Geniza Lab

Respectful greeting card to Maymun b. David. At the bottom are named Abu l-Husayn and Shemuel ha-Shelishi ba-Havurah, who lived ca. 1000 CE and may have written this note. ASE.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

A table of calendrical/astronomical calculations.

Mystical poetry in Judaeo-Arabic ("shughl ilāhī").

Judaeo-Arabic jottings of unclear significance.

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: "... and when he moved on in the lifetime of my father M[oshe(?)] Sanhedra Rabba, bless his saintly memory, his son assumed the judgeship... and opened for himself an academy (midrash) for teaching the Law (ʿulūm al-sharīʿa) in place of his father, and the judges who rose in the lifetime of the gr[eat?] rabbi, such as Rabbenu Yeḥezqel... and Yehuda ha-Neʾeman..." (Information in part from Friedman, Dictionary, p. 143.)

Bottom of a much-decayed legal document, probably 11th century, featuring the names Sar Shalom b. Avraham and David b. Nasi, both signatures girdled with tiny letters. ASE.

Awaiting description

A guide to uppercase and lowercase symbols corresponding to Hebrew letters (or numbers). Unclear what language... Coptic numerals? Needs examination.

Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Naʿim to his brother Meir ben Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5 Shevaṭ 5565 AM, which is 1804/05 CE. Yiṣḥaq is anxious to receive confirmation that Meir received a pair of legal documents that he sent him with Sheḥada Ḥamawī, who did not actually deliver them but mailed them from Damietta. MCD. ASE.

Awaiting description

Hebrew document(s) of some kind, dated Adar 1819 CE (5579).

Table of accounts.

Fragment containing large Arabic script (from a letter?). There is also some smaller script and Judaeo-Arabic on verso.

Recto: Legal/business document in Hebrew. Verso: lists of names organized alphabetically with corresponding numbers. Sums on the left.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps dated 1819 CE (579).

Fragment of a calendar.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, reused for sums.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic by Nissim Mat[..].

Calligraphic draft of names of witnesses, Moshe b. Me'ir and Refa'el Yosef b. Yizhaq Hayyim.