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Type: Legal document
7560 records found
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment from the top. Mentions [...] b. Mufarrij(?) al-Isrāʾīlī.
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom only). Needs examination for content, date, signatures.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (upper part only). Damaged and difficult to read. Seems to be an acknowledgment by [...] b. Ismāʿīl al-Ḥalabī al-Mutaṭabbib (the Aleppan physician) in l. 2 and also mentions [...] b. Isḥāq al-Ḥalabī in l. 3. Needs further examination.
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Calligraphically written and on parchment. Likely a deed of sale specifying landmarks, but needs further examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Unusual format; may be quite early, 10th or 11th century? May be a deed of sale for a property: mentions a vault (al-qabw) in l. 4 and floor tiles (balāṭ) and stairs (salālaim) in l. 7. Mentions the name [...] b. Saʿīd al-Yahūdī in l. 6.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). The name ʿAllūn b. Yaḥyā al-Isrāʾīlī al-[...] appears in the last line of the body. One of the witness statements is by ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿĀṣim. Needs further examination.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right corner of recto). Cut into an unusual shape, with long slits made and the paper removed. A comb spine lining? Cf. T-S 12.141 and https://blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/manuscript-of-the-month-manuscript-waste-not-or-a-case-in-fragmentology/. On verso there is the continuation of the document and/or addenda. Needs examination for content.
Torn legal document in Arabic - needs examination.
Arabic legal document - needs examination.
Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Contract of debt for 20 dinars. Verso: Letter or note in Arabic script, ending with the ʿalāma "al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi shukran." The word al-Mustanṣiriyya might appear. Needs examination.
Tax receipt? - needs examination.
Tax receipt? - needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Needs examination for content.
Recto: Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a lawsuit between Shabbat b. Yaʿaqov (aka Shabbetay b. Yaʿaqov) and Natan b. [...]. The portion preserved here is about taking vows on a bible and one of the parties refusing to take a vow unless the court compels him.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī. There are at least two addenda on verso. Needs examination.
Recto: End of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Also signed by Shela b. Binyamin.
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions 500 dirhams. Dating: Perhaps Ṣafar 1097 AH, which would be 1685/86 CE. But the year is faded, and this should be checked. Needs examination for content as well.
Bottom part of a torn court record involving a widow, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi dated Tishrei 1439 Era of documents= 1127
End of a legal document - needs examination.
Document of sale or lease - needs examination. (Info from FGP)
