Geniza Lab

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. Fragment (piece from the left side of recto). Mentions a deposit (wadīʿa); goods for a judge; an oath; a young man; his annoyance about something; someone insulting him. (Information in part from CUDL)

Begging letter addressed to al-Kohen [...] Abū l-Bayān. (Information from CUDL)

Probably fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)

Probably a Judaeo-Arabic letter, with last part written in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment from a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentioning flax and Nissim and Abū l-Fakhr. (Information in part from CUDL)

Fragment from a legal document, mentioning Fusṭāṭ and the month Marḥeshvan. (Information from CUDL)

Letter or note referring to dowry negotiations and the meʾuḥar payment. (Information from CUDL)

Apparently a Christian narrative, mentioning a monk tearing out hair from his beard. (Information from CUDL)

Probably fragment from accounts, mentioning a raṭl of sugar; jottings and writing exercises on verso. (Information from CUDL)

Letter, mainly about business affairs, sent to Moses, Jacob and Abraham. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment from a letter about business affairs. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts, with unusual spelling, mentioning different sums in dinars and dirhams, measures, such as raṭl and the name Ibn Surūr. (Information from CUDL)

Letter, first lines in a different hand, mentioning Abū Zakarīyā, Abū ʿImrān, Abū l-Ṭayyib, Saʿd b. Farrāj, Abū l-Faḍl b. ʿAlī, ʿAbdallah b. Yumr (?), Yaʿaqov b. Judah Burayh, Rabbi Joseph and Joseph b. Judah b. Joseph Burayh b. Jacob. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment, possibly from a letter. (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment from a letter, mentioning a certain Joseph and Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment from a business letter, mentioning Abū l-Munā. (Information from CUDL)

Official letter in Judaeo-Arabic, ordering somebody to appear before the court. Mentions al-Fayyūm. Dated: Elul 1505 Seleucid = 1194 CE. The handwriting resembles that of Avraham Maimonides, but the date is too early for him. On verso there is a similar text, possibly a draft of the same letter. At the bottom of verso there are marginalia in Arabic script, difficult to read, but one phrase appears to be repeated twice, and the last word is al-saʿīd. (Information in part from CUDL)