Geniza Lab

Accounts, probably. Table of names and numbers. In Hebrew script. Late.

Letter addressed to Nissim Majjānī. In Hebrew. Late. Only the address is preserved.

Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions something that passed 'between the two of them'; the court in Fustat; a sum of dinars; Natan b. Shelomo. It is not clear how the two fragments fit together.

Literary. Small fragment.

Primary text: Letter from Maʿānī, in an unknown location, to his brother Mūsā, in Fustat. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic: to [Sūq] al-ʿAṭṭārīn, to Ibn al-Amshāṭī, to be given to [...] al-Ḥazzān, to be given to his son Mūsā. "By the milk with which we were nursed and by the womb that bore us. . . do not let your father cut me off because of what I said to him. You yourself should buy the paper from him. . . the copyist. . . exert (tajdahid = tajtahid) yourself for me." The letter ends here. Secondary text: There is a grid in red ink on verso, filled with Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, and Hebrew. ASE.

Recto: Narrative text in Judaeo-Arabic. Relays a dialogue between Dāniyāl (al-Qūmisī?) and Yūsuf involving Qaraites. Verso: Two lines in Arabic script. Perhaps ʿUmar b. Yūsuf. . .

Literary. Commentary on Kings.

Three lines of Arabic in a neat black grid.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Late. Names are prefaced by סי׳ = senyor.

Document in Arabic script. Appears to be a letter.

Legal document. In Hebrew. Late. Involves Sulaymān Bonan and Faraj Allāh b. Shabbat and various sums of muayyadis/medins.

Literary. Fragment of a haggada.

Letter signed by Yosef b. Avraham, Aharon b. Yo[..], [Yiẓḥa]q b. Aharon, and a fourth man. The content is not entirely clear. Mentions an Abū Saʿīd, a shaliaḥ, and uses the verb قشع for "see." Probably 14th century at the earliest. Goitein's attached notes do not correspond to this precise shelfmark but to multiple binders (labeled according to their Gaster shelfmarks) including BL OR10578A [alt: 1342], BL OR10578C [alt: 1344], BL OR10578E [alt: 1346], BL OR10578H [alt: 1349], and others. ASE.

Literary, Hebrew.

A few Judaeo-Arabic words in large script.

Literary. Talmudic commentary in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Rav Hayya.

Literary, Hebrew.

Literary, Hebrew.

Fragment of a calendar in a red grid, mentioning Shavuot and the 17th of Tammuz. See Goitein's notes attached to BL OR 10578C.1 (PGPID 6310).

Informal note. Possibly in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. An order for various food items and materia medica, with the amounts listed, following a note urging the recipient to to take care of the matter and saying that the remainder of the silver will be paid. ASE.