Geniza Lab

Legal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed זכרון עדות. Dated: 1540 Seleucid, which is 1228/29 CE. Despite the heading, it might be a legal query, e.g., if it begins מא יקול סיי]דנא. The case concerns Ḥayyūn b. Ḥūt(?), Sitt al-Wuḥūsh the wife of [...]ā b. Jannūn al-Maghribī, and how Sayyidnā took an oath that he wouldn't take an oath until after a certain week(?). Very cryptic, needs further work. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document. Small fragment. Involves someone named Efrayim, a woman, and al-Sammanūdī; also involves a debt and a document that was lost.

Legal document referring to Shemarya b. Sheʾerit ha-Kohen. Apparently a debt contract specifying the payment plan of Abū Sahl (l. 5). On verso there is a note documenting a payment made. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Draft. In the crossed out portion: "our master the Nezer (=Natan b. Shemuel) came in to him. . . . concerning the testator. . . ." In the next line: "You know that we are not warrāqīn. . . . (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document(s). Small fragment. Recto contains the beginning of a document and mentions al-Maghrib. Verso contains some crossed out text; portions of names; the words bayt din, istiḥqāq, a quarter and an eighth, and a guardian (אפטרופא).

Legal document. Fragment (bottom part only). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1435 Seleucid, which is 1123/24 CE. None of the substance of the case is preserved. Two copies of this document were made. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Little of the content is preserved except for the phrase "from the day of your crying out" (מן יום אסתגאתתך). (Information in part from CUDL)

Minute fragment, probably from a marriage contract formulary.

Recto: short note in Hebrew written by Joseph b. Isaac and Menaḥem b. Shemuʾel Kohen. Verso: trousseau list in relation to the marriage of [...] b. David and Naẓar bat Joseph, mentioning several household items, such as head scarves, a pot, and a menora. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Wide space between the lines. Mentions [...] b. HIba, "from her property an heir other than him." Very little else is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

Halakhic treatise (possibly a responsum) with citations from various sources. Verso is blank (CUDL)

Order of payment or receipt for Eliyya concerning bread. In the hand of Avraham Maimonides. On recto there is a piece of a document in Arabic script greeting al-Ḥakīm Jamāl al-Dīn. (Information from CUDL and Amir Ashur.)

Verso: Order of payment from Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Abū l-Bayān is to pay Maḥfūẓ al-Khādim various sums of dirhams for various things: 6 for one thing, and 4 for his work on skins and carrying things, altogether 10 dirhams. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Probably draft or template of a legal document, in which ‘Reuben’ claims from ‘Shimon’ certain perfume ingredients, such as camphor, costus etc. (Information from CUDL)

Beginning of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)

Legal fragment. Deed of gift.

An Abū Zikrī Kohen order. Abū l-Faraj is to give the bearer 2 ounces of oxymel (sakanjabīn) and rose. On verso there are Arabic and Hebrew jottings. (Information from CUDL)

Either a legal document or a letter concerning a legal case. In Judaeo-Arabic. Three lines from the middle of the document are preserved. Wide space between the lines. In the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder? If a letter, the sender is instructing the addressee or somebody else to summon the "experts" (aṣḥāb al-khibra) and the Jewish elders (mashāʾikh aṣḥābinā) and divide a house into three equal portions. It may have to do with a dowry evaluation ("...fī taḥrīr al-taqwīm...") or possibly a will. If a legal document, this is describing what someone has to do. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Recto: legal document; signed by [Meʾi]r b. Yakhin (ca. early 13th century). Verso: document in another hand. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document involving a debt of 10 dinars and Yosef ha-Levi. On verso, possibly draft of a treatise or commentary. (Information and join from CUDL.)