Geniza Lab

Legal document or account. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ottoman era. Mentioning a purchase made by Ibrāhīm al-Yahūdī al-Dujājī.

Fragment of a tax receipt, probably.

Some sort of receipt. Mentions 'al-qāḍī al-sadīd' and there is a date at the bottom.

Fragment of a tax receipt, probably.

Deed of lease in Arabic script. Probably for property (mentions a ṭabaqa). Needs examination.

Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script.

Verso: Deed of lease for Mūsā b. Abū Sahl b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿImrān the Jew. Mentions two shops in Fustat, in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. This Mūsā might be identical with Moshe b. (Abū Sahl) Levi ha-Levi. There is also an Abū l-Ḥasan mentioned. Recto: a later addendum to the legal deed (written after it was torn up) also mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan.

Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Khalaf in Fustat. Dated: 503 or 530 AH.

Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Reads in part: "as the elders of the Bedouins resolved..." (ka-mā ʿazama shuyūkh al-ʿarab...).

Recto: official-looking letter possibly addressed to a qāḍī. Verso: A receipt of some kind? Both sides need further examination.

Possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. On the other side there is an unidentified text in Arabic script.

Large table of names in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the columns is headed "al-mustakhraj." Needs further examination.

Order of three pounds of meat from the butcher. In Arabic script. The cipher at the beginning means يدفع (cf. T-S AS 177.468).

Order in Arabic script. Ṣadaqa is to give the bearer two raṭls of meat. Cf. T-S As 177.466.

Maybe a petition or draft of one. In Arabic script. With a raʾy clause.

State/fiscal document. Maybe concerning two months of agricultural taxes. Dated: looks like 403 AH, but this should be checked. The main text after the basmala may read: ليتسلم …… ادام الله عزه …. الزراعات لشهرين … لسنة ثلث واربعمائة. In the addition at the bottom, mentions Dīwān al-Kharāj(?). In the endorsement at the top, the word "yuqābal" appears (cf. ENA 3918.11). Needs further examination.

Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The same rudimentary hand is known from many other fragments.

Small order of payment in Arabic script. The addressee is to pay 3 dirhams to the bearer. The signature of the writer may appear at bottom left.

Small fragment of an unclear nature. Two lines of Arabic script, the top of which reads "Dīwān al-Ishrāf."

Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.