the conditions of the betrothal (erusin) between Yefet al-Kohen and [... bt. ...]n b. Khalaf from Baghdād. If Yefet breaks the betrothal, he owes a fine of 10 dinars to the qodesh. The text on verso may be the continuation. The name "Yosef b. Yoshiyya known as [...]" appears at the bottom. This document was written on a piece of reused business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.