Geniza Lab

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand from the 16th-19th centuries. The names of many Muslim economic actors are listed and accompanied with alphanumerical figures, namely: Ramaẓān ben Abd Raḥman, Aḥmed ben Khalil, Muḥammad Azb'ani. On the verso this listing format continues with the names Muḥammad Jalīl (perhaps Celil in Turkish), Naṣr [e-]Din, and other individuals. MCD.

Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 4 Jumāda al-Awwal '54. Probably 1154 AH (=1741 CE) or 1254 AH (=1838 CE). Perhaps belonging to a jeweler or to a pawnbroker. Nearly every row begins with 'in the name of X' (e.g. Eliyyahu Shtiwi, Sh. de Curiel, Ṣāliḥ Aḥmad, Ḥayyim Shaʿyā, Mordukh Bialobos), then it lists an item (silver candelabra, silver watch, pearl necklace, ring/seal), then abbreviations. Values of the items and sums are in the righthand column.

Letter from Moshe b. Naʿim to his father Me'ir b. Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 3 Heshvan 5584 AM, which is 1823 CE. The letter is very long; needs examination for content. There is a lovely star design on verso.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand from the 16th-19th centuries with entries designated according to the "masruf / expenses" of individual people such as Mu'allam Muḥammad (l. 1v). On the recto quantities of coinage in Ottoman cedid are listed as well as goods such as wax and eggs. There is also mention of a "muhtasib / מחטסב" a market overseer in the Ottoman empire whose significance is also widely attested in scholarship regarding the medieval economy. MCD.

Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 17th or early 18th century. Mention is made (ll. 17, 21, 25) of The Nazir Joseph ha-Levi (d. 1713), an emissary from Hebron who settled in Cairo and served as the head of its court. In his responsa Mate Yosef, (Istanbul, 1717-1726) he is often approached to deal with questions related to collection emissaries ([ש[לוחי] דר[בנן) (A. Yaʻari: Sheluḥe Erets Yiśraʾel / Abraham Yaari. Jerusalem : Mosad ha-Rav Ḳuḳ, 1977, p. 932). Also mentioned is an agent collecting for Safed named Ḥayim Ravuaḥ (l. 13). One of the subjects here is the issue of the transmission of a divorce bill. Information from FGP.

Short letter in Judaeo-Arabic from [...] Goren to David ben Naʿim dated 9 November 1820 (3 Kislev 5581). Reused for accounts.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Karo y Frances & Company, dated 1807 CE (19 Tishrei 5568).

Letter from Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ to Confrada Khumsa Kharja(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century.

Legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic related to real estate transactions that are dated 1784/85CE according to FGP. The list format of these documents suggests that the page may have once been bound as part of a broader court register. There is much damage to the fragment but on occasion the closing line of each document is clear enough that the Aramaic word "established / קיים" appears– which is a common term that seals a legal document. The first document on the verso is signed with a difficult calligraphic hand yet within the document's first line, the name Yehuda b. Mauza[?] is legible. In the following line the name Masʿūd "מסעוד" appears. MCD.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic on business matters.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Yehudah [...] to Karo y Frances & Company, dated 1807 CE (17 Heshvan 5568).

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Raḥamim Abzaradel to Moshe ben Naʿim dated 14 September 1827 (22 Elul 5587).

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic fron Nissim Masos (?) to Shimʿon Frances.

Upper part of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 28 Sivan '85, probably 5585, corresponding to 14 June 1825 CE. The writer is Nissim Sabbāḥ and the addressee is Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ. The letter contains news about someone who has died, and about someone else who has asked after the addressee.

Fragment of a bifolium from a ledger, it seems containing copies of late, Judaeo-Arabic letters. Or perhaps a formulary?

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe (b.?) Avraham Bibas to Yaʿaqov Bibas and his partner Shomal (Shemuel?) Azulay, dated 3 September 1818 (2 Elul 5578). There are accounts underneath.

Beginning of a late Judaeo-Arabic business letter (abandoned after 6 lines), listing a number of goods the writer has to sent to his "brother."

Recto: Two late letters (or two versions of the same letter?), one in Arabic and one in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination. Verso: Accounts.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Karo y Frances & Company to Moshe Bibas. Unusual, since the vast majority of their correspondence that has been preserved is from Moshe Bibas to Karo y Frances.