Geniza Lab

Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment.

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)

List of names. On a thin strip of parchment. Mentions [...] ha-Levi; Abū Manṣūr b. Abū Sahl; his paternal aunt Sitt al-Kull bt. [...] known as Manṣūr; Farjiyya bt. Yiṣḥaq (called al-wāhiba, "the giver"?); Abū l-Maʿālī; and Avraham b. Ḥalfon, also known as Ibn Abū Salāma. (Information in part from CUDL)

Probably accounts, with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment of a legal document. Looks like it involves yibbum (levirate marriage), and there may be a dead brother named Elʿazar. On verso there is an unidentified document in Arabic script.

Small fragment of a power of attorney (שטר אורכתא). Mentioning al-Iskandaranī. (Information in part from CUDL)

Small fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: Perhaps 11th century. "... which we inherited from our father... and the appointed time came... and to collect their money..."

Receipt. In Arabic script. For Ibrāhīm al-Fuqqāʿī. The sum is 11 dinars, maybe plus 1/3 + 1/8. Needs further examination.

Fragment of a deed of sale. Dated: Adar II 1413 Seleucid, which is 1102 CE. for Abū(?) Yaʿaqov. Signed by [...] b. Shemuʾel and Yosef b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment of a dowry list, probably from a ketubah. AA

Small fragment of a legal document, mentioning Mordechai, a certain Bint [...] and a hundred dinars. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment from a ketubah.

Fragment from the top of a ketubah.

Small fragment from a ketubah, probably written by Yosef b. Shemu'el Halevi. AA

Fragment of a legal document, mentioning a certain [...] ha-Kohen b. Judah. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)

Few words from the bottom of a legal deed signed by Menashshe Hakohen.

Minute fragment from the top of a legal deed.

List or accounts. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed

Fragment of a letter. (Information from CUDL)