Geniza Lab

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). He complains about the lack of letters ever since he arrived in his location. Not much else is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother the court clerk Ḥalfon (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:422, 626; EMS). Join by Oded Zinger.

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe, in Alexandria, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). The writer asks what happened to Khiyār, who seems to be a son of Ḥalfon who was involved in a crime. Related to ENA 3612.4? (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.) EMS

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (There is also an incomplete address to their other brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya, but this may have been an error that Yefet corrected with the more complete address beneath.) In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). He confirms that the rubāʿī arrived, 9 and a half [...]. He also mentions the arrival of a bag (kharīṭa) of something.

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions Abū ʿAlī. Essentially no information is preserved other than greetings. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (a piece from the right side of recto). The addressee is not clearly identified. There are greetings to his brother Ḥalfon's wife Sitt Naʿīm. Also the addressee's "mother and sisters" are mentioned. Yefet reports that Ḥassūn b. ʿAllūn arrived. Mentions Baqāʾ. Mentions a radda (a garment alternately identified as "scarf" or "turban"). Mentions Cairo. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions having sent an ʿIrāqī good and a bag (kharīṭa) containing good-quality [...]. Mentions someone named Hiba or [...] b. Hiba. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions Armenian bole (ḥajar armanī) (cf. ENA NS 2.24) and mandrake root (luʿāb) (cf. ENA 2739.2). Also mentions: 3 dinars; Yemeni "sinn" (= aromatic wood? cf. ENA NS 21.7, r4 — interestingly, goods for Ibn al-Qatāʾif, probably Ḥalfon, are specifically mentioned in that letter). Regards to someone's wife and to Khiyār. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (lower left corner). Mentions: someone's brother, the qāḍī Amīn al-Dawla; the bearer of the letter, Abū ʿAlī; purchasing goods from the diwan of [...]; and discussing other business matters. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions business matters and a boat. (Information in part from CUDL)

Much damaged and faded letter by Yefet b. Menashshe. Almost illegible

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small fragment (upper left corner of recto). Mentions Elʿazar the cantor. Nothing else is preserved here. AA

Much damaged and faded, almost illegible fragment of a letter, probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.

Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Probably sent to one of his brothers. Damaged.

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe, probably addressed to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part of recto). Mentions: the sale of something by Efrayim; something that should be sent with Ibn al-Dawāniqī(?) ('the penny pincher'); an urgent request to write to al-qāḍī al-makīn about something that will help Yefet; something "this year in al-Mahdiyya"; regards to Sitt Naʿīm (Ḥalfon's wife). This document was reused for legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, which mention Sutūt the wife of Khalaf b. Qashqūsh; a real-estate transaction; and a quarter of house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ in the alley of the shop (zuqāq al-dukkān) in partnership with Aharon ha-Kohen.

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions coral and Efrayim and a qirṭās containing 160 dirhams. The lower part of the letter is missing.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the handwriting of Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions various commodities: purging cassia (khiyār shanbar), white poppy (khashkhāsh abyaḍ), red lead (a.k.a. minium, here spelled sīlqūn), and turmeric (kurkum).

Fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon.

Fragment of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashsh, probably to his brother dealing with business issues. Abu Said and ben Ghulayb are mentioned.

Fragment from a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi