Geniza Lab

Prayers for a wedding.

Liturgy, Qaraite. Dating: Catalogued as 19th century.

Azharot for Shavuʿot by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol. There is a marginal note (p.18) giving a date for this copy: 1484 Seleucid, which is 1172/73 CE.

Contract of friendship between Elʿazar Maymūn and Yom Ṭov b. Sīd. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dated: Sunday, 17 Tevet 5324 AM, which is January 1564 CE. As Mann describes, Yevr. II A 236/5 contains 10 (or more) leaves of various notes on Biblical and Rabbinic matters. On fol. 2, upside down relative to the main text, this document is to be found. The parties vow to treat each other as brothers, to help each other in all things, loan each other books, and pray together in the synagogue of Shemuel b. Sīd. (Mann: The synagogue of the Sevillians in Cairo was called by his name. Cp. about this scholar and Kabbalist, a refugee to Egypt after the Spanish expulsion, Sambari's Chronicle (in Neub., Med. Jew. Chron. I, pp. 145, 159, and 151–62)). If one is angry at the other, they will seek to appease each other within 24 hours. The document invokes three of the sages of Safed—Joseph Caro, Moses. b. Joseph di Trani, and Israel de Curiel—and Me'ir de Padova (=Meir b. Isaac Katzenellenbogen (d. 1565)) and Yiẓḥāq b. Sīd (perhaps the son of Shemuel b. Sīd and perhaps the father of the signatory Yom Ṭov b. Sīd; see Mann's notes for these identifications). ASE.

Non-Geniza. Letter from the Qaraite community of Jerusalem to the Qaraite community of Troki (אטרוקא). Dated: 1646 CE.

Liturgy. Dating: Catalogued as 14th century.

Non-Geniza. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo (1755–1826) to the ḥakhams Shemuel Kohen and Yosef Shelomo, in Yevpatoria (גוזלווא). Dated: 1820 CE. Contains an intricate legal query. Also an order for the book Shviley Emuna, "because I need it very much sometimes for the healing of the sick." Information in part from NLI.

Non-Geniza. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo (1755–1826) to Yosef Shelomo b. Moshe Lutzki, in Yevpatoria. Dated: 1820 CE. Information from NLI.

Non-Geniza. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo (1755–1826) to Simḥa Yiṣḥaq Lutzki. Information from NLI.

A letter contains mostly discussion on the calendar from Ishaq b. Shlomo

Non-Geniza. Legal document regarding the sale of a vineyard. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 19th century. Surrounded by sundry jottings including in Russian and Arabo-Hebrew.

Karaite halakhic ruling regarding the inheritance of an unmarried daughter sent to Binyamin Dayun from Ishaq

Non-Geniza probably. Letter or letters. At least one is dated: 22 Nisan 5581 AM, which is 1821 CE.

Copies of letter to the Karaite community of Qal'a from Istanbul regarding communal matters

Deed of sale of a house in Gozlow

Karaite halakhic discussion regarding different types of legal deeds and their use

A letter from Shemuel Hariv

A letter from Avraham Levi to Yosef b. Moshe Luzki

A long text, probably contains moral guidance.

A legal declaration regarding lease of a land