Geniza Lab

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions a consul several times.

State documents, probably. Receipts? There are 2 documents sharing the same page. The top one is for Ṣadaqa b. Yūsuf and the bottom one is for Yūsuf b. Ṣadaqa. Needs further examination.

Accounts, probably. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination.

State document, possibly. There are two lines in a chancery hand and the end of a third line, with huge spaces between them, and an additional line in the margin. Perhaps this is a petition or appeal for help (...min kiswatin wa-ʿāda ilā l-bāb al-ʿazīz... ṣuḥbata Bū l-Faraj...). In the copious space remaining, there are writing exercises (including an effort to copy the original lines). On verso there are writing exercises in Hebrew script. There is also some additional Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals.

Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One side is headed "Cairo" and lists names such as al-Shaykh Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣāyigh

Medical recipes. In Arabic script. On verso there are jottings in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals as well as a few lines in Hebrew script.

Accounts of a druggist, probably. On a bifolium. In Arabic script with a few Greek/Coptic numerals (but mainly the numbers are spelled out). Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century, but that is a guess. Two of the pages are headed "bayān al-X." On the lower right of recto, people are purchasing violets (zahr banafsaj). Numerous names are mentioned, including al-ʿAmīd, al-Makīn Abū Isḥāq, Ḥassūn the ghulām of Mawhūb, ʿAlī b. al-Raqqī, ʿAbd al-Bāqī, Abū l-Ḥasan al-Qifṭī, Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr, Ibn al-Ṭaffāl, ʿAbdallāh al-Ṣiqillī, Ibrāhīm al-Dallāṣī, Abū l-Karam the in-law of al-Shammāʿ, Yūsuf al-Shammāʿ, Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAbd (the slave?), and Bū Yūsuf(?) b. Abū l-Faḍl.

Document(s) in Arabic script. One text block mentions Shujāʿ al-Dawla. Needs examination.

Book list in both Arabic script and Hebrew script. Mentions various sections of the Talmud as well as al-Ḥāwī.

Accounts in Arabic script, probably fiscal. Needs examination.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One side begins with a basmala, the other side with the glyph.

Accounts in Spanish. Bifolium. Two columns are filled with the accounts, and the other two are filled with geomancy markings and Hebrew script. The date is not 14 May 1517 as the Baker/Polliack catalogue has it: this entry is referring to 14 maidis (muayyadis = medins = nuṣf fiḍḍa). There is also mention of hungaros/ungaros, sequinos, and "as menudensias del magazen." Needs further examination.

Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded/damaged. Needs examination.

Accounts in Arabic script. Late.