Geniza Lab

Letter in Hebrew. Small fragment from the end.

Letter to Nahray b. Nissim. (Information from CUDL)

Letter fragment (right side of recto, right side of verso), probably from Alexandria to Fustat. Extremely faded. Legible phrases include: "Send to Alexand[ria]" and "he bought for him." The end of the Arabic address is presrved on verso. ASE.

Letter to the Rosh Kalla, mentioning a certain Judah. (Information from CUDL)

Letter from Efrayim b. Sulaymān to [Abū] ʿAlī al-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

Probably an epistle in the hand of the scribe of Daniel b. ʿAzarya (possibly even the same document as ENA 3765.3 + T-S NS 99.51 + T-S NS 92.33, ed. Gil, Palestine, II, #384). (Possible join between T-S AS 145.244 and T-S NS 92.33 noted by Oded Zinger.)

Recto: letter. Verso: beginning of another letter. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment from an Hebrew letter. Krakowski and Rustow, Formula as content, JSS 20, p. 141 n. 34 date it to 13th century. I think it is later. AA

Long strip, only one word preserved from each line, in wide spacing. Can be from an oppening of an elaborate Hebrew letter, but too little text remains. AA

Letter; address in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)

Letter fragment (left side of recto), extremely faded with an unusual format, since the left margin is used for several lines of text at 90˚ to the main text and there are still smaller words squeezed into the left margin of the left margin. ASE.

Recto: letter. Verso: note, probably accompanying some kind of consignment, from Abū l-Faraj b. Mubārak to Abū l-Fakhr. (Information from CUDL)

Letter from Yūsuf b. [...] b. Yūsuf to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Firnās al-Dimashqī (a.k.a. the parnas ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The margins were subsequently reused for accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: ca. early 12th century (the precise date range of ʿUlla b. Yosef is probably known). The letter consists almost entirely of respectful blessings and greetings; the purpose of the letter seems to be a request that the addressee bring other, enclosed letters to the attention of "ḥaḍrat sayyidnā" (=the Nagid Mevorakh?) and to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. (Information in part from CUDL)

Fragment from an opening of a letter to Perahyahu the Judge - Perahya b. Yosef, from Ben Yiju family who was the muqaddam of al-Mahal. written by Mevorakh b. Natan in a poetic Hebrew. Contains mostly blessings. It might be a letter asking for collection of funds. AA

Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to David ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Only the top is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

Recto: letter or note mentioning Abū Zikrī. Verso: letter in a different hand, mentioning Abraham b. Hārūn and al-Ṣanīʿa (‘the trusted’) b. Abū l-Karam b. Ḥunayn. (Information from CUDL)

Draft or unfinished letter. (Information from CUDL)

Letter. Very faded. (Information from CUDL)

Letter addressed to a certain Shelomo. Small fragment (lower left corner of recto and part of the address). Mentions Khallūf. The addressee is to act according to his wisdom. (Information in part from CUDL)

Recto: Letter addressed to a sister. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 14th century. May mention a man beating a woman (three lines from the bottom). Verso: Letter in a different hand. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Narrates a distressing event, mentions something a woman said to somebody, and asks the addressee to appease someone. (Information in part from CUDL)