Geniza Lab

Marriage contract. Small fragment. The bride is named Nujūm.

Fragment of a document of sale in which Nahray b. Nissim, the well-known banker and communal lender (d. 1096), buys from his brother-in-law and the sons of the latter's late brother one-third of a house worth 150 dinars. The total value of the house was 450 dinars. (Information from Goitein, Mediterranean Society, III, p. 37; IV, pp. 19, 287)

Small fragment of a ketubba, mentioning various sums in dinars. (Information from CUDL)

Marriage document in Hebrew. Late. Possibly just a formulary, as it is introduced with the header "זהו טופס." Currencies: Venetian peraḥim and muayyadis/medins.

Legal document in Hebrew. 16th-century. Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Allāh the Qaraite, known as Fayrūz, attests that he owes Moshe Ḥazzān b. Yiṣḥaq(?) a certain sum of muayyadis/medins. He will pay one medin a week. Dotan Arad estimates the dating of this fragment as 16th-century in the edition that appears in his dissertation (p. 353).

Beginning of a legal document, possibly a will or a deathbed declaration, ‘we the undersigned testify that [...] on Monday, 6th [...]’. (Information from CUDL)

Deed of sale mentioning Abraham ha-Sar. (Information from CUDL)

Small piece of a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment containing Hebrew text. Unclear what it is.

Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Late. Signed: Natan ha-Sofer b. Avraham.

Bill of divorce. Dated: Thursday, 27 Adar I 1540 Seleucid, which is 1229 CE. Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. מימאן(?). Wife: [Miryam] bt. Ḥabīb. On verso there is the statement that Miryam received her geṭ, but instead of a signature, it just has "peloni b. peloni."

Recto: A few lines in Arabic script along with a phrase from a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination. Verso: Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar 1549 Seleucid, which is 1237 CE. Only the beginning is preserved - in fact, it looks like a draft that was abandoned.

Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Probably late. Mentions someone who is in danger of being imprisoned by the Gentiles.

Small piece of a legal document, mentioning gifts. (Information from CUDL)

Small piece of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Location: Fustat. in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel or Natan b. Shelomo? Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59). Involves Abū l-Faraj Menaḥem, a husband and a wife, and Yosef ha-Kohen. Needs further examination. (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Oded Zinger.

Geṭ of Moshe b. David and Fāṭīla bat Mevorakh, dated Sivan, 1391 of the Seleucid era (= 1080 CE), in Cairo (אלקאהרה הסמוכה לפסטט). It is signed by Aharon b. Avraham and Moshe b. Avraham ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes linked below(?).

Geṭ of Hillel ha-Levi b. Ḥalfon and Sitt al-Ḫawā bat [...], dated Tammuz 1[4]50 of the Seleucid era (= 1139 CE) and signed by Moses b. Ṣadoq and Ḥalfon b. Nathan, in Cairo (אלמעזיה אלקאהרה). Verso contains the receipt, including the name ʿEli ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

Literary: a Hebrew maqāma. Identified by Miriam Frenkel and Oded Zinger as Ne'um Ṭuviyya b. Ṣidqiyya composed by Yosef Ibn Shimʿon. Compare T-S AS 117.69 and BL OR 6197.1–36. Apparently based on the Arabic story Ḥadīth Bayāḍ wa-Riyāḍ. Information from Matti Huss, "קטע גניזה נוסף של פתיחת 'נאום טוביהו בן צדקיהו' ליוסף אבן שמעון," Tarbiz 82 (2014), 135–37.

Qurra bat Shelomo, as sole heiress of her father, asks to be assigned 20 dinars out of the 35 deposited by him with a representative of the merchants, Sa'id b. Nahman, in Ramla, Palestine. The document is written in the hand-writing of Yefet b. David (Goitein) or Efrayim b. Shemarya (Bareket). (Information from Goitein, Mediterranean Society, III, p. 280; Bareket, Yehudei misrayim, p. 157, and Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, pp. 257-258.) Alternate description: Recto: draft document concerning an inheritance, in the hand of Yefet b. David. Qurra bat Shelomo, the sole heiress of her father, asks to be assigned 20 dinars out of the 35 deposited by him with the representative of the merchants (פקיד הסוחרים). Verso: pen-exercises consisting of legal formulae. (Information from CUDL.) See also T-S 18J4.21.