Geniza Lab

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Little of the content remains.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Opening 3 lines of a deferent letter. Wide space between the lines.

Legal document or documents. Only the final words on each side and the signatures are preserved. On recto: [...] b. Ḥalfon (ZL). On verso: Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe (ZL) and Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver.

Letter fragment (upper right corner). On verso, "I had sent you a mas'ala (legal query?) with Dā'ūd al-Rūmī (the Byzantine)."

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Late, 16th or 17th century. (More precise dating should be possible based on the names mentioned.) Mentions Moshe Conforte, Yiṣḥaq Dayyan ha-Levi, and a certain Palomba.

Legal document, fragment. In Hebrew. Mentions a payment of 3 muayyadis/medins per month. There is a Yaʿaqov. It looks like the document was abandoned at the point where the date was about to be written.

Fragment with Hebrew text. Too faded to read. Looks literary.

Torah and Haftara readings.

Legal document, fragment. In Hebrew. Mentions R. Eliyya and R. ʿAbde'el (=ʿAbdallāh) and possibly someone's wife.

Literary text in Hebrew. Yemeni hand. Jottings on verso.

Small fragment with Hebrew script. There appears to be the end of a list of names (... Abū ....) and the beginning of a legal testimony (shahaduta de-havat....). Nothing more is preserved.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning wax or candles (shamʿ). On verso there is the beginning of Genesis as well as several lines in Arabic script (basmala and greeting). Dating: Looks 13th century based on the hand.

Two lines of a letter or petition in Arabic script (li-l-sayyid bin al-[...]).

Magical spell in Aramaic

Magical spell. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps for striking fear into people's hearts. The beneficiary seems to be Abū Saʿd b. Baldīn (? בלדין). The original scribe seems to have written Abū Saʿd, but the patronymic was added in later. Also added in later: the name Abū l-Fatḥ Naṣrallāh in between the lines.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is probably known. Wide space between the lines, ends with yeshaʿ rav. Mentions a dinar that Barakāt talk. On verso there is a note in Arabic script naming sums of money.

Fragment with Coptic (or Greek?). Needs examination.

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

Trousseau list (taqwīm), small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso it is labeled as such and dated: 24 Heshvan 1337 Seleucid, which is 1125 CE. There are additional jottings on verso.