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Type: Legal document
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Legal document. Fragment (upper right corner). The scribe has distinctive nun sofits and qofs that hook to the left at a 90 degree angle. The document mentions al-Maghrib[ī] and Natan the Rosh Yeshiva, probably Natan b. Avraham from the early/mid-11th century.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Somewhat crude hand. Unclear if any details of the case are preserved.
Outline of a legal document. Investment (ʿisqa). In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 16th century. Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq איגריליו(?) apparently receives an investment from [...] b. Shelomo Kohen. The currency is peraḥim but this is followed by ממטבע מחיה; two lines above, it refers to מחיה אדין—maybe these were minted by a ruler named Muḥiyiddīn? The witnesses are Shelomo ben Shoshan and Shelomo [...].
Legal document. Concerning Abū l-Barakāt and a blind woman (al-mara al-kafīfa) and a sale.
Marriage document. Small fragment from what is seems as a ketubah, probably by the hand of Hillel b. Eli or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Halevi. Shemuʾel b. Khalaf is mentioned.
Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic. AA
Ketubba in the Palestinian style. Location: Probably Tyre. Dating: ca. 1028–54 CE, based on the years of the scribe (the ḥaver Shemuel b. Moshe—see also ENA 2747.6 and ENA NS 75.20). Groom: Daniel. Bride: [...] bt. Manṣūr. Both are from poor families. See M. A. Friedman's edition for further information.
Legal query, perhaps. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Concerning the principle of טוען וחוזר וטוען. Mentions a previous response from al-Rayyis. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century.
Legal document. Seven fragments joined together (by Moshe Yagur and Alan Elbaum) to form a court record. On recto (should be verso) a court record, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi, in which Issac b. Shemuʾel the Spaniard and Avraham b. Shema’ya are parties in a debt settlement. Also testimony on the arrival of Barukh b. Yitsḥak from Aleppo to Egypt. On verso (should be recto) a letter sent to Yitsḥak b. Shemuʾel.
Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic. AA
Small fragment of a legal document. Mentions entering the bath and an illness.
Small fragment of a legal document involving Petaḥya and customs (maks).
Betrothal register from a court book, 1023.
From the same ledger: ENA 4010.28, ENA NS 8.15, and Bodl. MS heb. c 13/21.
Legal document . Damaged legal deed, probably a bill of release, written by the hand of Yosef b. Shemuʾel (ca. 1180’s-1210)
Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic. AA
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Legal document. A fragment from a bill of loan. Late (15th-17th century)
Hebrew. AA
Very faded and damaged, hardly legible, fragment from a legal query addresed to 'our Rabbis', regarding a quarell between two people and a payment of 15 dinars. On verso part of a draft of letter. AA
Receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Dating: late. Mentions ʿAbd al-Raʾūf(?) and Isḥāq the Jew.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Looks literary at first glance, but mentions a kharājī year (or at least something "al-kharājiyya"), which suggests something to do with taxation. Also mentions an overseer of waqf (nāẓir al-ḥubus) and ḥabs in a few places "li l-ḥabs wa-mā bi-yadihi min al-waqf wa l-rizq". Possibly a legal document.
Small official document of some kind. Resembles ENA NS 83.222.1 + ENA NS 83.222. Needs examination.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era. Mentions al-muʿallim Saʿīd b. [...]. Needs examination.
Small receipt. In Arabic script. Probably a date at the bottom: 5[..] AH?
Probably legal document(s) or letter(s) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
