Geniza Lab

Table of names in Arabic script, most entries circled.

Accounts or possibly a recipe in Arabic script. There are also a few words in very large letters, possibly from an earlier state document.

Awaiting description

A few words in large Hebrew letters.

Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals; unclear if private or state. On verso mentions Bū l-Faraj in an additional note.

Petition from a Jewish man to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably Muslim addressee (Fakhr al-Dīn Jamāl al-Ruʾasāʾ, Ṣ[...] Amīr al-Muʾminīn). and then the description of a Jewish man who is presumably in need of help of some kind. There is a single word in Hebrew in the upper margin. On verso several lines of rhymed Hebrew (including one line against gentiles). On verso there may also be the remnants of the address of the letter on recto (in Arabic script). Needs further examination.

Unidentified text in Arabic script. Part or all of it looks like poetry.

Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Official-looking receipt for Abū Saʿd. Needs examination.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Long horizontal strip.

Letter addressed to a Muslim dignitary with many lines of titles (al-malikī al-kāmilī... al-zāhid...). In Arabic script. The sender seems to wish to purchase some property from him. Needs examination.

Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably literary based on layout.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing many names.

Block printed amulet.

Recipe in Arabic script, probably medical or culinary.

Note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. In Arabic script. Has the glyph. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The first 4 lines are completely preserved and the beginnings of 3 more lines are preserved. Contains a brief update on business goods and regards to somebody. The JRL catalogue lists this as a join with JRL Gaster ar. 380, but if it is, the join is not continuous.

Bifolio from a ledger of business accounts in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era.

Printed page from the beginning of "Introduzione alla grammatica del Puoti" (1865). With inky fingerprints and writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script written over it.

Letter addressed to Umm ʿAbdallāh. In Arabic script. Rebuking her for not keeping the sender updated with her news. On verso there is a list of some sort, in a different hand.

Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. On verso there are a few lines in Arabic script.