Geniza Lab

One line from the opening of a legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. AA

Recto (original use): Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Verso (secondary use): Official-looking receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Needs examination.

Fragment from the right side of a legal document in the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79).

Legal document mentioning a bridal gift and Abū l-Faḍl. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document signed by Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragment from an opening of a legal deed. AA

Legal document/note testifying that a certain Baqā' b. al-Surūr the [indigo] merchant will operate the tax farm (ḍamān) of Tamīm, the ḍāmin of al-Burqāniyya (location unidentified), for a payment of 4 dirhams a month, as long as he has that tax farm and the tax farm for Qalyūb. Dated the first of Ramaḍān. Witnesses: Ḥalfon Kohen b Elʿazar; Shemuel b. Nissim. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.) On verso there are additional notes in Arabic script and Hebrew script mentioning Rabīʿ I and Tishrei.

Legal testimony in Arabic script, in which someone declares that he longer owes any money to someone. One of the parties is named Abū l-Munā. Underneath, presumably witness signatures, Mevorakh b. Sar Shalom and Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ are written in Hebrew characters. (Information in part from CUDL)

Beginning of a court record (last will and testament?) for Shelah b. Yefet the silk tax-farmer in Sammanud.

Small fragment (upper left corner) of a legal document. Involving Ṣedaqa b. Netanʾel; no specifics are preserved. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragment with few words from an opening of a letter, legal deed or legal query addressed to the head of the Jews or other dignitary.

Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Damaged, difficult to extract much. (Information in part from CUDL)

End of a legal deed from Fustat. Only the date and one signature are preserved. Dated to 5295= 1534. Signed by the scribe Nathan b. Abraham. AA

Legal document mentioning a certain Ibn Mihnab (?) ("son of the idiot"). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Refers to moving from a man's house to somewhere else. Also to 'the rent of the middle.' (Information in part from CUDL)

Halakhic work, possibly a responsum, concerning betrothal and marriage. Features the proverbial Reuben and Shimon. (Information from CUDL.) Reuven engaged or betrothed the daughter of Shimon without seeing her. "As the time of the wedding approached, Reuben demanded to see her first. At this point, the manuscript is badly damaged, but it appears that Shimon rejected Reuben's demand and argued that a man should see his bride only after he marries her." See Ashur, A. (2008). T-S AS 149.178: A Legal Query in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a Bashful Bride. [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, October 2008]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48230.

Legal record(s) in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. The one on recto involves a dispute over wood (akhshāb) and someone named Abū Zikrī.

Legal document(s). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya? Recto is written in Hebrew and mentions Elḥanan Resh Sidra. Shemuʾel Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva b. Abraham, verso is in Judaeo-Arabic and mentions the Jews in Fustat and Ibn al-F[...] and [...] al-Dawla. (Information in part from CUDL)

Note/order addressed to Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Instructing him to collect four dirhams from the bearer, the 'boy' (ṣabiyy) of the sender. The note was left incomplete.

Last lines of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Probably a release. Mentions Fā'iza and perhaps her son Yiṣḥaq.