Geniza Lab

A note of a merchant reporting his sale of commodities in Aydhab in the month of Adar Sheni 1440 era of documents (1129) including prices. AA

Report or petition, probably. The ends of two lines are preserved: مراسمها وكملت ... من اقتراحها وعرضها. Reused for piyyut on verso.

Strip from an Arabic letter - needs examination

Fiscal document. There is an ʿalāma at the top and underneath registration of various sums of money. Needs examination. Reused for piyyut on verso.

Small fragment of a legal deed concerning sale of a slave girl. Another fragment with piyyut is attached to it

Formula of a poetical opening of a letter

Hebrew poetry

Hebrew literary text, with a few words in Arabic script

A few lines in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text.

Letter in Arabic script. The basmala and first two lines are preserved, along with a few words in Arabic script on verso. Reused for Hebrew literary text.

Petition. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they had entered Fustat, and the preoccupation of the hearts of the community (jamāʿa). Needs further examination.

Document in Arabic script, likely a letter. Reused by the same Hebrew scribe who reused T-S NS 111.63. Needs examination.

Poetry in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. One of the poems appears to be macaronic (uses both languages).

Four lines in Arabic script, crossed out. Likely poetry (...al-ḥāl... al-wiṣāl). Reused for Hebrew literary text.

Legal document in Arabic script. Ends of 7 lines. Penultimate line: al-jāriya bi-l-dīwān al-Farkhī. Last line: al-mutawallī ʿimārat rubāʿ dīwān al-khāṣa. Likely a join with T-S NS 139.52 and potentially related to the cluster T-S H11.90 + T-S NS 274.22 + T-S NS 114.79.

One line of an Arabic script document, abandoned. With the glyph. Contains a name, perhaps Isrā'īl b. Saʿd b. Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār. On recto there is a Hebrew literary text.

Three lines in Arabic script. Needs examination.

A few enormous words in Arabic script, likely from a decree. It is a title and a name, perhaps Thiqat al-Dawla Ḥammād b. ʿAlī. Above it, at 90 degrees, there is another text block in Arabic script. Possibly horoscopes (mentions Mercury/ʿAṭārid). But needs examination.

Hebrew poetry. There are a few words in Arabic script underneath, including "the heart is in pain due to your separation" and a pious expression involving tawfīq.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.