Geniza Lab

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)

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)

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.

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)

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)

Legal document. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the upper left corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: [..]61, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE, under the authority of [Shemuel b. Ḥananya] ha-Nagid ha-Gadol. The case concerns [...]da bt. Shemarya and payments related to her ketubba. There may be a man named Abu l-Faḍl. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document, probably a transfer of property, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involves a certain Moshe. No date or signatures are preserved. Contains elaborate release formulae. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document, probably a transfer of property, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. No date or signatures are preserved. The phrase ‘12 dinars’ is crossed out. (Information from CUDL)

From a business letter, referring to quantities of trade goods. Abū Naṣr al-Tustarī is mentioned. Or possibly an account of communal contributions. (Information in part from CUDL)