Geniza Lab

The main block of Judaeo-Arabic text is a portion of a letter. The writer reports that he arrived safely in Fustat and yearns for a letter containing news of the addressees. He wants to know which ships have arrived, the news of the merchants and the merchandise, and sends greetings to Abū Bakr and al-F[...] b. Ilyās (?). Fragment filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew written at all angles. The main blocks of Arabic script consist of lists, at least one of which might be a table of contents of a book (PGPID 33965). Needs further examination.

Fragment filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew written at all angles. The main blocks of Arabic script consist of lists, at least one of which might be a table of contents of a book. The main block of Judaeo-Arabic is a portion of a letter (PGP ID 26783). Needs further examination.

Recto: Petition draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-[ʿIzz al-Yahūdī] kisses the ground before al-maqām al-ʿālī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-sayfī al-ʿādilī, and reports that he is a poor man and cannot even obtain paper (or write a petition? al-qiyām bi-l-waraq) except through the charity of others. He has a brother who evidently owes money, and he insists that he is not a guarantor (laysa bi-ḍāmin lahu wa-lā kafīl) for him. He asks for the issuing of a rescript (khurūj al-tawqīʿ) confirming this. Verso: Draft of the same petition, it appears, in Arabic script.

Document in Arabic script. Perhaps a medical prescription or recipe.

Recipe in Arabic script for compounding hiera picra. ASE

Original text: Hebrew piyyutim, probably mid-12th-century based on handwriting (compare to Moss. Ia,6). Later text: A prescription in Arabic script.

Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a sick woman. Verso: A few words in Arabic script.

Recto: Legal query for a qāḍī in Arabic script regarding a man "known for ḥujaj" (unpaid promissory notes?), and there are several testimonies against him, and he served a man. . . (the fragment ends here). Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary spellings, especially the use of י in place of א. Sitt Ṣawāb sends a message to the addressee regarding money.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic (for the body) and Arabic script (for the closing greetings).

Recto: Instructions perhaps regarding a bolt of cloth (יריעה). In Hebrew. Verso: Two lines of Arabic script mentioning al-shaykh al-ajall Abū l-Ṭāhir. Needs examination

Recto: Informal note in Arabic script. Needs examination. Verso: Informal note from Shelomo (probably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) ordering several medicinal syrups from Abū Isḥāq to be given to the bearer: sharāb aṣīl, sharāb laymūn, sharāb ward (one ounce each) and also one ounce of water of borage (lisān thawr, 'oxtongue').

Recto: part of an official Arabic document, in very large script. On verso there is a list of piyyutim. (Information from CUDL)

Business letter in Arabic script in which a father reports to his son on events in Alexandria and the arrival of the aṣḥāb, about which he's very excited. Reports as well on acquisition of dyed flax or linen and other textiles, and says there's no need to go to Palermo. (Information from Aodeh)

Official letter in a Fatimid chancery hand, mentioning Abī l-Bayān Mūsā, may God sustain him, and Abū ʿAlāʾ (?).

Legal document involving Abū l-Faḍl al-Parnas, Abū Saʿd, and payments in installments. The margins and verso are filled with Arabic text.

Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. The first four lines are preserved. Needs examination. Verso: Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a rudimentary hand. Asking the addressee (al-Maghribī Isḥāq?) to convey something to a certain scribe or secretary (kātib), perhaps asking him to write a letter for Ibn Sayf(?). Also mentions a court and a deposit (?wadāʿa; the word is normally wadīʿa) and bringing Bū Saʿd with him. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script. Only the ends of three lines are preserved. May be a state document.

Accounts and jottings in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL)

Recto: Blessings for a ḥaver, in Hebrew. Verso: A few words in Arabic script. Needs examination.