Geniza Lab

Letter formulary in Judaeo-Arabic, including instructions for writing to kings and viziers. Possibly a join with BL OR 10112B.12

Formulary for drawing up marriage documents. In Hebrew with some Ladino words (contante, joyas, mandiles). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Late. Currency: mithqāl/mathāqīl.

Legal formulary for a deed of manumission of a male or female slave.

Book of legal formularies and some literary text. Bifolium. The spaces remaining at the bottom of two of the pages are filled in with magical spells, one for calling down eternal fire on your enemies ("sure; good; tested").

Recto: Instructions for drawing up a bill of divorce. In Judaeo-Arabic. Listing various scenarios. Of note, Qūṣ and Aswān are listed as two potential cities, suggesting likely origins for this fragment. Verso: Formulary for a bill of divorce. The margins have text in Arabic script, perhaps accounts.

Formulary for writing eloquent letters in Hebrew. Late hand.

Probably a formulary for writing Hebrew letters to important people. Fragment.

Bifolium containing a legal formulary for a Geṭ Ḥaliẓa (release from levirate marriage).

Bifolium from Saadya Gaon's Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq. Information from FGP.

Formulary for legal deeds, with quotations from responsa (frequent quotations of Binyamin Zeʾev - 16th century) followed by or with full description of the deed. (Information from CUDL)

Leaves from a Karaite book of formularies, containing formulae for betrothal, divorce, and liturgy for mourning the dead, for use in Jerusalem and Ramla. The year is given according to the Exile, and according to the Seleucid Era, corresponding to 1009 CE.

Bifolium from the book of legal formularies of Hayya Gaon.

Legal formulary, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic.

Blessings on the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-aḥkām Allāh (1101-31 CE) and on the Gaon Masliah b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, head of the Jerusalem Yeshiva, which then had its seat in Cairo. The postscript includes Masliah’s cousin Eliyyahu the Fourth and his three sons, which the writer indicates should be inserted right before the blessing for Masliah; the date of composition was likely between 1127 and 1131 CE. (“Prayers from the Geniza for Fatimid Caliphs, the Head of Jerusalem Yeshiva, the Jewish community and the Local Congregation,'' in Studies in Judaica, Karaitica and Islamica, Presented to Leon Nemoy...Bar-Ilan University, 1982, 49-57) EMS See also Moss. L.62

Monograph; formulary of legal documents, including the heading י״א שטר שכירות(?) דבאתי. (Deed of slae of a house) (info from FGP)

Formulary for legal document or documents. Concerning disposition of property in contemplation of death, described as פיצוי זה. Information from Brody catalog.

Legal formularies (from the section dealing with marriage and divorce). On vellum.

Formulary for a legal document, for an abandoned wife (ʿaguna) to appoint a representative (called אפטרופא/"guardian") to receive her bill of divorce and ketubba payment from the husband who has abandoned her. There are two lines of crossed out text on verso.

Marriage contract, Qaraite. Formulary. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 5537 AM, which is 1776/77 CE.

Ketubba formulary. Dating: Unknown. Catalogued as 15th–17th century.