Geniza Lab

Recto: Legal query concerning a husband and wife and business and property arrangements. Possibly in the hand of Yosef b. Shemeul b. Seʿadya. Very faded. Verso: Sketch for a legal document, to the effect that Abū l-Bayān and the Rayyis, after much negotiation, reached the following compromise: Abū l-Bayān will take over the shop with all its perfumes/drugs (ʿiṭr) and food (maṭʿūm), and he will owe the Rayyis 76 3/4 dirhams and some vessels (burniyya/barānī).

Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Bayān Ibrāhīm b. Mubārak b. Mufarrij al-Isrā'īlī purchases a property. Mentions the rights to the millstone (al-ḥajar) and the mill (al-ṭāḥūn). There are jottings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic on both recto and verso. Information from Goitein's note card.

Legal document (looks like a draft or copy) in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving a certain Maymūn and Avraham Ibn al-Lebdī. Needs examination.

Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥayyān(?) b. Jamāl al-Tājir makes a declaration. The Fātimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (r. 495–525 AH = 1101–1130 CE) is mentioned. Information in part from Baker/Polliack catalog.

One side: Legal formularies, including one for semikha for a slaughterer. The other side: Legal document (שטר עיסקא) or perhaps a formulary of one that happens to use real names. Dating: Ottoman-era, based on the currencies, which include reales and medins (מ״כ = מאידיס כסף).

Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by al-Masīḥī al-ʿAmīd Abū l-Faḍl b. Abī l-Majd b. Bishāra al-Naṣrānī acknowledges a debt that he owes to Abū l-Fatḥ (or Abū l-Faraj) al-Isrā'īlī al-Ṣā'igh al-Mawṣilī. Dated: 626 AH, which is 1228/29 CE (per the Baker/Polliack catalog). Information from the Baker/Polliack catalog.

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. NB: Goitein's index card and the corresponding citation in Med Soc I, p. 440 no. 9 seem to belong with T-S Ar.7.3(2).

Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by Khalīl b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr al-Ḥalabī al-Muḥāmī (the lawyer? the soldier?). Information in part from Goitein's note card.

Probably part of a court record. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Small fragment (upper right corner). Mentions the name Yosef [b. ...] Elʿazar. On verso there are quotations from Zechariah 8:19–23, Obadiah 1:21; Jonah 1:1–5 (haftarot?). (Information from CUDL.)

Recto: prenuptial agreement dated Sunday, 29 Kislev 1426 Sel. (= 1115 CE), mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ḥusayn, Ibrahīm al-Wajʿ, and the wife of Abū Saʿīd al-Ḍarīr. Verso: poem in Hebrew and accounts. Weights and commodities in Judaeo-Arabic; accounts in Arabic with Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Hebrew prayer. Verso: last lines of an autograph responsum by Maimonides, and part of a liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL.) See Outhwaite, B. (2007). "Two New Responsa of Moses Maimonides." [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, April 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.34048.

Recto: legal document in Hebrew, Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic, dated 14[.. Sel.] (= 12th century CE), mentioning Fusṭāṭ. Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)

Responsum. (Information from CUDL)

Legal query ("...yuftīna sayyidunā fī dhālika..."). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a woman who had to move with a man (presumably her husband), apparently against her will. Damaged and faded, but further details can likely be extracted. On verso there is a liturgical text in Hebrew (same hand as verso of T-S AS 145.115). (Information in part from CUDL.)

Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of Accounts on behalf of the Office of Supervision: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb has paid the sum of two, a half, a third and an eighth (dirham?) for the estates in Al-Fayyūm, under the supervision of the judge Ṯiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, of the protégé of the commander of the faithful Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Bahār, of the judge Abū ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā b. Bahār and the elder accountant Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Qūrīl. Dated 27th Ramaḍān 405 AH (= March 1015 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Legal fragment. Damaged and faded. Concerning the wife of Saʿāda b. Shelomo al-Mawṣilī and mentioning the names of two women, Sittūna and Mudallala. On verso there is a poem for a wedding in Hebrew. AA. ASE.

Possibly a court record. (Information from CUDL)

Possibly a court record. (Information from CUDL)

Possibly a court record. (Information from CUDL)