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Type: Legal document
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Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal fragment, probably. A few words in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. al-muqīma... ha-kohen ha-mumḥe. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.
An Abu Zikri Kohen order of payment. Khalīl is to deliver 3 ounces of sayraj/shayraj oil.
Legal document. Not signed. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning Shelomo b. Shabīb ha-Kohen and Yosef b. Khalfa; the latter is trustworthy (to handle the mercantile goods of the former?).
Legal document. Tamīm b. Berakhot makes a declaration involving Yefet b. Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves Abū Sulaymān Dā'ūd. Signed by Moshe b. Yosef Nafūsī.
Legal document. Both sides—one in Arabic script, one in Judaeo-Arabic—are first-person declarations about the details of some financial case involving al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf. The Arabic side includes the phrase "annanī mā aʿūd uṭālibuhu" (I will not sue him any more).
Legal document (or prescriptive text?) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. "And one should drink from the bowl... and a ketubba does not need to be written..."
Order for goods. From Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to deliver 3 ounces of soap (ṣābūn).
Legal formulary. For a deed of sale. In the lower margin of verso, there is an unidentified text block in a different hand (magical?). (Information from FGP.)
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions Abū Saʿd. Dating: Mentions the date Adar 14[.]4 Seleucid, so either 1103, 1113, 1123, or 1133 CE.
Official receipt in Arabic - needs examination.
Rental Deed? In Arabic - needs examination.
Recto: Draft of a legal declaration in which Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-ʿIzz b. ʿImrān the Jew swears on the head of the sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil that he will not practice the trade of physician (lā ataṣarraf fī ṣināʿat al-ṭabāʾiʿī) without a license (illā bi-tazkiya). Dated: 635 AH = 1237/38 CE.
On verso there is a passage from ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn (‘Memorandum for opticians’) in Arabic script, along with grammatical exercises in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal or administrative document in Arabic script. Mentions 12(?) dinars. Needs examination.
Verso (earlier use): Deed of sale for a house in New Cairo. In Arabic script. Recto (later use): Deed of acknowledgment, likely related to the original deed. Needs further examination.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century. Fragment (upper right piece). At least three people make the acknowledgment (Abū l-Riḍā and Abū l-Faḍl and Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū l-Riḍā), at least one of whom is Jewish. Mentions a Muslim further down: al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy Abū l-[...]. Involves a sum of money and a portion of that sum which is 62 dinars. There are a few more lines, very faded, on verso.
Minute fragment from the end of a legal query written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Dating: 1100-1138). AA
Small fragment from legal document or letter mentioning Abu al-Surur.
Small fragment from a legal deed regarding a deceased woman. A refernce is made that 'he shall not marry a second wife' but the text is fragmentary. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
