Geniza Lab

Late accounts, listing sales of garments and syrups, mostly to Yaʿaqov ʿAṭias, Yūsuf Seviliah, and Avraham al-Darʿī.

List of donations collected in Shevat and Adar, perhaps of [5]600 = 1840. Family names include Bibas and Mosseri and Ḥaqīm.

List of donations collected for the year 5580 = 1819/20. Family names include Romano, Skandari, Palombo, Yuʿbaṣ, ʿAfīf, Pinto, Yagi, Mizraḥī, Mosseri. At 90 degrees there are also data about sums disbursed. Verso contains another list of donations.

List of amounts of money arranged by months and parshiyot. The name Yiṣḥaq Ḥefeẓ appears at the top.

Late document from the records (some sort of constitution?) of the Azouz synagogue in Alexandria. There is writing on Page 1 and 3, and a few lines on Page 4. Page 1 deals primarily with the leadership of the community, divided between riyāsat al-diyānīyah (religious leadership, or perhaps oversight of judges?) and riyāsat al-maṣāliḥ (perhaps financial oversight?). It partially reads as follows: "... that are in Alexandria without regard to their origins or countries. . . a single congregation, and this congregation will have religious leadership... for the benefit of the citizens. On the religious leadership: . . . the transfer of authority will be determined with the majority of votes. . . He will especially observe the religious materials (? mawādd) . . . and the rulings (istiftā') of ḥalāl and ḥarām according to the religious principles. . . and the religious judgments. . . He will be paid 10,000 qirsh taʿrīfī annually from the fund of the community (ṣundūq al-ṭā['ifah]). . . His dwelling will be suitable for his position. . . . [. . . the son of] Shelomo Ḥazzan. On the leadership of the maṣāliḥ: . . . his election will be determined with the majority of votes. . . ." On Page 3, the sections in the right-hand column are somewhat opaque. They deal with matters such as the job of the community's secretary and burial expenses for members of the community. Halfway down the left-hand column, there begins a summary of a particular election (date unfortunately missing). "Resolved:: On the 17th day of [. . .], the congregation present in the Azouz synagogue . . . the election of the council of representatives (majlis al-nuwwāb) . . . according to the majority of votes." The winners of the election were Khaw[aja] Zakito Luria with 60 votes; Moshe [...] Mikha'el אדלנציר with 47 votes, and the Rāyis (?) with 45 votes. Runners up were Moshe Naḥman with 25, Fereira [...] with 18, Menaḥem סוולרן (?) with 12. Merits further examination.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Karo y Frances & Company (see tags). Dated 1796/7 CE (5557).

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic from the middle of the 11th century. Abū Manṣūr Tustarī is named on verso, possibly the brother of Abū Naṣr and Abū Sahl (see Med Soc I, 183). Other people mentioned: Abū l-Khayr, Abū Ghālib, al-ʿArīf, a ghulām, and Abū ʿImrān.

Late accounts.

List of donations received from various members of a community, organized alphabetically and with a neat accounting system with triangles and dashes.

Several pages of accounts in Ladino. Needs examination.

List of honors purchased for the services on various Shabbatot along with how much money paid or to be paid. Probably early 19th century, since Yāqūtī Yuʿbaṣ does not seem a very common name, and he is mentioned here and in AIU VII.D.85 dated 1817 CE.

Late, dense accounts, mentioning Karo. Merits examination.

Late accounts, mentioning Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ and an Aghion.

Late accounts, mentioning Eliyyahu Palombo and a Shtiwi, the Ottoman currency fonducli, and a candelabra (shamʿadān).

Late accounts (perhaps a list of donations) mentioning a Yuʿbaṣ and Eliyyahu Shtiwi among others.

Recto: Fragment of a clearly written document in Arabic, having to do with business deals and payments. Ottoman or khedival era since the title khawāja is used. Verso: Probably a page of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in sloppy handwriting.

List of donations received from dozens of men and families and some calculations. Arranged by months and parshiyot, and many names are repeated in different months. May be 18th century. A large percentage of all family names attested in the late Genizah period are listed somewhere in this document. Among others: Sultan, Sarfati, Levi, Aripol, Konan, Mas'ud, Sarawi, Zamiro, Trinqi, Rason, Mugnanah (?), Qaninah, Harrar, Najjar, Aghion, Muhibb, 'Afif, Ben Sahal, Kahlatan (?), Chizanah, Abudarham, Skandari, Abzaradel, Alarcon, Bialobos, Fawwaz (?), Frances, 'Uziel, Kasis, Solas, Yesha'yah, Atroti (?), Kachichi (?), Nosri (?), Barukh, Hayyun, Ben Naʿim, Dafakhni (?), Tawil, Jarbu'a (?), Medinah, Ashkenazi, Krispin, Kondiote (?), Pinto.

8 pages from an alphabetically-organized index of a Spanish medical textbook.

List of donations (?) collected dated 1820/21 (5581). Surnames include Pinto, Yagi.

Late accounts in sloppy handwriting, probably dated 5582 = 1821/22.