Geniza Lab

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)

Bill of divorce from Cairo 1890 - needs examination. No image

Remains of a get - needs examination. Image not available.

Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: 6 Nisan 4973 AM = 1524 Seleucid, which is 1213 CE. Husband: Shela b. Meshullam b. Netanel ha-Zaqen. Wife: Sitt al-Nasab bt. Elʿazar known as Ibn Shalom. Signed: Yeshuʿa b. Daniel; Moshe ha-Kohen b. She'erit.

Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 25 Sivan 1459 Seleucid, which is 1148 CE. Husband: Yosef b. ʿAbdallāh. Wife: Kala bt. Abū Saʿīd. Witnesses: Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver; Nadiv b. Yeshuʿa. On verso there is an addendum attesting that she received the get, signed Nadiv b. Yeshuʿa and Seʿadya b. Mevorakh.

Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 21 Sivan 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. Husband: ʿOvadya b. Yeshula ha-Kohen. Wife: Ghāliya bt. Hānī. Witnessed by the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli (compare T-S 10J2.9), and ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi. No documentation of receipt on verso. (Information from CUDL)

Get (bill of divorce) written in Ramla, beginning of 1026.

Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Av 1559 Seleucid, which is 1248 CE. Husband: Avraham b. Yishmaʿel, from Cairo. Wife: Ḥana bt. Netanel, from Fustat. No signatures (or at least no preserved signatures). On verso there is a note in Judaeo-Arabic, but it does not seem to be a note that the bill of divorce was given to the woman.

Document of divorce settlement, signed by Eli b. Amram, head of the Jerusalemite congregation in Fustat, and Avraham b. David [b. Sighmar], and dated Kislev 1361/November 1049. Last witness signed Tevet (December 1049).

Recto: Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: New Cairo. Dated: Friday, 24 Adar 1[6]50 Seleucid, which is 5 March 1339 CE. Husband: ʿEzer b. Yehoshuaʿ. Wife: Shumaysa bt. Mordekhay. The divorce was not completed on this occasion, as there are no witnesses. Cf. T-S 20.10 (dating to 1310 CE), which may involve the same couple. Bottom of recto and verso: unrelated jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, and three lines of a child’s handwriting exercise. See ENA NS 55.18 for a similar geṭ with similar reuse (same scribes?). (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

Fragment of an old court record in which a divorcee, Mubaraka bint Atiyya, is promised 3 dinars per month by her husband, Azarya b. Benjamin, but the reverse side shows a payment of only half a dinar. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 267)

Part of a divorce deed (geṭ) signed by Ḥalfon ha-Kohen b. Elʿazar and Sar Shalom b. Shelomo (second half of the 11th century CE). (Information from CUDL)

Get (bill of divorce) from Fustat for Menashshe b. Shemuel and Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yefet Tif'eret ha-Qahal. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Information from Goitein's note card.

Bill of divorce. Incomplete. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 9 Ṭevet 1562 Seleucid, which is December 1250 CE. Husband: Avraham b. David ha-Kohen of the city of מדכסר(?).

Geṭ for Hilāla bat […] (הלאלה), dated 143[.] (= 1118-1128 CE) in Egypt. The witnesses’ names are repeated in a note on the verso: ʿEli ha-Levi b. Nathaniel ha-Levi and Hillel b. Joseph the Cantor, the Babylonian. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: geṭ for [...] b. Menaḥem (husband), dated Iyar [...]3 in Egypt. Verso: witnessed receipt, signed by [Ḥalfon b.] Menashshe (1100-1138 CE), and […] b. Moses he-Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)

Geṭ (divorce deed) witnessed by Ḥalfon ha-Kohen b. Elʿazar and Shemuʾel b. Mevasser ha-Melammed. Ca, 13th century. (Information from CUDL)

Bill of divorce between Kulla bat Yefet and Ṣedaqa (?) [...]. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and signed by Isaac b. Shemuʾel ha-Sefardi and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe on recto and (attesting the delivery) on verso (partly embellished). (Information from CUDL)

Conditional bill of divorce. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Av 1480 Seleucid, which is 1169 CE. The trader Bū Saʿd Moshe b. Yefet gives this conditional divorce to his wife before setting out on a journey to Yemen. Signed by: Mevorakh b. Natan and Shemuel b. Seʿadya. See also T-S 12.585 recto and verso. (Information in part from S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 3:192, 467; Amir Ashur and Ben Outhwaite, “Between Egypt and Yemen in the Cairo Genizah,” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Vol. 5 (2014), 213.) EMS.