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Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Naʿim to his brother Meir ben Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5 Shevaṭ 5565 AM, which is 1804/05 CE. Yiṣḥaq is anxious to receive confirmation that Meir received a pair of legal documents that he sent him with Sheḥada Ḥamawī, who did not actually deliver them but mailed them from Damietta. MCD. ASE.

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Hebrew document(s) of some kind, dated Adar 1819 CE (5579).

Table of accounts.

Fragment containing large Arabic script (from a letter?). There is also some smaller script and Judaeo-Arabic on verso.

Recto: Legal/business document in Hebrew. Verso: lists of names organized alphabetically with corresponding numbers. Sums on the left.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps dated 1819 CE (579).

Fragment of a calendar.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, reused for sums.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic by Nissim Mat[..].

Calligraphic draft of names of witnesses, Moshe b. Me'ir and Refa'el Yosef b. Yizhaq Hayyim.

Late letter (or letters?) in Judaeo-Arabic from Ya'aqov Bibas.

Perhaps writing exercises using a late Judaeo-Arabic letter as the basis? Needs further examination.

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter in Ladino.

List of names. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Some of the names include: Nissim Mosseri; Nissim Levi ʿAjamī; Bialobos ʿAfīfī; Zakito Gallico; David Mosseri; Avraham Palombo; Yosef Mir; Pesaḥ and Natan Levi; Merkato Ḥayyūn.

Letter from Yehoshuaʿ Azulay. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 17th–19th century. Currency: grossos (גרושש), a generic term for non-Ottoman silver coins. The letter mentions various business matters and people including Shelomo b. Shanji and Ḥayyim Nafūsī. Discusses the marriage of a certain Yiṣḥaq in the margin. Needs further examination.

Letter in Ladino.

Late accounts.

Fragment of a beautifully illuminated calendar (?).