Geniza Lab

P15: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions a certain Abū ʿAlī. Likely a join with P14.

P17: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. One man grants a release to another. No other details preserved.

P2: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Refers to a partnership, 'the religion of the rabbis (or Rabbanites?),' and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.

P21: Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Refers to: Abū Yaʿqūb; Abū Saʿd and his paternal cousin (ibn ʿamm); a male orphan named Abū Kathīr(?); his reaching maturity (bulūgh); and the exilarch (adonenu Nagid ha-Gola).

P3: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Refers to the purchase of a property; someone titled 'sar'; "that is on the island (al-jazīra)";

P4: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Deathbed will of Yefet b. Yaʿaqov. He wills that his share in the rent of a house that he held in partnership with others (Ibn al-Dhahabī, Avraham al-Fuqqāʿī, Avraham b. [...], Abū Manṣūr al-Zayyāt) should be spent in two equal shares, one on bread for the poor and the other on a person specified by name. (Information from Goitein, Med Soc II, App. A, no. 180.)

P5: Legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Only a few words are preserved, no details.

P6: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Refers to [Sitt al-Sāda bt.] Evyatar ha-Kohen the Palestinian Gaʾon, who is the wife of Abū l-Makārim. Also mentions the agent Abū l-Riḍā Shelomo [b. Mevorakh]; Abū l-Faḍl Shela; and [...] b. al-Baṣrī. Evidently related to the same case as T-S NS J11 + T-S 10J4.16 + T-S 16.158 + T-S 10J4.17 (PGPID 7847). And see ENA NS 77.275, which mentions a woman related to Evyatar and [Abū l-Riḍā Shelomo] b. Mevorakh.

P7 + P11: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Partnership agreement. Tamīm ha-Kohen will be the active partner, traveling to Yemen and importing merchandise to Egypt. Someone titled Rosh ha-Qehillot will invest money into the shared capital (khulṭa). (This Tamīm may be the same Tamīm ha-Kohen who is already dead in Moss. VII,39—which also involves a Rosh ha-Qehillot—and in T-S 6J12.9 and in T-S AS 211.81.) Join: Alan Elbaum. The join is not continuous and therefore not 100% certain.

P8: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Refers to a woman who owes a debt, a dead man, and a man's wife. Then quotes a dialogue between two men. Verso may be the continuation. Refers to 50 dinars; the daughter of the sister of the dead man; a woman's husband; Ṭoviyya's satisfaction with the settlement.

P9: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small fragment from the beginning. Mentions two judge and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla.

Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerning [...] b. Hillel ha-Zaqen and Yosef ha-Kohen b. Moshe and commercial dealings.

Court notebook, possibly. A bifolium. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. One entry is a deed of sale for a house which mentions Qaṣr al-Rūm, Kanīsat al-Rūm, Ḥammām al-Faʾr, Masjid al-Ḥājja, and Turmus St. Another document pertains to the marriage of Abū l-Maʿālī Avraham b. Ḥalfon and Farjiyya bt. Yiṣḥaq. Needs further examination. Information in part from (and join by) Moshe Yagur.

Recto: Deed of sale for the purchase by Abū ʿAlī Ḥassān b. Ibrahim b. Azhar (the Jewish moneychanger) of two houses in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Munajjā Bahūr b. Shanute b. Baḥāsh (the Christian clerk). Witnessed by Yaḥyā b. al-[…], al-Ḥusaynī, and Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Abū ʿUbaydallāh. Verso: Document relating to the purchase on the recto, and dated 480 AH (= 1087 CE). In this supplementary document, Yūsuf Ibn al-Baraka ‘the Jew’ gifts something (possibly the houses on recto) to ʿIzza and ʿAzīza, the daughters of his nephew. Also mentions al-Thābit b. Ḥasan.

Deed of sale for the purchase by Ibrahim b. Mūsā b. Ṣaliḥ the Jew of two houses and irrigated land to the north of Fusṭāṭ from Dāʾūd b. Azhar b. Ibrahim b. Azhar the Jew. Dated: 6 Ṣafar 498 AH (= 1104 CE). Witnessed by Al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Anṣārī and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Ṭāhir b. Ismaʿīl. (Information from CUDL and Khan.)

Deed in which Abū Saʿd Efrayim b. ʿEli the Jew acquires the lease of a plot of land in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Futūḥ Ghālib b. Fahd, the clerk in charge of government foundations, under the supervision of Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydallāh al-Qāʾifī. The property abuts the cemetery, a plot rented by Abū l-Ṭāhir b. al-Bayān, a plot rented by ʿAdwa bt. ʿAskar, and the house of Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥākim. Dated: Ṣafar 509 AH (July 1115 CE). Witnessed by Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydallāh al-Qāʾifī, Ibrahim b. Aḥmad b. Manṣūr, Al-Ḥusayn b. Musāfir b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad, ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. Hibatallāh, and Murshid b. Yaḥyā Ibn al-Qāsim al-Madanī. Contains a phantom petition. On verso, the son of Efrayim, Abū l-Ḥusayn ʿEli b. Efrayim b. ʿEli the Jewish sawduster, transfers the leasehold of the property sold on recto to his son ʿAlī, by way of his uncle Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn, known as Ibn Ḥayyūn the cashier. Dated Shaʿbān 532 AH (May 1138 CE). Witnessed by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Qāʾifī and Hibatallāh b. Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. Jābir. (Information from Khan, from CUDL and from Marina Rustow)

Ketubba (date missing) for first cousins: the groom Netanel b. Shela b. Yosef b. Mordekhai ha-Kohen ha-Sar ha-Yaqar Zaqen ha-ʿEda and the virgin bride [...] bt. [...] b. Yosef b. Mordekhai ha-Kohen ha-Sar ha-Yaqar Zaqen ha-ʿEda. The sums named are in the hundreds of dinars. Information from Goitein's note card.

Document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Not entirely clear if it is a letter or legal document. It describes the measures that will be taken to discipline a certain Mūsā (l. 1) who has persisted in spreading slander (וצאעף אלרכילות, l. 2). He will be sternly warned (ll. 2–4), but if he continues to persist (l. 5), the communal leader (אבירנו) will remove three Torah scrolls from the ark, dress them in black, and blow the shofar before the congregations and excommunicate him. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

Verso: halakhic text, possibly part of a responsum, written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (11th century), dealing with excommunication and repentance. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Responsum in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or Hillel b. ʿEli. May be related to T-S 10J5.23 (verso). See Goitein's note card for further information.