Geniza Lab

Legal document. Damaged and late legal document. Late legal document, a שטר סילוק (bill of release of a debt) per FGP, involving Avraham Ḥalabī and his (ex?)-wife Esther. Mentioning שעבוד כתובה Hebrew. AA

Fragment of an illuminated frame, probably for a ketubba that was never filled in.

Alms list in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly women, children, and/or sick people. JRL SERIES A 293 mentions the sister of Abū l-Faraj b. al-Munajjim; al-ʿAkkāwiyya; the ḥazzab Ibn Sabrī/Sabra; the neighbor of Abū l-Faraj [al-]Dimyāṭī; the wife of the ḥazzan of Shubrā; and many more. JRL SERIES B 2497 mentions Umm al-Ṣibyān the acquaintance of [...]; Abū Hilāl al-Bānyāsī the acquaintance of Azhar; the old, sick woman [in] the house of Ibn [...]; the orphans of Faraḥ.

This letter concerns a transaction in wheat (possibly one irdabb) and involving among others a haver ('member of the yeshiva'). If al-shaykh Yeshu'a (lines 3-4) is the same person as al-melammed ('the teacher', line 1), he may be identified as one of two persons attested in Geniza documents by the name Yeshu'a ha-melammed b. Avraham, who lived in the middle of the 12th and the early 13th centuries respectively; see Goitein, Med.Soc., vol. 2, p. 544 note 8. The verso contains fragmentary with (mostly illegible) writing in Arabic.

Late legal document in which Yosef acknowledges an investment from [...] Kohen of 20,000 silver muayyadis.

Legal document dated July 1788 (Tamuz 5548), Fustat, in which the undersigned acknowledges receipt of 80 reales, perhaps from Yiṣḥaq Aripol.

A first-person note in late Hebrew by Sulaymān A[...], perhaps mentioning the sages of Safed.

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe (b.?) Avraham Bibas to Yaʿaqov Bibas and his partner Shomal (Shemuel?) Azulay, dated 3 September 1818 (2 Elul 5578). There are accounts underneath.

A dense list of names along with numbers, perhaps pledges to charity.

A calligraphic get (bill of divorce) dated 5 March 1879 (10 Adar 5639), במתא במבי דעל כיף ימא, which may be Bombay (!). See #5 here for a ketubba from Bombay (or at least במבי) from the same period: http://notrikon.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post.html. The spouses divorcing are Sulaymān Ḥayyim b. [Eliyya?]hu Ḥayyim and Esther bt. Yosef. It is signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Raḥamim and Yehuda b. Avraham.

Recto: A Hebrew poem, perhaps in praise of a recipient of a letter. Verso: Remnants of a few words in Arabic, along with two lines giving a sum of money in Judaeo-Arabic.

Probably accounts in Arabic, using western Arabic numerals. Very disorganized. There is also a nice doodle.

Four pages from a personal notebook in which the writer has recorded various ḥiddushim and whom he heard them from.

Account in Judaeo-Arabic.

Very faded document in Hebrew, likely a letter.

Large list, probably 18th or 19th c, of names and numbers arranged according to holidays and shabbatot, perhaps charitable donations pledged/received.

Letter from Ezra Shelomo Bekhor(?). Sent to Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: Rahamim of 5572 AM, which is 1812 CE.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions a dukkān and [Abū] l-Surūr.

20 small fragments. Image 4 and Image 14 and Image 17 are fragments of legal documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Images 5 and 15 are from a printed work on the laws of Shabbat in Ladino. Images 6 and 16 are a Judaeo-Arabic letter (right side of recto, left side of verso) regarding business in foods/drugs (pepper, wormwood) and mentinoing Abū l-Surūr, from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother (Abū Saʿīd?). Image 7 lists the names of various Nasis, Hizqiyah ha-Nasi and Shelomo ha-Nasi ben David ha-Nasi Rosh ha-Golah. Image 9 is another literary printed fragment in Ladino. Image 13 + Image 19 is a list of materia medica on one side, mentioning Abū Saʿd on the other, and preserving the remnants of an Arabic document.

Legal or letter fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.