Geniza Lab

Minute fragment from a list. Only partial names survived. AA

On recto a late engagement deed. The groom .שבתי בכר ישועה the bride the daughter of David Mizrahi, from the year 1845. On verso a calendar. AA

Minute fragment, probably from a Magical text. AA

Am account of merchandise and lands, late. Judeo Arabic and Hebrew. AA

Late. Recto, left folio: Arabic numerals. AA

A late letter from Yosef, asking to addressee to write a bill of permission to give a loan (שטר עסקא). In Hebrew. AA

A list of names with Arabic numerals- probably an account of debts? Late. AA

A list of names with Arabic numerals- probably an account of debts? AA

Ketubba fragment with an elaborate floral border pattern that was recorded in Fustat/Cairo (the location appears with the customary title "Fustat Mitzraim on the Nile River" (l.3). The bride's name is lost but her father's is Haim (l.5) and the name of the groom is Menahem al-Wārīs "אלואריש". Although the dowry's currency label has been lost, it appears to have been quite large given the remaining words "forty thousand". MCD.

Legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic related to real estate transactions that are dated 1784/85CE according to FGP. The list format of these documents suggests that the page may have once been bound as part of a broader court register. There is much damage to the fragment but on occasion the closing line of each document is clear enough that the Aramaic word "established / קיים" appears– which is a common term that seals a legal document. The first document on the verso is signed with a difficult calligraphic hand yet within the document's first line, the name Yehuda b. Mauza[?] is legible. In the following line the name Masʿūd "מסעוד" appears. MCD.