Geniza Lab

Deed of debt from the 16th century between Mas'ud and his brother Menahem, and Aharon. AA

Draft of the opening lines of a letter to R. Elazar. AA

Fragment from a late ketubah. The groom agrees to deposit a conditional get. AA

Only few words. Might be from the end of a legal deed, but too little remains. AA

Magic Recipes (fgp)

Medical text dealing with lincti and ointments. CUDL

Legal document. Minute fragment, from the bottom part of a legal document, might be a ketubah. Only partial names: Yefet, […] Halevi b. Bashar , […] b. David, Yeshua b. Sh[…], [Ya'a]qov. AA

Very dark. Poetical Hebrew, might be from an opening of a letter. Reference to רבנו ע"ה. AA

Formula of a 'pesuka de-gita' - bill of divorce (get) by proxy, written by Hillel b. Eli. This formula is unique as it approved the scribe as a witness, according to the Babylonian (and later the Egyptian) halakha, as opposed to the Palestinian one. See Y. David, The divorce among the Jews, I, p. 16. AA

Bottom part of a ketubah. No further details. AA

Medical fragment with recipes to treat eye complaints, preparations of collyria, and ingredients include sagapenum and sarcocolla. CUDL

Bill of rent between Moshe Hakohen and Shemuel. A store owned by a gentile is involved. Signed by Menhaem b. Avraham. The year 53[...] = 1539-1638. AA

Bottom part of a legal document. signed by Avraham b. Mevasser, known from document from mid 11th century, and the other signature are only partially preserved. AA

Fragment from a memorial list. Only few names preserved: Sa'adya and his sons Elazar and Shilo, Yefet Halevi and his son Meir, Solomon, She'erit and Shemarya. AA

Fragment from the top of a ketubah. The groom is Nethan'el.

Damaged fragment from a ketubah of Avraham and Sutayt (?). AA

An honorary list to Avraham ha-Nagid and Moshe ha-Nagid. We know only little on the late Negidim from Maimonides' family. His grandchild David b. Avraham had a son called Avraham who become Nagid himself until ca. 1300. He had 3 sons: Moshe, Ovadya and Yehosu'a, who served as a Nagid. Scholars have raised a question how come the youngest become a Nagid and non of the elders sons? So this document is a strong proof that Moshe was a Nagid. See also TS K15.58, where Musa al-Nagid is mentioned (Cohen, The Voice of the Poor, p. 176). AA