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Type: Legal document
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Legal fragment. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. Needs examination.
Minute fragment of a legal document. Practically the only information preserved is that it was drawn up in Egypt in the year 1444 Seleucid, which is 1132/33 CE.
Debt contract, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 11 Ḥeshvan 1587 Seleucid, which is 1275 CE. Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Ṣabbāgh is owed a sum of money by Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Riḍā al-Ṣabbāgh. A payment schedule is specified. The document is incomplete, and there are no witness signatures.
Dowry list (taqwīm). No names No muqaddam or me'uḥar. Among the goods is a female slave named Balgh al-Munā ('fulfillment of wishes'). (Information in part from Goitein's index card)
Court register. Record of a dowry assessment (taqwīm). Groom: Yefet b. Ḥalfon. Bride: Qawāma bt. Shabbat. (See Goitein's index card for further information.)
Legal document (zikhron ʿedut). Dated: Thursday, 13 Elul 1528 Seleucid, which is 18 August 1217 CE. Settlement of the payment of a mu'akhkhar in installments. A total of 15 dinars is reduced to 10, to be paid from the beginning of Shevat in weekly installments of 3 dirhams. For the divorcee's children, 5 1/4 dirhams are to be paid every week from the beginning of Tishrei for the period of 1 year. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Legal document. Incomplete draft concerning a house, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Abū l-Manṣūr b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl gives to his wife Sitt al-Sāda a small house adjoining his own large house situated at the Khalīj. Since the qinyan (symbolic purchase) was made in the house of Abū l-Manṣūr, presumably this gift was made in a time of illness. Dated 13 Sivan. No year. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Dating: ca. 1200 CE. Lists clothing and jewelry. On verso a note in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Legal fragment (lower left corner). Almost no details are preserved. Signed by: [...] b. Moshe; Yosef b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen.
Bottom of a legal document. None of the content is preserved. About 20 signatures are preserved.
Legal fragment. Involves Faraḥ; Surūr Ibn al-Ḥaṣīra; preparing something for (trading in?) the Maghrib.
Shelomo testifies that he had not used a book deposited with him for sale
Draft of a letter that was not sent. A question that was addressed to Maimonides about remission of debts. (Information from Goitein, Tarbiz, 28, 1959: 195-196). VMR
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves Abū ʿAlī b. al-Sukkarī and 20 dinars.
Bill of sale for a Nubian female slave. Dating: 1204–38 CE. THe seller and the buyer are named Hiba and Mevasser. On verso there is another legal document that mentions 'the house of Eliyyahu the Judge.
Document concerning a shiddukh (matchmaking) for a first-time bride in Dammuh, Egypt. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, and records a fine for the benefit of Dammuh. Early thirteenth century. (Eve Krakowski, “Female adolescence in the Cairo Geniza documents,” PhD diss., The University of Chicago, 2012, 90, 260; and Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza, Brill, 1976, 102) EMS
