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Type: Legal document
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Bill of divorce (geṭ) from a betrothal (erusin). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 17 Iyar 4846 AM, which is 4 May 1086 CE. Fiancé: ʿAmram b. Avraham. Fiancée: Bahiyya bt. Yefet. No signatures and no documentation of receipt. On verso there is a list of names and numbers.
Legal document. Fragment (lower left corner). Dated: Av 1461 Seleucid, which is 1150 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. None of the content of the case is preserved.
Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions payment in installments and the price of the myrobalan. Signed: Shelomo b. Mevorakh ha-Ḥaver and [...] b. Seʿadya. There are two postscripts/validations. Needs further examination.
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Barakāt ha-Kohen rents from his sister 1/4 of a house in the alley of the synagogue, which she had inherited from her father Abū l-Khayr b. al-ʿAraqī for a period of 10 years. Goitein's note card suggests that the rent is 5 dinars, but she gives this to him as a gift, on condition that he make the necessary repairs.
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning a dispute over who had the right to lead the congregation in prayer.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, involving Berakhot and Yosef b. Yeshuʿa.
Legal document dated 1026 CE (Adar I, 1337 Seleucid), it seems settling a dispute between Muḥsin b. Yefet the son of the daughter of Shamʿān and a certain Ṣedaqa. David ha-Levi b. Aharon and Efrayim b. Shemarya are mentioned six lines from the bottom.
Recto: Remnants of three words in enormous calligraphic Arabic script, one of which is "maṣāliḥ." Verso: Draft of a legal document involving Yeshuʿa ha-Zaqen b. Shelomo.
Legal document. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: No later than 1034 CE ([4]7[.]4 AM). It is also possible that the 'ארבע' is 'ארבעין', in which case this would date from 979–89 CE.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment.
Legal document drawn up in Fustat, dated either 1173, 1183, or 1193 CE (Adar 14[.]4 Seleucid), under the reshut of Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Regarding Abū l-Maʿālī's rental of a property from Yosef ha-Zaqen.
Marriage contract (ketubba) with an elaborate fleur-de-lis frame. Fragment. What remains is mostly the trousseau list. An item called 'Bunduqī' (Venetian) appears. Some of the monetary values are given in חלק פצה (=muayyadi?) and דינרי קגיגה (?).
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves Abū Saʿd and a house.
Recto: Legal. Drafts of two different documents. One document states that it was drawn up in Fustat, is dated no later than 1081 CE (Tishrei 13[.]3 Seleucid), and involves Khulayf, Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva b. Fuhayd, and the city of Tyre. The other involves Moshe ha-Kohen. Verso contains Judaeo-Arabic glosses, at least some of which are for the Mishna of Shabbat.
Legal document. Dated April/May 1141 CE (Iyyar 1453 Seleucid). Drawn up in Fustat. Regarding the sale of a house in Minyat Zifta costing 9 dinars. Between Farajiyya bt. Ṣedaqa and Ṣedaqa b. Yūsuf. 6 1/3 dinars had been paid, and a balance of 1 2/3 dinars were to be paid in Tishrei (Sept/Oct). Witnesses: Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen b. Eli ha-Kohen and Yakhin b. She'erit. Information from Goitein's note card.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: [1]494 [Seleucid], which is 1182/83 CE. Signed by ʿEli b. Netanel ha-Levi. Needs examination for content.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions someone named al-Shaṭranjī (=the chess player). Needs examination for content.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: Unknown. Location: Jerusalem. Groom: Avraham b. Gershom. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Mevorakh, a divorcee. See Goitein's index card for further information.
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Written in the hand of court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Yefet b. Avraham and a party whose name is not preserved agree to a yearlong partnership, with accounts sent to Yefet every four months. There also may have been a distribution of partnership profits after six months. Yefet does not demand that the account be notarized. The soundness of mind clauses hint at a release; the unpreserved section of this document may have terminated an existing partnership, which was renewed in the preserved portion. Each partner may have been responsible for part of the active trading. Profits and losses are to be split evenly between the two partners. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 249)
Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Tishrei 1424 Seleucid, which is 1112 CE. Same case as T-S NS 321.50. Both fragments refer to the renewal of a trading partnership worth 3,750 dinars for which profits are divided equally, and the partners are granted an allowance for their maintenance. The parties are Berakhot b. Yaʿaqov; Abū l-Wafāʾ Tamīm b. Ḥalfon. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 260.) NB: T-S Misc.28.263 is sometimes mistakenly cited as T-S Misc.28.283.
