Geniza Lab

Legal document; much of the date is broken off. Mentions Judah al-Ḥarīrī. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragment from a ketubah. AA

Minute fragment from a bottom of a legal deed. Only part from the signatures from which tne names Yefet, and [Yeh]uda Hakohen are preserved. AA.

Minute fragment, only two words, but might be from a ketubah. AA

Minute fragment from the top of a legal deed. Only few words from the opening verses preserved. AA

Legal document dated 1400 of the Seleucid Era (= 1089 CE). Mentions Mevorakh b. Joseph. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragment from a legal deed. AA

Legal document relating to a dowry. (Information from CUDL)

Payment order from David ha-Nasi (not David b. Daniel, head of the Jews 1082-1094) ordering 3 communal officers to pay a quarter dinar to the foster sons of al-Afdal, using the revenue from houses donated 'for Jerusalem.' Dated to the second half of the 12th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 249, 481)

Legal document from Fusṭāṭ; one of the witnesses is Shelomo b. Abraham b. Ezra. Concerns Abraham al-Ḥarīrī from Damietta, and financial affairs regarding a house. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document mentioning [Abū] Manṣūr, Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Naqlī b. Abū l-Faḍl and Ibn al-Ribāṭ. (Information from CUDL)

A damaged bill of divorce (get). The husband named Zedaqa, the wife’s name is not preserved. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi who signed it together with Ishaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard. AA

Legal document (witness statement), mentioning ‘my husband Yaʿaqov.' (Information from CUDL.) Join: Oded Zinger.

A much faded legal deed written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (see Bareket, The Jews of Egypt, p, 217). On recto description of a legal suit between Hushiel and his group (עידתו) in Qayrawan, mentions Hayyim b. Moshe and Shemuel b. Sahal. The deed continues verso. AA

Legal document mentioning the advanced bridal gift. (Information from CUDL)

Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First decade of Iyyar 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. Little of the content is preserved. Mentions "one third" and possibly the name Musallam. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document giving the testimony of Shelomo, and mentioning Elʿazar and Yeshuʿa. (Information from CUDL)

One of four fragments from the court ledger of the Babylonian congregation of Damascus (T-S 16.181, T-S AS 146.66, T-S NS 320.108, and T-S 12.592). Dated: 6 Nisan 4693 AM, which is 933 CE. The first betrothal recorded is between Shemuel b. Avraham the Persian and Khayriyya bt. ʿEzra; the mohar was fixed at 50 gold pieces. At the time of betrothal Samuel gave her 3 good gold pieces, and he will add 17 gold pieces at the time of marriage, and a further 30 in future. This offer was accepted by Manṣūr b. Isaac, the guardian of Khayriyya. Witnessed by Muʿammar b. Yaʿaqov, Benyamin […], Aharon b. R. […], […] b. Shaʾul, Yaʿaqov b. Maymūn, and Avraham ha-Shofet. The second record regards the betrothal of […] b. Yosef with Thanā bt. Furayj ha-Kohen, witnessed by Yaʿaqov b. Natan and Aharon b. ʿEli. (Information from CUDL.)

Damaged legal deeds. On recto a bill of compensation from 11th century Fustat, probably from a man to a woman. On verso another document, in a different hand. Probably bill of release between Yeshua Halevi b. Nethanel and Ben Tarsun (figures from this family are mentioned in Geniza documents from 1030’s). AA

Court record of a case in which an orphan girl wishing to dispose of a piece of property that was held in trust by the court had to have her action confirmed by the man to whom she was betrothEd. Drawn up in Fustat, Tammuz 1393/June 1082. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 89, 445)