Geniza Lab

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl and Sayyidnā and then a woman whose husband is unemployed—so perhaps this is a letter recommending this woman and her family for charity. But it is very damaged, so hard to tell.

Letter addressed to the writer's 'father' Abū l-Faraj. Possibly from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Only the first two lines are preserved.

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

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment, very damaged.

Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Shem[arya?], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Giving instructions about various business transactions, including yeast (khamīra) and perhaps basil (ḥabaqa). Regards to the writer's sister Sawād(?). On verso there are also the opening lines of another letter, perhaps the response. Both letters are written with many colloquial spellings.

Marginal notes in Judaeo-Arabic on top of an almost entirely effaced literary text in Hebrew. One says "al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh" and another "he disappeared after a few days."

Business letter, fragment. In Ladino. Mentions "las naves" (the ships).

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

Letter fragment. Only a portion of the opening is preserved. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sephardi hand. On verso the name Shelomo ha-Levi appears twice.

Hebrew poetry.

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

Medico-philosophical riddle. "The proof that the pupil (thaqb al-ʿinabiyya) is filled with spirit (rūḥ): when a person dies, the e[y]es sink. This is the answer." The hand looks familiar, probably ca.1200.

Letter fragment. Addressed to Abū Saʿd, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a girl who has been 'delivered for herself' (al-ṣabiyya mukhallaṣa li-nafsiha).

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Bill of sale for a female slave, probably a draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd Seʿadya sells a Nubian female slave ([...]da) and her daughter (Shamīma?) and her son (Rayḥān?) to R. Eliyya b. Ṣadaqa known as Ibn Ḥiyya(?) for [...] dinars with 'ṣarf of 40.'

Accounts in Arabic script.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Needs further examination.

Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. One side looks like a letter, the other like a legal document. Very little remains.

Legal fragment. Mentions someone with a lot of titles; Netan'el ha-Levi; signed by [...]r b. Hillel.