Geniza Lab

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 7 Av 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. Concerns the same case as Bodl. MS heb. d 66/7, namely the separation three months earlier of Ṣedaqa ha-Meshorer b. Ṣemaḥ and Sitt al-Kull bt. Berakhot ha-Levi. The purpose of this document is for the court to issue Sitt al-Kull's father a certificate confirming that there will be no reconciliation; this enables him to claim alimony for her. The alimony arrangement is described in Bodl. MS heb. d 66/7.

Marriage contract from Tinnis, Egypt, in the late tenth century; two pieces. A long elaborate poem recited on Passover was written on both sides of one piece, and on the verso of the marriage contract. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 339) EMS

Part of a ketubba for Nathan ha-Levi (groom), referring to the dowry. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: lower part of a ketubba. Verso: writing exercises of biblical verses in various hands. (Information from CUDL)

Small scrap of parchment containing the closing line of a marriage contract and its signatures. (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 374) EMS

Court record dated Av 1371/September-October 1060. Abu Sa'd b. Ishaq releases Sulayman from a debt of four dinars according to a ruq'a (note) dated November 1059. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Get (bill of divorce) from Fustat for Menashshe b. Shemuel and Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yefet Tif'eret ha-Qahal. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Information from Goitein's note card.

The end of a ketubba, witnessed by [...]ya b. Aaron, Peraḥya ha-Me[lammed] and Isaac b. [...]. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Text of a will, Fustat, 1250, as well as a draft of a letter to Abu l-Ḥasan, a judge in Bilbays. At the top of the page some books of Hayy Gaʾon are mentioned, which are in the possession of the Nasi. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment from a legal document, probably a bill of release from a wife to her husband Abū Sahl Menashshe. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Document of sale between Shelomo b. Moses and a woman (Sitt al-H[…]). Possibly in the hand of Emmanuel b. Yeḥiʾel. (Information from CUDL)

Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: 1112–ca. 1126 CE, as this was drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh. The testator is named Abū l-Ḥasan. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

Middle fragment of the will of a physician, mentioning 1/8 share of a house held by him in partnership with a Muslim named Ahmad, as well as something worth 180 dinars which should not be taken away from him after his death. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 292; IV, pp. 63, 371)

Deathbed will of a physician (it seems, for he notes the book of medicine (kitāb al-ṭibb) in his own hand), mentioning a one-eighth share of a house held by him in partnership with a Muslim named Ahmad, as well as something worth 180 dinars which should not be taken away from him after his death. He makes arrangements for his wife after his death. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba for Yeshuʿa (groom). (Information from CUDL)

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Taṭāy (תטאי). Dated: 20 Adar 4812 AM, which is February 1052 CE. Husband: Yeshūʿa b. Mev[orakh?] of Alexandria. Wife: ʿAziza bt. Aharon of Fustat. Goitein writes that this was not Yeshuʿa's first divorce, but he does not explain how he knows that. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

Small fragment from a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Yaman. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba, referring to various sums in dinars. (Information from CUDL)

Probably a Karaite ketubba (since the legible text is in Hebrew). Sums are given in darkemon (עשרים דרכמון וחצי). (Information from CUDL)