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Type: Legal document
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Legal document. Perhaps an inventory of an estate. Refers to witnesses going to somebody's house, and lists numerous valuable items. Mentions Barakāt al-Katnānī (? אלכתנאני).
Betrothal (erusin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Listed in Amir Ashur's dissertation, p. 355.
Tiny fragment of a legal document. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Phrases include: "...for food... and two dinars and dirhams... with them for her mother [...]..."
Cheque signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen (to be added to the list of checks in India Book 5). Khalīl is to give the bearer 3 ounces of soap. AA
Legal document. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved. Involves 3 dinars, a druggist, and someone named Ṭāhir.
Legal document. Fragment (lower part only). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Possibly a marital reconciliation agreement ("...and she will not overstep again...") between Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Mubāraka bt. Yosef. There are 7 witnesses: Shelomo b. Seʿadya; Ḥasan b. Yiṣḥaq; Yefet b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi; Khalaf b. Sahl; Hillel b. Sahl; Yeshuʿa b. David the cantor; Shelomo b. Kathīr. Several of these witnesses appear in other documents from approximately the 1020s and 1030s CE.
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions jewelry changing hands and the court in Cairo.
Legal document. Fragment (upper left corner). Dated: 1470 Seleucid, which is 1158/59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In which Sitt al-Dār bt. Daniel makes a declaration about something that concerns Abū l-Waḥsh.
Draft of a marriage contract (ketubba) from the of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides. There are numerous other jottings in Hebrew script, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions a man and his cousin (ibn ʿamm); 51 dinars; and something granted to the orphan daughter of Avraham. Dated: [142]8, [143]8, or [144]8 Seleucid, which correspond to 1116/17, 1126/27, or 1136/37 CE.
Recto: Legal document. In Hebrew. Involves someone named Shelomo and various sums of money. Signed by Mevorakh b. David, Khalaf b. Seʿadya, and Thābit b. Yefet. Mevorakh b. David also signed T-S 13J6.31 in 1039 CE and T-S Ar.18(1).133 in 1039–49 CE. The document was subsequently torn in half vertically, and verso was reused for a letter (see separate record).
Tiny fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Signed: [Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant] of Shemaʿya Gaon (active ca. 1100). Nothing else is preserved.
Legal document or letter. A few words in Judaeo-Arabic. li-waladihā... qabaḍa... ʿanhā dīnārayn... maʿraqa
Legal fragment.
Legal document. Dated: Middle third of Adar, 1430 Seleucid, which is 1119 CE. Involves Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen b. Mevorakh and a certain Abū Saʿīd.
Tiny fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Only a few words are preserved: ...[al-du]khūl wa-l-khurūj ilayhim...
Small legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions powers of attorney (wakālāt).
Legal document (iqrār). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Abū Isḥ[āq]; half of a profit; entering Fustat; and more.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Draft, with many corrections. Concerning someone's will.