Geniza Lab

Account in Judaeo-Arabic.

Fragment of a marriage-related document. In Judaeo-Arabic. These are the scribe's notes for drawing up a proper document, containing the details of the early and delayed marriage payments and the agreement on where the couple will live (Cairo and Fustat).

Fragment of a late document in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter.

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to the Square of the [Perfumers?], to al-Ḥazzan Abū Yaʿqūb. Mainly notable for including the rare word "al-hirjās" (אלהרגאס), which apparently means either jasīm (corpulent) or jirhās (lion). Almost no context is preserved.

Account of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning valuable textile goods including a brocade (dībāj), Sitt al-Ahl, and the house of al-Qāḍī al-Muwaffaq. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

Account in Judaeo-Arabic.

Faded fragment in Hebrew, probably literary.

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to ha-Dayyan ha-Meẓuyan, Me'ir ben Naʿim, dated Aug/Sept 1824 CE (Elul 5584).

Genesis.

Literary fragments in Hebrew.

Very small fragment containing both Arabic and Hebrew.

Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, quite faded, mentioning Alexandria, the boat of Ibn [...], how the writer left Fusṭāṭ preoccupied on behalf of something to do with his maternal aunt's house in Cairo al-Muʿizziya.

Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Recto: Accounts in Arabic. Verso: Possibly accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Isḥāq al-Yahūdī.

"The three fragments known as JRL SERIES A 1053, JRL SERIES B 2699, and JRL SERIES B 2977 are from three copies of another invitation, printed in French, to the wedding of Mr. Moise Mosseri (c. 1855-1933) and Miss Henriette Nahmias (1868-1943). The Mosseris were a famous Cairene banking family,[2] which may give a sense of who could afford to have invitations professionally printed in the late nineteenth century. French documents are also rare in the Genizah,[3] but someone – a young Mosseri being the likely culprit – has re-used the back of these invitations to practice the Hebrew alphabet." Nick Posegay, FOTM June 2020.

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on very yellow paper with many names of Muslims.

Late accounts.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Salonica and Constantinople.

From a Judaeo-Arabic work on kosher slaughter