Accounts for the rental of shops and apartments in Damascus belonging to the heqdeš of Damascus. Mentions reconstructions of some of the shops, and refers to people from the Maghreb as tenants.Condition: Holes, rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 13 lines (recto); 7 lines (verso)
Part of the register of betrothals from the court notebook of the Babylonian congregation in Damascus, dated 6 Nisan 933 CE. The first betrothal recorded is between Samuel b. Abraham the Persian and Ḵayriya bat Ezra; the mohar was fixed at 50 gold pieces. At the time of betrothal Samuel gave her 3 good gold pieces, and he will add 17 gold pieces at the time of marriage, and a further 30 in future. This offer was accepted by Manṣūr b. Isaac, the guardian of Ḵayriya. Witnessed by Muʿammar b. Jacob, Benjamin […], Aaron b. R. […], […] b. Saul, Jacob b. Maymūn, and Abraham ha-šofet. The second record regards the betrothal of […] b. Joseph with Ṯanā bat Furayj ha-Kohen, witnessed by Jacob b. Nathan and Aaron b. ʿEli.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 17 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Fragment from the opening of a document written in Damascus. The parties are Sason ha-Levi the elder b. Yešuʿa and David ha-Kohen.Condition: TornLayout: 6 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Part of a will issued on the deathbed of [Samuel] b. Joseph (known as Ibn al-Jūbrānī). Samuel appoints his brother, Judah b. Joseph, to be trustee over all his estate. Witnessed by Hiba b. Joseph the glassmaker, Abraham b. Aaron and dated Nisan 4763 (= 1003 CE) in Damascus. Following the signatures of the witnesses is an attestation from the great court of the Land of Israel, witnessed by [Ḥananya] ha-Kohen ‘Father of the Yešiva, son of a Gaʾon’ (Ḥananya b. Joseph Gaʾon).Condition: torn, holesLayout: 31 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Deed of release in Hebrew dated Sunday 13th Nisan 4755 (= 995 CE) in Damascus. Yaḥya b. Zechariah the judge and Zūrʿa ha-Levi b. Abraham (זורעה) witness before the Bet Din that Solomon known as al-Qūʿiṭa (אלקועיטה) does not owe them anything. At the foot of the page is an attestation in Judaeo-Arabic by the Bet Din mentioning Ezra b. Qayyum al-Muqaddasī (קיום אלמקדסי). Witnessed by Abraham ha-Levi he-Ḥaver of the great Sanhedrin b. Šimei (בסנהדרין גדול בירבי שמעי) and Gamliel b. Josiah.Condition: Badly torn, holes, faded, stainedLayout: 28 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Signatures from the bottom of a deed and fragmentary marriage record produced by the Babylonian congregation in Damascus in 933 CE. One of the signatures reads […]b. Tahvoy (?). The marriage record preserves a part of the name of the groom, possibly Naḥman, and mentions some goods: gold, a veil, a long scarf, a bed cover, 13 pillows, a pail, a cup, a dyeing vessel, and 2 chests. The bride brought into the marriage a housing compound. The record is signed by Qayyom b. Simeon ha-Kohen ha-Yamanī, […] ha-Kohen b. Isaac, Isaac b. Harūn, Menaḥem b. Samuel, and Abraham b. Saʿadya.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 17 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Court records containing 4 betrothal contracts. Recto (a) is dated Thursday 9th Adar I 4693 (= 933 CE) in Damascus between Maymūna bat Ḥasan known as Ḥušim, and Baqā b. Moses known as Abū Kāmil. Witnessed by [El]qana b. Moses b. Benjamin ha-[Kohen] ([]קנה בר משה בר בינימין ה[]), [Elisha] b. Moses ha-[Kohen], Isaac b. Abraham (אצחק), [...] b. Isaac, Ḥasan b. Manṣur. Recto (b) is dated Thursday 16th (יו) Adar I 4693 (= 933 CE) in Damascus between Zahra bat Jacob ha-Kohen the scribe and Manṣūr b. Isaac b. Saʿīd b. Pinḥas. Witnessed by Bišr [b.] Ismāʿīl b. Ḥātim (אסמעיל בן חתים), Isaac b. Samuel b. Nihmī (נהמי), Saʿīd b. ʿUzayr Ṭavyomi (עזיר טביומי), Elisha b. Moses ha-Kohen, Samuel b. Solomon b. ʿUzayr (עזייר), [Ezra] Samuel b. Ezra, Moses b. Samuel b. Ḥātim, Nissin b. Savoy (נסין בן סבוי), David b. Aaron, Abraham the judge ha-Levi b. [...]. Verso (a) is dated Thursday 14th Adar II 4693 (= 933 CE) in Damascus between Tāmma bat Isaac (תאמה) and Hillel ha-Levi b. Aaron of Tiberias (called מעזיה). The bride’s representative is Moses b. Nissi. Witnessed by Bišr b. Ismāʿīl b. Ḥatim (בשר בן אסמעיל בן חתים), Moses b. Jacob, ʿAbbās (עבאס) b. Saʿīd, Samuel b. Menaḥ[em], Jacob ha-Kohen b. Judah b. Baruḵ, Simḥa b. Solomon. Verso (b) is dated Thursday 28th Adar II 4693 (= 933 CE) in Damascus between Hiba bat Jonah and ʿEli b. Wuhayb. Witnessed by Isaac b. Samuel b. Ni[hmi], Nissin b. Savoy, Joshua b. Ṣulḥ (שלח), Ezra b. Samuel b. Ezra, Aaron b. [Be]njamin b. Nihmi, Bišr b. Ḵalaf ha-Kohen, [Ab]raham b. ʿUṯman (עותמן), Ḥasan b. ʿImran (in Arabic script), and [Isaa]c b. Jacob ha-Kohen the scribe.Condition: Torn, holes, fadedLayout: 30 lines (recto); 41 lines (verso)
Ketubba, mentioning a marriage gift of 25 (dinars) and the clause that the husband will not be obliged to pay the marriage gift unless he divorces his wife wilfully and she is not guilty of misconduct. The trousseau list includes items of jewellery and clothing: a pair of golden rings, two pearl beads in earrings, a gilded white-grey headband, a coat made of different materials, a bathrobe, a wrap, ʿaṣabī maḵtūmas. The formulary is very similar to two marriage documents from Damascus, dated 933 CE (see Friedman 1981, 347).Condition: Torn, stainedLayout: 9 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Late 10th-century Palestinian ketubba from Damascus, of which only the lower part is preserved. The groom’s name is Raḥ[mūn]. The dowry list includes a short garment of linen decorated with silver and golden threads, two shirts, two velvet covers, and two dyeing vessels. Mention is also made of some properties: the apartments in the compound known as Dār al-Jubrānīyīn, the apartments of Ibn Maḥmūd, the apartments of al-Ḥumayṣī. Witnessed by Obadiah ha-Levi, Abraham b. Ṣadoq, […] b. Abraham, […] b. Mevasser, Faraj b. ʿEli, Isaac b. Moses, Ḥusayn b. Sahlān, Amram b. Šabbat, Sedaqa b. […], and Šimei (שמעי) ha-Levi the cantor b. ʿEli the scribe, which also wrote the document.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 27 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: extract from Ruth 1. Verso: lower part of a Palestinian-style ketubba, signed by Moses b. Maymūn (not Maimonides), in Damascus in the 10th century. Moses b. Maymūn is also known from T-S 16.14, also regarding events in Damascus, in the early 11th century.Condition: Badly torn, fadedLayout: 5 lines (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Recto: deed of release (שטר אביזאר) from Damascus (on the rivers Amana and Parpar). The deed of release is between Joseph b. Nissi known as Karkabī (כרכבי), a merchant of Aleppo, and his nephews Mevoraḵ and Solomon, the sons of the deceased Qayyim b. Nissi (the brother of Joseph). The date and names of witnesses are not preserved.Condition: Badly torn, holes, fadedLayout: 28 lines (recto); c. 25 lines (verso)
Letter from a Damascene Karaite to a Karaite leader in Fusṭāṭ, ca. 1040 CE.Condition: Badly torn, holes, fadedLayout: 18 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)