Geniza Lab

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions business matters and a boat. (Information in part from CUDL)

Short late Hebrew note addressed to Ovadiah regarding purchasing of an unidentified item. AA

Letter mentioning "Sayyidnā" and Eliyya Ibn al-Rayyis (= Eliyyahu the Judge). (Information from CUDL)

Drafts of letters on a strip of vellum. A teacher is reminded to send Abū l-Ḥasan quickly. (Information from CUDL)

Letter mentioning the elder Rashīd. Probably a copy as it is in an unusual format. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a letter in Arabic script. Concerning money, in which the writer explains his reasons for approaching the addressee. (Information from CUDL.) Or rather just two lines of blessings.

Shelomo b. Eliyyahu asks Abu l-Ḥasan to give the (medicinal) syrup that he kindly cooked to the young boy for delivery. (Information from Goitein's index cards.)

Few lines, probably from opening verses of a letter. AA

Recto: letter with unidentified marginalia in a different hand. Verso: unidentified Hebrew, possibly in the same hand as recto margin. (Information from CUDL)

Letter mentioning different quantities of currency. (Information from CUDL)

Letter mentioning a Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)

Letter mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan and the currency dinars. (Information from CUDL)

Letter mentioning Joseph b. [...]. (Information from CUDL)

Minute fragment, only few words preserved including אדוננו which might be from a letter or legal deed.

Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanel, in Bharuch, India (v14). Dating: ca. 1134 CE. Damaged and missing the ends of the lines. The letter mainly deals with business, much of it in pepper and textiles. It mentions that a ship capsized at the entrance to the city [in fact, the join clarifies that it was a man named Yarbaḥ who drowned] (r15); that Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan did not send any merchandise to Egypt this year [in fact, that he did not sell any pepper this year] (r17–18); various Jewish merchants who reached Aden from Egypt this year, including Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-ʿAkkāwī, the son of Ibn al-ʿAfṣī, the son of Sibāʿ, [...] al-Mahdawī, and Ismāʿīl al-Maghribī, who brought good news about relations with the sultan (or government, r22–25); the arrival of two ships from India (r32); and Khalaf's six-month illness, from Tevet to Sivan (v8–10). Greetings are extended to colleagues in al-Qaṣṣ and Bharuch. Information in part from Goitein and Friedman. (Goitein initially identified the addressee as Avraham ben Yijū.) Join by Amir Ashur. ASE. Aden; 1134

Business letter, mentioning commodities such as silk. (Information from CUDL)

Fragmemt from a top of a letter by Moshe the Proselyte, probably asking for financial support. (Information from Moshe Yagur, FGP)

End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The letter was written on the sender's behalf by the scribe Yūsuf. Mentions al-Quḍāʿī ('the healer of stomach trouble') and Sayyidhum. The scribe Yūsuf has informed the sender what Mufaḍḍal has been studying. The 'old man' asks after the addressee and says something about sending two mats and four of something else. On verso mentions 'notebooks' (dafātir). (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter with a long Hebrew introduction. (Information from CUDL)

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from 'your father' (wālidak). mentioning a faqīh named ʿUbayd, instructions for the addressee to come, and the Nasi. (Information in part from CUDL)