Geniza Lab

Accounts, including sums of money and names such as Isma'il and Jacob. (PGP 1.0/FGP) Fragment of a list containing various sums of money. EMS

List, representing notes of an official, probably in a small locality, about doles handed out to him on Passover. Part I, Pesiqat Pesah ('pledge drive for Passover'). Part II, 'what I earned on the Holiday,' apparently representing partial payment of the pledges mentioned in Part I. Other writing (upside down) includes what may be a request for a prescription for weak eyesight. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 465, App. B 99 [dated to 1200-1240])

Four pages of a report of expenditures, written in large Arabic characters, made by the cantor Abu Sahl for repairs in the Muhra house. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:433) EMS

List of collections, all crossed out. Recto contains a letter requesting payment or distribution of bread to various young women?

Account statement – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 172) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 76). MCD.

Account statements for the Shabbat Aḥīm Synagogue in New Cairo – 1923-1924CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 227) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 74). MCD.

Account of items with quantity and value (Fāyiẓ[?]) – 16 April 1933CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 262) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 75). MCD.

Account written by a person admonishing another in Hebrew script but in colloquial Egyptian "the people are saying that he worked four months and that he is right but he is a smartmouth about his health and very generous in [saying] 'he worked well'") undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 272). (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 63). MCD.

Account statements – 1943-1944CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 288) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 75). MCD.

Account statement – 1946CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 289) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 75). MCD.

Accounts in Arabic numerals and names in Judeo-Arabic – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 99) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 66). MCD.

Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender might be Faraḥ b. Yūsuf al-Qābisī (the usual correspondent of Yehuda b. Menashshe). Dating: Second half of the 11th century. Mercantile letter concerning the trade in commodities such as pepper and mentioning Abū Saʿd and traders from al-Andalus. Mentions the geographical area of Jazāʾir al-Qurashī (also mentioned in T-S 16.13) and awaiting a group of people called al-Fīshāniyyīn or al-Fayshāniyyīn (also mentioned in Sassoon 713). At the end, asks for news of a young woman (al-ṣabiyya) and marriage. Needs further examination. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. Someone apparently owes 900 of something. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Accounts of Shaykh Abū l-Surūr. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Legible phrases: "... worse than... a terrible danger... in other news... R. Natan... to Fustat with a letter... the [Exi]larch.... Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly in a neater version of the same handwriting. On this side, the alephs at least look like those of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209). Might be communal accounts for revenue from rentals (e.g., al-ṭabaqa) for Sivan and Tammuz. Mentions names such as Umm Baqāʾ and Murajjā. (Information in part from CUDL)

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, in the free space left on the verso of the letter. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, p. 56)

Recto: business letter (c. 1100 CE) from Ibn al-Ḥasan b. Hūlayf Iskanderānī to the prominent purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Joseph al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic address of the letter; accounts by ʿArūs. (Information from CUDL)

Account in Arabic script, including items such as zayt ṭayyib and waraq. Needs further examination.

Accounts. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: business letter from Abraham Monsun to David, in Egypt (16th–17th century). Verso: calculations, probably accounts. (Information from CUDL)

Verso: Complete letter from ʿEzra to Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a thin strip of paper, with sharply upslanting lines. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century. The sender apologizes for the delay and is anxious to convey his eagerness to serve, lest 'Sayyidnā' be upset with him like last time. (Information in part from CUDL.)