Geniza Lab

Legal document concerned with a woman and her financial claims in connection with her husband, apparently while he was travelling. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document concerning inheritance and mentioning Yeshuʿa. (Information from CUDL)

Legal testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No signatures, and probably unfinished. It concerns the death of the trader Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen in Yemen (diyār al-Yaman), and presumably his estate. Mentions the local ruler (sulṭān tilka l-diyār). On verso, there is a document with list of names, such as Yefet, ʿAllūn and [...] Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer). (Information in part from CUDL)

Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, dividing up a store. No names mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Legal document. Much of the date is broken off, but mentions a number of names names such as Elʿazar, Abraham, Ibn Najā, Shemuʾel and Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information from CUDL)

Minutes fragment, one of which is from the top of a legal deed.

Top line from a ketubah contains blessings.

One party to this legal document sells to another party 9.5 qirat of a house and renounces right of preemption. The house was situated in the Bir Jabr quarter of Alexandria, which harbored the synagogue of the Iraqi Jews of that city, but was contiguous with the house of a Christian clergyman. Dated to the early 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 46, 360, and from Goitein's index cards)

Model of a legal document in which a mother gives her daughter the upper story of a building as a gift. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: [4]76[.] or [4]7[.]6 AM, which likely places it in the early 11th century. Mentions "all of my claims in the city of Ramla." The rest is very faded.

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

Probably a legal document, mentioning 25 dirhams, Shelomo and [...] ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)

Power of attorney in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. A man, [...] b. Yefet ha-Levi, appoints his wife Sitt [...] as his agent. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document issued by a beit din likely under the direction of Rabbi David Ibn Abi Zimra (lived 1479-1573CE). In Hebrew. Dated: 10 of Adar (or Av?) 5292 AM, which in either case is 1532 CE. The document involves Avraham Castro who appoints Rabbi David Ibn Abi Zimra to pursue the issuance of a get for his daughter from the hand of her husband Naftali b. Ṣadaqa. Signed by Shemuel ha-Levi [b. Moshe Hakim] and Natan ha-Sofer [b. Abraham]. Information from edition in Dotan Arad's dissertation (p. 351). MCD.

The Case of the Great/Fat Eunuch: five-part join of a court record from Fustat in the hand of Yefet b. David dealing with a case of inheritance totaling 12,000 dinars and the state's attempt to acquire part of it (via the great/fat eunuch). Names: David b. Aharon ha-Levi, Yiṣḥaq b. Muʾammal, Yaʿaqov b. Avraham (among others). (Information from Oded Zinger and E. Bareket, Shafrir Misrayim, p. 240.)

Legal document mentioning ‘our lord, the great Nasi’. (Information from CUDL)

Divorce contract of Zechariah b. X and the daughter of al-Ma'ali. Signed by Natan b. Shemuel and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated Sivan 1443/ June 1132. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Legal document mentioning Nathan and his mother, [...] b. Joseph, Naḥūm b. Ismāʿīl and the sultan. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document mentioning Nathan and his mother, [...] b. Joseph, Naḥūm b. Ismāʿīl, the sultan and Alexandria. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document mentioning Nathan and his mother, [...] b. Joseph, Naḥūm b. Ismāʿīl and the sultan. (Information from CUDL)