Geniza Lab

Fragment from a deed of partnership. (Information from CUDL)

Possibly a fragment from a bill of release, mentioning Ḥalfon, Yefet, and […] b. Yaʿir ha-Shofet. (Information from CUDL)

Collection of short responsa concerning nidda (a menstruating woman). On recto there are a few lines from Saʿadya Gaʾon’s treatise on prayers, with a colophon. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba. No names are preserved. (Information from CUDL)

Beginning formula of a legal document, dated Marḥeshvan 1440 (= 1128 CE) in Fusṭāṭ, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)

Letter from Shemuʾel b. Avraham to Efrayim b. Shemarya (ca. 1007–55 CE). Address on verso. (Information from CUDL)

Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shemuʾel b. Nathan, dated 1145 CE. One of the parties is Abū Saʿīd Nathan b. Shelomo (known as Ibn Shalom). (Information from CUDL)

Letter regarding business from Mūsā b. Nissim b. Surrī to Abū ʿImrān. On verso another, unidentified text is written. May have been sent from Qayrawān, as the writer mentions Funduq al-Maṭmūrī, also known from T-S 13J25.1. Information in part from CUDL.

End of a legal document, signed by David b. Mevorakh, Abraham b. Caleb and others. Below is a colophon written by Elʿazar b. Joseph b. ʿAmram, also mentioning Yefet b. Ṭoviyya. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment from the beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentioning Shelomo ha-Kohen. (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)

Recto: responsa in the hand of Joseph b. Jacob Rosh ha-Seder. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic poem and dirge also written by Joseph. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: legal document concerning debt, referring to Ibn Mardūk, Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen b. Mordekhay […] b. Saʿadya. Verso: unidentified Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba. The surviving text contains part of the dowry list. (Information from CUDL.) See T-S 12.600, a probable join

Part of the opening of a ketubba for Meshullam ha-Levi b. Ṣedaqa (groom) dated [13]91 (= 1080 CE). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. (Information from CUDL)

Only the bottom of the leaf is preserved, possibly a poetic letter or panegyric. Refers to Nathaniel ha-Sar (the 12th-century Gaʾon Nathaniel b. Moses?). (Information from CUDL)

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a certain Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥassūn. The writer recounts the legal proceedings following somebody's death and various people bearing false testimony. The writer toook a vow and paid a certain woman what was her due. "In the course of this, a severe illness came over me (wa-ḥadatha li-ʿabdihā fī ghuḍūn hādha maraḍ ṣaʿb), so I was forced to leave the [elders] and return to my family (wife), fearing that it would get worse (khawf an yashtadd [bihi?] al-amr)." The writer is mentioning this as a justification for failing to continue to be there in person (wa-kān ʿadhr ʿabdihā fī dhālika wāḍiḥ). He asks for forgiveness from 'ḥaḍrat sayyidinā', and if the latter orders him to return in person, he will do so. ASE.

Liturgical text and a list or accounts in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

Letter addressing a communal leader, a certain ʿOvadya. Other names mentioned are Yaʿaqov b. Aba Mari Moshe, and [...] b. David the judge. There is a reference to the city of Kashi (possibly Kashan, Iran). (Information from CUDL)

Deed of quittance. One of the parties is Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya. Probably early, but no date is legible. (Information from CUDL)