Geniza Lab

Letter fragment (left side of recto), extremely faded with an unusual format, since the left margin is used for several lines of text at 90˚ to the main text and there are still smaller words squeezed into the left margin of the left margin. ASE.

Recto: letter. Verso: note, probably accompanying some kind of consignment, from Abū l-Faraj b. Mubārak to Abū l-Fakhr. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts, mentioning [Abū] Manṣūr b. Asad, dates and quantities. (Information from CUDL)

Letter from Yūsuf b. [...] b. Yūsuf to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Firnās al-Dimashqī (a.k.a. the parnas ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The margins were subsequently reused for accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: ca. early 12th century (the precise date range of ʿUlla b. Yosef is probably known). The letter consists almost entirely of respectful blessings and greetings; the purpose of the letter seems to be a request that the addressee bring other, enclosed letters to the attention of "ḥaḍrat sayyidnā" (=the Nagid Mevorakh?) and to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document; probably concerning a transfer of property. Mentions Malīḥa bat Joseph. (Information from CUDL)

Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to David ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Only the top is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Probably a deed of gift. Signed by [Abraham?], a descendant of Shemaʿya Gaʾon. (Information in part from CUDL)

Legal document (includes divorce formula), mentioning Saʿadya. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document mentioning a young man [...] the tailor, different kinds of cloth and the names Joseph and Ibn Maqdasī. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: letter or note mentioning Abū Zikrī. Verso: letter in a different hand, mentioning Abraham b. Hārūn and al-Ṣanīʿa (‘the trusted’) b. Abū l-Karam b. Ḥunayn. (Information from CUDL)

Draft or unfinished letter. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document apparently granting property rights, mentioning Nathaniel called Abū l-Mufaḍḍal b. M[...] (one of the judges), Abraham ha-Bavli and Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL)

Letter. Very faded. (Information from CUDL)

Letter addressed to a certain Shelomo. Small fragment (lower left corner of recto and part of the address). Mentions Khallūf. The addressee is to act according to his wisdom. (Information in part from CUDL)

Probably a legal document, mentioning the elder Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document. Dated: 1454 Seleucid, which is 1142/43 CE. Mentions the moshav/majlis of "adonenu." Concerning 6 dinars; a woman; and an inheritance. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Letter addressed to a sister. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 14th century. May mention a man beating a woman (three lines from the bottom). Verso: Letter in a different hand. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Narrates a distressing event, mentions something a woman said to somebody, and asks the addressee to appease someone. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter from Abū ʿAlī to Abū l-Ḥasan. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a crude hand. Few details are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

Recto: Unusual Aramaic-Hebrew legal document, or rather an addendum to a legal document, perhaps describing irregularities in certain words? Each entry refers to a portion of a word from the original document (e.g., לוס from נילוס). On verso there are a couple words in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information in part from CUDL)