Abbreviations
| ACCM | Chamber of Commerce Archives, Marseille |
| AT | Arba’ah Turim |
| BOA | Presidential Ottoman Archives, Istanbul (formerly Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi) |
| BT | Babylonian Talmud |
| EJ | Encyclopaedia Judaica |
| EJIW | Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World |
| Even | even ha-‘ezer |
| Ḥoshen | ḥoshen ha-mishpat |
| IJMES | International Journal of Middle East Studies |
| JT | Jerusalem Talmud |
| M | Mishnah |
| MT | Mishneh Torah |
| NA | National Archives, London (formerly PRO or Public Record Office) |
| Oraḥ | oraḥ ḥayim |
| s | siman (notation of chapters/questions in responsa collections) |
| ShA | Shulḥan ‘Arukh |
| Yoreh | yoreh de‘ah |