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Type: Legal document
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Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment from near the bottom. Dated: 41[.] AH, corresponding to the range 1019–29 CE. Mentions a power of attorney (wakāla) and that this document was drawn up in triplicate. Portions of ~5 witness statements are preserved, including one from Mufarraj b. Faraj.
Probably a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, late. Mentions an Amīr Yūsuf [...] and "all the demands and all the debts. . . " incumbent on somebody to somebody. There are several distinct sections of the document and two stamped seals. Needs further examination.
Responsum regarding a cantor who mistakenly called to six readers instead of seven in Shabbat Hodesh.
Published Glick, Seridei Teshuvot, II, p. 894-888.
Draft of a court record that was copied into the register of the court in Cairo. Regarding items sent from Salonika to Rashid (Data from FGP)
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Location: Alexandria. Dating: Perhaps 16th century. Bride: Parna(?) bt. Nissim Berakha. Groom: Khalīfa. Signed: Avraham Levi (witness); Matitya b. Shelomo de Leon (witness and scribe). (Information in part from A. David's edition on FGP.)
Legal document, copy or draft. Concerning a ketubba and outstanding payments. Needs further examination.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Stating the amount of money to be paid to al-Khwāja Eliyyahu Lanyado.
Marriage document. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. A remnant of an illuminated margin is preserved.
Legal document. In which Hārūn and Nissim agree to repay the 11 dinars they owe to Benaya within a certain period, and if they do not, they will owe 10 dinars to the qodesh. Mentions business in Fustat and Alexandria and a list of commodities involved: storax (מאיעה for מיעה), saffron, labdanum (lādan), and perhaps even a book by al-Qāḍī al-Tanūkhī (Abū ʿAlī al-Muḥassin b. ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī of Baṣra, d. 994)—but this needs further examination.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century. Little remains: two signatures and the date 5[.]30 AM and the word Miẓrayim.
Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving a divorcee named Miryam bt. Avraham. Little else remains.
Legal deed. Rental contract. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Siwār, the wife of Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq de Molina leases an apartment to Avraham al-Jazīra. Information from FGP.
Late legal document in Hebrew regarding the arrangements following somebody's death and the expenses of the mourners including an Esther and an ʿAzīza.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Sunday, 7 Adar II 5331 AM, which is 1571 CE. Yiṣḥaq Romano and Yisra'el Eliyya acknowledge that they owe 1323 silver akçes (לבנים/אשפרוש) to Moshe ʿAmi. They previously owed him more money and repaid part of the debt; this is the remaining balance. They will repay him before Shavuʿot. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Barukh; Avraham Lubina (?לובינה); Yosef b. Shemuel אלוו; and Yosef b. Yeshaʿya Barqash(?) ha-Levi. Information from Avraham David via FGP.
Shiddukhin document (or a draft of one) for the daughter of Ḥalfon b. Moshe. The conditions include sums in peraḥim and discussion of living arrangements. The year is given in the final line but is very faded.
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥammād b. Hiba al-A[...] makes a declaration concerning the jahbadh of the diwan and a sum of 70 dinars. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 435 AH, which is 1043 CE. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic midrashic text on the 10 commandments.
Legal draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Rabbenu Ḥalfon ha-Sar ha-Gadol. Concerning some financial transaction involving 44 dinars. The date has been left blank.
Mysterious document. In Hebrew. Late, probably 17th century, after the death of ʿAzarya Ze'evi. The document itself is extremely faded and nearly imposible to read from the digital image. It contains evocative phrases such as "like the custom of merchants"; "who imposed their religion"; "succour us out of the city" (2 Samuel 18:3). Signed: Yehuda Esperial (אישפיריאל); Yisra'el b. ʿAzarya Ze'evi (ZL); Yiṣḥaq Ṣabāḥ.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a loan contract. Involves a certain Ṣadaqa and an Abū. l-Surūr b. ʿUlla(?). Needs examination.
Legal document, fragment, in Arabic script, mentioning the property of the deceased in Fustat and Giza. This inheritance was attested in the presence of the chief justice, [al-A]jal Qāḍī l-Quḍat, testimony.
