Geniza Lab

Legal document referring to textiles (silk, wool), sweetmeats and prices, mentioning the name Manṣūr. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document mentioning [...] b. Naḥman ha-Kohen, possibly the dissolution of a partnership, and 21 1/4 dinars. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38) under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Dated: Either [143]8 or [144]8 Seleucid, so either 1127 CE or 1136/37 CE. There is writing on both sides and in the margins. (Information in part from CUDL)

Sample of a deed of sale. (Information from CUDL)

Sample of a deed of sale. (Information from CUDL)

Legal query concerning an orphan girl. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document referring to the Jewish court (Beth Din), and mentioning Abū Ṭayyib. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document; Literary text. Recto: paraphrase of sections of Esther with biblical phrases in Hebrew (including Esther 8:8; 3:13); Coptic numerals. Verso: further paraphrase of Esther; tajriba in Judaeo-Arabic (from CUDL). The hand of the literary piece and the tajriba is by a known scribe, Yosef b. Shemuʾel Halevi (ca. 1180's-1210). Also on verso, on the right side of the page, a bottom part from a legal deed from Tishrei 1511 (1199) by a different hand. Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Coptic numerals. AA

Part of a legal document, mentioning 20 dinars and the name Abū Isḥāq ibn [...]. (Information from CUDL)

Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Perhaps a partnership agreement. Refers to importing goods or currency and selling them in "the houses of the wukalāʾ" (cf. T-S 13J2.2, an unrelated document with the same phrase). (Information in part from CUDL)

Draft of a legal query addressed to Avraham Maimuni .(AA)

Legal document. Minute fragment from a legal document. Verso is blank Judeo-Arabic. AA

Part of a responsum explaining a case of inheritance, mentioning Qayrawan. (Information from CUDL)

Legal Document. Damaged legal document, probably a deed of release. A slave girl is mentioned. Names: Sālim b. al-Lakāf, Mufaḍḍal b. Būs[a'd]. A partnership with Khalaf b. bint […] is mentioned. Also mentioned a bill of debt on Abu al-Ḥasan. Judeo-Arabic. AA

Arabic version of Hai Gaʾon’s Sefer ha-Meqaḥ we-ha-Mimkar; dealing with the chapter: al-buyūʿ wa-l-ashriya. (Information from CUDL)

Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Perhaps a settlement between an abusive husband (...lahā bi-ḍarb wa-qaṣd...) and a woman named Ḥākima (another version of her name may appear in line 7: [...]aba al-madhkūra). (Information in part from CUDL)

Possibly a legal document. There is a list of names on verso: Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Dān, Abū Saʿd b. Azḥar, and […] Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document concerning the parental custody of a woman. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document, probably. Relatively small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, written in a Sefaradi-influenced hand. Repeatedly refers to capital (raʾsmāl). Possibly a partnership agreement. Mentions someone named Ismāʿīl.