Geniza Lab

Legal document in Arabic script. Deed of purchase from the Mamluk period, according to the Baker/Polliack catalogue. On verso there is a letter (see alternate listing).

Document in Arabic script. Probably legal. Very faded. Needs further examination.

Recto: Hebrew jottings including Psalms 141:10 Verso: Possibly part of an Arabic document

Arabic document - needs examination.

Arabic document - needs examination.

Beginning of a document - needs examination.

Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document dated 8 Dhū l-Ḥijja 5[4?]7 AH, which would be 1153 CE. One signature preserved. Recto: (secondary use): Promissory note or a similar genre, specifying the amount of money owed by Abū l-Najm Hilāl (alladhī ʿind al-shaykh Abū l-Najm Hilāl...). Needs further examination.

First three lines of a legal document in Arabic script, likely a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Zayn b. Barakāt the Jewish banker.

Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (lower left corner). Witness signatures partially preserved. Mentions a sum, "half of which is 1 1/4 dinars." Then the 15th of Shaʿbān.

Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Regarding a surgical operation by a physician. Nāṣir b. Jibrīl asks the Jewish physician Makārim b. Isḥāq to perform surgery on the eye of his daughter, Sutayt, which is affected by pus behind the cornea. If the operation is successful, the payment is set at 2 dirhams; if the operation is a failure, the payment will be negotiated. The document is witnessed and signed by ʿAbd al-Qawī b. ʿAbd al-Muʾṭī b. Hilāl al-Anṣārī. Dating: ca. 1250 CE. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a shop (ḥānūt), dyeing, and a period of 6 months (a lease?).

Verso: Document in Arabic script mentioning the words al-waraq (paper) or more likely al-wariq (silver money), 28 dirhams, and a date, which looks like the beginning of Ṣafar 598 AH, which would be 1201 CE if read correctly. Needs further examination. ASE

Legal document in Arabic: acknowledgement (iqrār). Recto as catalogued, but written after the Fatimid petition on verso (see separate record). Date isn't easy to read; likely 5th century AH.

Original use: Bottom of a Jewish legal document. Nothing is preserved apart from five signatures: -Ṣedaqa b. Avraham -Yoshiyyahu b. Efrayim he-Ḥaver -Shemuel b. Yehuda -Avraham b. Yosef ha-Kohen -Yosef b. Shelomo.

Responsa or philosophical queries or answers in Judaeo-Arabic. The name [...] b. Nissim (ZL) appears on verso in the margin.

Receipt in Arabic script. Location: Cairo or Fustat. Dated: before Muḥarram 561 AH, which is late 1165 CE. For Bū Najm Hilāl b. Mūsā al-Ḥarīrī. 'What remains to him' of dyed silk (al-ḥarīr al-muṣabbagh) and wariq dirhams. There is then a first person declaration that 'I have received from him two months [of rent?].' The scribe's name (and several generations of his ancestry) appears in the penultimate line but is dificult to read. Maʿānī or Maʿālī?

Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Perhaps a rental contract for Abū Muḥammad b. Abī l-ʿIzz. Appears to be dated 694 AH, which is 1295/96 CE. Needs further examination. Subsequently reused by Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (see separate record).

Document (legal?) in Arabic script. Mentions 10 dinars. Needs examination.

Legal query, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a man who had a deposit but claimed he had lost it. There are sundry other jottingss and drafts, too.

Jottings of a hamdalah Verso: Part of an official state document? - Needs examination