Geniza Lab

Fragment of a letter. Names mentioned include Elazar ha-Kohen b. Avraham and X the parnas b. Natan. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100-1130). (Information from Goitein's typed text; no other information)

Fragment of a letter from a parent to his son, Abu Sa'id b. Abu al-Ḥasan, known as al-Azari, in al-Mahdiyya. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100-1138). (Information from Goitein's typed text; no other information)

Document on parchment, possibly in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Small fragment, blank on verso. Worth looking for a join (no data in function on FGP).

Informal note from Manṣūr b. [...] the Jew to Jamāl al-Dīn. In Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1225 CE, based on the currency. The purpose of the note is to ask/tell the addressee to give the bearer 50 kāmilī dirhams. Written on the back of a parchment fragment of Megillat Esther.

Small fragment from a top of a letter written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138) to the Nezer (the diadem. There were few persons bearing this title, one of them was Eli b. Nathanel Halevi), regarding Abu Ali al-Ba'akbaki.

Fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Conveying business instructions/requests.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very faded. Mentions the kohl that was with Abū l-Riḍā; if Abū l-Riḍā has arrived...; and Alexandria.

Either a small fragment of a letter or a very short letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to graciously write something for the bearer.

Small fragment of a letter. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very damaged.

Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. The text on verso seems to be the conclusion, sending regards to various people, including the sender's maternal aunt Jamāl, to cousins (bint ʿamm) Umm Yūsuf and Umm Barakāt, to Umm Bū l-Faḍl, and to Abū l-Ḥasan.

Either a letter or a literary text. In Judaeo-Arabic. Describing people being held under house arrest (tarsīm), the arrival of a war fleet (qaṭāʾiʿ, cf. T-S 13J19.29), the government, and the destruction of a country.

Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very damaged. Mentions kohl.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Resembles the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis (cf. T-S 12.654 and the related fragmented edited by Gil). Mentions [...] ha-Dayyan b. al-Neʾeman (ZL). It is difficult to make sense of the rest, but there is some conflict, an insult (נקצה וגהלה ועדם . . . ), and some learned quotations.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1107 CE, since Ṣāʿid al-Dimashqī appears also in T-S 13J2.15 from that year. The sender of this letter gives a report about "the stone" (al-ḥajar). He went to Ṣāʿid al-Dimashqī and asked him [...]. Then he went to see Ḥusayn b. Rosh ha-Qahal, who was with a customer of his, and [...]. The sender told Ḥusayn that the stone belonged to Rabbenu [...]. Then they weighed it "without nafaḍ" and it came out to [...]. On verso there is a talmudic discussion written in a similar hand.

Letter in Arabic script. Last 4–5 lines only, with greetings to all of 'our colleagues' (aṣḥābnā). On verso there is an unidentified text in Hebrew script.

Arabic - needs examination.

Letter possibly in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. 8 partial lines are preserved. Rubbed and faded. Mentions a Sar Shalom who is dead. Appeals to the manliness (muruwwa) of the addressee.

Very damaged and faded fragment of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon.

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Large fragment (right side of recto). Greetings to Sitt Naʿīm.