Geniza Lab

Upper part of a tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Khalaf, a Jewish nightwatchman (ṭawwāf).

Official (tax?) receipt for a goldsmith (al-ṣāʾigh).

Fiscal account.

Minute fragment of a state document referring to the caliph (al-Imām) al-M[ustanṣir?]. Nothing else is preserved.

Part of one line from an Arabic state document (decree?).

Fiscal document with several ʿalāʾim. Needs examination.

Official receipt in Arabic script. On verso, personal accounts? Needs examination.

Upper part of a tax receipt.

State document, probably. In Arabic script. طريقته ما ظهر منه... والشروع في... عن كتابة وخدمة اذ كان لا فرق... في كل حال. On verso there is literary text in Hebrew. (Information in part from JRL catalogue.)

A few words in Arabic script, probably a chancery document. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.

Chancery document, a few words only. ...ال الذي في ال...

Two lines of a letter or petition in Arabic script (li-l-sayyid bin al-[...]).

Petition or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how much of the substance. Reused on recto for Hebrew poetry. Needs further examination.

Capitation tax receipt for Sulaymān al-yahūdī b. Mūsā al-yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib (?). Dated 24 Dhū l-Ḥijja 524 AH (1130 CE). Not authenticated at the top by officials of the dīwān al-ʿamal and ishrāf, as was the usual practice. The multidirectional text repeats phrases from the main text. This suggests either a practice-text written by a jahbadh, or a practice-text written by someone who isn't a jahbadh, in which case we could speculate that s/he was practicing to forge a tax receipt. (Information from MR.)

Bill from the naval armed forces – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 148) – in English. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 71). MCD.

Fragment of a petition or at least a letter to a high official. ~9 lines are preserved. "... al-amīrī al-kabīrī al-ʿaḍudī al-nuṣayrī... al-ẓahrī al-ʿawnī... majd al-islām wa-l-muslimīn sayyid al-[...] fī l-ʿālamīn nuṣrat al-ghurā wa-l-mujāhidīn ʿaḍud al-mulūk wa-l-salāṭīn ḥuṣām amīr al-muʾminīn wa-lā zālat lughāt muḥāmida bi-kull lisān matluwwa...." A learner has copied some of the phrases in between the lines. In the margin there is what seems to be unrelated text in Arabic script. On verso there is Dayenu from the Passover haggada.

Small fragment from a state document; perhaps the tarjama of a petition from Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ṣalaḥ. Reused to create a bifolium for a medical work, dealing with the faculties of the human body, causes of illness, and heart function in different kinds of illness, including fever. Same hand as T-S Ar.54.46, fol. 1. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Recto: State correspondence in Arabic script. The sender says he has informed القوس(?) of something. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)

Recto: State document. Possibly an account synthesizing multiple streams of revenue: capitation tax (māl al-jawālī), a tax on palm produce (? māl al-nakhl), and a tax on the market (māl al-sūq). The name ʿAbdallāh appears at bottom right. Needs examination.

Official letter in Arabic script. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. Reused for Hebrew literary text (likely same scribe as T-S NS 111.63 and numerous others). Needs further examination.