Geniza Lab

Amulet in purple and yellow ink. Very late. Ashkenazi hand.

Amulet in purple and yellow ink. Very late. Ashkenazi hand.

Amulet. Very late.

Spells. Very late.

Amulets. Very late. Funky illustrations.

Amulet in purple and yellow ink. Very late. Ashkenazi hand.

Spells. Very late.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: 18th or 19th century. There are many joins in other Geniza collections.

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part of recto). Mentions various business matters. He reports that 'your mother and sisters' are well. He sends regards to Ḥalfon's wife Sitt Naʿīm. He has sent with the bearer Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Faḍl(?) b. ʿUmayr 3/4 mann of Byzantine wormwood (afsantīn rūmī), and "inside of it" there is a qirṭās inside of which there is scammony (maḥmūda). He has also sent נגאב ערבי with this letter for Abū l-Ḥasan the in-law of Ibn al-Qaṣabī. Someone made Yefet take an oath about something (istaḥlafanī).

Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Very damaged.

Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Very damaged.

Text blocks in Arabic script in between the lines of the document on the recto, in the margins, and on verso.

Document covered with Arabic script going every which way. A disease (maraḍ) is mentioned in one place. There is one line in Hebrew (a phrase from an end of a letter): adonenu ve-shelomkha yigdal laʿad.

Accounts of Moshe Mizraḥī (or at least in his hand - perhaps these are communal accounts). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Adar I 5589 AM, which is February/March 1829 CE.

Legal document. In Hebrew. Late. Small/faded fragment.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. Mentions Abū l-Surūr and al-Shaykh al-Tiferet al-Ṣayrafī Abū l-Maḥāsin, who may be known from other fragments.

Ownership note, possibly. "This siddur(?) belongs to Faḍā'il b. Mordekhay."

Business letter. Small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions pepper.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the voice of a woman. "I am crying and our tears [do not dry]."

Literary work, perhaps biblical commentary or halakhic. In Judaeo-Arabic.