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Type: Legal document
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small fragment. Refers to receiving money or goods ([tasa]llamahū) from al-Rayyis. Few other details preserved.
Fragmentary record of sale; the script suggests that this was written in the Ottoman period.
Betrothal document for Yiṣḥaq Goren (?) b. Shelomo and Sitt al-Bayt bt. Avraham Dayyan, dated July 1804 (middle third of Av 5564).
Fragment of a legal formulary.
Fragment of a late legal document.
Late legal document in Hebrew regarding a partnership (one of the partners is named Faraj). It refers to the quppah of the synagogue of the Musta'ribim (קק מוסתערב).
Late legal document in Hebrew: Shemuel rents a property from Avraham for 4 months for the price of 115 "peraḥim" per month. Information from Avraham David's transcription on FGP.
Recto: Perhaps a letter? Very faded. Verso: A record of the amount of money (35 silver) turned over by Eliyyahu the rent-collector of [...] in ḥārat al-saqālibah for the month of Av in 1784 CE (5544). The name of the renter may be underneath: Moshe Refa'el Hayyim Efron (?).
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small fragment. No names preserved. Refers to a period of 12 months, an upcoming holiday, and something or things that 'fell on her this [...].'
Fragment of a late legal document in Hebrew signed by Moshe Abū Shaʿra.
Minute fragment, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions 90 silver dirhams. Too little remains. AA
A very damaged fragment. The upper text block is the end of a legal query probably written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (active in the first third of the 13th century). Too little text remains to decipher, but it seems to be dealing with a house, an in-law, and daughters. Below the query another text in a different hand, possibly the responsum, as commonly found in such documents, but the text is too damaged to read and from the few readable words it seems to be dealing with an issue regarding the government. Instead, it is probably a second legal query: הדא טלב אן... ללס{ל?}טאן... אלסאכן... ראובן... תורינו... [שכרו] כפול מן השמים. AA. ASE.
Legal document or letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Minute fragment. Some partial names have survived: al-Jubaylī, the in-law of Yaʿqūb b. [...]. AA
Minute fragment. From the bottom part of a late letter or legal document. Only part of a fancy signature survived title סופר ועד. AA
Minute fragment. From the bottom part of a late legal document. Signed by Yaaqiv […] and Avraham Sarfati. AA
Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. AA
On recto a late engagement deed. The groom .שבתי בכר ישועה the bride the daughter of David Mizrahi, from the year 1845. On verso a calendar. AA
Deed of sale of a female slave. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves a woman named Sitt al-Kull and notably refers to Dār al-Dībāj (the "House of Brocade") in Cairo (cf. T-S Ar.42.174, an Arabic-script deed of sale for a female slave, also mentioning Dār al-Dībāj, but from at least 10 years earlier).
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No names preserved. Release from legal obligations in a business relationship involving a store in which one party was present during the absence of the owner. Verso blank.
Release from legal obligations in a business relationship, mentioning one Abu Nasr, possibly an India trader, as the epithet is very common in the India Book documents. Likely continued in JRL SeriesA337-2. (Information from S. D. Goitein and M.A. Friedman, India Traders of the Middle Ages, 409-10 note 2). Handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
