Geniza Lab

Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Verso: Hebrew legal document, probably from a draft or formulary. AA

Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper half). Involves [...] b. Yehuda and Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm, both Jews. Needs examination for content.

Order of payment or receipt in Arabic script: li-yatasallam al-muʿallim ʿAlī.... It is not clear what is being paid or handed over. 11 qadaḥs of something? The glyph appears at the top and an elaborate but crude ʿalāma appears in the middle (compare AIU XII.51 for a similar format).

A mercantile ruqʿa / dār receipt for Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf) al-Urjuwānī, with Judaeo-Arabic business accounts in his own hand on verso. The set of similar documents: ENA 3957.5 T-S Ar.35.128 T-S Ar.35.269 T-S Ar.39.187 T-S AS 184.265 ENA 3957.11 (for Nahray b. Nissim; all the rest are for ʿArūs)

Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is ʿAlāʾ bt. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Saʿīd (Khan suggests this is the same Bū Saʿīd as in T-S NS 297.1, another report of the death of a Jewish woman). Dated: Thursday, 20 Dhū l-Qaʿda 682 AH, which is 18 February 1284 CE. She left a father and two sons. (Information from Goitein’s index card and Khan.) On verso and the margins of recto, there are business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.

Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment from the middle of the document, listing dozens of "wa-lā X wa-lā Y wa-lā Z." Dating: Might be late.

Recto: Purchase deed from the Mamluk period. Verso: Hebrew liturgy and jottings - needs examination.

Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Damaged with the imprint of another document on top of it. Needs examination for content. On verso there is the imprint of what is probably an Ottoman-era legal document involving Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. [...] al-faqīr ilā Allāh and Muḥammad al-[...] al-Shāfiʿī. Written in giant letters: "the 23rd of the month of."

Legal document in Arabic script. With witness signatures. Needs examination for content.

Legal document. In Arabic script. Receipt for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. Manṣūr and the buyer is Farajallāh b. Abū l-Baqāʾ b. Abū Saʿīd al-Naṣrānī. Price: 22 wariq dirhams. Dated: 25 Rabīʿ II 630 AH, which is 9 February 1233. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card)

Promissory note. In Arabic script. Fragment (right side only). Mufaḍḍal declares that he owes a sum of money to Ṭāhir al-Naḥḥās b. M[...] and specifies the payment schedule.

Legal document recording the receipt by a woman of the inheritance due to her from the administrator of intestate succession in Tinnīs. Dated: 10 Rabīʿ II 508 AH, which is 1114 CE.

Draft of a contract, probably. In Arabic script. Concerning the sale of a shop (dukkān). Verso also contains some jottings, several signatures and dates as well as a sum of dirhams, evidently related to recto. (Information in part from Baker/Polliack catalog.) Needs further examination.

End of a legal document in Arabic script, with multiple signatures. Needs examination for content.

Possibly part of a document. Verso has a large scribble which may be a signature - needs examination. (FGP)

Some jottings (possibly of food supplies) and a note concerning the purchase of a shop (dukan) (FGP)

Recto: Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abu al-Hasan ibn Wahb including five signatures and some dates. Recto: Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abu al-Hasan ibn Wahb Verso: Administrative account including five signatures and some dates - needs examination. (FGP)

Corner of a document containing an official signature followed by the clearly written words ARABIC, and an oval-shaped seal imprint containing featuring names such as `Uthman and Sulayman, possibly Ottoman. FGP

Verso: formulary for reports of death in which the names of the deceased, the heirs and the witnesses are left blank. In Arabic script. Dating: Ca. 13th century. (Information from CUDL.)