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Type: Legal document
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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 continuation of JRL SeriesA337-1. (Information from S. D. Goitein and M.A. Friedman, India Traders of the Middle Ages, 409-10 note 2).
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In which [...] b. Yosef acknowledges receipt of a debt from [...] b. Netanel ha-Levi. Little else remains.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 1 Elul 5579 AM, which is 1819 CE. The widow of Avraham Yerid(?) invests 9000 medins with Yeḥezqel Ḥefeẓ.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: First decade of the 19th century. Involving Shabbetay Skandarī and Yiṣḥaq [...]. Signed by Yeḥezqel Ḥefeẓ.
A late letter from Yosef, asking to addressee to write a bill of permission to give a loan (שטר עסקא). In Hebrew. AA
Legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic related to real estate transactions that are dated 1784/85CE according to FGP. The list format of these documents suggests that the page may have once been bound as part of a broader court register. There is much damage to the fragment but on occasion the closing line of each document is clear enough that the Aramaic word "established / קיים" appears– which is a common term that seals a legal document. The first document on the verso is signed with a difficult calligraphic hand yet within the document's first line, the name Yehuda b. Mauza[?] is legible. In the following line the name Masʿūd "מסעוד" appears. MCD.
Legal document dated 1728/9 CE (5489) involving the heirs and dependents of the deceased Eliezer Mayo. Shemuel ben Naʿim is mentioned in the first two lines, but his role is unclear. Eliezer left behind two sons, the elder named Yiṣḥaq Mayo, who lives at present in Livorno (? ליורני), the younger named Shelomo Mayo, who lives with his mother Judika (? גודיקא) bt. Moshe Mayo. Needs further examination.
Possibly a late letter in Hebrew. Rashid is named at the bottom. Needs examination.
Beginning of a betrothal document for Shelomo Khamīṣ (?) b. Raḥamim and the orphan Sarah bt. Aharon. The scribe abandoned the document after 6 lines.
Receipt issued by Yaʿaqov Raẓon to al-Senyor Merkado Karo for 82 reales.
Fragments of late legal documents in Hebrew. The document on Page 2 is dated April 1818 (Nisan 5578).
Fragment of a legal document, probably a get.
Partnership/investment agreement (עסקא). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: First third of Shevaṭ 5577 AM = January 1817 CE. Khalīfa ʿAfīf acknowledges that David ʿAfīf has invested 17,000 medins with him. Signed by Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen and Binyamin de Curiel. On verso there are accounts/sums in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. AA. ASE.
Investment agreement (ʿisqa). Dated: Adar I 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. In which Joya bt. Yehuda Ashio invests 100 riyāls with Meir ben Naʿim for a period of 6 months. Signed by: Gedalya [...], Meir ben Naʿim, and Yiṣḥaq Zamiro. AA. ASE.
Top portion of a court record from the court of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (r. 1204-1237), witnessed on Tuesday the 16th of the month of Adar in Fustat. On Avraham Maimonides, see S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2: 39-40 and 5:476-77; on cases brought before his court see Mediterranean Society, 1:88, 255, 366, 491; 2:397; 3:72.
Fragment of a late legal document in which someone, perhaps Faraj Allāh, acknowledges an investment of Venetian gold from Sulaymān Faraḥ.
Legal document dated 20 October 1800 (1 Heshvan 5561), Fustat, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 60 reales, equivalent (?) to 90 silver muayyadis, from Sulṭāna the widow of Yosef Mizraḥī.
Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document, dated 18 June 1795 (1 Tammuz 5555), for Moshe b. [left blank] and Sara bt. David Russo. Verso: A geomancy casting; the question is crossed out but may be legible ("Is . . . good for me or not?")
Legal document. Testimony in court, between Moshe Sofer and Yitsḥak Sofer. Late.
Recto: The end of a legal document dated February 1821 CE (middle of Adar I, 5581), Fustat, scribed and signed by Yaʿqov ha-Kohen. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
