Geniza Lab

Many minute fragments, some from legal deeds. One piece is referring to Madmun the minister, probably Madmun b. Hasan in Aden.

Betrothal agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fiance: Yahaboy. Fiancee: Malīḥa. There is no payment of a first installment of the additional marriage gift. Dated: 1431 Seleucid, which is 1119/20 CE. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 381, 457)

Fragment of a letter from Farah b. Yosef b. Farah. Around 1070. Mentions selling linen and other goods including tamarisk seeds and nuts. The writer declares that he is not a merchant who participates in tenders for work like others, but stays next to his shop. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #525) VMR

Fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).

Minute fragment. Few words only

fragment of letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe

List of names, with no context. The list is starting with the nezer (the Diadem) and is followed by Abu Said the cantor, his brother's son. We can find also a person called Yosef who is referred to as בעל חלום , probably a dream interpreter. To the best of my knowledge this profusion is not attested elsewhere in the Geniza. AA

Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, under the authority of Masliah Gaon. Dating: 1127–38 CE. Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Yeshuʿa (probably identical with Faraḥ b. Yeshu'a, see India traders, p. 385, l. 15), is going to Yemen to deal with buying and selling pepper. A lady called Ḥasana is mentioned together with her husband Abū Saʿīd. Also mentions Maḥfūẓ b. Sahlān, Yaʿqūb b. Kawjakh (mentioned also in T-S NS 184.97. On this name, from the Persian word for "small," see India Book IV/A, p. 355, n. 115) and Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥayfī (from Haifa). AA

Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)

Minute fragment. Few words from an unidentified document written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)

Fragment of a court record regarding a shipment to be sent to Fustat and the division of profit. One of the parties is Abu al-Munna [son of ....] the elder al-Dimashqi. AA

Small strip from the left side of a legal deed of an unknown nature. One of the anonymous parties if referred as 'the great minister'. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)

Minute fragment of an unknown nature. only few words - amounts of money - are preserved. Wriettn by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi.

See PGP 1449

Two small fragments from a business letter. Worth noticing the term [tashtarī] bi-mā qasama Alāhu wa-razaqa , literally ‘purchase for whatever price God apportions and grants as a livelihood (and send it). On this term see India Traders, p. 63-64. AA

See PGP 24254

Fragmentary letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi. Names mentioned: Ibn abu al-Wafa, and b. al-Mu who has arruved from Upper Egypt (Sa'id). AA

Small fragment of a letter e=written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi

Minute fragment from a business letter

Small fragment from the end of a betrothal deed, from the year 1119, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi. Published by Ashur, Engagement and Betrothal, p. 232-233. AA