Geniza Lab

Legal document concerned with a woman and her financial claims in connection with her husband, apparently while he was travelling. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document concerning inheritance and mentioning Yeshuʿa. (Information from CUDL)

Official letter. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The hand may be known. Wide space between the lines. Addressed to a community, and containing a recommendation (or appointment?) for the bearer ("no one is to oppose him... representing us... honor him and respect him... he is deserving of all good deeds..."). (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Very faded. Mentions sending something with 'al-zaqen.' Mentions 10 dirhams and 4 dirhams. (Information in part from CUDL)

Fragment containing a few words in Hebrew script, including the name Shimʿon.

Informal note from David to a certain Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely early 13th century. The sender reports that he has met with one of the brothers of Abū l-Majd (likely Meʾir b. Yakhin, the secretary of Avraham Maimonides), who will send "it" to him. The sender emphasizes that he is diligently trying to accomplish "the thing he mentioned to our master (Sayyidnā)." (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Letter from a certain Yisrael, in Jerusalem, to Avraham Castro (d. 1560), in Cairo. In Hebrew. Asking for charity and for his family of 8 individuals. (Information from A. David's edition via FGP.)

Unidentified text in Ladino. Probably not a letter. Perhaps ethical exhortations? Needs examination.

Accounts with many names, such as Ibn Masʿūd and Abū Saʿd, and Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL) See PGP 20645

Legal testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No signatures, and probably unfinished. It concerns the death of the trader Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen in Yemen (diyār al-Yaman), and presumably his estate. Mentions the local ruler (sulṭān tilka l-diyār). On verso, there is a document with list of names, such as Yefet, ʿAllūn and [...] Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer). (Information in part from CUDL)

List (accounts) with sums of dinars, with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: beginning of an Arabic letter. Verso: unidentified Hebrew script (possibly the address, the sender may be [...] b. Elishaʿ). (Information from CUDL)

Autograph letter from Maimonides to a judge. The addressee is asked to mediate between the bearer Abū l-Fakhr and his legal opponent Abū l-Maḥāsin. If he is unable to do that, he should at least make one of them take an oath that he has no property 'neither here nor anywhere else.' (Information from CUDL and Friedman, Dictionary, 75, 116–17, 141, 165.)

Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, dividing up a store. No names mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Leaves from a notebook with accounts, mentioning commodities such as pepper. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Much of the date is broken off, but mentions a number of names names such as Elʿazar, Abraham, Ibn Najā, Shemuʾel and Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information from CUDL)

List of houses and their owners. (Information from CUDL)

Tiny fragment. Only a few words are preserved. Wide space between the lines. Probably a letter recommending someone for charity.

Recto: Document in Arabic script. Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper right corner is preserved, containing a few words from the opening and a sizeable text block from the right margin. Mentions 2 months... al-rayyis... a house. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter mentioning names, such as Abū Zikrī and Sulaymān, towns, such as ʿAydāb, and commodities, such as musk. In the address on verso Judah ha-Kohen and Maḥrūz b. Jacob are mentioned. (Information from CUDL)