Geniza Lab

Legal document mentioning a ketubba and Saʿadya. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Trousseau list, probably from a ketubba. (Information in part from CUDL)

Small fragment from a ketubah by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi, only part of the dowry list is preserved. JA. AA

End of damaged legal document, from 11th century Fustat, signed by Yeshu’a b. Yosef. Below the document remains of an approval (qiyyum) of the document written by Efraim b. Shemarya. Only part of his signatures preserved. Aramaic. AA

Fragment from a Karaite betrothal deed. The witnesses to the appointment of the bride’s agent are […] b. Khalaf and Naḥum b. Naḥum. Ca. 11th century. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words preserved. AA

Minute fragment from the top a legal deed. AA

Recto: legal document, mentioning Surūr, Abū l-Ḡayṯ and [...] b. Isaac; dated Nissan 15[..] of the Seleucid Era (12th-13th century). Verso: jottings. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Signed by […] b. Nisan ha-Haver.

Minute fragment, only partial words preserved, in a large square letters. It seems to be from a ketubah, but too little text remains. AA

Minute fragment from the top of a legal document from Cairo (part of the name of the city is preserved). Few words from the date preserved [שב]עין וחד or [ארב]עין וחד- 1031/1061 – or 1131/1161. AA

Damaged legal deed, probably a bill of release for a woman. No further details.. AA

Minute fragment from a bill of divorce (get). Only the verb ושבקית (and I released) and the name of the woman- Maliha d. Berakhot is preserved.

Legal document, probably from a ketubba, mentioning sums of money and a chest. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragment from a ketubah. Only few words from the dowry list preserved. AA

Minute fragment from a ketubah. Few words preserved. The groom is Yosef b. Nehemia (נחמיא). AA

Recto: Bottom of a legal deed, it seems. Reconciliation of some sort. A person declares that if they oppress someone else (אן כנת טלמתך), may God punish them, and if they treat that person well, may God recompense them well (יכאפיה עני באלחסני פיה). The text underneath looks like the remnants of signatures. Verso: Letter or note in the same hand, in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender swears by God (including by the name Ehyeh Asher [Ehyeh]). The content is not clear. He says that the response should be sent to Haifa without delay. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Recto: legal document, dated 1425 of the Seleucid era (= 1114 CE), relating to dowry payments after a divorce. Mentions Ezekiel and Abū ʿUmar David b. Yefet, and signed by Abraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon and Isaac b. Shemuʾel the Spaniard. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Verso: unidentified text; probably discussion in connection with Leviticus. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: legal document, dated 1425 of the Seleucid era (= 1114 CE), relating to dowry payments after a divorce. Mentions Ezekiel and Abū ʿUmar David b. Yefet, and signed by Abraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon and Isaac b. Shemuʾel the Spaniard. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Verso: unidentified text; probably discussion in connection with Leviticus. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: legal document, dated 1425 of the Seleucid era (= 1114 CE), relating to dowry payments after a divorce. Mentions Ezekiel and Abū ʿUmar David b. Yefet, and signed by Abraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon and Isaac b. Shemuʾel the Spaniard. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Verso: unidentified text; probably discussion in connection with Leviticus. (Information from CUDL)