Geniza Lab

Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment only. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts, mentioning several sums of dinars and the name Yosef. (Information from CUDL)

Letter addressed to Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi, the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue. This is a well known figure mentioned in documents from ca. 1180–91; see tag for more documents. He died in 1211 CE. Nothing is preserved of the present letter except for the address. AA. ASE.

Small fragment (upper left corner) of a legal document. Involving Ṣedaqa b. Netanʾel; no specifics are preserved. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentioning Abū l-Ṣaghīr (or maybe akhū al-ṣaghīr, "the brother of the boy") and Yehuda. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter mentioning the addressee’s son, a judge, 50 dinars and a certain Abū l-Ḥasan in connection to the taking out of the Torah scroll. (Information from CUDL)

Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment from the end. Regards to the writer’s son Abraham and to someone named [Av]raham Sefaradī. (Information from CUDL)

List of men's names, including: Barakāt Ibn al-Maghāzilī; Surūr al-Ṭawīl; Mukhtār al-[...]; Hiba al-Baḥshūr; Bū Surūr Ibn Ḥashīsh; Khalaf b. Bishr; Ṣadaqa b. Maḥfūẓ; Maymūn Ibn al-Maghribī; Mawhūb Ibn al-Muʿṭī; Ghālib Ibn al-Ḥalabī; Abū Sahl al-Uzurī; Hiba b. Manṣūr al-Uzurī; Mawhūb Ibn al-Maghāzilī; Khalaf al-Mugharbil; Abū Sahl Ibn al-Bunduqī; Ibn Binyām; Kathīr al-Jallād; Yaḥyā al-Ṣabbāgh; Ṣadaqa Ibn al-Zalaṭ; [...] al-baytī(?) al-Tirmisānī; Yaḥyā Ibn al-Maṭarī; Thābit al-Qudsī; Ibrāhīm al-Dhabbāḥ; Abū l-Ṭayyib b. Rabīʿ; Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh; Subayʿ al-Jallād. See Med Soc. II, p. 441, section 11. Goitein suggests that it might be related to the capitation tax.

Badly damaged, unidentified discussion.

Document in Hebrew. The surviving portion is a name surrounded by honorifics of [...] b. David. Perhaps a letter or a memorial list.

Small fragment in Hebrew script.

A few words in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. From a literary text discussing the 9 celestial spheres and their movement (CUDL).\

Letter of business written in the 11th century by Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl, sent to Alexandria to [...] b. Abī l-Ḥayy. (Information from CUDL)

Short commercial letter, mentioning a letter from the addressee having arrived with Abū l-Khayr and the consignment of 30 raṭl of good מרמל. (Information from CUDL.) In the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. ASE.

Accounts containing names of persons, prices and weights. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Minute fragment with few words from an opening of a letter, legal deed or legal query addressed to the head of the Jews or other dignitary.

Small and damaged fragment from the right part of either a letter or a literary text. Mentioning the oneness of God, and with Hebrew citations. (AA and CUDL.)

Letter in which the writer says that he has heard that the addressee became a cantor. (Information from CUDL) Description from PGPID 17557: Letter. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Fragment of an official Arabic-script document. Includes a blessing: (...wa-stafliḥ...). Verso: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business matters, mentioning dinars. (Information from CUDL)