Geniza Lab

Legal. Detailed description of the location of a building and its surroundings. Homeowners mentioned are Ibn Qumaylah (?) and Abu l-Qasim 'Abd al-Malik the broker.

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dates: 1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper left corner of recto). There is writing on both sides. Involves ʿUlla b. Yefet and Abū l-Ḥasan the brother of Aharon. The case probably involves the dissolution of a partnership in a shop, after a protracted legal dispute.

Two or three different legal documents bound together. The one on recto involves Sitt al-Kull bt. Ḥalfon.

Fragments of two legal documents. Recto appears to be a release involving a woman and her husband Abu l-Fadail, and an Abu Ya'qub is also named. Verso describes a situation involving a couple and their ketubba. ASE.

Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Probably concerning the ketubba payment and division of property following a divorce. "As for what she (or: you?) mentioned that the ketubba is missing a silver armlet weighing 12 dirhams..." There is also discussion of 3 caps (maʿāriq) and the rent of the house during the time she was living with him.

Bill of divorce (get) fragment from Fustat, dated 26 Elul 1633 Seleucid which is 1322CE. Despite the document's damage, the husband's name is legible as Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo of Bilbeis. MCD.

Testimony dated the 8th of Av, 1465 CE (1776 Seleucid), regarding Mansur b. Ibrahim ("known as the leprous (al-Abras)"?) and another party who had a terrible quarrel regarding the reading of Rahamim on the night of the upcoming Yom Kippur. All the numerous undersigned testify that Mansur has renounced his right to read them: Ovadyah b. Shemuel [...] known as Tajir; Aharon b. Moshe known as 'Ammani; Se'adyah b. Sedaqah Ghazzawi; Ovadyah b. Yehudah known as Amshati; Yeshu'ah b. [...] known as Sayrafi; Sedaq[ah?] b. Binyamin; Yeshu'ah b. Yehudah knonw as Fuhayd (?); and Yeshu'ah b. Moshe.

Get (bill of divorce) dated Shevat 1050 CE (4810) from Damsis. Menahem b. Yefet repudiates Rida bt. Avraham. The document was written and signed by David b. Moshe, and also signed by Shemuel b. Avraham. Information from Goitein's note card.

Get (bill of divorce) dated the 11th of Heshvan 1097 CE (1409 Seleucid) from Fustat. Tahor ha-Kohen b. Yeshu'ah repudiates Banat bt. Natan. Signed by Avraham b. Natan Av [ha-Yeshivah?] and [Avraham?] b. Ḥalfon. Information from Goitein's note card.

Get (bill of divorce) dated the 24th of Tamuz 1128 CE (1439 Seleucid) from Fustat. She'erit b. Ḥalfon repudiates Turfa bt. Avraham. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, also signed by Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver. Information from Goitein's note card. [The illness of one Turfa bt. Avraham is described in detail in T-S 10J11.22, but this may or may not be the same person.]

Get (bill of divorce) dated the 16th of Tamuz 1147 CE (1458 Seleucid) from al-Mahallah. Abu l-Fakhr ha-Kohen b. Ḥalfon repudiates Sami bt. Shelah. Written and signed by Zakkay (?) b. Moshe, also signed by 'Amram b. Ya'aqov. Information from Goitein's note card.

Recto: Get (bill of divorce) dated the 20th of Av 1162 CE (1473 Seleucid) from Fustat. Thabit b. Abu l-Faraj repudiates Sitt al-Nas bt. Abu l-Husayn. Per Goitein, the document was written as well as signed by Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver (whose signature is surrounded by minute letters, abbreviating a verse?). Also signed by Ya'aqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef. Verso: attestation that the get was delivered. Information in part from Goitein's note card.

Get (bill of divorce) dated the 9th of Heshvan 1163 CE (1475 Seleucid) from Fustat. Mansur b. Sa'd known as Ibn 'Ummayr repudiates Nasab bt. [Farah]. Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver, also signed by Shelomo ha-Levi b. Shemuel. Information from Goitein's note card. This get was evidently never delivered, and they did not actually divorce until the following year: see 5524.7.

Recto: Get (bill of divorce) dated the 9th of Shevat 1164 CE (1475 Seleucid) from Fustat. Mansur b. Abu Sa'd al-Sayrafi known as Ibn 'Ummayr repudiates Nasab bt. Farah. Written and signed by mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver, also signed by Shemaryah b. Avraham. Verso: attestation that the get was delivered the same day. Information from Goitein's note card.

Get (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: 26 Av 1484 Seleucid, which is 1173 CE. Abū Saʿd b. Abū ʿAlī repudiates [Sitt al-]Jamīʿ bt. Yūsuf al-Ṣabbāgh. Signed by Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi and Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver. (Information from Goitein's note card.)

Formulary for a Karaite ketubba. See Mann, Texts and Studies, 174–76. Information from Goitein's note card.

Calligraphic get (bill of divorce) dated the 19th of Kislev 1661 CE (5422) from Damascus. Moshe b. Avraham known as Ibrahim repudiates Malkah known as Muluk bt. Eliyahu known as Khidr. Signed by Elazar b. Noah and Hayyim b. Eliyyahu.

Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). Dated: 18 Shevaṭ 1326 Seleucid, which is 1015 CE. Location: Fustat. For Farjiyya bt. Sahlān. Her husband Yehoshuaʿ b. Moshe died, and so the ceremony was conducted to release her from having to marry his brother Yehuda. No signatures. Square book hand with carefully justified margins. See Med Soc III, IX, C, 1 n. 223. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

Contract of betrothal dated the 27th of Nisan, 1157 CE (1468 Seleucid), from Fustat, under the reshut of Shemuel ha-Nagid. The contract is between Abu l-Wafa b. Abu l-'Ala and Sitt al-Thana bt. Yosef the cantor. It contains, in addition to the usual conditions (not to marry a second wife, etc.) the stipulation that the wife's earnings would belong to her. The mohar (dower) is fixed at a muqdam of 10 dinars and a me'uhar of 30 dinars. Signed by Se'adyah b. Avraham and Elazar ha-Kohen b. 'Atiyyah ha-Kohen. Information from Goitein's note card.

Leaf from a dossier containing later (maybe 14th-15th c) copies of rescripts or responsa from Muslim and Jewish authorities concerning a scholar who allegedly had slandered a Jewish judge. The end of no. 8, from a Muslim amir, dated 575H (1179–80 CE), no. 9 (head of the yeshiva in Baghdad) and the beginning of no. 10 (same as preceding). Information from Goitein's note card and from Marina Rustow.