Geniza Lab

Beginning of a letter to an important person, "mordekhai ha-zeman," etc. Not much content remains. The writer mentions a ṣabbāgh and a ḍāmin.

Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter with wide space between the lines, probably too faded to read.

Sums in mysterious symbols.

Official document in Arabic script. Certifying that the teacher Gedalya Eliyyahu the Jew will pay (or has paid?) the ground rent (ḥikr) of a certain qāʿa located in ḥārat al-yahūd located on darb al-qaraʾiyyīn for a period of two years, 1219–20 AH (=1804–06 CE) by the Hijri calendar, for a yearly rate of 615 (medins?), yielding a total of 1230, half of which is 615. Signed by the Ḥājj Aḥmad Luṭfī al-ʿAṭṭār in the right margin.

Fragment (left half of recto, right side of verso) of an 11th-century business letter to Musa b. Yiṣḥaq of Sfax.

List of donations to the fund for clothing for the poor for the year 550[8] = 1747/8 CE.

Fragment of a legal document mentioning Moshe ha-Levi.

Late business letter in Hebrew signed by ha-ẓāʿir Me'ir [...] and mentioning pearls. Needs further examination.

Recto: Likely a fragment of a legal document in Hebrew, mentioning merchandise and the years 1700/1 and 1701/2 CE (5461 and 5462). Verso: Likely accounts.

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, preserving the first couple words of each line and the right margin.

Left side of a letter in Ladino.

Recto: Mentions a hypothetical cantor or reader of the Torah who went mad and stole something and was caught. Verso: From a halakhic discussion on the first blessing of the Amidah. See Shmuel Glick's edition on FGP.

A short note: "Ibrahim al-Mahribi ordered (?) my brother to take 2 dirhams and a half and an eighth from Ibn al-Dayyan Menashshe the brother-in-law of Faḍā'il al-Ghuzūlī (?)."

Interesting late legal declaration signed by Nissim b. al-Ankari stating that in the assembly of the heads of the community, the slaughterer Yeruḥam swore not to encroach on the domain of the slaughterer Shabbetay, and in turn Shabbetay would give 3 parts of every 10 (of what?). If either of the slaughterers asks the other to substitute for him, the substitute is not to encroach or touch the share of the other. Information from Avraham David's transcription on FGP

Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Includes the phrases "her husband," "from the house," and "the scribes of the gentiles."

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, medieval, mentioning people such as Abū Sahl, Saʿd al-Ṣabbāgh, Ibn Zighmār (=Ṣighmār).

Probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, very messy handwriting, some Arabic script is present as well.

Extremely faded Hebrew text.

Possibly a fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps relevant to communal politics if read closely. "As for what he said . . . al-wulā wa-l-fuqahā wa-l-shuhūd, this is the opposite of what he said in public--that he would be appointed (?) over them and serve them in the interests of the situation of the Jews bi-jāhihi wa-ṣanʿatihi."

Possibly a page from a halakhic work on legal procedure. Needs further examination.