Geniza Lab

Document in Arabic script. Looks official.

Small fragment of a debt contract. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. The number 140 is mentioned. The debt will be repaid in monthly installments.

Legal document. Needs examination.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Refers to someone called [Rosh] ha-Qehillot.

Small fragment with a few words in Arabic script.

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1431 Seleucid, which is 1119/20 CE.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions a qāḍī.

Halakhic discussion in Judaeo-Arabic.

Small fragment with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic.

Legal document. Needs examination.

Unidentified. Can be part of a letter as suggested by FGP.

tafsir

Late account

Letter from the daughter of Manṣūr al-Zayyāt [...] al-Sofer. Only the introduction and a few partial lines in the left margin are preserved. Mentions a man who picks fights with her: maybe she is complaining about her husband and appealing for help in a marital dispute.

Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq, in איל שובֿיש(?), to his 'brother' Eliyya b. Ḥayyim, in Egypt. In Ladino. The writer complains about having to be there and not being able to earn enough money to eat. Needs further examination.

Small fragment with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic.

Legal fragment. Involves someone of the Ibn Shamlaṣ(?) family (the same name appears in T-S Ar.18(1).155 and T-S Misc.8.29) and various holy books. On verso there is a a word or two in Arabic script.

Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Alexandria and Abū Isḥāq and items lost at sea. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning rose and al-Lāwī al-Qābisī.