Geniza Lab

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Entries include: Manṣūr b. Ḥunayn(?)... ḥammām al-shaykh... sayyid al-dār... Ismāʿīl al-Ḥabbās(?)...

Unidentified document in Arabic script. Damaged and faded. One legible phrase: "...mā yataʿallaq min kull..."

Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman-era, based on hand and overall appearance. There is the remnant of an ʿalāma at the top (katabahū Aḥmad?). The first line mentions al-madrasa al-Ṣāliḥiyya al-Najmiyya (i.e., the madrasa founded by al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb in 1242 and still standing today). The next line gives the name of [...] al-Dīn (or [...]d b.?) Abū l-Faraj (or Abū l-Fatḥ?) Muḥammad b. al-Muḥibb(?) al-khaṭīb al-mālikī khalīfat al-ḥukm al-ʿazīz bi-l-diyār al-miṣriyya. On verso there is related text, perhaps an addendum.

Tax receipt?

Tax receipt? Mentions: ...al-yahūdī... bi-ḥudūr...

Tax receipt.

Unidentified document in Arabic script.

Letter addressed to al-shaykh Abū l-[...] al-Yahūdī in Fustat. From his family members (maybe a brother?) outside of the capital. They urge him to come as fast as he can, because the girl (al-ṣaghīra, spelled السغيرة) is sick, with terrible boil(s) or skin lesion(s) (ṭalaʿa ʿalayhā ḥabb ʿaẓīm), and she cries day and night calling for the addressee. Mentions Yehuda Ibn al-Sofer (ابن السوفار). Mentions the addressee's mother.

Accounts, letter drafts, and miscellaneous jottings in Arabic script, Greek/Coptic numerals, and Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Also some Hebrew numerals, but these might be design elements rather than meaningful numbers.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

Accounts of some sort. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The format of recto looks like an extremely faded (or erased?) tax receipt.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On verso, a few words in Hebrew added later.

Extremely faded tax receipt(s)? Needs examination.

Tax receipt?

Tax receipt(s)?

Construction accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions plaster, pebbles, clay, porters, bricks, wood. Mentions people such as Abū Sahl

Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script.

On verso small fragment of an Arabic letter. On recto Hebrew piyyut - needs examination.

Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions various weights in raṭls, the name Jaʿfar, and the phrase "that which is in the hand of the Jews."