Geniza Lab

Astrology; Predicting the Future. Occasional Arabic script (info by Gidi Bohak FGP)

Fragment of a state document (decree? report?). The first words of 4 lines are preserved, separated by huge line spacing. Legible words: min al-ghulla... bi-rasm al-[...]... wa-bi-amri kamā [...]... mawṣūla [...].... Reused for a magical text in Aramaic and Hebrew. AA. ASE.

Goralot (info by Gidi Bohak FGP)

Unidentified. might be literary text? - needs examination.

Magic Recipes (Info from Gidi Bohak FGP) and piyyut

Introduction to a work on magic/telling the future, probably in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably a join with L-G Misc. 16.

Magic Recipes (info by Gidi Bohak FGP)

Bill of lading. Hayyim b. 'Ammar b. Medini sends textiles with Abu Zikri Yehuda b. Menashshe b. Da'ud Sayrafi. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Hebrew letter. The writer informs about a letter sent to Abu Sa'ad in Cairo, in the shop of al-Dustari al-Sharabi, were he sit after returning from the palace. He is asking him to go to Abu al-Ma'ali. Also a judge is mentioned. AA

Rabbinica; probably from the preface to a work of rabbinic literature, but can also be from a letter; the author mentions having consulted the Tosefta; (info from FGP).

Fragment of a ketubah, containing the dowry. On recto few words in Arabic script- needs examination

Small damaged and faded letter written on parchment. Only few words have survived.

Fragmentary bill of divorce (get). The husband name [... b.] Halfon. The wife's name 'Aziza. Signed by [... b.] Yeshu'a Hakohen and [...] b. Ishaq. On verso approval that the bill was given to the wife, one of the signatories is Hiyya Hakohen.

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Minyat Zifta. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. Yosef. Wife: Bita bt. Shelomo (ביתה בת שלמה). Dated: Thursday, 5 Nisan 1446 Seleucid, which is 1135 CE. Signed by Shabbetay b. Avraham, and Yeshuʿa b. Shemuel. On verso the attestation that the bill of divorce was given to the wife, signed by Meshullam b. Natan and Yeshuʿa b. Shemuel. AA

Bill of divorce (get), from Mahalla al-Kabirah. The husband's name is Mu'amar b. Tuviah. The wife [Ma]l[ih]a? d. Ma'ali. Signed by Nissim b. Shiloh (signed also on TS 16.140 from 1121) and Yehuda b. El'azar, who also wrote the document. On verso an approval that the get was delivered to the wife, sigend by Yehuda b. El'azar and Shelomo b. Zedaqa. AA

Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerning half of a well-known house in al-Qālūs. This is probably the upper part of BL OR 12299.12 + T-S 8.123 (but it is not a continuous join). The people involved are: Hillel b. Elʿazar/Manṣūr b. Yefet/Ḥasan ha-Kohen, his wife Sitthum aka Sitt al-Jamīʿ bt. ʿOvadya, and a druggist named Abū Naṣr Ibn Zubbaybāt. There may be someone named Salmān al-Muḥaddith, but more likely this is referring to the name of a new (muḥdath) house, [Dār] Salmān. Goitein and Gershon Weiss believed this fragment to be a join with T-S 12.553 (which involves the same couple), but this is not certain (Goitein and Weiss did not know about BL OR 12299.12 + T-S 8.123 or about the join T-S 12.502 + T-S 12.82 + T-S 12.553.) AA. ASE.

Letter from Ḥalfon b. Madmun to Saadya b. Avraham, an Egyptian teacher. Aden, 1154.

Bill of debt issued in Cairo in 1510 to be paid to David Di Medina and his brother Avraham in 10 Ducati every week. The debtors are Yisef Hakohen, Shemuel Ibn Sahl and Yosef Halevi known as Miron. (info from FGP)

Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality. In Hebrew. Deals with the estate of a certain flax merchant named Yaʿaqov. One of the sides is "insane" (טרוף דעת). Also mentions a group of prisoners who escaped (בי]ת הסוהר וברחו האסורים). (Information from Gil.)

Court record in Hebrew. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). (Or at least about Damietta.) Dated: Nisan 1360 Seleucid, which is 1049 CE. Concerns a debt of 19 gold coins resulting from the sale of fine linen (שש) of the government. Somebody wished the guarantors rather than a certain elder to be responsible. (Information from Goitein's index card.) Needs further examination.