Geniza Lab

Part of a legal document in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)

Qaraite ketubba. Dated: [13]52 of the Seleucid era, which is 1040/41 CE). Mentions the names Ṣemaḥ, Ḥizqiyya, Mevorakh b. Barhūn, and Ṣedaqa b. ʿAllūn. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Fragment (bottom part only). Mentions: A debt of 27 dinars; Yosef al-Dimashqī on the one hand; Abū l-Makārim and Abū l-Bishr on the other. No signatures.

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa.

Legal document, small fragment.

Small fragment of a legal document; ‘this Joseph ha-Kohen’ is crossed out and replaced above the line with ‘Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen his father’. (Information from CUDL)

Marriage contract, small fragment. Location: Fustat. Bride: [...] bt. Avraham. In Aramaic.

Marriage contract, tiny fragment. Includes part of three lines from a dowry list.

Legal document, tiny fragment. Marriage-related?

Legal fragment. Dated: 1559 Seleucid, which is 1247/48 CE. Involves Menaḥem Abū [...] b. Shelomo ha-Levi. There are distinct but probably related documents on recto and verso. Damaged and faded.

Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Partnership agreement between Abū l-Riḍā Moshe and Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa. One partner is in Alexandria and the other in Fustat. Involving very large sums of money: 300 and 600 dinars.

Legal fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Late. Involves a woman named Esther. Signed by מעתוק רביב(?)

Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century. Mentions 'my brother R. Moshe,' the dīwān, the dīwān taking a payment of over 3,000 of something, and R. Elʿazar.

Deathbed will of Abū l-Baqā'. Draft: abandoned in the middle of the third line

Legal fragment. Dated: Heshvan 14[...] Seleucid, which is 1088–1187 CE. Needs examination for content. Very faded.

Marriage document? Little remains on recto. On verso there is a note mentioning [Sitt] al-Ahl bt. Maʿālī, the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan [...] al-Meshorer, and her daughter Sitt al-Banīn.

Legal document. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the upper left corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: [..]61, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE, under the authority of [Shemuel b. Ḥananya] ha-Nagid ha-Gadol. The case concerns [...]da bt. Shemarya and payments related to her ketubba. There may be a man named Abu l-Faḍl. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document. The hand of the scribe is probably known. Fragment (long vertical strip). Involves: [Hiba]tallāh b. Mūsā; a power of attorney; silk; various sums of dinars.

Legal document, probably a transfer of property, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involves a certain Moshe. No date or signatures are preserved. Contains elaborate release formulae. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document, probably a transfer of property, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. No date or signatures are preserved. The phrase ‘12 dinars’ is crossed out. (Information from CUDL)