Geniza Lab

Long and narrow strip from the right part of what seems to be a letter. Verso and recto in different hands. Too little remains to identify the content. AA

Letter fragment. T-S AS 147.106: From the upper part of recto. Flowery blessings for the addressee. ". . . . with Sayyidnā al-Rayyis with my absence during these holidays. . . But there is nothing to be done." The text in the margin mentions a letter from R. Efrayim. . . the loss of my livelihood. . . . and closing greetings. T-S AS 147.115: From the bottom of recto. Most of the text is fragmentary but mentions a certain Ibn al-'Ajami and the writers's shock and dismay. ASE.

Letter, with accounts on verso. (Information from CUDL)

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions having sent an ʿIrāqī good and a bag (kharīṭa) containing good-quality [...]. Mentions someone named Hiba or [...] b. Hiba. (Information in part from CUDL)

Fragment of a letter addressed to "the leader" (al-rayyis al-fāḍil al-ḥakham al-ajall). In Judaeo-Arabic. Cursive sephardi handwriting. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter or possibly legal document with oral speech. Mentions a prayer book. Accounts on recto. (Information from CUDL)

Letter of recommendation for the bearer, mainly missing just the upper right corner. The bearer is a resident of Jerusalem who is traveling to Fustat. In the praises for the recipient, it says, "May God increase his like in the midst of this weak nation [אלאומה אלצעיפה]." ASE.

Letter to Yeshuʿa the judge. (Information from CUDL)

Letter to the community of Qalyūb. Written and signed by Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim (active 1213–38 CE). The whole paper is preserved, but the text is faded; good candidate for multispectral imaging. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Letter by David Maimonides to the Nasi. Only the first few lines are preserved. (Information from CUDL)

Drafts of lines, of the address of a letter to a certain Jacob. (Information from CUDL)

Fragment of a letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tahirti. Mentions business with pearls and the coming travel of two people to Ladikya. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #351) VMR

Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto). The subject matter is obscure. The writer writes, "I have witnesses for that, and before me. . . . until today, and they said he would not pay it to me. . . ." ASE.

Letter in the hand of a member of the Maimonides family, mentioning the elder Yosef. Mentions a package of letters including one from "the judge to Sayyidnā" and another from al-Shaykh al-ʿAlam to his mother. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter fragment mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Minyat Zifta; blessings that God rescue someone from their enemies; the sender spending Shabbat in Malīj; and the news that the government (dīwān) in the addressee's location opposed or got in the way of 'some of our friends' (baʿḍ aṣḥābnā). (Information in part from CUDL)

Draft of the opening lines of a letter to R. Elazar. AA

Small fragment from a letter to 'Moshe Hakohen the great Sar splendor of the kohanim ...' AA

Commercial letter. (Information from CUDL)

Bottom part of a letter. No further details preserved.

Fragment (left side) of a letter. Mentions "goods" (spelled חויג) and the cold.