Geniza Lab

Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. The name Shemuel b. Yefet appears on verso.

List. Perhaps for the distribution of bread for the week of Noaḥ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Recipients include: Ibrāhīm al-Ṭawwāf; Abū l-Ṭāhir al-Khādim; Abū Naṣr al-Khādim; al-Dayyan R. Menashshe ZL(???); the sick man from Bilbays.

Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the capitation tax (al-jāliya).

Perhaps a will ("this is my waṣiyya that my own hand wrote. . ."). Mentions the date: Tevet 1472 Seleucid, which is (if this this has been read correctly) 1160/61 CE.

Letter fragment in Arabic script: ...al-ṣāliḥ dhakarū anna...; on verso there is also some Hebrew text.

Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely legal, but may also be a letter. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. ...סם עליה בחק אלתורה אדא אכת עמך... ולא יגוז אן ירד סואלי פי הדא...

Draft of a court record. Location: Fustat. Mentions Mordekhai Ḥefeṣ, who was a ḥaver in the Bet Din of the Nagid in Egypt at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century. "Adonenu" in line 3 may be Natan Sholal or Yiṣḥaq Sholal. On recto there is a text in Hebrew, possibly documentary.

Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 141[.] or 142[.] Seleucid, which is 1098–18 CE. Looks like the hand of Hillel b. Eli, in which case the date is close to the beginning of that range. Names: Nissim b. Avraham; Mevorakh; Abū l-Faḍl. Mentions a moneychanging shop and a sum of 6 dirhams/month. The substance of the document is difficult to determine from what remains.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a join with the neighboring shelfmark, but it is not clear how.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a join with the neighboring shelfmark, but it is not clear how.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Concluding words only.

Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Type unclear. There are several dates, including the year '37. Perhaps 1437 or 1537 Seleucid, which would be 1125/26 or 1225/26 CE.

Legal fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning courts, an istiḥlāf, a ban of excommunication.

Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter. Small fragment only.

Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter. Small fragment only.

Literary text, probably. In Hebrew. Very faded.

Fragment of a document, primarily comprising names, concerning a matter that involved 'the synagogue of the Palestinians.' Those mentioned in the text include: Yosef \'the welfare official\' (ha-parnas), Rabbi Yeshua, Shelomo ha-parnas bar Nethanel, and 'his honor, greatness and holiness, our master and teacher Efrayim,' probably referring to Efrayim ben Shemarya, leader of the Palestinian community in Fustat during the first half of the eleventh century. No date. (Information from Arnold Franklin and S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:293, 2: 58, 66, 71, et passim.)

Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the financial arrangements upon the divorce of Mansūba and Avraham. Needs further examination.