Geniza Lab

Recto: Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū l-Makārim 3 dinars. Dated: Av 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE. On verso there is a note in Arabic script which is simply Abū Zikrī's name (Abū Zikrī b. Yūsuf). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay Abū l-Faḍl 7 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd 6 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer one and a quarter dinars for gum mastic. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 5 dinars for wax (candles). Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī 2 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 3.5 dinars in cash (ʿayn). Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Rīḥān 3 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the (אליודפיה) household 2 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1507 Seleucid, which is 1195/96 CE. Involves Abū l-Fakhr and Khalaf b. Hillel. A sum of 22 dinars is mentioned; a period of two years; and the dowry of "his daughter" Sitt al-ʿIzz. The document is very faded, but more should be legible with effort. Verso seems to be a continuation of recto, but also mentions a mu'akhkhar (delayed marriage payment) perhaps of 50 dinars. The handwriting is probably that of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Needs further examiantion. ASE.

Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic (not a letter as catalogued). Involves a partnership between Yeshuʿa and Salmān; 37 dinars; business in 'the west' and perhaps in Tyre. It is not immediately clear whether it is the same document on recto and verso or two distinct documents. Needs further examination.

Responsa. A query whether milk milked on the Sabbath may be sold. Almost identical with T-S 13J9.10. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

Responsa in Judaeo-Arabic. Filling a bifolium.

Legal queries and responsa.

Text of the oath that Bū ʿImrān must swear to his brother Abū l-Maʿānī concerning his mercantile activities, the price of a house, and the payment of the capitation tax during the time when Abū l-Maʿānī was absent (in Yemen or India). In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. On verso there are also entries about the sale or exchange of books, perhaps in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Information from Goitein's attached notes.

Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Describing a property. Beautifully written. Needs further examination. On verso there is a piyyut in Hebrew. FGP Joins Suggestions yields dozens of fragments that resemble verso and that have Arabic script on the other side. Information in part from Goitein's note card.

Legal document involving [...] b. Khalaf. Illegible without special imaging.

Fol. 2v: Legal document in Arabic script. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Khalaf, a Jew from Tyre, renounces all of his monetary claims against Isḥaq b. Sahl b. Bishr b. Nāḥūm and Abū Naṣr. Dating: 12th century CE. Fol. 1r: Arabic document of lease (needs further examination). On fols. 1v–2r and margins, there is a medical text dealing with parts of the human body. (Information from Khan and CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

Draft of a court record dated 623 (1226) written on a very small piece of paper (4 x 2.5 in) regarding the testimony of Abū Saʿīd al-Levi b. Abū l-Maʿānī that Abu ʾl-Faḍl b. Mukhtār al-Iskandarī had died while in Kalah (Goitein: on the west coast of present-day Malaysia). The document establishes that India traders ventured to Southeast Asia. Goitein didn't supply a reading for the place-name after Kalah ("the lands of ..."); Marina Rustow and Michael Laffan (March 2021) read "Java" (al-jāwa). The document gives dates according to the Jewish (Seleucid) calendar and the hijrī calendar. Old IB Number: 322. New IB Number: VII, 32. In the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Dating: 10 Tammuz 1537 (Seleucid)

Late legal document in Hebrew having to do with the payment of a ketubba and other property arrangements. Needs further examination. ASE.