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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. To Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-faqīh(?) ʿAbdallāh. Little of the content of the letter is preserved. Refers to a carpet, the cold, a woman, and "her sitting/staying with you." (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in the hand of Abraham Maimonides. Mentions a certain Elijah - probably Elijah b. Zekharya. AA
Possibly a letter or collection of formulae. (Information from CUDL)
Possibly a letter or collection of formulae. (Information from CUDL)
Note by a man to his friend, saying that he is sending money with a female slave to him to pay two people as well as some broken dirhams from which he may put together two dirhams. Verso contains part of an unrelated account in Arabic. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter or possibly part of a legal document (witness statement). Recount of happenings (‘I and she went to the synagogue to read. Then Moses came and told me that his majesty is in Cairo. Then his majesty came to the synagogue ...’). (Information from CUDL)
Astrological table in Arabic script, mentioning the sun and the planets, such as Mercury and Jupiter.
Astrological table, mentioning the sun and the planets, such as Mercury and Jupiter. On verso, another leaf is stuck to the page; on it a letter which mentions the name Abū Saʿīd b. Ṣaḡīr. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from a dirge for the demise of community officials, among them Moshe my Nagid - probably Moshe b. Mevorakh
Fragment of a letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria. Regarding trades. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #442) VMR
On recto an order to impose excommunication on a person who took books from 'our house' and didn't return them. At the end a signature 'so wrote Shelomo'. On verso, after stating that the excommunication will be imposed in Cairo, Fustat and Damuh, signatures of the sages approve it, but it seems that all were copied by the same person who wrote the document- Shelomo b. Elya. To be published by MAF in his forthcoming editions of Abraham Maimuni and his contemporaries. AA
Legal document (witness statement). (Information from CUDL)
Colophon to the first Parashah in Leviticus for the name Halfon b. Yeshu'a b. Halfon.
Fragment of a letter from Menashshe, maybe to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1063. Only the write’s first name in known. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #759) VMR
Letter from Menashshe to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1063. Menashshe warns Nahray that Uqban (b. Salman) who passed away has a daughter, and this has to be taken into consideration in regard to his estate. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #760) VMR
Medical text dealing with lincti and ointments. CUDL
Letter mentioning ‘his son the ḥaver’. (Information from CUDL)
Magic. Shimush Tehilim
Letter mentioning Abū Saʿīd, the writer’s nephew Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Surūr. (Information from CUDL)