Geniza Lab

Awaiting description - see Goitein notes linked below.

Probably part of a ketubba fragment, mentioning sums of money in dinars. (Information from CUDL)

End of a ketubba in a large hand. Signed by Nathan [ha-Levi] b. Yeshuʿa (mid-11th century). (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment of a ketubba, mentioning ‘golden dinars’. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: end of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document, signed by Elijah b. Moses, Nissim [..], Ismaʿīl b. Khal[af], Shemuʾel b. Nehemiah Kohen, [… b. So]lomon, Barukh b. Jacob, and Daniel b. Ḥ[..]n. Verso: liturgical poetry in Hebrew (part of a rotulus). (Information from CUDL)

Account written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in Yemen around 1149-52 detailing a compensation in kind to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq and Yosef b. Avraham.

Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.

Agreement, possibly for the sale of land/property. The parties are Daniel b. Jacob and […]m b. Hille[l]. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Opening of a ketubba for Malika bat Mukhtār and Ṣedaqa b. Yeshuʿa dated Wednesday 3 [month] [1]365 (= 1054 CE) in Fusṭāṭ. Malika was formerly married to a man named Isaac and the ketubba mentions her son Mafrij b. Isaac (מפרג), whom Ṣedaqa will now treat as his own child. Witnessed by Aharon the Adept b. Efrayim, Hassan b. ʿAvham (עבהם), Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham, Sahl b. Mevasser, Sh[...]on b. Yiṣḥaq, Ghālib b. Aharon (גאלב), [...] b. Shemuʾel. (Information from CUDL)

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The names of the parties are purposely erased. Date not preserved. One man purchases a house which is located in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (Fustat) from a Kohen. The house was owned by two parties, and it seems that one of them was the buyer of the other party's share. A gift/donation to the pious foundations' institution is also mentions (kitāb al-ṣadaqa). No signatures preserved. (Information from Goitein's index card and Weiss's edition.)

Geṭ for Hilāla bat […] (הלאלה), dated 143[.] (= 1118-1128 CE) in Egypt. The witnesses’ names are repeated in a note on the verso: ʿEli ha-Levi b. Nathaniel ha-Levi and Hillel b. Joseph the Cantor, the Babylonian. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1769 Seleucid, which is 1458 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Yehosef. Location: Cairo. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Levi b. Muhadhdhab known as Ibn ʿAbda(?) acknowledges a debt of 12,000 dirhams(!) that he owes to a woman named (Sitt al-)ʿAbīd bt. Sulaymān, the wife of al-Shamūsī b. Shemuel Tājir. Verso: Another legal document, dated Sunday, 7 Av 1770 Seleucid, which is 1459 CE. ʿAbīd attests that ʿAbd al-Laṭīf has repaid the debt in full. Join: Oded Zinger.

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Acknowledgement of debt. A certain individual promises to make a payment of 298 dinars for precious items of textile merchandise (aʿlāq) which he had received in Damascus. He will pay off the debt in a single payment as soon as the seller/creditor arrives in Fustat. (Information from Goitein’s index card and Weiss's edition.)

Bill of release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Probably connected with the dissolution of a partnership, since the words "profit" (fā'ida) and "account" (ḥisāb) are mentioned. There is a unusual clause that reads "whether by oral witness or through a written document" (l.8) ([mā kāna] minhu be-ʿedut al pe wa-mā kāna minhu bi-sheṭar ve-qinyan). (Information from CUDL and Weiss's edition.)

Legal document (end only) signed by witnesses including Menaḥem ha-Levi b. Tamim and Efrayim b. Ḥayyim. (Information from CUDL)

Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.

Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.

Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.

Bill of divorce (geṭ). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday 28 Tevet 1448 Seleucid, which is 24 December 1136 CE. Husband: Ṣadaqa b.Yiṣḥaq ha-Ḥazzan. Wife: Naẓar bt. Nadiv. On verso there is a testimony that the bill was properly delivered, signed by Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. There is an additional note on verso in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a woman whose husband died and who married Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm the poor spindle-maker (al-ʿAni al-Maghazilī). (Information in part from Goitein’s index card and Weiss's edition.)

Bill of release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Given to a Kohen. No details preserved. (Information from CUDL and Weiss's edition.)