Geniza Lab

Minute fragment. Few words in Judeo Arabic. On verso a word in calligraphic Arabic.

Fragment from a business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a landlord (ṣāḥib al-dār) and a garment (shuqqa muthallath).

Bottom of a legal document. Signed by: [...]q b. Netanel; Shelomo b. Yehuda; Sulaymān b. ʿO[...]. Validated by [Moshe b.] Ṣadoq and [...] b. Netanel.

Small fragment from a letter.

Small fragment from a letter, only few word are preserved. The name Abu al-Muna and abu al-Ridda are mentioned.

Verso, with the address on recto: Letter addressed to R. Muvḥar b. Shemuel, in New Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Telling him not to delay something; mentioning difficult circumstances (aḥwāl muqāraba); bad news that was received; [Abū] l-Ṭāhir and his colleagues; and a blind man. (Information in part from CUDL) Recto: Written around the address, in a different hand, possibly the response to the letter.

Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (vertical strip from the middle). Dating: Likely 11th century. The sender is in Jerusalem ([min al-musta]qarr bi-l-Quds ʿamarahu Allāh). Mentions al-muʿallim Mawhūb.

Minute fragment from an account

Probably list of donors. Some of the names are familiar from TS K15.6 - a list of contribution to the poor from 1178 (See Goitein Med. Soc. II, 483-484 [India Book, I38)

Minute fragment from a financial account

Opening of a late letter

Minute fragments from a letter referring to b. Saadya and צאחב אלכבר (the head of the police). AA

See PGP 22812

Torn fragment of a list of items and prices, also some names. Probably a list of debtors. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. AA

Much faded list of items and prices.

Late account

Lost of items, mostly silk, and prices

Minute fragment from an account

On recto list of names and amount, probably contributors. On verso items and prices.

Acknowledgment of debt. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Creditor: Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Efrayim known as Ibn ʿUrs. Debtor: Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yakhin/Thābit the freedman. Abū l-[...] ʿOvadya b. Shemuel known as Ibn Baqāʾ apparently serves as guarantor. The total of the debt may be 6 dinars. Joins: Moshe Yagur.