Geniza Lab

Fragment of a list of recipients of bread (twelve out of 22 receive 2 loaves each). Ca. 1107 (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 465, App. B 101) | Four fragments in this shelfmark. Upper right: a literary text in square hand involving inheritance. Upper left: faded text, perhaps a part of a piyyut. Lower right: a list of names and sums - probably dispribution of bread for charity. Lower left: faded text , hard to read.

List. Fragment (in the same script and arrangement as T-S 24.76, T-S 20.112), containing the names of 51 households, at least 15 of which are identical with T-S 24.76. Legible items: 17 receive 10 (dirham=dirhams), total 85; 17 receive 10 (dirh), total 170; 9 receive 15 (dirh), total 135; 4 receive 20 (dirh), total 80; 1 receive 25 (dirh), total 25, 1 receive 30 (dirh), total 30; a total of 49 receive a total of 525 dirh. The basic unit allotted to one person clearly was 5 dirhams, as evident from such items as 'the man from Malij and his mother-10,' 'the daughter of Nissim and his mother-10,' 'the two women from Ramla-10' (see T-S K15.97; T-S J1.34). In several lists the number 1 or 2 is written after the amounts of 10, 15, 20. The number could hardly mean a simple additional payment (since then the writer would have changed the number 15 to 16 or 17, respectively); it must have had some other meaning. Had the sheet been preserved to the length of the contemporary T-S 24.76 (also only a fragment) and the sums distributed on the lost part of approximately the same size, the communal expenditure on this charity (presumably doles for a holiday) would have approximated 1,500 dirhams. Even assuming the lowest value of the dirham at this period (Mediterranean Society, I, p. 371, sec. 8) this sum would correspond to about 37 dinars, twice as much as the distribution of bread in T-S Misc.8.25 during one month. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 439, App. B 2b, dated 1020-1040)

List of 39 recipients of 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1 1/2 dirhams during the 1020s, a period of famine, and belonging together with Mediterranean Society, II, App. B 1-3, pp. 438-440. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 240 and 438, note 111)

List of distribution of wheat. In the hand of the court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ibn al-Qata'if (dated documents 1100-1138). This fragment was transferred to ENA NS 77 but is currently unlocatable.

List. Fragment containing names of recipients of charity, including a blind woman, the widow of Shemuel the hazzan, Mukhtar the doorkeeper.

List (fragment) of recipients, including the phrase "he should be checked out" below the name of "the acquaintance of the son of Da'ud" and "the acquaintance of the son of the dayyan of Barqa. This reflects a system of verification of public charity in Fustat. Verso has Avraham al-Iskandrani and others. ENA NS 77.47 seems to be part of the same list. (Information from Cohen, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, p. 99)

List (fragment) of distribution of sums of money for charity, with accounting notes

List of recipients of charity, mentioning "in the synagogue of the Palestinians," which probably refers to a person who lived there. Also two women with the notation "she should be checked out" (yukshaf ʿanha), meaning her deservedness should be verified. ENA NS 77.242 seems to be from the same list. The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages, no.69.

List (fragment) of recipients of charity, mentioning someone who "lives in the golden stone" and also an orphan Ibn al-Qaṭā'if. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?

List (fragment) of recipients of charity, including ghulam Hosha'na and "the widow of the shaykh Abu al-X" and two "ma`rifas," meaning people "known" by a local resident, who vouched for their deservedness.

List (fragment) of recipients of alms

List of recipients of charity, including the wife ('bayt') of a warraq (bookseller), and a khayyat (tailor).

List of distributions for charity, some of the entries similar to the T-S K15 lists, dated ca. 1107 (see Goitein, Mediterranean Society, II, Appendix B 19-23)

List of receivers of alms containing rare names, women and foreigners. The Hebrew alef evidently stands for ūqiya, ounce. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 462, App. B 83b)

Receipt written and signed by Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo, documenting that Abū Naṣr al-ʿAṭṭār received from the court 19 muthallath (triple-weave?) garments, as set forth in the conditions, on Thursday the 10th of Iyyar 1446 Seleucid (1135 CE) in Fusṭāṭ, in the presence of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ the brother (?) of Ṣedaqa the deceased. Witnesses: Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef ha-Kohen. ASE.

Recto: fragment of a letter concerning lemons. Verso: receipt for one and a half ūqiyya of rose water and an ūqiyya of lemon, probably in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment of a list of beneficiaries of charity similar to T-S K15.93, App. B 6, and in the same hand. Much effaced. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 441, App. B 7, dated 1040-1060)

Remains of 28 lines of a list of beneficiaries of charity, each containing the names of 3 or 4 households in receipt of 2, 4, 6, 8 or more (loaves). (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 453, App. B 52)

List of receivers of loaves of bread, similar to List T-S 24.76 (S.D Goitein, Mediterranean Society, II, App. B 1), in the same hand having many names and figures in common with it. Much damaged and effaced. It represents partly the left and partly the lower part of App. B, 52 (T-S 18J2.4). Together, the two pieces comprise 42 lines. Still, the original manuscript was longer, for there is clearly a scissors cut through the last line. Dated 1020-1040. (Information from Goitein's index cards and Mediterranean Society, 2:439, 453, App. B 2a and B 52) EMS

Verso: List of beneficiaries of donations, similar to ENA 2713.26; T-S 20.112; T-S 24.76, on vellum, the majority of the names legible belonging to community officials and women. The recto contains a legal document (a release) dated 1049. It seems, however, that the list is older than the document. The beadles of three synagogues and at least two cantors are listed here. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 439-440, App. B 3, dated 1020-1040)