Geniza Lab

Tax receipt, probably.

Recto: Letter in Arabic script to Sitt Nadd, probably from her husband. The writer rejoiced at the news of her deliverance (khalāṣ) (childbirth? or from a financial difficulty?). The writer discusses a matter of 20 dirhams that he thought she could obtain from her brother's wife. The writer has sent several items with the bearer including the blanket (malḥafa) that she had requested. Three lines from the bottom the writer touches on his own professional struggles (qaṭʿ al-rizq), it seems because he is a physician and there are now five (or fifty?) physicians in the town competing for the same clientele. He sends regards to her brother al-Shaykh al-Rashīd, her brother's wife, and to the children. Verso: Pen trials in Hebrew script. ASE.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions watermelon, soap (ghasūl), and sums of money.

Unknown document in calligraphic Arabic script. Appears to be a small fragment torn from a larger document. There are also Hebrew pen trials.

Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to a maternal uncle (khāl). Only the opening is presrved. In the margin, in a different hand, Hippocrates's "vita brevis ars longa" is cited.

Recto: List of names in Judaeo-Arabic with sums of money (all listed as "nuṣf" except for one listed as 1 dinar), perhaps a donations list. Verso: An account in Judaeo-Arabic (different hand than recto).

Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing headings with days of the week and months that may date from the 15th-17th centuries (based on the paleography and number system). Coptic numerals are in use for designating weight-related figures which are referred to repeatedly with "וזן". The same accounting format contines on the verso. MCD.

Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Some or all of the list is for items for the synagogue at Dammūh, including: "hot oil" (lamp oil, likely linseed), "good oil" (olive), pullets (farārīj), a watermelon (biṭṭīkha), soap (ṣābūn), and sulfur (kibrīt). ASE.

Small bifolium. On each side there is one page in Arabic and one page in Judaeo-Arabic. The Judaeo-Arabic is an account or a list, including items such as sticks for applying kohl (marāwid); steel (fūlād); khuyūṭ (Goitein in one place translates this as "gilded strings for the head") both big and small; and khizān (boxes?) "for the children." The Arabic text may or may not be related. One legible phrase is "jaʿaltu bi-khaṭṭī" ("I recorded it in my hand").

Letter in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

A list, probably of a money lender, referring to amount collected from Fustat and Alexandria, and from some people such as al-Dustari (Tustari) and Avraham b. Faraj.

List of expenses?

See PGP 22567

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century.

Small fragment with a list of jewelries, probably from a dowry list. On recto list in Arabic, probably by the same hand and pen of verso.

Late list of food items.

Dowry list, mostly of textiles.

Small fragment of a letter, probably. In Arabic script. (Information from CUDL)