Geniza Lab

Late account

Much damaged and faded letter by Yefet b. Menashshe, Halfon's brother.

See PGP 22695

Damaged list of contribution to the poor.

Damaged list of contribution to the poor, probably written by Shelomo b. Elya.

Damaged account

List of debtors?

In Arabic - needs examination.

Short note send from Egyptץ The writer informing that he was taken to the house of the wali and from there to the judge, and suffered heavy loses. (Data by Abraham David in FGP)

Small fragment from a list of names and numbers. List of debtors?

Cryptic fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems literary.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century.

Letter from Avraham Maimonides, autograph. In Judaeo-Arabic. Begins with the motto הנה אל ישועתי. Addressed to the ḥaver, morenu ve-rabbenu, Yosef. This is a letter of recommendation for Yaʿqūb b. Dani'el: "he is in in grave need" (fa-huwa fī ḍurūra akhīdha wa-ʿindahu qaṭʿa(?) wa-qillat ḥīla); "appoint a guardian for him" (? tawaṣṣā bihi); "he is deserving"; mentions Peraḥya and other people in the margin; then, "encourage them to help him according to your ability" (tuḥarrikhum fī ḥaqqihi ḥasaba ṭāqatika). Information largely from Friedman's Dictionary (pp. 11, 209, 308, 762). ASE.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely 11th century.

Mainly a literary text with other jottings in Judaeo-Arabic (including references to mutakallimīn, kalām philosophers). There is also marginal text in Arabic script, including a few words from a draft of a letter to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ibn al-Dayyān.

Document in Arabic script, calligraphic. Likely a state document. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. The word "aʿrāḍ" appears. Needs examination. On verso there are lists in Hebrew script, perhaps of piyyutim (the hand is rudimentary and may be known).

Accounts, probably communal. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Arabic script. Listing households and sums of money.

Yiddish translation of the siddur, including ʿAl ha-Nissim and Asher Heni' for Purim. Dated on paleographic grounds to the 15th century, making it the oldest known Yiddish translation of the siddur (as of the 1980s, at least). T-S NS 298.35 was published by Shmeruk and Romer-Segal, "Fragments of a Yiddish Translation of the Prayerbook from the Fifteenth Century" Tarbiz (1980/81). T-S AS 204.12 was published by Hopkins, "New Fragments of a Prayerbook in Old Yiddish Translation," Tarbiz (1986). T-S NS 37.110 was identified by Alan Elbaum, 12/2020, with the help of FGP Joins Suggestions.

Recipes (alchemical?) mainly in Hebrew with many Romance words mixed in (mercury, sal natri). Late.

Divination. Grid in red ink filled with various outcomes. In Hebrew.