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Type: Legal document
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Palestinian-style marriage contract. Late tenth or early eleventh century. VMR
Statement originally accompanying a will belonging to Abu al-Baqa. The will has not been found, but from this document it is clear that it comprised 11 assets with a total value of 204 3/4 dinars and 140 dirhams. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 264; also Goitein index cards)
Fragmentary Arabic legal or state document - needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 610 or 620 AH (=1214 or 1223 CE). Nearly complete, with two witness signatures, but smudged. Needs examination.
Legal documents (one on recto and remnants of two on verso) in Arabic script. Might be a deed of sale on recto and deeds of resale on verso. Mentions something "royal" (al-malikī) on recto l. 4, and mentions a stable (الاصطبل), verso, larger section, l. 2. Needs further examination.
Document in Arabic script. It seems imposing alimony of 1/2 dirham per day on ʿEzra b. Menaḥem, the ex-husband of Jawhara bt. Yusr, who has a nursing infant. T-S AS 147.25 may be the ketubba of the same couple (in which case this document dates to the mid-11th century). On verso there is Babylonian Talmud, Ketubbot 48a.
Legal documents (one on recto, one on verso). In Arabic script. Likely deeds of sale, since there appear to be descriptions of properties. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). Likely a lease (hādha mā [istaʾjara?]). Handwriting looks old, likely 11th century. Needs examination.
Fragmentary document(s) in Arabic script. One text block appears to be legal (two witness signatures preserved), another literary (at 180 degrees), and another is a list or table of some kind (on verso). Needs examination.
Fragmentary legal document(s) in Arabic script. There are two distinct main documents, one on recto and one on verso. In the right margin of recto, there are additional notes at 90 degrees; one mentions Qaṣr al-Shamʿ and gives the year (42[.] AH?). Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Very damaged. Mentions ʿAskar b. ʿAlī b. Faraj al-Maghribī in the first line. There are additional notes in the upper margin and on verso. Needs examination.
Fragment from a legal document in Arabic. - needs examination. On verso and between the lines of recto Biblical Exegesis to Genesis 27:27 – 29
Legal document in Arabic script. Likely a deed of sale for a property. Needs examination.
Testimony in Arabic script. Dated: Shawwāl 654 AH, which is October/November 1256 CE. Certifying that Ibrāhīm b. Ismaʿīl is a Khaybarī Jew (and therefore entitled to privileges that were granted to this tribe by Muḥammad) originally from al-Jawf. Written and witnessed by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn.
Arabic Bill of Testimony? (FGP) - needs examination. Few words in Judeo Arabic in top margin of verso
Arabic receipt - needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Involves a head of cattle (al-raʾs al-baqr). Needs examination.
Legal testimony. In Arabic script. The witnesses have examined (bāsharū) the Jew Ibrāhīm b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, and found that he had developed leprosy (judhām) on account of a black humor (al-khilṭ al-sawdāwī) and is therefore banned from moving freely and conducting business among Muslims. Witnessed by Aḥmad b. Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Ṭāhir b. Abū l-Ḥasan. Dated: First decade of Rabīʿ II 660 AH, which is February 1262 CE. (Information from Khan's edition.)
Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Very faded. Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions names such as Muḥammad b. Zayn and sums of money. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Brief debt contract, probably, mentioning the name [Man?]ṣūr b. Bū Saʿd.
