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Type: Legal document
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Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Approximately 6 lines are preserved from the middle section. Involves a house, a partnership, Abū l-Surur, and Yūsuf. On verso there is Hebrew literary text. Needs further examination.
Legal document. Fragment (bottom half only). Looks like a power of attorney in which a woman appoints a man as her agent. No names or details preserved. No signatures. On verso there is Hebrew liturgical text.
One side: Order from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Ḥasan is to give the bearer 1/4 raṭl sour pomegranate rubb (condensed juice); 1/4 raṭl apple rubb; 1/4 raṭl of something barley-based. Other side: Medical prescription in Arabic script. Begins "God is the one who cures in His mercy." Uses chicory seeds, borage, sandalwood, licorice, and bamboo chalk. ASE
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Portions of 3 lines are preserved. This is part of the binding of a copy of Isaiah, still sewn in place with the original thread.
Legal document. Small fragment. Mentions "9 and a ḥabba... the son of my sister... R. Moshe... Abū Saʿd b. [...]."
Minute fragment from a legal document
Perhaps an order of some kind. Very faded. Opens with "send it" (yusayyirhā) and ends with ושלומך יגדל נצח סלה.
Ketubba fragment. Small piece. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya.
Recto, right column: petition by Muslim b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār to a Fatimid judge regarding an endowment consisting of some shops that Muslim granted to his wife Khulla bt. Fahd. Since she did not use the endowment, nor appoint an agent, and she is now dead, the petitioner is asking for a ruling from the judge regarding the endowment. Recto, left column: edict ratifying the validity of the document. Dating: Ca. 11th-12th century. On recto there are Hebrew piyyuṭim. separated with גירה. (Information from CUDL and Khan.)
Legal document in Arabic script. The year may be legible in the top (damaged) line. Needs examination.
Maimonides’ Mishne Tora, Qiddush ha-Ḥodesh 10:5. (Information from CUDL)
Probably a fragment of a legal testimony. "The shaykh also came. . . and declared. . ." something to do with the Palestinian Synagogue and a period of four months. Signed by Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen.
Fragment of a legal document regarding a dwelling.
Fragment of a legal document. One of the few remaining phrases is "the death of the girl after her father."
Probably a fragment of a Hebrew legal document, with a three-line header in larger letters, mentioning "ha-hakham ve-ha-navon" and "nesheihem ha-kesherot" and a certain woman ("ha-gevirah").
Partnership document in Hebrew between Moshe and Me'ir & his brother. 16th century per Avraham David. The partnership is to last for two years. The top and bottom of the document are both missing. A conversion rate is given: 1 golden Venetian peraḥ for every 100 Venetian peraḥim.
Small legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, signed Yosef ha-Levi.
Small horizontal strip of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe in which Yosef b. Yoshiya ha-Levi makes a declaration (but the document was abandoned).
Small fragment of a legal document on vellum signed by [...]f b. Natan.
Tyrian marriage contract with a peculiar proposal formula borrowed from Malachi 2:14 (‘my companion and wife in covenant’). Mid eleventh century. (Information from CUDL)
