Geniza Lab

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the first few lines and the address are preserved. Dating: Looks late, perhaps 14th century or later.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential. Not much of the content remains. "Take for me the two letters. . ." On verso there is what looks like Hebrew literary text.

Legal fragment.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Late.

Calendar. Listing some of the months of the Hebrew calendar and some of the months of the Islamic calendar.

Small fragment with Hebrew script. Perhaps a letter.

Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Greetings to Abū l-Fakhr and Maʿālī. Mufaḍḍal is also mentioned. Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. There is also one line of Judaeo-Arabic in the margin. Unclear if/how recto and verso are relat

Small fragment with Hebrew script. Perhaps a letter.

Letter, possibly. Recto is in Hebrew script and verso may be the address in Arabic script: Ibrāhīm [...].

Multifragment. (a) Legal fragment. Involves a woman [...] bt. Avraham and Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. [...]. (b) Tiny legal fragment. Probably a release. There are only two words remaining: abrā and denan.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Detailed and well-preserved. People named: Ibn al-Maqāniʿī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī; Zikrī b. Yaḥyā; Yūsuf b. A[...]; Yiṣḥaq b. Bundār (perhaps the same as in T-S 8.27, ca. 1110 CE). Commodities: mirwāḥ, brazilwood. Mentions the customs tax (maks).

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the sale of a house. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The address is damaged but clearly reads "to Miṣr." The name of the addressee may be [Abū l-A]frāḥ b. Yūsuf and the name of the sender Peraḥya b. David. Bu tthis is not clear. On verso there are also jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps accounts.

Small fragment with text in Hebrew. Probably literary.

Letter fragment addressed to Nagid ha-Gola. In Judaeo-Arabic. Almost nothing else remains.

List of names in Judaeo-Arabic. Hibat Allāh b. [...]; Mūsā Ibn al-Dhahabī; Abū Hilāl al-Suryāqūṣī (=from Syracuse).

Letter, possibly. In Hebrew. Describing trials and tribulations and mentions fugitives.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Apparently describing the situation of an ʿaguna (a woman abandoned by her husband without a divorce). "Their summoning to the court. . . " It seems she has also been deprived of access to her athāth (=qumāsh=dowry?) and any money with which to feed herself (tataqawwatu bihi).

Small fragment with text in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter.

Small fragment with text in Hebrew. Very damaged. Looks literary.

Prescription or recipe. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Its benefits are similar to the benefits of wine (khamr)." On verso there are jottings in Judaeo-Arabic: "In sleep (or: a dream). . . ra's al-matība. . ."