Geniza Lab

List in large Arabic script. Perhaps materia medica? Saffron (zaʿfarān) appears. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic jottings of formulaic phrases from a letter and the beginning of a recipe for hiera (iyārij) which includes saffron.

Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Verso: Halakhic text on creeping things (שרצים / شراصيم) in Hebrew and in Arabic script interspersed with Hebrew.

Note in Arabic script. Mentions a maqṭaʿ cloth, but maybe also materia medica such as tamarind. Needs further examination. Information in part from Goitein's note card.

Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Mentions "I have a friend named ʿUmar." Verso: Letter in Arabic script in a different hand. Mentions "your friend in Cairo" and regards to various people such as Hājj [...].

Three documents in Arabic script. Tax receipts?

Recto: Legal testimony, possibly a draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Sunday 9 Iyyar 1559 Seleucid (1248 CE). Place: Fustat. Involves Sulaymān al-Ṣayrafī al-Levi b. Abū l-Munā al-Sukkarī, a sum of 140 dinars, the brothers Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān Al-Levi and Abū l-Faraj Zayn al-Tujjār al-Levi the executors (or heirs?) of the late ʿAmram, and monthly payments of 4 dinars to the brothers. Verso: Jottings in Arabic script and the name "Shelomo b. Yishay ha-Nasi" several times.

Recto: Informal note (ruqʿa). In Arabic script. Perhaps containing detailed orders of payment--consists almost entirely of sums of money and begins with the word "yaṣil." Verso: Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addresed to Yaʿaqov ha-Ḥazzan. Asking him to speak to various people on behalf of the writer, including Ḥasan and ʿAqbān. All those people are to pay what they owe (? mā rusima bihi) (referring to recto?) to Abū ʿAlī who will deliver the money to the writer.

Letter in Arabic script. Beautiful handwriting. Wide space between the lines. Ḥamdala and ḥasbala at bottom. Needs examination.

Fragment in Arabic script. Probably literary.

Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Several items seem to be food (kuzbara, ḥummuṣ, zaʿtar).

Document in Arabic script. Late. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Literary text in Arabic script. Astrological/astronomical. Mentions Saggitarius (burj al-qaws) several times.

The original document is quite damaged; there is a list of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. There is also a line in Arabic script including the word al-mamlūk and the name Manṣūr b. [Saʿd?]. Underneath, in large Judaeo-Arabidc and Hebrew, there is a writing exercise in which Shelomo b. Eliyyahu copies out his name and his father's name with many honorifics.

Letter in Arabic script from Khalaf (?) b. [...] to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn (?) b. [...]. Reused for piyyutim. Needs examination.

Receipt in Arabic and Hebrew script for a purse full of coins from Nahray b. Nissim to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy in Alexandria.

Recto: Letter of appeal for charity in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Written across a bifolium. Perhaps a draft. Verso: The right-hand page is related to the letter of appeal. The left-hand page is very faded; it seems to be a list of names and dates in a mixture of Hebrew script and Arabic script. Needs further examination.

Note with financial content. In Arabic script. 16 full and 4 half lines on paper. Fiscal hand, curvilinear lines and some words are stacked at the end. Perhaps the document was written by a lower official. Contains: basmala; al-'abd; and mentions "al-khassa" a financial account and "man talaba dhalika min," both towards the end of the document. Many numbers and the verb "addada" (x2) in the middle section.

Accounts, or maybe just arithmetic. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic(?) numerals. There are two leaves of this document, following 5 leaves of a literary text by Saadya Ga'on.

Tax receipt for jawālī with registration marks.