Geniza Lab

Awaiting description - see Goitein notes and index card linked below.

Fragmentary scrap that contains multiple hands. The recto has been identified as a responsum, whereas the verso is a short note to Abu al-Ḥasan (or Abu-l-Hakan), requesting him to give the bearer wine. There are two hands on the recto: the more fainted one states the problem (line 1-5), a more fresh black ink continues the answer to the query (lines 6-10). The second hand is more cursive and uses more connections. The subject of the responsum on the recto seems to be wine and wine selling, which makes this a interesting case of paper reuse: the main subject of both the older and the newer documents is wine. It is also possible that the shaykh, mentioned in the verso of the document, is the same Abu al-Ḥasan as in fragments Moss. II 135.1 and TS NS J 224.1. See Phukoiava's database "Wine Accross the Geniza" for translation. (Information from Ekaterina Pukhovaia)

Medical recipe (צפה מגלי).

Awaiting description - see Goitein notes and index card linked below.

Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Elul 1355 Seleucid, which is 13 August 1044 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David; also signed by Khalaf b. Yefet and Raḥamūn b. Yiṣḥaq. Concerns a marriage settlement after a dispute. The husband[...] b. Saʿīd b. Ḥallūf and his wife, in which he promises not to beat her and to set her up in a house separate from his family, while she agrees not to leave the house. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index cards.) Join: Oded Zinger. VMR.

Awaiting description - see Goitein notes and index card linked below.

Awaiting description - see Goitein notes linked below.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū ʿAlī. The sender says that "all the doc[tors] prescribed [...] for me... and after that they prescribed me the iṭr[īfal]...." On verso, assuming this is still the same letter, he complains of his old age and frailty (or perhaps poverty). He expresses gratitude to the addressee.

Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Unusual format. The trustee ("al-neʾeman") Yefet b. Elʿazar, who is the representative of al-Maḥalla, and the 4 undersigned elders of Fustat (ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, Nissim b. Nahray, Yeshuʿa b. Yakhin, Ṣedaqa b David ha-Kohen), agree to unite (יתעצבו) on behalf of plaintiffs in the Jewish courts who have rights against other people. There are at least two more agreements involving communal affairs. The same Yefet b. Elʿazar is the addressee of T-S 13J19.6. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

Awaiting description - see Goitein notes linked below.

Awaiting description - see Goitein notes linked below.

Recto and verso: Memorial list for the family of Abū l-ʿIzz containing names such as Ḥalfon, ʿUlla, Solomon, Yefet, ʿUzziel, Gūlā, and Saʿadya. Some names are crossed out. This is written on a reused piece of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment.

Letter from Yeḥezqel, unknown location, to Avraham ha-Melammed, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to find out from Abū l-Bahā' if he has woven the blanket (malḥafa) as promised. When the writer previously met with Abū l-Bahā' regarding this matter, Abū l-Bahā' said that he was ill but would bear it and finish the work (annahu yataḥammal al-maḍaḍ). (The other instances of maḍaḍ in the PGP database generally refer to a figurative distress, but the context here suggests an actual illness.) If Abū l-Bahā' has not fulfilled his promise, then Yūsuf from al-Maḥalla is willing to make the blanket "in two pieces." Information in part from Goitein's notes. ASE.

Small fragment of a court record for a case involving a man who had arrived from Damascus.

Letter advising that a person be provided with wheat instead of bread. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Beginning of a marriage match agreement drawn up in the presence of witnesses and written three times, the last version written in the shape of a circle.

Acknowledgement of debt between Elʿazar Kondiote (קאנדייוטי) and Shabbetay ʿAdda (עדה). Dated Kislev 5527 of the Era of Creation (= 1766 CE) and signed by Ezekiel Ḥefeṣ, David b. Elʿazar Kondiote and Saʿadya Maʿālī ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

Bill of sale for a female slave. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1470 Seleucid, which is 1158/59 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. One of the parties is Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Karam. Signed: Berakhot ha-Kohen b. Shela; Avraham ha-Kohen b. Aharon.

End of a legal document signed by Mevorakh b. Sar Shalom and Seʿadya b. [...] (Seʿadya's name is torn away). Underneath there is a validation, including the formula יהא היא בגופה ובממונה, signed by David ha-Paliṭ ("the refugee") b. Yosef and Ḥiyya b. [...]. (Information from CUDL.)