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Type: Legal document
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Legal query and responsum in Arabic script. The query is written in a tiny handwriting with a thin pen, begins with the words ʾallaḏī ... wa-yašhad bihi ʾaṭāla llāh baqā ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-qāḍī al-ʾaǧall. The responsum, written with thick pen, reads among other things qad ḫaraǧa ʾamrunā ʾilayhim bi-miṯl ḏālik wa qad taqaddamnā ʾilayhim ...
Marriage document. Long a narrow fragment from a ketubah, with only a few words surviving. The hand is by Mevorakh b. Nathan, and the נגיד הגולה (the Nagid of the Diaspora) who is referred to in the first line is Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya ha-Nagid, so we can date to 1150–1160.
Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic. Arabic diacritic above one word. On line 5 an end of an Arabic word in Arabic script? AA
Bill of divorce. Dated: 1331 Seleucid, which is 1019/20 CE. Wife: [...] bt. Seʿadya. Written and signed by [Davi]d b. Shekhanya, also signed by Shelomo b. Avraham
Bill of divorce from a betrothal (erusin). Very faded. No signatures. Dated: Looks like [4]903 AM, which would be 1142/43 CE.
Qaraite bill of divorce formulary
Bill of divorce (get). Fragment (left side). Dated: 135[.] Seleucid, which corresponds to the range 1038–48 CE. Wife: [...] bt. Yeshuʿa. Written and signed by [Yefet] b. David the cantor.
Bill of divorce. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Friday, 25 Iyyar 1439 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE. Husband: Natan b. Shela. Wife: Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Mevasser known as Bishāra the freedman. Also signed by Ḥalfon b. Ghālib. There is confirmation of receipt on verso.
Bill of divorce. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Nisan 1435 Seleucid, which is 1124 CE. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Wife: Sitt al-Banāt bt. Nuʿmān ha-Kohen. Signed by the teacher Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī. Menashshe b. ʿAmram is the witness for the delivery of the bill of divorce to the wife (on verso). See also T-S NS 226.21.
Bill of divorce. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: Tuesday, 23 Iyyar 1436 Seleucid, which is 1125 CE. Husband: Ḥalfon b. Moshe. Wife: Banāt bt. Sibāʿ. Written and signed by Avraham b. [...]; also signed by Levi b. Avraham. There is confirmation of receipt on verso.
Bill of divorce. Dated: Tishrei 1421 Seleucid, which is 1109 CE. Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard. Husband: Ḥasan b. Hiba. Wife: Fāḍila bt. Ḥusayn. Also signed by Berakhot b. Shela ha-Kohen. On verso there is confirmation of receipt. On verso there are also accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals listing items such as lemon syrup (murammal laymūn sāʾil) and mastic.
Upper fragment: Beginning of a bill of divorce written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. No details preserved.
Lower fragment: Bill of divorce. Written by Natan b. Shemuel. Dated: Sunday, 25 Shevaṭ 1456 Seleucid, which is 1145 CE. Husband: Makārim b. Moshe. Wife: ʿAmāʾim bt. ʿAmram. One of the witnesses is Yefet b. Shemarya. Torn down the middle. No confirmation of receipt on verso.
Bill of divorce (get). Dated: Friday, 20 Kislev 1457 Seleucid, which is 1145/46 CE. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Also signed by Ṣedaqa b. Yefet ha-Levi. Husband: Avraham b. Yakhin. Wife: Dalāl bt. Yosef. No confirmation of receipt on verso.
Bill of divorce. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, which corresponds to the range 988–1088. Husband: Manṣūr b. Ṣāliḥ. Wife: Sittūna bt. Ḥalfon. Written and signed by [...] b. Efrayim. Also signed by [...] b. Shahrīr(?).
Responsum regarding synagogue ritual written in a late hand.
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: Late; the date in the document is torn away, all that can be read is Wednesday [...]9 AM. Location: Fustat. The document involves ʿOvadya and Moshe.
Legal query, probably to Avraham Maimonides and possibly in Shelomo ha-Melammed b. Eliyyahu's hand.
Legal deed in large square thick letters
Legal document written in dense small letters. It looks like a deed of agency.
Ketubba fragment. Location: New Cairo. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. Avraham ha-Kohen.
