Geniza Lab

List of payments received in Judaeo-Arabic. Accordingly, each entry relies on the phrase "קבץ מן / قبظ من" (l.1r, 4r) and the coinage in use is the gold ashrafi. In terms of dating, mention of ashrafi is helpful because it was not minted until 1425CE and factoring in the script of this fragment it may have been recorded in the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries (Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 60). The unit "quarter qantār/אל רבע קנטאר" is also in use. MCD.

Letter to al-Shulal b. Avraham and to a physician informing them that some people had died. In Hebrew (very late). 15th-16th century. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Letter from Avraham to the sender's brother mentioning a bill and conveying greetings to the recipient from all his family members who are with the sender. 15th-16th century. (Information from CUDL)

Letter to Shemuʾel al-Jibālī from his cousin (15th-16th century). (Information from CUDL)

Late letter from Jacob Bagilyer to his brother Aharon. Dealing with financial matters (amounts in peraḥim/ducats). (Information from CUDL)

F. 4r: (draft?) begging letter to Jacob ha-Sar, in an untidy 15th-16th century hand. The writer describes himself as ‘still unwell and helpless’. The letter is prefaced with 'ליקי. Jottings and pen trials on ff. 1r, 2r, 3r, and 5r. (Information from CUDL)

Letter mentioning Alexandria, ca. 15th-16th century. (Information from CUDL)

Short letter to Joseph and his daughter Esther, in a crude hand and extremely colloquial language. C. 15th-16th century CE. On verso it states ‘(to the) house of Maʿtūq al-Miṣratī’. (Information from CUDL)

Letter to Shemuʾel, mentioning Jacob Sonso (שנשו) (c. 15th-16th century). (Information from CUDL)