Geniza Lab

Commercial text referring to the sale of cheese - needs examination. (info from FGP)

Monograph; Saadia's formulary of legal documents - sections pertaining to divorce and halisah; published, with translation, by Ben-Sasson, 'Fragments from Saadya's Sefer Ha-Edut ve'Ha-Shetarot' in Shenaton Hamishpat Ha-Ivri. (info from FGP)

Monograph; recto: formulary of legal documents, including part of שטר הלואה, numbered ג(?) (info from FGP)

Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Ḥeshvan 1478 Seleucid, which is October 1166 CE, under the authority of the Gaon Netanel b. Moshe ha-Levi. (This is the latest known document to invoke the authority of Netanel, though he was still alive in 1169 CE, as we learn from Bodl. MS heb. a 3/6.) The merchant-banker Yehuda receives from the merchant-banker Tamīm b. Mevorakh a loan of 9 1/2 dinars. It is specified that 5 dinars are to be paid back and then the rest in monthly installments. Written by Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 239 and from Goitein's index card.)

Formulary (Palestinian-Rabbanite) for a bill of divorce, copied from a bill dated 872/73 CE, in Jerusalem. (Information from Goitein's index card.) See Krakowski and Stern, "The 'oldest dated document of the Cairo Genizah' (Halper 331)," p. 3 note 6.

Documentary; recto: end of a document in Arabic script followed by two lines of faded Judaeo-Arabic, approving that it was copied words by word by Hananel b, Halfon - needs examination. On verso Maimonides' autograph of Mishne Torah, Ma'aseh ha-Qorbanot 15:2

An order from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer 1 raṭl of linseed oil (zayt ḥār). On the other side, there are business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū Zikrī Kohen evidently tore up the accounts to get scrap paper for the order.

Draft of a legal record from the court of the Nagid. Location: Cairo. Concerning the dissolution of a partnership in Damietta, between Saʿīd and Khalaf. Dating: late 15th century or early 16th century. (Information from Avraham David via FGP.)

Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Sivan 5343 AM, which is 1583 CE. Signed by Eliyya b. Yeshuʿa. Reused for accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on both recto and verso.

Notes for a legal query or responsum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. Regarding Reuven who willed a house to his grandson. After 23 years, the other heirs challenged his title to the property. On verso there is also a line of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning ink (ḥibr), baṭāʾiq(?), ṭaḥīna, and either a pigeon (ḥamām) or a bath (ḥammām).

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Concerns someone ha-Zaqen ha-Levi titled Rosh ha-Qahal and someone's mother and sister.

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involving conflict (shurūr wa-taʿab), two women who have been killed, a settlement of the conflict, and someone named Abū Saʿīd. This is a duplicate copy of T-S 8.111 (PGPID 3652).

specimens of כתובה דמירכסא and שטר מסירה, followed by the heading שרח הלכות מן יבמות. The hand might be of Halfon Hakohen b. Elazar, who was a dayyan in Abraham Maimuni's court (Info from FGP and AA)

Documentary; account of a dispute arising from a partnership during the years 1463-64 Sel. (1152-53), between Hasdai Hakohen b. Yefet (as guardian for his nephew) Yefet b. Berakhot and Shelomo b. 'Ullah known as Ibn Kajruni and part of a legal decision on this case (Info from FGP)

Rabbinica, (Responsa); discussion of various topics relevant to BT Bava Batra, ch. 9; with extensive Judaeo-Arabic marginalia, citing Hai Gaon. On the page remnants of an Arabic official document- need examination (Info from FGP. Join by AA)

Documentary; document issued in court for Halfon b. Yeshu'ah, who wanted to reverse his purchase of half a house from his brother El'azar for the amount of 10 dinars. He is doing this because is brother is traveling to al-Sham (Palestine or Damascus). Dated 1st Elul 1409 Era of documents (1098). Written by Avraham b. Nathan who signed it together with Ishaq b. Shemuel (the Spaniard), Nissim b. Nahray, Avraham b. Shema'aya ha-Haver. AA

Bill of sale for a female slave. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1461 Seleucid, which is 1149/50 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. The parties: the banker [...] b. Natan ha-Kohen; the judge Zakkay b. Moshe. The price: 13 dinars. The slave is known as both Bidʿa and Ghazāl. The first two lines of a separate legal document have been glued to the top of the fragment to create more space for the piyyuṭ on verso. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

Too little remains for identification (possibly a document referring to rental). (Info from FGP)

Responsum by HARID (R. Yish'aya di-Tirani 1165-1240), end of no. 93 in the printed edition (info by Simcha Emanuel, FGP)

Fragment of a will in which a gift is given to Abu al-Faraj, the brother, and to Abu Sa'd, of a part of a house and a warehouse including some books, probably written by Hillel b. Eli. AA