Geniza Lab

Document in Arabic script. Only a thin vertical sliver has survived. Probably magical, based on the stick-and-ball drawings. Needs examination.

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Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Letter fragment addressed to the dignitary Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq Ibn al-Furāt (aka Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen), sent either to or from al-Ramla. Only the first two lines (in Hebrew) and the address (in Arabic script) are preserved. Dating: ca. mid-11th century.

Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentioning tutty (tūtiyā) and camphor (kāfūr) and spikenard (sunbul).

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Fiscal (or other?) receipt. Arabic writing, Coptic numbers.

Recto: Letter, or possibly a legal document. In Arabic script. Fragmentary (lower right corner). Mentions a collector of funds of some kind (jābī l-muwāzana).

Verso: Receipt. In Arabic script. For Ibn Mazhar(?) the Jew. The scribe's name appears at the bottom: Abū l-Majd b. ʿAlī. Dated: Either 506 or 560 AH, which means either 1112/13 or 1164/65 CE. The payment was 4.5 (dinars?) cash, which is written both in words and in Greek/Coptic numerals. The payment seems to be for the ground rent (ḥikr) for a property (...al-dawra alladhī fī sūq al-[...]...).

Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script. Needs examination. Recto preserves the basmala and prayers for Muḥammad. Verso has jottings in both Arabic script and Hebrew script.

Document in Arabic script. A lot is preserved, but it is faded. Needs examination.

Letter fragment, it seems. In Arabic script. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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