Geniza Lab

Document that is probably in stylized Latin script, but difficult to tell. Needs examination.

Fragment with an elaborate illustration, perhaps for the frontispiece of a book. Above it there is a line in Aramaic from the beginning of a piyyut: ברשותא דמרי עלמא הוא אלהא רבא וגברא. On verso there are doodles and pen trials in Hebrew ("ערוך מקור") and in Spanish ("hun homen a poder en mançebos" = "a man has power over boys"). There is also the name Rodrigues Perez. (Information in part from Avi Kallenbach, Amir Ashur, Ramon Sarobe, and Daniel Duran Duelt.) ASE

Letter in both Ladino and Spanish.

Flyleaf of a codex containing the Rosh to Gittin, labeled in a 19th century hand: "Purchased from Rabbi [Nachman Natan] Coronel May 15 1848. Price £5. On the Treatise Gittin a Talmudic Tract. by Asher Bar Jechiel." There is some additional writing and jotting. On verso are the remnants of glue.

From a ledger containing several different types of writing: (1) accounts and fragments of letters in Hebrew script, at least partially in Ladino; (2) underlying printed text in Hebrew; (3) sections in Latin script, some of which are signed by a certain Johan.

Late fragment containing several doodles (practice signatures?) and three lines of writing in Hebrew script, perhaps in Ladino and Hebrew, but it is difficult to make sense of the words.

Letter in a Romance language, probably Spanish.

Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.

Dense jottings in both Hebrew and Arabic script, including phrases from letters.

Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.

Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.

Fragment (very faint) in Latin script (unless all we are seeing is the impression of the facing fragment).

Document in Latin script. Needs examination.

Bifolium from a literary work.

Formulary for a Karaite marriage document, edited by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.

Eight lines of mysterious strings of Arabic letters and numbers. Likely but not definitively a join with CUL Or.1080 14.25.

Poem in elegant Arabic script followed by a curious note: (the poet and/or scribe?) "Mukhliṣ al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Hādī l-Islām Iyādi (?) was born in 1233H (1817/88 CE). 1263-30=1233." Presumably he was calculating his date of birth based on knowing that he was currently 30 and that the current year was 1847/48 CE.

Diagrams, text, and calculations of an astrological/astronomical nature, perhaps also magical. Arabic, late.

Three bifolia from a compendium of Bedouin proverbs, with commentary.

From a diwan of Arabic poetry dating from 1847/48 CE.