Geniza Lab

Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Fakhr and Tripoli (Libya).

Letter of appeal for charity. Fragment. In Hebrew. At the bottom, in a different hand, "David ha-Nasi b. [...] Ga'on b. [???].

Address of a letter to a judge.

Letter addressed to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Almost entirely an eloquent shawqiyya. Good wishes for Hannuka or Purim.

Informal note in Hebrew. The handwriting resembles that of Maimonides, but is almost definitely not him. Mentions a parnas. הגדול המעוז המגדול.ני אלא עם הפרנס ואם.סף ועשי[ת] כחכמתיך

Letter from Abū ʿAlī to Abū l-Fakhr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the first two lines are preserved.

Letter in Hebrew. Looks like the handwriting of Shelomo b. Yehuda. Needs examination.

Letter or petition in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Business letter. Small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century.

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions brazilwood, but otherwise the remaining text is quite vague.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Very faded. Mentions Jerusalem and commercial goods.

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part of recto). Mentions various business matters. He reports that 'your mother and sisters' are well. He sends regards to Ḥalfon's wife Sitt Naʿīm. He has sent with the bearer Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Faḍl(?) b. ʿUmayr 3/4 mann of Byzantine wormwood (afsantīn rūmī), and "inside of it" there is a qirṭās inside of which there is scammony (maḥmūda). He has also sent נגאב ערבי with this letter for Abū l-Ḥasan the in-law of Ibn al-Qaṣabī. Someone made Yefet take an oath about something (istaḥlafanī).

Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Very damaged.

Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Very damaged.

Business letter. Small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions pepper.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the voice of a woman. "I am crying and our tears [do not dry]."

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Only three lines from the introduction have been partially preserved.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. "My desire to enter... when I met with..."

Upper part of a letter in Hebrew dated 534[.] = 1570s CE. It is addressed to "my brother who is like my soul" and mentions the writer's arrival in Alexandria from Fustat, and, later, "I will pay you when you come to Jerusalem." The document was then reused, recto and verso both, for accounts, perhaps communal donations.

Opening of a letter in Hebrew.