Geniza Lab

Small receipt, unclear for what. In Arabic script.

Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Involving Bū l-Faḍl b. Hiba b. Faḍāʾil the Jewish banker (ṣayrafī).

Small receipt in Arabic script, unclear for what.

Small receipt in Arabic script, unclear what for.

Letter or legal document. In Arabic script. Ending, "And Avraham b. Abū Saʿd b. Tammām al-Mutaṭabbib (the physician) wrote it on this date."

Small receipt, unclear what for.

Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Unsigned, possibly a draft. The buyer is Ibrāhīm b. [...] b. Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī known as Ibn [...]. Nahray (b. NIssim?) may be mentioned three lines from the bottom. Needs examination.

Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is Fāḍila, who was survived by her son Abū Dāʾūd. Dating: 621–29 AH, which corresponds to the range 1224–31 CE. (Information from CUDL)

Legal query to Muslim jurisconsults regarding the practice of prostration (sujūd) and genuflection (rukūʿ), during the synagogue liturgy. The said practice was customary for the previous 20 years, and there are concerns regarding its recent abrogation. Dating: ca. 638 AH, which is 1240/41 CE. This was written after the death of Avraham Maimonides, who had innovated these practices. Writing exercises are found on the upper margin of recto and on verso. (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (mawlāya al-dayyān) is instructed to give 5 dinars to the bearer Abū l-ʿIzz on a certain date.

Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Ottoman-era. Needs examination for content. There is a note in the margin at 90 degrees in Judaeo-Arabic, which mentions a date, and another similar note on verso. There is a large red stamp (with some Arabic words) at the top of recto, and a small black stamp on verso.

Legal document in Arabic script. Describing the borders of a house or property. Perhaps a document of sale.

Receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Granted by Hibatallāh b. ʿAbdallāh to a certain Hiba.

Accounts, or bill of lading, or some kind of formal trade-related document. In Arabic script. In the upper left corner: "min dār al-[...]." Then mentions ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf?), a date in Jumādā II, and a bale of lac. Might mention a brokerage fee (dalāla). On verso there are brief notes about sums collected in Judaeo-Arabic. (Same genre: ENA 3957.11, T-S Ar.35.269, and T-S AS 184.265.) ASE

Legal document in Arabic script. There is a date and witness signatures. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script, not completed. "Collected from Samawʾal b. Mūsā (=Shemuel b. Moshe) on..." The header might be a ḥamdala.

Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Recto involves Bū ʿImrān b. Bū l-Faraj b. Mardūkh al-Ṣayrafī, then refers to an administrator of a compound (mutawallī al-rabʿ), then might refer to all the houses pertaining to 'the waqf' (=the qodesh?) in Qaṣr al-Rūm/Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. Verso seems to be a different document, but probably related. Needs examination.

Small fragment from a ketubah written by Yosef b. Shemuel Halevi (Date: 1181-1210)

Fragment from a legal deed concerning monetary issues between Ishaq b. Asher and Khaluf al-Fasi.

Responsum of R. Shalom Halahmi, p. 3 (Date: 1801-1858). Join with T-S NS 210.20, T-S NS 288.171. Published Glick, Sridei Teshuvot.