Geniza Lab

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Literary work in Hebrew. Dating: Probably late. Possibly horoscopes or prognostications based on given names, including Gedalya and Yeḥezqel.

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions flax; someone's brother Yaʿaqov; Abū ʿAlī; and the Franks.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Legal fragment regarding Menashshe ha-Zaqen.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with an Arabic-script address. Very faded. The name Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī appears at the end, but it is not immediately clear whether he is the writer. The address includes the name Abu l-Barakāt.

Letter from Allush ('Lamb') b. Makhlūf al-Nafusi to M[ahr]uz ben Yaʿaqov, 1130s or 1140s. Business letter concerning payments involving and owed to various merchants, including someone named Madmun, perhaps the representative of merchants and Nagid of Yemen, Madmun ibn Ḥasan (d. 1151); Abu Said ibn al-Dimyati; Abu Zikri, perhaps the representative of the merchants in Fustat during the first half of the twelfth century with the same name; and the writer's brother, Yiṣḥaq (= the well-attested India trader Yiṣḥaq ben Makhlūf). Allush appears again in a court record dated 1132 as having bought a house in his brother's name [Bodl. MS heb. b 11/21]. The letter also mentions Abu Said Makhlūf and Ibn Elisha, travel to the Maghrib and Aden, and shipments of pepper. Conclusion and address on verso. (Information from Arnold Franklin and M.A. Friedman and S. D. Goitein, India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza, p. 263)

Continuation of letter from Allush (\'Lamb\') ben Makhlūf al-Nafusi to Mahruz ben Yaʿaqov in which the writer asks the addressee to intervene in a matter concerning his brother, the well-attested India trader Yiṣḥaq ben Makhlūf al-Nafusi. Mentioned also are the elder Madmun, Ibn al-Dimyati, and Abu Said. Beginning of letter on recto (B 4037-1). Third or fourth decade of the twelfth century.

Hebrew poetry.

Memorial lists.

Business letter informing its recipient of the purchase of a certain commentary ('al-perush') for fifty dirhams. The writer reports that he will pay forty dirhams and the recipient will pay ten. Verso contains a payment order by Abu Zikri ha-Kohen. Undated.

Payment order by the well-known trader Abu Zikri Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef al-Sijilmasi, who orders Ibn (or Abu?) al-Ḥasan al-Hud (?) to pay the bearer of this certificate half a ratl of 'sharab ward' (rose sherbet). A person identified as Abu al-Ḥasan al-Hud appears in T-S10J6.3. Recto contains business letter. Mid-twelfth century. (Information from Goitein, Mediterranean Society, I, p. 241)

Recipe(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Uses coriander; caraway; cinnamon; mastic; saffron; zaʿtar; cumin; anise; sesame; hemp / cannabis seed (qinnab); raisins; cloves; and walnuts(?).

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter fragment, from Hārūn to his 'brother' Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions having lost his blanket with the masters of the bo[a]t and being pinched and tormented by the cold.

India Book, II, 21a (T-S NS J241). See PGPID 5479.

A Maimonides autograph of the Guide for the Perplexed. Information from FGP.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Ottoman-era.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century.