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Minute fragment from a legal deed. Name: Shabat. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Sate: 1100-1138)

Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)

Minute fragment of a legal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).

An agreement between Sasson b. Yefet and another person whose name is not preserved. Dealing with possession of a deceased. Abu al-Surur is acting as a guarantor. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Haelvi (Date: 1100-1138). AA

Fragment from a legal deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). An agreement involving Abu al-Faḍl Shela b. Elʿazar and his wife Malīḥa and [...]fiyya b. Aharon. Malīḥa grants the rights to selling a house to her husband. AA. ASE.

Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).

Small fragment of an agreement between Ya'aqov and Yehuda written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).

Small fragment with few words from a legal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).

Legal record. Only the very end is preserved. Dated: 1429 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. Signed: Avraham b. Shemaʿya; Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib; ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen. NB: T-S NS 226.9–11b are all bifolios in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, probably from the same court ledger. The righthand page of T-S NS 226.9 in fact has the mirror-image imprint of T-S NS 226.11a.

Legal fragment (lower left corner). Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by [...] b. Shelomo. Mentions a maṣbagh (dyeing workshop?) in Fustat.

Legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Very damaged. Might be details of the execution of a will. Parties include Salāma b. Saʿīd, Dāʾūd, and Hiba. Mentions a sum of 20 (dinars?), "5 for Furayj who is in Malīj and 5 for Saʿīd who is in [...], and the children all release each other, and everything in the house belongs to Dāʾūd."

Legal approval between Yehuda b. Nissim and Abu al-Hasan b. Khulayf al-Iskandrani regarding shipment of silk(?). The fragment is damaged.

Many minute fragments, mostly of legal deeds written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138).

Draft or notes for a legal document concerning an inheritance. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are also some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

Recto, left side: Legal document. Probably a draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are three different text blocks, all belonging to the same document, oriented at 90 degrees to each other. Dated: Sunday night, 20 Ṭevet 1578 Seleucid, which is 1266/67 CE. The scribe gives his name, but it is difficult to read (Sh[...] b. Elʿazar?). The document seems to be setting the conditions for the marriage of Abū Saʿd b. al-Rayyis and Thiqa bt. Abū l-Riḍā b. al-Tifʾeret. On verso there is Hebrew poetry or piyyuṭ.

Legal document. Formula of a Bill of manumission of a slave girl. Recto: Recto: A formula writ (מודע, ‘notification’) for invalidating the manumission of a minor female slave (בת שפחה כנענית). Verso: a specimen deed of manumission, with placeholder names and dates, from Cairo. Verso published by: Friedman, Master and Slave Girl: Two Geniza Documents, Gratz College Annual of Jewish Studies, p. 61-63 (under the number T-S K27.45)

Legal document. In Hebrew. A release/quitclaim given by ʿAmram b. Shelomo. (Information from FGP.)

Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. [...]. Wife: [...] bt. Shelomo. No documentation of receipt on verso (unless it has been torn away).

Marriage contract (ketubba) possibly from Tyre that includes the list of goods in the dowry: a cloth, a curtain, a lamp, two dyeing vessels, two jugs, a chest, and a house. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment from a legal deed. There is a refence to the Head of the Jews- probably to Shmuel b. Hannanya, so we can date it to mid. 12th Century. AA