Geniza Lab

Exorcism. In Hebrew. Late. The spirit of Nissim b. Bunya is commanded to leave the body of Qamr bt. Ruḥama, and it is decreed that he will have no further power over her or over Yosef Moshe b. Sara.

Small fragment from a list of commodities such as קרפה in a very crude hand. AA

Draft of the beginning of a letter addressed to Eliyya de Suares. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 18 Av 5592 AM = 14 August 1832 CE. At the bottom of the page there are sums in eastern Arabic numerals. On verso there are jottings. AA. ASE.

A list of an unidentified nature in a very crude late hand. Arabic numerals. AA

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (Iower left piece of recto). The content is unclear. Excerpts: "...his brothers, and he took one of the cloaks (milḥafa/malaḥif)... a deed from Muslim courts (? ḥijja ʾumot), and the matter is up to God the exalted... the animal driver (mukārī) and the sale of the lead (bayʿ al-raṣāṣ)... soon with an explanation of all this... to the knowledge of Rabbenu Yosef... al-Daryānī(?), I hope that... preoccupation... the sister of the judge sent... Yaḥyā(?) and did not give me anything, and there's nothing I can do... Yaʿaqov...." AA. ASE.

Letter addressed on the verso to a certain Abu Ibrahim Ishaq, dated in the month of Marheshvan (the rest of the date is missing), and mentioning equipment of a weaver's shop, including components of a loom. The author also conveys personal regards from Yeshu'a and Musa.

Address on the verso of JRL SeriesA 659-1, a letter to Abu Ibrahim Ishaq regarding weaving equipment and conveying greetings.

Late list of names and numbers in Arabic numerals. Probably a list of debts or payments. AA

Document containing blessings for the caliph al-Hafiz li-din Allah (1131-1149 CE). See also see T-S NS 110.26. (“Prayers from the Geniza for Fatimid Caliphs, the Head of Jerusalem Yeshiva, the Jewish community and the Local Congregation,'' in Studies in Judaica, Karaitica and Islamica, Presented to Leon Nemoy...Bar-Ilan University, 1982, 49-58) EMS. NB: This description corresponds to some other shelfmark.

Letter expressing regret and perhaps dissatisfaction for failing to meet with the addressee, with whom the author intended to spend 'night and day', while they were both in Fustat. On the verso, JRL SeriesA 668-1, the addressee conveys greetings to a number of acquaintances, including an Abu Sulayman Dawwud and an Abu Ishaq b. al-Tuzi; the latter may be the same person who appears in a legal document dated in the middle of the 12th century, see T-S8J5, f. 15

Letter in which the author, who calls himself 'Mansur,' expresses his feelings of longing for the addressee and conveys greetings to him from a certain Mujawwid b. Siqillī and possibly others. The verso is blank.

Small fragment from a letter. The writer informed that the betrothal and writing of the ketubah was done after Yom Kippur. AA

Document in Arabic script. Chancery hand? Mentions Qāḍī l-Quḍā. On verso there is a vidduy in Hebrew.

Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Asks Nahray to convey his gratitude to someone; mentions the arrival of R. Natan. Needs further examination

This is the beginning of a very fragmentary letter which mentions a certain al-Dar'i (Dar'a is a town in Morocco). It is possible that the author is referring to the judge Avraham b. Yaʿaqov al-Dar'i, who was active in Alexandria around 1100 (see Goitein, Med Soc, v. 1, pp. 53, 407 fn 45: v. 3, p. 481 fn 171: v. 4, p. 399 fn 84: v. 5, p. 591 fn 173. See also Cohen, Jewish Self Government, pp 215 and 241-2, for a discussion of a letter in which Natan b. Yehuda accuses al-Dar'i of causing his death). The verso is also a letter, though it is unclear whether the two are related.

This is the verso of another letter, though the two seem to be unrelated. It is likely that this letter is a draft, as it seems to peter off and there are diagonal lines written across much of the text. The author mentions an old woman, and the only legible name is Ibn al-Faraj, though there is not enough information to identify this person.

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic

The opening page of a book in Judaeo-Arabic by al-ʿĀrif al-Māhir. . . al-Mutaṭabbib. . .