Geniza Lab

Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew. Western Arabic numerals are in use with one entry on the recto dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE. This dated entry also mentions S[eñor] Yiṣḥaq Menashshe and lists a variety of coinage types such as "old one ducats / דוקאדו ישן אונו" and "new ducats / דוקאדוס מואיבוס". Given the dating of the fragment, the latter coinage designation is likely not a reference to Venetian gold ducats, however, the "old one ducats" may refer to pre-1797 currency from Venice. Another coinage label takes form in "Mahmudi / מאחמודי" which is reference to money minted under the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II. The list format continues on the fragment's verso with a wide variety of goods referenced, such as "black and white silk string / קורדילה די סידה לבן ושחור" which appears ten lines up from the bottom of the right column. MCD.

Letter in Ladino. Dated: 10 Nisan 5581 AM, which is 1821 CE. Gives the writer's name and location as well as the addressee's name, but all are difficult to read. Mentions various ships and business matters as well as Crete (Candia). Needs further examination.

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 1 Shevat 5578 AM, which is 1818 CE. Declaring that Rica bt. Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) against her husband Yosef Castile, and she therefore forfeits her right to her ketubba or any alimony.

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: 28 Heshvan 5557 AM, which is 1796 CE. Testimony that Raḥamim Ashiyo (? אשיאו) received from Sara bt. Yiṣḥaq Re'uven an investment of 1000 reales, a value of 90 medins

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: End of Tammuz, 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. Yisra'el leases his cheese shop in Ḥārat al-Ṣaqāliba to Yosef Medina for a period of 15 months for a sum of 18 reals (1 real pegged to 90 medins).

Short letter in Judaeo-Arabic from [...] Goren to David ben Naʿim dated 9 November 1820 (3 Kislev 5581). Reused for accounts.

Legal document from 1817 CE (5577)—or conceivably 1818 CE (5578) as per FGP transcription—regarding a business deal involving Yaʿaqov ha-Levi and Eliyyahu b. Ṣahal.

"The three fragments known as JRL SERIES A 1053, JRL SERIES B 2699, and JRL SERIES B 2977 are from three copies of another invitation, printed in French, to the wedding of Mr. Moise Mosseri (c. 1855-1933) and Miss Henriette Nahmias (1868-1943). The Mosseris were a famous Cairene banking family,[2] which may give a sense of who could afford to have invitations professionally printed in the late nineteenth century. French documents are also rare in the Genizah,[3] but someone – a young Mosseri being the likely culprit – has re-used the back of these invitations to practice the Hebrew alphabet." Nick Posegay, FOTM June 2020.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Karo y Frances & Company, dated 1807 CE (19 Tishrei 5568).

Betrothal document for Yiṣḥaq Goren (?) b. Shelomo and Sitt al-Bayt bt. Avraham Dayyan, dated July 1804 (middle third of Av 5564).

Fragments of late legal documents in Hebrew. The document on Page 2 is dated April 1818 (Nisan 5578).

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Yehudah [...] to Karo y Frances & Company, dated 1807 CE (17 Heshvan 5568).

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Raḥamim Abzaradel to Moshe ben Naʿim dated 14 September 1827 (22 Elul 5587).

Legal document dated 20 October 1800 (1 Heshvan 5561), Fustat, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 60 reales, equivalent (?) to 90 silver muayyadis, from Sulṭāna the widow of Yosef Mizraḥī.

Recto: The end of a legal document dated February 1821 CE (middle of Adar I, 5581), Fustat, scribed and signed by Yaʿqov ha-Kohen. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Short business letter in Ladino that appears to be dated 25 Shevat 5582 (16 February 1822), but this was a Shabbat, so perhaps the date needs reexamining. The writer is Shemuel Rubino (?) and the addressee is Yiṣḥaq de Curiel. The letters "C" and "SR" appear in the margin (the writer's initials?). ASE

Document in Arabic script dated January 1824 CE (Jumāda al-Awwal 1239). Needs further examination

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 28 Sivan '85, probably 5585, corresponding to 14 June 1825 CE. The writer is Nissim Sabbāḥ and the addressee is Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ. The letter contains news about someone who has died, and about someone else who has asked after the addressee.

Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document for Moshe b. Nissim Ṭawīl and Simḥa bt. [...] ha-Levi known as al-ʿAjamī, dated August 1818 CE (Av 5578). Verso: Halakhic discussion in Judaeo-Arabic involving the annulling of vows.

Legal document from Fustat dated January 1802 CE (Shevat 5562), in which Nissim Romano acknowledges that he has received 180 silver muayyadis from the orphans of Shelomo b. Ṣahal, which it seems he will repay within 15 days.