Geniza Lab

Unidentified small hand on recto and verso. On verso also a larger hand, which is probably part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

Medical? Unidentified text, referring to ‘dying from the perishing cold’. AA and CUDL

Recto: unidentified. Verso: opening of a short letter in Hebrew.

Probably from a letter mentions 'our Nagid'. AA

Much damaged small fragment from a top of a letter. AA

End of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment from the draft of a document, written in two different hands (one is that of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe). (Information from CUDL)

Legal document mentioning a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: beginning of a letter mentioning Abū ʿAlā. Verso: address in Arabic, mentioning Abū Saʿd. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: beginning of a letter. Verso: address in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

Letter. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragment from a letter. The name Ishaq is mentioned. No more data is preserved. AA

Accounts with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)

Letter. (Information from CUDL)

Letter to a doctor with his reply (CUDL). "Medical enquiry to a doctor with his reply. This document type is a responsa type dealing with a few questions sent by a man to his physician; the verso is the practitioner’s answer. The patient does not describe his medical problem, but asks about food (the amount of bread he can eat), drink and if he can go bathing. Most probably the doctor knew the patient and his medical problem, since he gave precise answers without asking for the symptoms. The doctor ends his reply with the phrase ‘ve-rofe holim yerape’kha’ (‘May He who heals the sick heal you!’) This short letter is informal, lacking honorary titles and names of both the sender and the recipient, as opposed to the previous document. Therefore this document can be considered a medical responsum between patient and physician. The drink that was recommended by the physician is, in fact, a recipe for medicine." Information from Amir Ashur and Efraim Lev. The handwriting of the physician looks like that of Yedutun ha-Levi (cf. L-G Misc. 99, T-S NS 305.115, and CUL Or.1080 J117v for evidence that Yedutun was a physician). ASE

Building expenses, listing several quantities of dirhams and expenditure for carpenter, carriers, and nails. (Information from CUDL)

Letter mentioning Abū Saʿd. Crossed out lines in a different hand contain names such as Abū l-Ḥasan. Probably some sort of list or accounts. (Information from CUDL)

Leaf from a medical book or notebook with recipes, mentioning among others the substances Black Nightshade (ʿinab al-ṯaʿlab), wheat (ḥinṭa) and rhubarb (rāwand), quantities of measures, ‘filtered medication’ and sleep. CUDL

Legal document, probably dealing with debt in the sabbath year as it mentions a seven year period and the sum of one dinar. (Information from CUDL)

Beginning of a letter sent by Daniel b. Yaʿīsh (?). (Information from CUDL)