Geniza Lab

Bill of divorce. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 14 Tammuz 1335 Seleucid, which is 24 June 1024 CE. Husband: ʿAmram b. Khalaf b. Aharon Ibn Asqawī ha-Levi. Wife: Muʿtazza bt. ʿAllūn b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī. Written and signed by the cantor David b. Shekhanya. Also witnessed by Muḥsin b. Ḥusayn. No documentation of receipt on verso. (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 2 Sivan 1395 Seleucid, which is 9 May 1084 CE. Husband: Kathīr b. Yehoshuaʿ. Wife: Mawʿā bt. Moshe. Signed by: Aharon b. Avraham; Eliyahhu b. [...]. No documentation of receipt on verso. (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: New Cairo. Dated: 16 Tevet 1399 Seleucid, which is 31 December 1088 CE. This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. It is identical to T-S 10J2.8; both are unsigned. Husband; Shelomo b. Shimʿon. Wife: Sutūt bt. Shemarya. No documentation of receipt on verso. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 21 Sivan 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. Husband: ʿOvadya b. Yeshula ha-Kohen. Wife: Ghāliya bt. Hānī. Witnessed by the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli (compare T-S 10J2.9), and ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi. No documentation of receipt on verso. (Information from CUDL)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 12 Shevaṭ 1415 Seleucid, which is 11 January 1104 CE. Husband: Yaʿaqov b. Mevasser. Wife: Baqiyya bt. Maṣliaḥ. The witnesses are Abū Isḥaq and Abū Yaʿqūb. No documentation of receipt on verso. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 21 Elul 1418 Seleucid, which is 1107 CE. Husband: Moshe b. Siman Ṭov. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Ṣedaqa. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel; Shelomo b. Menashshe. No documentation of receipt on verso. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Bilbays. Dated: 17 Adar II 1483 Seleucid, which is 15 March 1172. Husband: Manṣūr b. Avraham. Wife: Sitt al-Bayt bt. Muwaffaq the Freedman (ha-meshuḥrar). The witnesses are Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen and ʿEli b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by witnesses Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi and Menashshe b. Yosef. (Information from Goitein's index card and Mediterranean Society)

Legal document. Bill of divorce. Dated: 143[.] Seleucid. Fragment (the upper left corner is missing). Husband: [...] b. Tamīm. Wife: [...] bt. Yaḥyā ha-Levi. The witnesses are Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by witnesses Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Sivan 1440 Seleucid, which is 4 Jun 1129 CE. Husbnad: Ḥalfon b. David. Wife: Mannāna b. Sahlān. The witnesses are Natan b. Shemuel and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by the witness Natan b. Avram ha-Levi. (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 2 Sivan 1441 Seleucid, which is 12 May 1130 CE. Husband: Ḥananya b. Avraham ha-Kohen. Wife: Ḥasana bt. Yosef. The witnesses are the cantor Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. No documentation of receipt on verso. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: New Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 11 Av 1442 Seleucid, which is 6 August 1131 CE. Husband: Yehuda b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Wife: Sitt al-Khawāt bt. Eliyya (cf. T-S 10J2.22). The witnesses are ʿEli b. Netanel ha-Levi and Hillel b. Shabbat ha-Kohen. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by the witnesses Eliyyahu b. ʿEli ha-Ḥaver and Hillel b. Shabbat ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 27 Tishrei 1337 Seleucid, which is 23 September 1025 CE. Husband: Sibāʿ b. Avraham. Wife: Rayyisa bt. Kathīr. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. No documentation of receipt on verso. (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: New Cairo. Dated: 29 Tevet 1443 Seleucid, which is 19 January 1132 CE. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli. Wife: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Ṣedaqa. The witnesses are Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by the witnesses Yosef b. Yefet ha-Levi and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 3 Elul 1446 Seleucid, which is 14 August 1135 CE. Husband: Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq. Wife: Ḥasana bt. Shelomo. The witnesses are Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by the same two witnesses. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The fragment is torn and thus is missing portions of the document. What remains indicates that the divorce is between Natan ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Khawāt bt. [. . .]. The date that is left is for the 28 of a month between 1449 and 1460 in the Seleucid calendar (1138-1149 in Julian). (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Maḥalla. Dated: 12 Adar 1457 (26 February 1146). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Yoshiyya b. Daʾūd and Sitt al-Yumn bt. Saʿadya. The witnesses are Zakkāy b. Moshe and Elʿazar b. Sasson. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by Elʿazar b. Sasson and Natanel ha-Levi b. Naḥman. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Alexandria (referred to as No-Amon). Dated: 22 Tammuz 1461 (18 July 1150). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Baqā b. Shemuel and Ṭalb bt. Yiṣḥaq. The witnesses are Yiṣḥaq b. Yūsuf and Surūr b. Avraham. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Yiṣḥaq b. Yūsuf and Surūr b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 15 Kislev 1461 (17 November 1149). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark; this bill was not completed and consequently was not signed. The divorce is between Yiṣḥaq b. [. . .] ha-Ḥaver and Yamān bat Beraḵot. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 19 Adar II 1464 (17 March 1153). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark; this bill is partially effaced. The divorce is between Menashshe b. [. . .] and [. . .] bt. Shela. The witnesses are Saʿadya b. Mevorakh and Mevorakh b. Natan. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Saʿadya b. Mevorakh and Mevorakh b. Natan. (Information from Goitein's index card)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 19 Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 20 July 1155 CE. This bill of divorce is one of forty in the T-S 10J2 folder. Husband: Manṣūr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Kohen. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Bū Naṣr. Witnessed by: Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver; Shelomo b. Shemuel ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by the same two witnesses. (Information from Goitein's index card)