Geniza Lab

Kabbalistic medallion containing the names of the sefirot.

Kabbalistic amulet.

Magical text in Judaeo-Arabic.

Amulet in Aramaic.

Amulet in Hebrew.

Magical text in Hebrew script. Probably late.

Magical text in Hebrew.

Magical recipes in Hebrew, including for sleep and for headache (shaqīqa).

Amulet in calligraphic Hebrew for Eliyyahu b. Esther.

Magical text in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Mentions dream reading.

Amulet for Ḥana bt. Rivqa. In Aramaic and Hebrew. Probably late. Against the evil eye and other bad things.

Magical text in Hebrew and Arabic script.

Prayer in Hebrew, possibly an amulet.

Prayer/invocation in Arabic script. This piece begins with Sūrat al-Nās and ends with Sūrat al-Fātiḥa (with some errors), then yā Allāh yā Muḥammad. In between there is a prayer (transcription kindly provided by Muhammed A. Sarhan):بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم بحق هذه الآيات الشريفة أن تنقي وتنفي عن أطياف النفس والجسدمن الناس والجن والشيطان الرجيم ياللهاللهم بحق هاذه الأسرار والقرآن أن ترفعالكفر والغير في النفس وتزكي باقيها ياللهيا حق يالله الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم

Document in Arabic script. Possibly a medical prescription: the word sharāb (syrup) appears in the first line, and words for weights (dirham and ūqiya) appear several times. There are two fragments under this shelfmark. The lower one is Arabic poetry

Prayer or magical fragment in Arabic script. Invokes Muḥammad and then has a string of magical characters. The lower fragment looks literary.

Magical fragment. Written in Hebrew and either Judaeo-Greek or Greek words that had simply become magical words.

Placard in large beautiful letters including Jeremiah 17:7 and other verses. Information from Goitein's index card.

Scroll, probably a textual amulet, in magical script.

Amulet with magical script and numbers. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "Hegab en Madhrebin" ; on a separate small piece of paper: "a Ḥigab"; [next line] "Talisman in maghribian (?) inscription"]