Geniza Lab

Letter in a different hand from recto, mentioning (Mishna) Seder Qodashim. See separate entry for recto. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a rabbinic text concerning clean animals and dietary prohibitions. Recto also contains part of an Arabic document, possibly the beginning of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: accounts mentioning names such as Khalaf b. Isḥāq. Verso: business letter, mentioning Abū l-Khayr. (Information from CUDL)

Letter; on verso, probably continuation of of the letter, with quotations from 1 Shemuʾel 25:6; 1 Chronicles 12:19. (Information from CUDL)

Letter from Maḥāsin (?) b. Abū ʿAlī sent to Fusṭāṭ to [...] Abū ʿUmar. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: probably drafts of letters, one is a letter to Abū l-ʿAzz (?). Verso: medical recipe in Arabic for the treatment of fever. (Information from CUDL)

Letter to a certain Joseph. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: beginning of a letter (or report), followed by a poem in Arabic script, mentioning Baghdad, which may be part of the letter. Verso: rhymed continuation of the letter on recto, in which the writer recalls his meeting with the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva as well as other historical events. (Information from CUDL)

Possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL)

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Connected to both the India trade and trade in the Maghrib. Mentions: lac, clove, nutmeg, civet, pepper; someone meeting with the sender in Raʾs Tīnī; an Aleppan; a Byzantine ship that brought Jews from al-Mahdiyya including Ibn Nufayʿ (Abū ʿImrān known from the India Book?) and [...] b. Nahray; quotes a couple biblical verses; the news from the Jews who arrived that Yaʿaqov b. Isḥāq was killed, and something to do with Tilimsān and Fez; (then in the postscript,) someone who has been idle or unemployed; ʿAydhāb; and Alexandria after the holidays.

Late Letter (to a certain Obadiah?), mentioning Solomon al-Yerushalmi, Isaac and his business partner Jacob Ashkenazi.

Short and torn note written by David b. Avraham Maimuni to the Nasi. AA

Opening verse of a letter introduced by quotations such as Psalms 31:2.

Letter regarding business matters, mentioning for example the prize of sugar and that the writer had recently travelled from Fustat to Qus. Also mentions the brothers Sa'd and al-Makin, sons of Abu Sa'd. (data from CUL)

Few words, probably from a letter

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning that the writer had arrived in Rashīd and al-Mahdiyya. (data from CUL)

Possibly a letter (?). (Information from CUDL)

Small fragment from a letter.

Small fragment from a letter, mentioning 'the dyer'.

Much damaged 11th-century business letter.