Geniza Lab

Fragment in Arabic script. Two rows in large letters, with the ink now faded to red. The words al-biḥār and al-riyāḥ appear at the ends of the lines. In between these lines there is smaller text in Arabic script. Verso is similar but extremely faded.

Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Very damaged.

Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Very damaged.

Text blocks in Arabic script in between the lines of the document on the recto, in the margins, and on verso.

Document covered with Arabic script going every which way. A disease (maraḍ) is mentioned in one place. There is one line in Hebrew (a phrase from an end of a letter): adonenu ve-shelomkha yigdal laʿad.

Two words in Arabic script.

Document in Arabic script. Looks formal/administrative. Needs examination.

Most of the document is literary text in Hebrew. One page is in Arabic script and needs further examination.

The original document is a literary work in vocalized Hebrew. It appears that another paper was then pasted on top, and the first two lines of an Arabic letter remain (the basmala and "aṭāl allāh baqāhu").

8 fragments, most in Arabic script, significance unclear.

Recto: Document in Arabic script, probably a letter. Verso: Hebrew poetry.

Recto: Fragment of a prayer in Hebrew. Verso: Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script including the word "al-yahūdī."

Document in Arabic script. Very faded. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.

Document in Arabic script. Chancery hand? Mentions Qāḍī l-Quḍā. On verso there is a vidduy in Hebrew.

Document in Arabic script. The word 'mablagh' appears a few times. Needs examination

Recto: Very faded document in Arabic script. Verso: Small fragment of a deferent letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-F[araj?]

Either one letter with both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic components or two different letters. In the main, Judaeo-Arabic text, the writer greets al-Ḥakīm and Shaykh al-Makīn (sic) and his wife and Faḍl and the community and the neighbors, and reports that ʿAfīf sends regards. The text of the letter is quite faded but mostly has to do with silver coins (al-fulūs alladhī qult lī ʿalayhum) and the arrival and departure (?) of a boat. The Judaeo-Arabic text on verso is difficult to read but appears to mention Jujar. The Arabic text on verso is also faded. It includes the phrase "I arrived home from [...]" and "the 12th of the month of [...]." ASE.

Very small fragment containing both Arabic and Hebrew.

Recto: A few lines of an Arabic document, probably a letter. Verso: The introduction to a Judaeo-Arabic treatise, either identical with or merely citing Yaḥyā b. Dāwud's Kitāb al-Ibāna ʿan Ḥurūf [...] al-ʿIbrānīya. This was underlined in red, presumably in modern times.

Images 1 and 4: Parshat Naso. Image 2: Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Image 3: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic business letter mentioning flax, turbans, two dinars, other garments, and something the writer has in the house of Rabbi Binyamin.