Geniza Lab

Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 238-240

Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 138-140

Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 216-217

Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 322

Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 152-154

Booklist. Dating: Likely 11th century, since the latest author mentioned is Hayya Gaon (d. 1038).

Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 206-207

List of sums of money. Mentions names such as Bayān, Thābit, and Abū Saʿd (though the first two of these could also be common nouns). Interesting linguistic detail: five is spelt כמשה.

Verso: Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as: al-ʿAfṣī, the Jewish woman (al-yahūdiyya), Ibn al-ʿIrāqī, two or three gharībs, a silk trader (al-ḥarīrī), a Christian man (al-naṣrānī), Muḥammad the wool trader (al-ṣawwāf), Ḥusayn, Wahb, al-Maghribī, etc.

List of items of clothing with their prices. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

Account of a pharmacist listing household goods. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 585)

List of debts. In the 1st line Abu Said al-Dimyati (= Ḥalfon b. Nethanel Halevi) is mentioned as having a debt of 20 dinars. Should be included in the additional documents of India Book IV.

Accounts in four columns containing names and dates of debtors. (Information from Goitein's index cards).

List of commodities and debts. name: Abu Zikri

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.

Accounts listing food products in two columns. (Information from Goitein's index cards).

Account. Revenue of the qodesh from rent, ca. 1230. A small strip of paper, of which the upper part is missing, written on both sides. The part which is preserved lists 13 tenants. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 443 #133)

Account probably concerning an inheritance or a dowry. (Information from Goitein's index cards

Verso: Account in Arabic script (Naïm Vanthieghem; description to come).

List of items in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly the estate of a prosperous coppersmith with a mixture of goods from his store and his household (Goitein) or the inventory of a pawnshop (Frenkel). Date: late 11th or early 12th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 338, 339; V, p. 172, and from Frenkel, "Texts as Objects, Objects as Texts," which contains a complete translation to English.) Written on the back of a letter of request in Arabic script (see separate entry). The inventory was published by Miriam Frenkel and Ayala Lester, "Evidence of Material Culture from the Geniza—An Attempt to Correlate Textual and Archaeological Findings," in Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East, ed. Daniella Talmon-Heller and Katia Cytryn-Silverman. Written on the back of a letter in Arabic script requesting a state decree concerning monastic property; see separate entry.