Geniza Lab

Order of payment for 5 dinars signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen, dated Nisan 1455 (= 1144 CE). The banker’s name is Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen and Abū Zikrī writes וכתב before his signature, which is atypical. The cheque is crossed through with vertical lines. Arabic jottings on verso. (Information from CUDL)

Court record, referring to […] b. Nissim ha-Kohen and the sum of 4 dinars. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a leaf from a formulary (it refers to 'פלניתא בת פל and 'פל' בר פל). (Information from CUDL)

Part of a legal document, dated [.]454 (= 1143 CE), written under the authority of Shemuʾel ha-Nagid (Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya) and referring to Abū l-Barakāt al-Ṭabīb (‘the physician’), also known as Ibn al-Sharābī (‘the potion maker/seller’). (Information from CUDL)

Part of a legal document in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)

Qaraite ketubba. Dated: [13]52 of the Seleucid era, which is 1040/41 CE). Mentions the names Ṣemaḥ, Ḥizqiyya, Mevorakh b. Barhūn, and Ṣedaqa b. ʿAllūn. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Fragment (bottom part only). Mentions: A debt of 27 dinars; Yosef al-Dimashqī on the one hand; Abū l-Makārim and Abū l-Bishr on the other. No signatures.

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa.

Legal document, small fragment.

Small fragment of a legal document; ‘this Joseph ha-Kohen’ is crossed out and replaced above the line with ‘Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen his father’. (Information from CUDL)

Marriage contract, small fragment. Location: Fustat. Bride: [...] bt. Avraham. In Aramaic.

Marriage contract, tiny fragment. Includes part of three lines from a dowry list.

Legal document, tiny fragment. Marriage-related?

Legal fragment. Dated: 1559 Seleucid, which is 1247/48 CE. Involves Menaḥem Abū [...] b. Shelomo ha-Levi. There are distinct but probably related documents on recto and verso. Damaged and faded.

Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Partnership agreement between Abū l-Riḍā Moshe and Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa. One partner is in Alexandria and the other in Fustat. Involving very large sums of money: 300 and 600 dinars.

Legal fragment. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Late. Involves a woman named Esther. Signed by מעתוק רביב(?)

Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century. Mentions 'my brother R. Moshe,' the dīwān, the dīwān taking a payment of over 3,000 of something, and R. Elʿazar.

Deathbed will of Abū l-Baqā'. Draft: abandoned in the middle of the third line

Legal fragment. Dated: Heshvan 14[...] Seleucid, which is 1088–1187 CE. Needs examination for content. Very faded.

Marriage document? Little remains on recto. On verso there is a note mentioning [Sitt] al-Ahl bt. Maʿālī, the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan [...] al-Meshorer, and her daughter Sitt al-Banīn.