Geniza Lab

Legal deed (fragment) [12th century?], calligraphic, with wide line-spacing. Approximately 250 x 450 mm at the widest points. Gift of Robert Garrett, 2953. Many other texts written in different hands in the margins. Partial transcription enclosed in box with MS.

Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment? Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank

Receipt for payment of a tax farmer (dāmin, lines 2) in Fustat. The month of Ramadan al-Muʿaẓẓam of the year 701. Alama: al-ḥamdu lillāh sallama taslīman (?). Verso has a note about the shop (dukkān) of someone. 9 x 7 approximately

Letter (?), left half only, narrow folds like a letter, mentioning quantities of something and a certain Nūr al-Dīn, so maybe Ayyubid?

Fiscal register (?), mentioning a sum of 100 dirhams, folded vertically once then rolled and folded horizontally.

Letter mentioning real estate and rent in Cairo, the writer's son, qarārīṭ (carats). Folded once vertically then rolled and folded horizontally. Wormholes.

Report to an official, possibly early Ottoman

Legal document: acknowledgment (iqrār) in the name of Zayn al-Dīn Shaʿbān b. something, with two witnesses' signatures, late Mamluk or early Ottoman?

Deed of manumission of a slave, dated 591H. (?) [1194-5].

Testimony, deed of divorce, catalogued as Legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 808 H. [1406]. Partial transcription in folder with manuscript.

Bill of divorce. Dated: Monday, 18 Adar 1365 Seleucid, which is 1054 CE. Location: Fustat. Husband: Yosef b. David. Wife: Khibā bt. Yosef. No witness signatures. Verso was not photographed.

Petition mentioning the names of Ismāʻīl and ʻUmar al-Kutāmī. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Complainte contre un homme de la tribu de Kutawa [...] Fatimite" ; on a separate small piece of paper : " A complaint against a man from the tribe of Kutama (from the Fatimite period)"].

Certificate of manumission of a slave, dated 591H. (?) [1194-5]. [Described on a separate small piece of paper as: "letter from a noble man asking from another generousity and finishing his letter with poetry praising the bonifactor (bienfaiteur)" [Linked to item 26 (?)]. Oversize.

Letter in Arabic.

Described in PUDL catalogue as amulet containing prayers to God and the Prophet.

Decree of a Coptic official, dated 25 Baʾūnah (?) of the Coptic year 1392 (?).

Legal document, record of testimony (?)

Love poetry (3 lines), starting with: "amūtu wa-lā tadrī". [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Poeme d'un amoureux" ; on a separate small piece of paper: "poems of a lover"].

Item 26 : Letter of praise addressed to a benefactor in the hopes of some financial reward. Oversize.

Item 29 : Official document demanding the collection of funds. Oversize.