Geniza Lab

Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Literary. Astronomical or calendrical work in an unusual mixture of Arabic (in Arabic script) and Hebrew.

Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

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Accounts(?) in Arabic script.

Letter in Arabic script. Fragmentary. Includes the phrase "al-dukhūl ilā awsāṭ al-bilād" ("entering into the heart of the country"), then refers to Byzantium (bilād al-Rūm).

Document in Arabic script. There is a grid with names and numbers in each box. Needs examination.

Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr M[...] b. Saʿīd. In Arabic script. Mentions children being healthy. Quite faded. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Account or official document in Arabic script. Headed with the name Bū l-Ṭāhir, then begins with the word قبض. May contain the phrase al-[...] alladhī [...]nā ilā al-dīwān. Several numbers are mentioned. Needs examination.

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Possibly a business account in Arabic script. Looks late. May also mention Hippocrates (Buqrāṭ).

Informal note addressed to mawlāy al-dayyān. In Arabic script. Asking him to pay a certain amount of money. Crossed out with vertical lines. On verso there are two words in Hebrew script, possibly a name.

Official receipt of some kind. Very difficult to read.

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Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: possibly 659 AH, which would be 1260/61 CE. Needs examination.

Small fragment in Arabic script, possibly literary. Stamped with a particularly ornate seal that may be legible. Ottoman-era.

Letter addressed to Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Munajjā, in Fustat. Only the address remains, which is in Arabic script.