Part of a draft of a document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh (1100-1138 CE), mentioning a deceased doctor known as Abū l-Faḍl b. Joseph ha-Sar, known as Ibn Pinḥas.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Deed of quittance from Abū l-Makārim b. […] known as Ibn Baqā to Saʿadya ha-Kohen. Also mentions pledges deposited with […] b. Solomon ha-Kohen known as Abū l-Ḵayr. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).Condition: Badly torn, holes, fadedLayout: 14 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Incomplete court record in the hand of Halfon b. Manasseh, concerning the heirs of a murdered woman, Sitt al-Husn bat Isaac. She had been killed by her husband (ʿUmmār the banker?), along with her mother (Sitt al-Bayt bat Mevoraḵ) in what is called ‘the famous murder case’. The order of the deaths was significant, as the second woman to die would have inherited the estate of the first woman to die, and the second-degree heirs of each woman subsequently laid claim to both estates. T-S NS 31.9 is a duplicate copy of this document, and reveals that the relatives of the murdered women (Abū Yaʿqūb Isaac the cantor b. Ḡalib known as Abū Manṣūr, and Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon the cantor b. Ḡalib known as Abū Manṣūr) reached an agreement to divide the inheritance equally.Condition: Badly torn, fadedLayout: 14 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Legal document, in which Abraham b. Nissim (presumably an old man) gives part of a house to the wife of Solomon, and in return she will bear his burial expenses and will provide him with fine clothing. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).Condition: Badly tornLayout: 13 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Fragment from a legal document, probably a bill of release from a wife to her husband Abū Sahl Manasseh. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).Condition: Badly tornLayout: 10 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Fragment from a document regarding an agreement on the division of the property of the deceased Sar Šalom with a certain Abū l-Riḍā. In the hand of Halfon b. Manasseh (1100-1138 CE).Condition: Badly torn, holesLayout: 18 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Fragment from the beginning of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE), mentioning Hibatallah Nathaniel.Condition: Badly tornLayout: 2 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Bill of release for Sitt al-Kull and her daughter Sirwa, in the hand of Halfon b. Manasseh ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).Condition: Badly torn, holes, faded, stainedLayout: 14 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Part of a legal document regarding the purchase of a house in Qaṣr al-Šamʿ, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). The house was owned by two parties, and one seems to have bought the other’s share.Condition: Badly torn, rubbedLayout: 12 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Part of an acknowledgement of debt, promising that payment will be made as soon as the creditor arrives in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning textiles which were received in Damascus. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE).Condition: Badly torn, fadedLayout: 9 lines
Part of a pre-nuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). A fine of 100 dinars will be imposed if the husband takes a second wife or a slave girl of whom the wife disapproves.Condition: Badly tornLayout: 7 lines (recto; verso is blank)