Geniza Lab

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

The scorpion amulet attributed to Yehuda b. Yeḥezqel. Belongs with ENA NS 73.12 and T-S AS 143.26.

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Peraḥya b. Menashshe. Fragment (upper left corner). Only the opening greetings are preserved.

Minute fragment from a marriage deed. On recto probably from a marriage agreement or ketubah, with monogamy clause and probably a stipulation about domicile. On verso probably the qiyyum (legal establishment of this deed) under the authority of Masliah Gaon. Only part of the date survived: Ad[ar … 14]48 (only תמ remains) = 1137. AA

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. No full sentences are preserved. There are wishes for someone to be recompensed in heaven, and possibly a report on business affairs in the sender's location. On the other side, there is mention of someone named Abū Naṣr.

An unnamed elder (titled 'the most illustrious, solid') directs the beadle Abu al-Tahir to furnish Harun the copyist with a good copy of a Torah scroll so that the latter can copy from it. Harun is to bring the book to the beadle each Friday, to be read on the Sabbath. A beadle named Abu al-Tahir b. Mahfuz was active between 1183 and 1223 (Med. Soc. II 421, 431, 546; IV 436; V 547). A penurious copyist named Harun is mentioned in JRL Series B 4525-1. The verso (B 5738-2) is blank.

Legal testimony, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter. In Arabic script. Address only. Addressed to the faqīh [...] b. ʿAbd [...] b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, in the Muṣāṣa quarter of Fustat.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Sefaradi-influenced hand. Needs further examination

Letter fragment addressed to Ḥalfon b. Aharon(?). In Hebrew.

Letter fragment in Hebrew. May mention 4 peraḥim.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment.

Prayer for rain (אף ברי אותת).

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a brother-in-law. Looks late.

Chancery document, a few words only. ...ال الذي في ال...

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There are also two lines in Arabic script.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. On verso there are calendrical notes.

Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions al-Shaykh Bū l-Faḍl.

Table of names in Judaeo-Arabic. Including al-Ḥaver Abū Sahl; Fahd; Ṣadaqa b. al-Qalʿī; Yūsuf al-Khayyāṭ; his brother Ṣāliḥ; Sulaymān al-Ḍarīr ('the blind').

Letter from Shelomo (b. Eliyyahu?) to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he arrived in Qalyūb. The letter is quite damaged, but more will be legible with effort.