Geniza Lab

Petition from a woman to an unidentified addressee. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. She is 'cut-off' (munqaṭiʿa) and her husband has kicked her out of the house. On verso there is a poem by Yehuda ha-Levi. AA. ASE.

Palimpsest containing the Latin text of a sermon by St. Augustine. See CUL Add.4320a-d and Outhwaite, B. (2007). St Augustine in the Genizah. [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, May 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40134.

Recto: grammatical text in Hebrew. Verso: part of a letter (?) in Arabic, and an unidentified text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)

Tiny fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragment. Text referring to a divorce deed (al-geṭ).

Recto: unidentified text, mentions miqra neviʾin. Verso: list of books. The hand of Yosef Rosh Haseder? AA

Minute fragment with a few Arabic words preserved on each side, either from a legal or official document. AA

Minute fragment. Only few Arabic letters preserved. (AA)

Recto mentions the name Abraham b. Mevorak, maybe a letter?. Verso: Vocabulary list tp Halakhot Gedolot

Unidentified text in brown ink with a vocabulary list from Isaiah 48:13-58:13 in black ink and marginal notes. FGP

Letter from Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim to Moshe ha-Dayyan (Av) Bet Din. In Hebrew. He states that he has been brought to a 'a town on the edge of your territory' (Numbers 20:16) by a ship, against his will. He is in great distress. (Information from Ben Outhwaite, “Byzantines in the Cairo Genizah,” in Jewish Reception of Greek Bible Versions, ed. Nicholas de Lange, Julia Krivoruchko, and Cameron Boyd-Taylor.)

Bifolio. An Arabic list on the right leaf. On the left leaf on recto a very damaged Judeo Arabic text of an unknown nature, described in FGP as occult science. On verso an Hebrew and Aramaic liturgical text (AA)

Magic recipe. Joins with T-S AS 142.6. (data from FGP by Prof. Gidi Bohak). TS 12.102 which is consider to be a join, is probably unconnected directly to this - it contains remains of a kettuba on recto, and a magical text on verso. AA

Magical amulets to protect against scorpions, designed to be worn rolled up in an amulet case around the neck. The magician has repeatedly copied the amulet, drawing a crude scorpion at the bottom of each. Several have evidently been cut off and sold. (Information from CUDL.) See Gideon Bohak, "Some 'mass-produced' Scorpion-amulets from the Cairo Genizah," in A Wandering Galilean (2009), 35–50.

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Torn fragment (lower right piece). The location, date, and husband's name are missing. The wife's name is [...] bt. Nisim. Signed by: Yosef b. Elʿazar; Menashshe ha-Levi b. [...]. On verso there is documentation of receipt.

Letter in Arabic script. Approximately 9 lines are preserved. The tone is urgent (...جواب الكتاب سرعة فيالله عليك...). Needs examination for content. In the right margin is the Arabic alphabet. On verso there is a calendrical work in Hebrew, and in the the bottom left corner are remnants of 5 vertical lines in Arabic script, unidentified. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Account of the flooding of the Nile. Dated: Elul 1550 Seleucid, which is 1239 CE. The entries are arranged according to the Coptic calendar. See T-S NS J570 for a much earlier example of a similar account. Needs further examination. ASE

Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions testimonies and a "father" (ḥaḍrat al-ab al-muḥtaram). Dated: 26 April 1791 CE (٢٦ شهر ابريلس ١٧٩١). (Information in part from CUDL.)

Daily records of foods with amounts for two weeks (possibly accounts). (Information from CUDL)

Coptic church document. The priest Yūsuf petitions the priest and apostolic representative Mattā for an exemption from the ruling against wearing a woolen hat (ṭāqiyya) during Mass, as his head and his eyes are susceptible to chills. There are two additional columns of text, which are at least somewhat related to the main petition (both refer to an ijāza/exemption; the first is signed by Mattā and dated 19 Hātūr 1509; the second is signed by [...] al-Nā'ib al-Rasūlī and dated 1510). The petition itself appears to be dated 1509, which might correspond to 1792/93 CE. These readings are somewhat tentative.