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Type: Legal document
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Fragment from the ketubah of Aziza d. Faraj, signed by Efraim b. Zadoq and Yoswf b. Ya'aqov. AA
Small and much damaged fragment, probably from the dowry list section of a ketubah, written by Yosef b. Shemuel Halevi. AA
Fragment from a ketubah, containing the dowry section, written by Yosef b. Shemuel Halevi. AA
Document relating to the activities of the Talmud Tora school (Scuole Gratuite Israelitiche), and stamped with the school's seal. Perhaps a receipt for a donation by Se. Mordukh? Signed by [...] Raṣon. The number 1887 appears in the text, presumably the Gregorian year.
Cryptic note that may be in Judaeo-Arabic, with a formal-looking layout and מצריים at the bottom left. Dating: Probably 19th century.
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Fragment: lower left corner. A person attests that he has received 12 dinars from another person. The name of the scribe is ʿAbd al-[...]. On verso there are culinary or medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document. Involves Wahbān and Abū Isḥāq b. Yūsuf. The details of the case are probably too damaged to decipher.
Ketubba fragment. The groom's name is Nissim.
Legal testimony. Very fragmentary. The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved.
Legal document(s). Fragment. Written across two columns (or two pages), so possibly a court register. The names Ṣāʿid and [...] b. Abū Naṣr appear. A sum of at least 2 dinars is mentioned in each column. The document on the right is dated the first third of Ḥeshvan, but the year is torn off.
Unidentified, the text is rubbed and only few words can be read. It opens with a date, but the year is unclear. At the bottom seems to be referring to a deceased person whose name is unclear.
Much damaged fragment of a legal deed
Legal fragment. The body is in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Small fragment from the end. Essentially no details are preserved. AA
Small document(s) in Arabic script, legal or official. Note that these are not actual joins, but they are all from the same genre of document and some may have been produced by the same scribe. Each one has a person's name underneath the basmala at upper right: Abū Naṣr... Abū ʿImrān... Mufaḍḍal... Manṣūr... All need examination.
Responsum signed by Avraham Monson (d. 1619). In Hebrew. Dating: 16th or 17th century. Regarding a resident of Cairo who loaned his own money and the money of the orphans to a powerful Jew in the district of Damietta. The latter, instead of paying back his debt, gave the creditor a position in Damietta. But his wife refused to leave Cairo. Information from FGP.
Legal fragment in Aramaic. Names: Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yehuda and Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Gevir.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal testimony (or letter?) in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving Abū l-ʿAlā ʿEli ha-Zaqen. Mentioning merchandise and silk. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid.
