Geniza Lab

Damaged fragment from a legal deed. AA

Unidentified.

Recto: Targum Jonathan of Habakkuk 3:1. Verso: medical recipe for a potion.

Literary - recommend suppress

Responsum. Small fragment with the opening verses of a Geonic responsa, copied by Yosef Rosh Haseder. AA

Literary - recommend suppress

minute fragments, few from letters and legal deeds.

Unidentified.

Bible translation; unidentified On both sides, there is an (older) text in the main body of the page in faint script, while there is another text in the margins written in a different ink around it. In the middle of recto there is a drawing of a man, chained to a yoke or possibly a cross, although the legs are apart as if he is walking. The older text seems to be literary, possibly a Judaeo-Arabic paraphrase of Esther, and mentions a king and Haman. The text around is written in the first person (CUDL)

Minute fragments probably from a letter. Reference to 'our Nasi'. AA

Recto: late document from Fustat involving the conditions of a purchase, between Ya[...] Provencal and al-Amir Muhammad [... ...]. Also mentions Shemuel b. Moshe Arditi who currently lives in Constantinople. Needs further examination.

Literary - recommend suppress

Arabic Document

Recto: unidentified text with many Hebrew quotations (possibly poetical). Verso: outlines of a table.

Leaf from a book, possibly medical, with Arabic jottings in margin on verso. (CUDL)

Apparently a small fragment from a medical book, mentioning cartilage, the heart and illnesses. CUDL

Dietary laws concerning animals and birds. CUDL

Medical? Unidentified text, referring to ‘dying from the perishing cold’. AA and CUDL

Recto: unidentified. Verso: opening of a short letter in Hebrew.

Minute fragment from a letter. The name Ishaq is mentioned. No more data is preserved. AA