Geniza Lab

Accounts in Judeo-Arabic that list a wide array of individuals and quantities which may indicate payments given the recto's heading "עלם אל מדכול מן טיבית" or "Notice of the intake from Tevet". The verso is dated in the upper right corner of the bifolium as 5517 which is 1756/1757CE. The verso perhaps lists the ק׳׳ק of the Maghrebi Jewish community "מערבים" so this fragment may be a page from what once was a broader communal ledger. On the recto some of the names that appear include: Yaʿacov Naḥmias and Moshe Masʿūd. On the verso, many more names appear: Moshe Angel, Shelomo Moznino, Avraham Zin[?], Mordechai al-Sheikh, Menaḥem Kohen, Na'im Heykel, David Na'im, and Moshe Kohen. MCD.

Accounts related to commerce in silk on a bifolium that is undated yet can be estimated as late-18th to early-19th-century given the presence of Meʾīr ben Naʾīm's name and the general paleography of the document. The monetary sums are expressed in silver "פצה" coinage. Many partners in trade are listed such as: Avraham Yaʿabeṣ, Ḥajj Ḥasan Miʾmar[?], Yaʿacov Portos, and Moshe Hakīm. On the left page of the bifolium the financial instrument "polisa / פוליסה" common in moneylending is mentioned. Date: 18th c or 19th c. MCD.

Damaged late letter or draft of legal document. Ishaq Toledano is mentioned. AA

Fragment from the end of a letter by Abu Ali. On verso (should be recto) what seems to be the poetic opening verses of the letter. AA

Small fragment from a letter. The hand looks like Hillel b. Eli. AA.

A list of an unidentified nature. few letter in Arabic. AA

List of names and the weekly Parasha, probably the people who will read it in the synagogue. Year תקנד= 1793. AA

Small fragment from a list of commodities such as קרפה in a very crude hand. AA

A list of an unidentified nature in a very crude late hand. Arabic numerals. AA

Late list of names and numbers in Arabic numerals. Probably a list of debts or payments. AA

Small fragment from a letter. The writer informed that the betrothal and writing of the ketubah was done after Yom Kippur. AA

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Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judeo Arabic. The hand is typical to 13th century, and might be by Shlomo b. Elya (compare with TS NS 304.7). AA

very faded, almost illegible.

Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Hebrew and Judeo Arabic. The writer inform about what has happened to our coreligionists in Fustat, but the letter is fragmentary and almost nothing survived. AA