Geniza Lab

Small fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions Shelomo.

Letter/petition appealing for charity or other assistance. Fragment (upper left corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Written on behalf of al-Maghribī al-Shaʿʿāb and addressed to two judges. None of the substance of the request is preserved.

Accounts of a druggist. In Judaeo-Arabic.

Business letter from Abū l-Khayr(?) Yeshuʿa b. [...] to Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa. Dating: 11th century. Very well preserved; needs further examination.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on the back of a business letter. 11th century

Document in Arabic script. The word 'mablagh' appears a few times. Needs examination

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū Zikrī b. Yosef ha-Kohen the descendant of Yehosef ha-Kohen Bet Din. Mentions a suftaja; 30 dinars; possibly gems (jawāhir); how the addressee shouldn't blame the sender for blaming him; something arriving from Almeria; lac selling there for 20 [...]; a leader or captain (qāʾid); the ship of Ibn Ghattūsh returning to Alexandria. The back was reused for some additional jottings including the name Sulaymān/Shelomo Kohen.

Letter fragment in Hebrew. Late. The names Avraham and Nissim appear.

Writing exercises in German, in a lovely Gothic script. "Ein Murrkopf ist ein Mensch dem es ärgert dass spree nicht bei Wien und die Donau nicht bei Berlin vorbei lauft." (A grumbler is a person who is annoyed that the Spree does not run past Vienna and the Danube does not run past Berlin.) There is also some Hebrew including נפוצות יהודה.

Text in Yiddish(?). Needs examination.

Correspondence of Moshe Gaster. There is a set of learned queries from Israel Isbitsky, 23 Lucas St, Commercial Rd, dated 1908 CE. There is a letter of appeal for charity from Meir b. Shelomo ("you have not answered me by letter or by telephone"). And there is sheet with the Amharic alphabet, and on verso, 'Son of Theodosius: Gebro(?) christas mother merkeza." MCD. ASE.

Letter draft in Italian on a bifolium which may have constituted a broader notebook. A date may appear on the right page of the recto but is too faded to be legible. The fragment is business-related given the weadspread discussion of quantities and the author's mention of "facendo informa di pagamento / giving notice of payment" (l. 7r). On the verso there is an intricate table and numerical calculations that involve a variety of ratios. MCD.

Accounts, medieval, listing names and amounts of money. Names include: Sayyidnā al-Nasi; Abū Saʿd; Abū l-Faraj; Abū l-Najm Munajjā; Abū l-Faraj al-Munaqqi (?).

Accounts in Ladino mentioning the year 590 = 1829/30 CE.

Late accounts, arranged according to parshiyot, mentioning names including: Page 1: Yom Tov (?) Aripol, Nissim Nuṣayrī, Nissim Raṣon, Avraham Hakim (?), Page 2: Eliyyahu Ṣahal, Nissim Najjār, a Pinto, David Bibas, Yiṣḥaq Bibas, Yiṣḥaq Bialobos, Yosef Bialobos, Yosef Kattawi, Moshe Yagi, Moshe Aghion.

Accounts mainly in Ladino, written in the same hand but not necessarily from the same notebook (the pages are not all the same size, and the grids on different fragments are in purple ink vs. red/brown ink). Lists of names in Ladino which follow a common formula repeating the phrase "la mujer de X." There are also Greek influenced names such as "la mujer de Nicoli ẓu Demitri". The list's structure and the paleography help to estimate the dating as 18th/19th-century. One fragment additionally contains a list of donations (?) from individuals including Yaʿaqov Bibas, a Mosseri, and a Bialobos. MCD.

Letter in Ladino.

Late accounts mentioning Merkado Karo, Me'ir ben Naʿim, Eliyyyahu b. Ṣahal, Mordekhai Bialobos.

Small fragment of a list of names in Hebrew.

Late accounts.