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Legal document, draft or copy. No signatures. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevasser b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī presents an itemized list of goods for which ʿArūs b. Yosef owes him money. ʿArūs claims that he has fully settled all accounts. If ʿArūs proves to be lying, then he will be considered accursed and will not earn merit (? יכון בכלל ארור לא יזכר). In the upper left corner there are two names pertaining to a different document: Meshullam ha-Kohen b. Yosef and Ghaniyya bt. [...].

Dowry list (taqwīm). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (per Goitein). Dating: 1100–38 CE. Appears in Med Soc III, App. II, no. 370 (p. 421).

Legal document. Location: ציק?. Dated: Iyyar 5465 AM, which is 1705 CE. Involves Mordekhai ha-Kohen and a sum of 133 reales de פיזו טרהקאנטיש(??) that had been sent by David de Rios from Livorno. Needs examination.

Formulary for drawing up marriage documents. In Hebrew with some Ladino words (contante, joyas, mandiles). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Late. Currency: mithqāl/mathāqīl.

Receipt in Arabic script of Mubashshir b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī for goods he sent to the Maghrib in partnership with ʿArūs b. Yosef, ca. 1030 (see Aodeh's note justifying this date).

Responsa. Responsaum of הרא"ש כלל סו, סימן ז. AA

Fragment from a Karaite betrothal formulary, for use in Jerusalem. (Information from CUDL)

Purchase note that once belonged to a bible (ze ha-muṣḥaf). The purchaser is Yaʿaqov b. Sahlān b. Yaʿaqov, whose name appears in the body of the text and upside down underneath together with 'and his son Sahlān b. Yaʿaqov.'

Draft of document of Maimonides' installation as Ra'is al-Yahud.

Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: [...]8 Seleucid, which doesn't help us. Features [...] al-Levi al-Parnas al-Tinnīsī and an Abū l-Makārim. There are notes on verso related to recto.

4 bi-folios from a book of legal formulas

Legal formulary for a deed of manumission of a male or female slave.

A unique legal deed: A man appoints his father to collect 200 dinars from his debtor. The groom apparently owes the same amount to his future bride, to serve as betrothal money (קידושין במלווה). According to to Jewish law such betrothal, were the marriage money is a loan, is invalid (Maimonides, Ishut, 5:13), but if the loan is for mortgage it is valid (Maimonides, ibid. 5:14). The continuation of the deed is not clear: it seems that the groom betroth the bride by a lower sum, while his father was responsible for the rest. Written on vellum, in Hebrew. Probably from a book of legal deed but probably a copy of a real case. 11th century. AA .

Leaf from a Karaite book of formularies. Recto: divorce formula, continued for 2 lines on verso, with Arabic jotting in the margin. Verso: marriage formula. The date given in the margin, in the same hand and ink, is 1314 (= 1002 CE). (Information from CUDL)

A formula of bill of release from levirate marriage. Belong to a book of legal deeds, Another page in T-S J3.19

Book of Legal deeds by Saadya Gaon, 8-9, 12-13, contains bil of partnership, deathbed declaration, and a will. (Data from FGP by Dan Greenberger)

Formula of a bill of inheritance. Belong to a book of legal deeds, Another page in T-S J3.15

Leaves from a Qaraite book of formularies. 7 leaves (2 bifolia and 3 separate leaves). One folio contains a divorce formula, and two folios (edited by Olszowy-Schlanger) contain a marriage formula. Formula to be used in Jerusalem [?]. There is also an Islamic text in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning the beginnings of Islam and the Prophet Muḥammad and containing part of a very interesting genealogy: بن هاشم بن عب[...] بن اليوسع بن نبا[...] بن فهر بن كنانة بن [...] بن قيدار بن اسمعيل [...] بن رعو بن فالغ بن [...] نوح. Information in part from CUDL and FGP.

Page from a collection of legal deeds. Contains bill of release from levirate marriage, and a bill of release of a slave

Page containing some formulas of deeds of sale and release.