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Type: Legal document
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Legal or official document(s) or drafts thereof. In Arabic script. There are numerous text blocks on each side. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. About 10 lines are preserved and one witness clause. Dated: 13 Dhū l-Qaʿda 957 AH, which is November 1550 CE. Involves a certain Mūsā and his mother, possibly Marḥaba bt. Dāʾud al-Yahūdī. Needs further examination.
Receipt for rent of for house for a period of one year, Ramaḍān through Shaʿbān. The tenant is Manṣūr al-Dajjājī (same as in Bodl. MS heb. d 68/104?). Might be dated 507 AH (this appears in both l. 3 and the last line), which would be 1113/14 CE. The number 4.5 is written in Coptic numerals—the annual rent in dinars?
Document in Arabic script. May be a receipt (tasallama....). The last line mentions the name of a qāḍī.
Legal document(s), probably. In Arabic script. Looks late. Needs further examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. First two lines only.
Page from a court ledger with some legal documents written by Avraham b. Nathan Av. One of the court records is dated to the year 1099 and deals with items belong to Abu Ya'aqub. The record is starting on verso; left side and there is a reference to אלוף הבינות that is Mevorkah b. Saadya. Signed by [Avraham b. Shma'aya nin] Shma'ayahu Gaon. On the left page of recto a court record between Ma'ali and b. al-Sukari (the sugar maker). Signed by Ishaq b. Sh[muel the Spaniard] together with Avraham who is mentioned above. Verso, right side is written by a different hand regarding Ya'aqov and 'Imran(?). AA
Legal formularies.
Fragment from a legal deed involving Abu 'Ali b. Avraham the elder and amount of 9 qirats, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi. AA
Power of attorney. The son or daughter of Yeshuʿa the elder appoints Seʿadʾel as an agent to receive a gift. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE).
Opening of a dowry list, written under the jurisdiction of David Maimuni in the hand of Emanuel b. Yehiel. The bride's name is Rivqa. The groom is the son of Yehiel the judge, and might be Emanuel himself. AA
Two fragments of a legal deed regarding a debt of Abu al-Karam b. al-Attar, written and signed by Yosef b. Shemuel Halevi (Date: ca. 1180-1211). Also signed by Yefet b. Shem[uel]. AA
Small fragment from the bottom of a kettubah signed by [...] b. Avraham Aluf.
Acknowledgment of a debt of 10 dinars contracted by Ḥammūd b. Hāshim, the miller, with Ibrāhīm b. Ḥajīj, the Jewish middleman. The document states that Ḥammūd will pay back 2 dinars on Rajab of the year 420 AH (= 1029 CE), and the remaining sum in monthly instalments of 1 dinar each, starting from Shaʿbān of the same year. (Information from CUDL)
Three drafts of a testimony concerning the qualifications and good conduct of the physician Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Sahl b. Ibrāhīm (=Yedutun ha-Levi?). The witnesses confirm his trustworthiness, good health and moral values, religious devotion, reliability, probity, charitableness, and integrity. No witness statements are present in the document. Ca. 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL and Khan.)
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (left side only). Dated: 7[..] AH, which is the 14th century CE if this has been read correctly. Mentions "two halves equally" (nuṣfayn bi-l-sawiyya, l. 4). Needs examination for content.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Fragment (upper half only). In Arabic script. Parties are Sālim b. Abū l-Faraj and Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Needs examination for content.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman-era, based on hand and overall appearance. There is the remnant of an ʿalāma at the top (katabahū Aḥmad?). The first line mentions al-madrasa al-Ṣāliḥiyya al-Najmiyya (i.e., the madrasa founded by al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb in 1242 and still standing today). The next line gives the name of [...] al-Dīn (or [...]d b.?) Abū l-Faraj (or Abū l-Fatḥ?) Muḥammad b. al-Muḥibb(?) al-khaṭīb al-mālikī khalīfat al-ḥukm al-ʿazīz bi-l-diyār al-miṣriyya. On verso there is related text, perhaps an addendum.
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment.
Legal document, probably. Small fragment. In Arabic script. The end of the basmala is visible and the name ʿAlī b. al-Khiḍr(?) in l. 3. It is unclear if/how the text on verso is related.
