Geniza Lab

Accounts in Latin script (unidentified language, perhaps Spanish) and western Arabic numerals.

An account from Sicily listing 63 ox hides from Syracuse and 76 buck skins. The sums are mentioned in rubaiyat (quarters of dinars). Dated to the mid 11th century. Written by Yeshua b. Ismail al-Makhmuri (Gil). (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 111; Gil, Kingdom, vol. 3, p. 69, and Ben-Sasson, Yehudei Sitzilya, p. 337)

Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1040. Written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya, listing a series of items connected with the reconstruction work of that period. Clay and gypsum are being prepared for plastering. The removal of debris of ruined buildings also figures here, old pillars and an old pipe being demolished and old ceilings uncovered. The wall, apparently of the synagogue, is still under construction. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 185 #17)

Recto: accounts. Verso: unidentified text in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts. (Information from CUDL)

Daily records of foods with amounts for two weeks (possibly accounts). (Information from CUDL)

Accounts with Hebrew (and possibly Greek/Coptic) numerals. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts. (Information from CUDL)

List and accounts mentioning the names of Muslim months, personal names such as Abū l-Surūr al-Levi, Abū l-Munā and Abū l-Faḍl Sar ha-Leviyim, various sums of money, commodities and Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts, mentioning names such as Jābir b. ʿAbdallah. (Information from CUDL)

Lists commodities such as hyacinth and pepper, and their quantities. (Information from CUDL)

f. 1r: unidentified Hebrew. ff. 1v and 2r: apparently accounts or document. f. 2v: entitled ‘[...] sacrifice’. Mentions Khalaf Allūnī, Khalaf the collector b. Hārūn al-Ṣūrī and dirhams. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts, mentioning [Abū] Manṣūr b. Asad, dates and quantities. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts; list of names. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts in a crude hand. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: possibly accounts, entitled ‘work in the synagogue’. Verso: two names: [...] b. Abraham and [...] b. Hilāl. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts. (Information from CUDL.) Late, sephardic hand.

Accounts with Coptic numerals. Mentions various female and male names such as Farajallāh, Bint al-Kātib Abū Shaʿra, Ibrahim Dhabbāḥ (‘the butcher’), Yiṣḥaq al-Faranjī and Yosef al-Faranjī. (Information from CUDL)