Geniza Lab

Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (middle of the right side). Faded and smudged. Verso blank.

Minute fragment from the bottom pf a legal deed. Only part of the signatures are preserved: [...] b. Avraham, [...] b. Aharon

Minute fragment, probably from a letter or document.

Fragment from the right part of a letter, mostly relating to family affairs. Abu al-Mana, the writer's sister's son, is mentioned and so is Alexandria. Probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.

Debt contract. Probably in the hand of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Elul 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. [Yose]f b. Elʿazar b. Mevorakh Ibn Ṭuwayr al-ʿAshā has to pay 10 dinars to Abu Saʿīd b. Yeshuʿa.

Fragment from a legal deed regarding a rent and a fine to be paid for the poor. T-S NS 225.25u seems an indirect join. AA

Minute fragment from a legal deed

Fragment from a legal deed regarding a house belong to Mahfuza, also mentioning Abu Kthir. The same two persons are the subject of T-S NS 224.51+T-S NS 225.25f+T-S NS J588 (see PGP 26539). T-S NS 225.25w seems an indirect join. AA

See PGPID 24073

Minute fragment from engagement deed written by Halfon b. Menashsh Halevi. The groom's name is Shelomo. The bride is a widow, daughter of Munaja. AA

minute fragment with dew wirds in Arabic. Needs examination.

Minute fragment of a legal deed wrtten by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). One of the parties is Abu Sa'd.

Recto: Bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Tishrei 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE. The cantor ʿEli ha-Kohen pays [...] b. Shelomo ha-Kohen 2.5 dinars for various books pawned by the latter. Among the books mentioned: אצאראת (יוצרות) ללשלישי (see Allony, the Jewish LIbrary, p. 33), and Drashot on the Torah. Verso: Fragment of another legal deed, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Probably an agreement between a husband and wife after a fight; the husband will pay 6 dinars and return her to his home. AA.

ourt recorde. Abu al-Faraj al-Jubayli b. Menashshe Halevi the elder, the Head of the Congregation passed away without leaving anything to his son Abu 'Ali and he demand his share. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA

Minute fragment, very faded and only few words are hardly visible.

Mercantile letter. On parchment. Dating: Early 11th century. The address is only partially legible and written in a confusing way. The sender appears to be al-Faḍl b. Yūsuf. The addressee is Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Yehuda al-Kīnānī(?) known as ṣāḥib (the friend of?) al-Baradānī; underneath is written "to Abū l-[Faraj] Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb Ibn ʿAwkal" (the most prominent merchant in the Geniza documents of this period). The letter was sent to him "either in Fustat or al-Ramla." The sender may be in Tripoli. He is angry about something to do with a huge shipment of 581 cases of "that damned tutty" (tūtiyāʾ, zinc oxide) and a financial loss that is "beyond repair. . . you have destroyed us." He bemoans his loss of reputation among "the Tripolitans, the Sicilians, the Maghribīs, and the Levantines, let alone among the Baghdādīs." Mentions the arrival of a group of traders who had been in Egypt, among them Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Yaḥyā Ibn al-Ṭaḥḥāla. Mentions the (arrival of?) the ship of ʿArūs. The letter concludes with something about a woman named Sitt ʿAlam. Uncited in the literature & should be edited. AA. ASE

Minute fragment, probably from legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi

Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi

Small fragment of a legal deed, probably a bill of release, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (Date: 1100–38). Name mentioned: [Ab]ū l-Ḥasan.

Minute fragment. Two words from an opening of a legal deed