Geniza Lab

on Recto: Leaf 1: Compilation of Hebrew biblical and other phrases Leaf 2: Judaeo-Arabic personal letter Verso: Leaf 1: Arabic letter Leaf 2: Continuation of Judaeo-Arabic personal letter and beginning of another Arabic letter (FGP)

End of a letter. Needs examination

Letter addressed to Salmūn. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era. Seal imprint on verso. Needs examination for content.

Recto: Arabic letter (needs examination). Verso: Two drafts and possibly part of another letter. Some lines are deleted.

Possibly a letter (needs examination)

Possibly part of a document or letter - needs examination.

Fragment of a letter/petition in Arabic script. The sender (or the person he is writing on behalf of) wishes to collect the money due to him and return to his family, and he needs the help of the addressee to do this. On verso there is Aramaic liturgy.

Probably a letter or letters. Verso and recto appear to be in different hands, in which case there might be more than one letter. - needs examination.

Business memorandum in Arabic script. Reporting on the arrival and shipment of different loads, including firewood. May mention the town of Minbāl (l. 3). Mentions 30 loads (of coral?), whose shipping costs 3 1/4 dirham per load, whereas the firewood costs 2 dinars per load. The boats are getting mired in the water and need more buoyancy. The addressee is told to send the rest of something. On verso there are Hebrew jottings (liturgical?). Needs examination.

Probably an Arabic letter. There is a blured Arabic subscript in vertical lines beneath the one of the letter itself - needs examination.

Letter from Abū Saʿd Ibn Ṭībān, unknown location, to his son Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn Ṭībān, in Fustat. Mainly in Arabic script, with one phrase in Hebrew (לחזות בנועם...). The fragment is torn away about one line after the substance of the letter begins (after the standard greetings and assurances that everyone is healthy). It might be possible to understand some of the content from the text in the right margin and upper margin (but this may be formulaic as well). On verso there is the address in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic, with relatively elaborate instructions for delivery; evidently the letter was sent to the shop of Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān to be kept there or to be forwarded to the true addressee. AA. ASE.

Possibly a letter. Faded script underneath the top one - needs examination.

Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Approximately 8 lines are preserved from the middle, but the context seems too vague to understand much.

End of a letter/petition (wa-l-masʾūl min tafaḍḍulika.... min faḍlika wa-iḥṣānika...). In Arabic script. Dated: 947 AH, which is 1540/41 CE.

Letter fragment. Mainly in Arabic script, with one word in Hebrew script. May mention Bilbays. Refers to "the knowledge of medicine" and perhaps a youth who is both physician and astrologer (shābb ṭabīb munajjim). The sender orders acacia (aqāqiya) and mentions condensed walnut juice (rubb al-jawz) and the pressing of something. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Arabic text (possibly a draft of a letter), overwritten with some Hebrew jottings- needs examination. (FGP)

Beginning of a document or letter mentioning a sultan and ahl al`afaf - needs examination. (FGP)

Part of a letter or document - needs examination.

End of a letter - needs examination.

Possibly, one lengthy letter. With one scrap of a leaf measuring The existing portions of this text may have been torn off (or torn up) from originally longer and wider (possibly two in number) sheets of paper since their text is interrupted in a manner which suggests such tearing (FGP)