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Type: Legal document
7560 records found
formulary of legal documents, containing parts of: Bill of emancipation of slave, bill of divorce, ketubah .
part of a legal document, most probably a quitclaim (Info from FGP)
Fragment from the center of a ketubba. (See Goitein's index card for further information.)
Deed of sale of a property. Involving Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. This document describes the boundaries of the property. Mentions another property known by the name of al-Jawharī, currently in possession of Aḥmar b. Ibrāhīm b. Rāʾīq(?).
Legal formularies (from the section dealing with marriage and divorce). On vellum.
An engagement contract, consisting of T-S 8J5 f.3 and T-S NS 259 f.37, in the handwriting of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe (active 1100-1138). Dated 1124. (Information from A. Ashur 'Engagement Documents from the Cairo Geniza,' Thesis submitted for the MA degree, Tal-Aviv University, under the Supervision of Prof. M.A. Friedman)
Prenuptial agreement between a future husband and his prospective second wife, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Joined by AA.
A leaf from a book of legal deeds, written by Solomon b. Samuel b. Saadya Halevi (mid. 13th century). Here we have a bill of refusal (שטר ממאנת). AA
According to Goitein's index card, a legal document in which Yosef b. Seʿadya al-Anṭākī stands security for Ibrāhīm b. Azhar. Mentions Nuṣayr b. Fahd. However, this must refer to a different shelfmark.
Legal fragment (lower right corner). Signed: [...] b. Yosef ha-Kohen; Shela b. Mevasser (dated documents 1065–1103). On verso there is a prescription/recipe in Arabic script.
Legal document in Hebrew. Written on parchment. Very damaged. Dating: Likely 11th century. A case of inheritance involving Faraj, Salāma, and Maymūn (somebody's uncle?). AA. ASE.
Damaged and faded fragment, probably from a responsum. The text is too fragmentary, but it seems it is dealing with payment of damage. AA
Small and stained fragment from a top of a legal deed dated 1443 era of douments = 1132.
Recto: Legal query concerning a partnership in a moneychanging shop. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Two fragment of a bill of divorce, from Fustat, probably from 10th-11th century, signed by Ya'aqov b. Yosef beit-din and Shelomo b. [...]. The wife's name is Ghalia. The husband [...] b. Shelomo. AA
Fragment from the top of a ketubba. Dated: Probably [49]49 AM, which would be 1188/89 CE. The groom is either Shemuel ha-Levi "Beḥir ha-Leviim" or Shemuel's son. The bride is [...] bt. Tiqva known as Abū l-Thanāʾ. The date could also be 4849 AM, but a man named Shemuel ha-Levi "Beḥir ha-Leviim" also appears in T-S 13J5.5 (1204 CE), and the name Abū l-Thanāʾ is more common in the 12th century than in the 11th century. AA. ASE.
Legal document. The main text is in Hebrew. Involves Shemuel ha-Levi and Sitt al-Kafāʾa and a quarter-house in Fustat that she had previously sold to Shemuel. No witness signatures on the portion preserved.
One side: Small fragment of a much larger legal document. Involves [...]ma bt. Avraham. The other side: Fragment from a bill of divorce. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Bill of divorce. Fragment (lower left corner). There do not appear to be any identifying details preserved.
Legal fragment (lower left corner). Perhaps a power of attorney. Mentions a doctor; Mufarrij/Mufarraj b. Ḍāʾūd al-Jawharī, and someone's agent Ṭayyib [b.] Mūsā.
