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Type: Legal document
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Minute fragment probably from the bottom of a legal deed. The name Moshe appears. Signed by [...] b. Avraham
Recto: part of a Karaite betrothal deed for Naʿama bat Nisi b. Jacob and Barakāt b. Daʾud. Witnessed by Ḥasan b. Ṣedaqa Kohen, Isaac b. [...], Ṣedaqa b. Is[aac], Ezekiel b. Benjamin ha-Levi, Yefet b. Jacob, Elʿaza[r b. Samu]el b. Sahl ha-ʿEved, Moses b. A[...], Yaʿaqov b. Joseph, and Joseph b. ʿAzariah. Dated Elul (year not preserved) in Egypt. Verso: unidentified Arabic text. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment, possibly from a Judaeo-Arabic legal document mentioning a cantor and an inheritance. But almost nothing is preserved.
Notes for drawing up a marriage document. Groom: Avraham b. [...]. Bride; Mubāraka bt. Faraḥ(?). On the other side there are the remnants of a Judaeo-Arabic business letter or legal document.
Legal document mentioning names such as Jacob, Abraham, [...] b. Yefet, Yaḥyā b. [...], [...] b. Ḥalfon b. [...], Ṣedaqa b. Joseph, 80 dinars, a monthly payment of 10 zuzim from the writer to the addressee, and the refusal of someone to appoint an agent. Dated at the end, ‘all this happened on Monday 24th Shevat 1404 of the Seleucid Era’ (= 1093 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Halakhic monograph regarding bill of divorce (get). See Y. David, The Get and its formulas, p. 128
Inventory (thabat) of a certain Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn’s possessions (?). Greek/Coptic numerals on verso. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (last couple lines and part of a witness statement). Dated: 710s or 720s AH, which is 1310–29 CE (this should be checked). On verso there is the beginning (or a draft) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document. Possibly a draft. Dated: Thursday, 21 Tammuz 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. Location: Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya), "at the seat (moshav = majlis) of the Nagid." Abū Zikrī al-Kohen sues a certain Mordechai for an alleged debt of 30 dinars. There follows a long cross-examination, mentioning Abū [...] Khallūf al-Neʾeman, Maghribī beds (? marāqid), and Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL)
Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Very faded/rubbed. Seems to be describing a house.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document dated to the month Marḥeshvan (year lost), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a legal document; concerning alimony and other marital matters between spouses; [...] Kohen b. Shelomo appears at the bottom. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Several notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1213–37 CE, as Avraham Maimonides is referred to as the Nagid. Either a letter or legal jottings, but in any case they all concern a legal case involving Yaḥyā b. Ṭāhir (the same who signed T-S 13J4.10 in 1253 CE?), al-Shaykh Muhadhdhab, and al-Shaykh Musallam. They are consulting or have already consulted the Nagid Avraham. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Notes for drawing up a marriage document. Groom: Yehuda b. Eliyya ha-Levi. Bride: Bat Ṣabāḥ, a widow. The marriage payments are listed, and then "half a house in al-Qālūs." (Information in part from CUDL.)
Cutting from a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Leaf from a legal register, with notes for the drawing up of marriage documents. Mentions: [...] b. Meshullam;Abū Saʿd b. Dosa and legal terms in relation to marriage documents such as ketubba, muqaddam and matana and ‘the fifty.' (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recto: beautifully illuminated ketubba, signed by Yaʿaqov b. Simḥa. Verso: Hebrew and Arabic document, signed by Joseph b. Khalaf. (Information from CUDL)
