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Type: Legal document
7560 records found
Legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from the beginning of a ketubah, 16th century. The groom name is Ishaq. AA
Minute fragment, only few words preserved (one appears to be from the dowry list), probably from a ketubah. AA
Small fragment from the top of a legal deed. The name [...] b. Hiba Hakohen is mentioned. AA
Probably from a responsum. Mentions Reuben, the house of Reuben and Judah.
Fragment from a legal agreement or court record. A power of attorney is given by a woman regarding her divorce procedures and collection of her dowry and marriage money. AA
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Fragment (long vertical strip from the left side). An elaborate deed of release (שטר אביזאריה), involving [...] b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi and Shemuel ha-Levi (these might be the same person). (Information in part from CUDL)
Note or possibly informally written legal document, containing instructions concerning inheritance. Mentions the wife of Abū ʿAlī b. Daʾūd the perfumer, [...] b. Saʿīd, Abū Ṯanā and Egyptian dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Two documents in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver concerning houses.
1) Awaiting description.
2) The wife of Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Basri empowers her husband to sell one fourth of a house and to rent the rest belonging to him to Faraj/Yeshua known as Katāʾib b. Moshe Ibn Ḥashīsh. The husband's maternal uncle the banker Sayyid al-Ahl Netanʾel b. Saʿadya stands security.
(Information from Goitein's index cards)
Legal document mentioning the elder Abū Zikrī Kohen, and the synagogue and inheritance issues. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small fragment from the right side of a marriage contract. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recto: Beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr seems to be called al-Sharīf al-Mahdawī (i.e., from al-Mahdiyya), and his name is followed by blessings for longevity. Nothing else is preserved beyond the basmala and the first few words.
Small fragment of a document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. There is a first-person declaration, mentioning "this sum" and "unemployment."
Beginning of a very old (10th-century?) court document in Hebrew, describing a woman with an unusual name— פליטי bt. [...] known as קפנו—who appears before the court crying and complaining. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Recto: expenses accounts with Coptic numerals. Mentions several books such as Dīwān al-Muʿaẓẓamī, Dīwān al-Jahmī and Dīwān al-Ṣārim. Verso: legal document, mentioning Joseph and his mother, the name Elʿazar and a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Small fragment containing some of the last few lines, with a witness signature: Avraham b. Menaḥem (in lousy handwriting).
Legal document. Bottom part only. Unclear if any of the identifying details are preserved.
Legal document mentioning Abū l-ʿAlā and Abraham and several sums of money in the currency dinar. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document mentioning a teacher, a sum of dinars and ‘the price of the garden’. The partial names [...] ha-Levi and [... b.] שאטי[..] are preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Both sides contain formulary for documents relating to the sale of a female slave (שחרורה... אלש]רוט אלמשתרטה פי ביע הדה אלגא[ריה...).
