Geniza Lab

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 2 Heshvan 5324 AM = 19 October 1563 CE. Doña Masʿūdī (the same Doña Masʿūda as in Moss. VII,41.1?), the widow of Avraham b. Ẓahal, leases her ʿaliya that is on top of the synagogue (בית הכנסת המדרש) to Avraham Baronito for a period of 5 months. Rent: 5 medins/month.

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 22 Adar II 5456 AM, which is 1696 CE. Currency: muayyadi/medin. The first few lines are lost/damaged. This may be a release which Esther has given to Moshe. But needs further examination.

Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: Thursday, 13 Heshvan 5311 AM, which is 1550 CE. Witnesses: Seʿadya b. Yehuda קוננטיני and Yosef b. Shelomo חימזו. This document is a testimony certifying the validity of a bill of divorce and issued at the same time. Husband: Shammas b. ʿAbd al-Karīm known as Muṣallī. Wife: Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yaʿaqov. The husband has appointed Yiṣḥaq b. שעדקי as his agent to deliver the bill of divorce to his wife in Cairo.

Recto: Deed of debt. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dating: Ca. 1578 CE, as this belongs together with ENA NS 5.30. There is a long list of people (including Yaʿaqov Leon; Daniel Baraza; Yeḥiel Kohen; Avraham de Narbona; Yaʿaqov de la Fe(?); Yosef Amarilio; [Yiẓ]ḥaq Amarilio; Avraham Guklil(?); and probably several others] who loaned money to Yiṣḥaq Navarro. It seems that the debtor fell on hard times. The creditors each reached an agreement with him regarding dates of repayment and postponements. Verso: Guarantee for a debt. Location: Salonika. The guarantors are Sulaymān [Serrano] and Yiṣḥaq Navarro (the debtor from recto). Also mentioned: Yehuda Serrano (also appears in ENA NS 5.30, dated 5338 AM = 1578 CE). Information from Avraham David via FGP.

Deed of debt. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: 20 Tevet 5338 AM, which is 1578 CE. Involves the guarantors Yehuda Serrano and David אאילייון. Also mentioned: Yiṣḥaq Navarro. Witnesses: Shemuel de Medina; Ezra Barokas. Information from Avraham David via FGP.

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 1 Tevet 5416 AM, which is 1655/56 CE. Marḥaba the widow of Elʿazar(?) leases the large līwān to Seʿadya b. Marzūq for a period of 6 months. Rent: 30 muayyadis/medins per month.

Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Yūd ʿImrān on Bīr al-Ḥā'it, Yemen. Dated: 4 Nisan 2151 Seleucid, which is 1840 CE. Groom: Hārūn b. Sālim al-Thalā'ī(?). Bride: Saʿda bt. Sālim Ḥoṭer al-Kohen, a widow.

Legal document. Power of attorney. Dated: November 1050. Location: Fustat. An unsigned assignment of power of attorney from Eleazar Manṣūr ("Head of the Congregations") b. Menaḥem of Aleppo to Hillel b. Avraham. Eleazar waives all right to the claim that Hillel subverted his agency, suggesting this is an unlimited power of attorney. Although documents granting unlimited power of attorney are typically granted to agents effecting marriage, this document reveals Eleazar to have been appointed to collect on an inheritance claim advanced by one Mulūk bt. Neḥuma b. Wahab, a claim described in T-S 18J2.12 (PGPID 3527) wherein Mulūk explains that her inheritance was left by her father’s wife with Tamīm; in this document, Eleazar appoints Hillel to collect Mulūk’s inheritance from "…any person at all, among them… Tamīm…" (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", 86-87)

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Beginning of Heshvan, 5488 AM, which is 1727 CE. Involving the qodesh of the mustaʿrib congregation and real estate. Sums are given in diwani muayyadis/medins. Needs further examination.

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: End of Heshvan, 5562 AM, which is 1801 CE. Me'ir b. Naʿim invests 100 reales (1 real = 90 medins) with Raḥamaim Tājirī and his wife Mazal.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Building expenses over six days. "Same hand as the previous document." For Dār al-Maqādisa and Dār b. Pineḥas. Expenses include: refuse removal; transport of materials; construction; supervision; nails; plaster; baskets; and more. Information from FGP.

Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan 5581 AM, which is 1821 CE. Yiṣḥaq Ṭawīl invests 1000 esedi gurush with Moshe Maṣliaḥ and Moshe Ṭawīl. Period of investment: three months.

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 1 Shevat 5578 AM, which is 1818 CE. Declaring that Rica bt. Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) against her husband Yosef Castile, and she therefore forfeits her right to her ketubba or any alimony.

Bill of divorce (get). Location: Al-Saʿdiyya, which is probably in Yemen, based on the handwriting and names. Dated: 29 Tishrei 2023 Seleucid, which is 1711 CE. Husband: Yehuda Ibn Muʿawwiḍa. Wife: Zahra bt. Yaḥyā. Witnesses include: Zekhraya b. Yosef.

Legal document. Deed on mint partnership from 1563, in Cairo, between Yitsḥak d’Molina and Shlomo al-Faranji. Wednesday, Elul 1st. Published אברהם דוד, 'יהודים במנהלי בית המטבע במצרים במאה השש-עשרה', בין הסטוריה לספרות: ספר יובל ליצחק ברזילי, תשנ"ז, עמ' קו-קז. Hebrew. AA

Legal document. Will from 1527 drawn up by Shul (Sul, Shol), the wife of R. Shelomo ibn Sornaḥ סורנח. The wife disagrees to let her brother claim her estate from Shemuʾel Brodo, whom in his home she were living at the time she was writing the will (l. 3-4). She also declared that she has no other possessions whatsoever. Signed by Yeḥiel Mar Ḥayyim (data from FGP by Abraham David). Hebrew. AA

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Beginning of Shevat 5306 AM, which is 1546 CE. Concerning financial arrangements between a wife (Siwār) and husband (Avraham al-Jazīra(?)). Witnesses: Elʿazar b. Avraham Mujamjim; Moshe Ashasho(?). There is an addendum scribed and signed by the same Elʿazar b. Avraham Mujamjim. Dated: beginning of Av 5308 AM, which is 1548 CE.

Bill of divorce (get). Location: Cairo. Dated: Shevat 18[..] Seleucid, which is 1489–1588 CE. Husband: Eliyya b. Shemuel.

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: 28 Heshvan 5557 AM, which is 1796 CE. Testimony that Raḥamim Ashiyo (? אשיאו) received from Sara bt. Yiṣḥaq Re'uven an investment of 1000 reales, a value of 90 medins

Legal document. Record of court proceedings. Abū l-[...] al-Tājir sues his nephew Abū l-Futūḥ Wahb for the 20 dinars that he had deposited with him before departing for al-Shām.