Geniza Lab

Fragment of a dowry receipt of Sitt al-Kamal, written by Emmanuel b. Yehiel (ca. 1231-1279), containing details about a trousseau. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 453, and from Goitein's index cards)

Page of the account book of ʿArūs b. Yosef, containing accounts and a note about the beginning of a pregnancy, birth and weaning. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 230, 233)

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Accounts of a banker. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small sums. Information from Goitein's note card.

List of contributors to the pesiqa, headed "Appendix to the pledges." A list of thirty-four names (two unnamed with father and brother), of which eleven are crossed out. Only few are accompanied by numbers. The Nagid (Shemuel b. Ḥananya) gives 3 dirhems, the physician Abū l-Najm contributes 2 for his father and himself, which he pays by transfer, ḥawāla; three other persons also pay by transfer. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, in his early style. The persons to be solicited are mostly grouped according to their professions, al-Ṭibb, the members of the medical profession, forming the largest single group of tardy contributors. Information from Med Soc II, App. C, #113 (p. 502).

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, late.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. There may be dates on verso.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic from the notebook of ʿArūs b. Yosef (see e.g. CUL Or.1080 J190). Information from Goitein's note card.

Accounts written by ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Incomplete. (Information from Goitein's index card)

List of names with interspersed Aramaic.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mainly for foodstuffs: eggplant, coriander, mulūkhiyya, chickpeas, etc.

Accounts. Perhaps in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Many familiar names on the list. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman era. The year actually appears on verso but does not make immediate sense: 24 Ramadan נסץ(?). Beautiful hand. Items sold include food, materia medica, and steel.

Accounts similar to CUL Or.1080 J250 and CUL Or.1080 J261. ʿArūs b. Yūsuf is referred to (in another hand). (Information from Goitein’s index card)

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, late.

Account of the Tahirti brothers dealing with the sale of flax worth 800 dinars in the Maghreb and containing details about buying textiles in the Maghreb and shipping them. Dated 1025. Accounts in the same hand and possibly from the same book are also found in T-S J1.54, BL OR5554A.53-54r, Moss. VIII,476.1-2.

Document in Arabic script, probably accounts.

List of names in Judaeo-Arabic (recipients of charity?), including many women. Needs further examination.

Accounts for the distribution of bread for the same period as in T-S K15.25 (1241/42 CE), for the thirteenth through the eighteenth weeks of the liturgical year. The accounts contain only the liturgical name of the week, that of the collector (jābī al-mezonot, changing every week), the sum delivered by him, the amount spent on bread (in the seventeeth week: 28 1/4 out of 54 dirhems) and the balance. Salaries and so forth were obviously distributed by another official. Information from Med Soc II, Appendix B, #51 (p. 453).