Geniza Lab

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, with one line of Arabic script. VMR. ASE.

Recto: Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there are a few words in Arabic script, very faded. VMR. ASE.

Document in Arabic script (VMR) and another unidentified script. Needs examination.

Magical text. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.

Verso: Contains a few words in Arabic script. Recto: The main text on this fragment is a prayer in Judaeo-Arabic. VMR. ASE

Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī. On verso, in different ink, there is a Hebrew sentence about sheḥita as well as a few words in large Arabic script underneath.

Letter or letters. There is the end of one letter, in Arabic script, immediately followed by the beginning of another, in Judaeo-Arabic with biblical quotations (or possibly this is a prolonged postscript). The writer mentions his heartsickness and praying for the addressees over the Torah scroll in Kanīs al-Shāmiyyīn and in Cairo.

Magical text written in a striking melange of Hebrew script, Arabic script, and nonsense script. The main instructions are in Judaeo-Arabic. The practitioner is to light a wick with pure violet oil inside of a human skull. A black raven is also involved, and three pegs are to be driven into the skull-lamp. When the desired aim is achieved, the lamp should not be extinguished. ASE.

Magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and magical script. Including a birth control recipe: "If you want a woman not to become pregnant. . ." Contains some Arabic words inserted into Hebrew script; 'law taʿllaq ʿalā', muʿallaq ʿalaihā, muʿallaq. The bottom half of the recto contains 6 lines in what looks like code or a cipher with some symbols that look like Arabic letters. Possibly a talisman or incantation. Verso contains lines of Hebrew script and a box bisected by two lines with Hebrew script inside and on the outside.

Document in Arabic script (VMR). Reused for a Hebrew literary text.

Document in Arabic script (VMR). Small fragment only.

Arabic script (VMR). Small fragment containing the remnants of three lines of text.

Accounts in Arabic script. Listing some names, commodities (mainly food and drugs), and sums of money. Reused for Hebrew literary text.

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)