Geniza Lab

Agreement, possibly for the sale of land/property. The parties are Daniel b. Jacob and […]m b. Hille[l]. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Opening of a ketubba for Malika bat Mukhtār and Ṣedaqa b. Yeshuʿa dated Wednesday 3 [month] [1]365 (= 1054 CE) in Fusṭāṭ. Malika was formerly married to a man named Isaac and the ketubba mentions her son Mafrij b. Isaac (מפרג), whom Ṣedaqa will now treat as his own child. Witnessed by Aharon the Adept b. Efrayim, Hassan b. ʿAvham (עבהם), Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham, Sahl b. Mevasser, Sh[...]on b. Yiṣḥaq, Ghālib b. Aharon (גאלב), [...] b. Shemuʾel. (Information from CUDL)

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)

Bill of release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Probably connected with the dissolution of a partnership, since the words "profit" (fā'ida) and "account" (ḥisāb) are mentioned. There is a unusual clause that reads "whether by oral witness or through a written document" (l.8) ([mā kāna] minhu be-ʿedut al pe wa-mā kāna minhu bi-sheṭar ve-qinyan). (Information from CUDL and Weiss's edition.)

Legal document (end only) signed by witnesses including Menaḥem ha-Levi b. Tamim and Efrayim b. Ḥayyim. (Information from CUDL)

Bill of release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Given to a Kohen. No details preserved. (Information from CUDL and Weiss's edition.)

Legal document, concerning Abū ʿAlī b. [...], a debt of 100 dirhams, and possibly the appointing of an agent. At the bottom the names: Ḥalfon b. ʿEli(?) and Meʾir. On verso there are pen trials in Hebrew script. (Information in part from CUDL)

End of a legal document; no names preserved. (Information from CUDL)

Only a small amount of text is legible, but what little remains, and the fact it is written on vellum, suggests a legal document rather than a letter. The name Sahlān occurs. (Information from CUDL)

Barely legible, probably a legal document. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba for Judah ha-Levi (groom), witnessed by Saʿadya b. Shemarya and Hillel b. Joseph. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba mentioning the sum of 100 dinars. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a legal document in which the parties Mawhūb and ʿAllūn make a declaration. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba from Egypt with no names preserved. (Information from CUDL)

Letter sent to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen b. Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen, from the time of Maimonides (it refers to ‘our Rabbi Moses’). The letter also mentions Makārim Ibn al-Amshātị̄. (Information from CUDL)

Short commentary on monetary issues. On verso there is a formula for a deed of loan and a short discussion on treatment of the poor by the community. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba for Yefet b. Joseph (groom). (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)

Part of a ketubba for [ ]שתדו (Sitt [...]) (bride). Only a few words are preserved. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba for [S]itt al-Sharaf (אלשרף). (Information from CUDL)