Geniza Lab

Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Regards are sent to Abū l-ʿAlā and Abū Isḥāq.

List of books of the bible.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on a legal dispute in a provincial town involving the redemption (fakāk) of something and a qumāsh and some cotton. Protagonists include Yiṣḥaq Nafūsī, the judge ("who was completely worn out"), Abū l-Najm, Abū l-ʿIzz, and Abū Manṣūr b. [...]. In the margin, the judge is forbidding somebody from slaughtering, and al-Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen, the town slaughterer says something.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a sheṭar matana and witnesses.

Informal note addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ requesting that he urgently send the writer 5 dinars with the bearer. Also mentions sending it with the jāriya (female slave?). Verso: "We will pay you by Sunday at the latest"; the handwriting is different than that of recto, and it is unclear if this is a postscript (promising repayment) or the response to the request on recto.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter of appeal from Yefet, a foreigner, to R. Shela. In calligraphic Hebrew.

Letter fragment in Hebrew.

Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a draft. Recto contains the upper portion of a legal testimony, possibly a record of a purchase, in the name of Hibat Allāh b. Abū l-Riḍā. Verso contains another portion of a legal testimony.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Essentially unreadable without special imaging.

Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Contains the phrases ״שקולים ברצון״ and ״אלא בלב שלם ובדעת״. Compare T-S 16.142.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script on verso. Lovely handwriting. Mentions the addressee's father, the neighbors, and going up to see the Rayyis.

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Currencies include the "real" and "qurūsh."

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Literary fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.

Recto: List of people who have died and notes about prayers for them (?). Verso: Document in Arabic script, perhaps accounts.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Tiny fragment in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about isolation (al-wiḥda wa-l-inqiṭāʿ) and is anxious for the addressee to give an update about something.

List of substantial sums of money, it seems both income and expenses. Possibly a legal document, but it is faded and this is not clear. The Palestinian synagogue and the year 1031/32 CE (1343 Seleucid) are mentioned. Needs examination.