Geniza Lab

Minute fragment from a ketubah, contains remnants of the dowry list. AA

Much faded and barely legible dowry list written on parchment. AA

Fragment from a dowry list, some item are crossed out.

Damaged dowry list.

List of Items might be a dowry list, but not necessary. Also contains a book scroll, which is not so common in dowry lists.

Dowry list, mostly of textiles.

List of items such rings, jewelries and beddings, and their prices, probably from a dowry list. Seems late

A narrow strip probably from a dowry list in a ketubah.

Small portion of a marriage document listing the elements of a dowry in Judaeo-Arabic.

P22 + P25: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Tammuz 1430 Seleucid, which is 1119 CE. Involves: [Yosef] b. Mevorakh (the same as in T-S 24.74 from 1104 CE?); his ṣihr (son-in-law in this context) Abū l-Khayr b. Seʿadya; and Abū l-Khayr’s wife named [Ḥu]sn bt. Yūsuf. Her father (Yūsuf) wished to move her from the house of Abū l-Khayr's mother, but Abū l-Khayr refused. The court forced him to go along with it. There is a complicated discussion and settlement involving the dowry (qumāsh), compensation to her for the wear and tear on the dowry, the delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar), and the court compelling Abū l-Khayr to move. All this is tentative, pending the identification of the remaining joins. Join: Alan Elbaum.

List of 19 items in a marriage gift. The groom is Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, the bride is Sitt al-Banin bat Avraham. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100-1138). (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 406.) See AIU VII.D.106 for the financial arrangmenents on the occasion of their divorce.

A ketubah written by Yosef b. Shmuel Halevi from the year 1195. The bride's name Sitt al-Furs. Only the groom's father's name is preserved- Yosef. The bride is described as 'his divorcée' and as 'virgin' so this couple was betrothed, got divorce and finally got married. A long list of items are written in the dowry list. The ketubah is fragmentary. AA

Trousseau of an orphan, nineteen items. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS

Two legal documents (or letters dealing with legal issues) each written in a different hand, probably 13th century. On verso seems to be a bill of release. On verso - regarding dowry of jewelry and and sims of money. Fustat and Cairo are mentioned. verso might be connected to recto. AA

Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. Contains part of the dowry list. Written by the cantor Yefet b. David. AA

Perhaps a small fragment from a ketubba. There are a few words here from a dowry list (e.g., jūkāniyya bayāḍ dabīqī mudhahhaba...).

Will of a wealthy man in favor of his wife, concerning twenty-seven assets and liabilities. Dated: 1431 Seleucid, which is 1219/20 CE. (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, ed., Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, 602) EMS

Dowry list (taqwīm). No names No muqaddam or me'uḥar. Among the goods is a female slave named Balgh al-Munā ('fulfillment of wishes'). (Information in part from Goitein's index card)

Court register. Record of a dowry assessment (taqwīm). Groom: Yefet b. Ḥalfon. Bride: Qawāma bt. Shabbat. (See Goitein's index card for further information.)

Trousseau list recording a washed skullcap worth one dinar and a secondhand kerchief worth one-half dinar, amongst other items. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). (S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, 3:410; 4:184, 413) EMS