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Type: Legal document
7560 records found
Legal query addressed to Yehosef ha-Rav. Small fragment.
Legal document. Small fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe
Legal query with responsum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī (here spelled אלאמשטי).
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentions Avraham b. Shemaʿya.
Recto: Formulary for a legal testimony. Verso might be more of the same; there is additional text written between the lines at 180 degrees.
Legal fragment/draft. One line only. Involves Khibā' bt. Menashshe.
Legal fragment. Signed: ʿEli ha-Levi b. ʿAmra; Faraḥ b. [...].
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: 11th century. Involving a partnership between Faraḥ b. Yosef known as Ibn Bānūqa (who also features in CUL Or.1081 J30) and Nissim b. Shemarya. A copy (of this deed?) will go to each of the two. Signed: Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov; Natan ha-Levi b. Yeshuʿa; Yiṣḥaq b. Eliyyahu; Moshe b. ʿAmram; Tammām.
Bill of divorce. Calligraphic. Signed: Yeḥezqel b. Gavri[el?]; Shelomo b. Yaḥyā.
Marriage contract. Dating: Probably late. Groom: Aharon. Bride: Esther. Very faded, and only the upper right corner is preserved.
Marriage document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125 CE. The groom may be Peraḥya ha-Levi [b. Yefet ha-Zaqen?]. Early marriage payment: 10 dinars. Delayed marriage payment: 30 dinars.
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps legal or having to do with a waqf, or having to do with the text that Yosef Rosh ha-Seder copied (see text block a). Mentions the house, the 'aforementioned' something, the orphans.
Legal document. Only a few lines from the introduction are preserved. The date is not preserved. The handwriting is very similar to that of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (c.1181–1209).
Legal document. In Hebrew. Late. Small/faded fragment.
Money order of the qodesh. Issued by Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi. The administrators of the compound of the Jerusalemites are to pay 9.5 dirhams to the daughter of Salāma al-[...]. On verso there is the fragment of another document in Shemuel b. Saadya's hand.
Draft of alegal query addressed to a legal authority referred to as 'our lord and gaon' discussing the marriage of Abu al-Ala ibn Abu al-Ḥasan the glassblower, which took place in the Muslim court. Connected with this incident the letter writer also refers to the Karaites (?) and someone described as an apostate ('meshumad'). Verso is blank. No date. Probably from Abraham Maimuni's era.
Legal document from 1817 CE (5577)—or conceivably 1818 CE (5578) as per FGP transcription—regarding a business deal involving Yaʿaqov ha-Levi and Eliyyahu b. Ṣahal.
There are several different entries, and each seems to involve rent payments for the qodesh of the Synagogue of the Mustaʿribim. Quite faded, merits further examination. Two of the entries are dated 5349 and 5351 respectively, so the document was produced ca.1590 CE.
Small fragment of a legal testimony saying that Malīḥa bt. Shelomo said something many times [. . . ]. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av (cf. T-S 8J12.1). Probably related to ENA NS 3.3, a replacement ketubba for Malīḥā bt. Shelomo.
