Geniza Lab

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Large fragment but almost all is formulaic. (Information in part from CUDL)

Bill of sale for a female slave. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

Orders of payment, mentioning Abū ʿAlī. (Information from CUDL)

Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Refers to a sale. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document(s) or perhaps formularies. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The one on recto refers to to "pelonit" instead of an actual woman's name. (Information in part from CUDL)

Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Few details preserved. Involves a woman. (Information in part from CUDL)

Probably a court record. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment of a legal document. Mentions Bū l-Mufaḍḍal and 100 d(irhams?). (Information in part from CUDL)

Notes for a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. "From that: the property of Sitt al-Munā... Nāshiya... [the dīwān of?] mosques (al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid)...." There follows a detailed description of a property and its location. The only other Sitt al-Munā in PGP or Goitein's index cards is the widow of Nahray b. Nissim (T-S 18J1.17).

70 minute fragments (6 vellum; 64 paper) 47 of which are unidentified texts in Judaeo-Arabic (row 1, nos 1-2, 4, 6-8; row 2, nos 2- 4, 6; row 3, nos 1, 4; row 3, no. 6; row 3, no. 9; row 4, nos 1-10; row 5, nos 1-2, 5-6; row 6, nos 1-4, 6-11, 13; row 7, nos 1-6, 10-13); one is probably part of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning the name [...] b. Darmā (row 1, no. 5); one is probably part of a rabbinical work, mentioning the Mishna (row 2, no. 1); one is probably a medical text, mentioning the veins (אלערוק) (row 2, no. 5); four are part of a Bible commentary, quoting Job 36:15; Jeremiah 7:29; Ezra 9:3 (row 2, no. 7; row 4, no. 11; row 5, no. 7; row 7, no. 8); four are possibly Bible translations (row 2, no. 8; row 3, no. 5; row 6, nos 5, 12); one is Saʿadya’s translation of Job 36:6-9 and Job 36:20-23 (row 2, no. 9); one is probably a rabbinical work on nidda (row 3, no. 7); one is possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (row 3, no. 8); one is a translation of Psalms 104:27-28 and 105:12 with Hebrew incipits and commentary, quoting Psalms 142:6 (row 5, no. 3); one is possibly a fragment from a grammatical work (row 7, no. 7); one is part of a Bible commentary (row 7, no. 9). (Information from CUDL)

Document, dated Marḥeshvan 1779 Sel., corresponding to 873 AH (= 1467 CE), concerning a house. Quotes Genesis 23:1. (Information from CUDL)

Court record. Dispute over an inheritance, apparently between a man and a woman. Mentions the names Yoshiyya, Abū Isḥaq, and ʿAlī. (Information from CUDL)

On recto a legal deed written by Efraim b. Shemarya regarding Avraham b. Shemuel affair (see Goitein, Med. Soc. III, 293-295). Published by Bareket, The Jews of Egypt, pp. 141-143.

Recto: unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: probably part of a court record in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment of a legal document. Involves a dyer (al-Ṣabbāgh), Syria (al-Shām), and perhaps a business partnership. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (1066–1108). Rough draft of an agreement between spouses, detailing the conditions that the husband must obey when he takes a second wife. It is implied that the first wife is barren. Among other things, the husband undertakes to leave the female slave to his first wife when he dies. On verso there is a distinct document, also in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, dealing with a business partnership between Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn Ṭībān, Abū l-Ḥasan Yūsuf, and ʿUlla.

Small fragment from a legal deed regarding a payment to a woman, probably written by Hillel b. Eli (Date: 1066-1108).

Legal question concerning some property a man wants to sell or inhabit. The writer asks for some Arabic document establishing the man's rights to the property if he is prevented from living in it.

Remnants of eight lines in the hand of the court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents 1100–38) consisting mainly of legal verbiage. Yosef Lebdi's son, Abū l-Barakāt, set out to retrieve the goods and other assets his father had left on the India route. Abū l-Barakāt appointed Yosef's widow, probably his own mother, as a caretaker to look after the estate until he returned from his voyage.

Legal document possibly a debt acknowledgement mentioning a sum of (thirty plus) dinars and the Jewish month Elul.