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Fragment with Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew text. May be a letter.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions a consignment of R. Yehuda.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment.

Document in Arabic script. Small fragment. Needs examination.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Pepper appears.

Funeral speech? In Hebrew. Quotes Sanhedrin 113b (lines 5-6). In the margin a name appears: Menashshe ha-Levi b. Avraham b. Aharon b. Shuʿayb b. Yefet Rosh Kalla

Text in Judaeo-Arabic. Business-related? Medical? "wa-qīrāṭayn tarkīb." The hand looks 13th century.

Fragment with extremely faded Hebrew script. Remarkable mainly for a drawing of a four-legged creature.

A few words in Arabic script, probably a chancery document. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.

Hebrew piyyutim.

Judaeo-Arabic poetry.

Letter of appeal, possibly. In Hebrew. Late. The writer seeks help against the evildoers who persecute him.

Accounts of a fishmonger? In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions the fish arriving from [...] and from Abū Qīr.

Letter from a certain Efrayim to a dignitary ([...] ha-Yeshiva). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sammanūd.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unusual handwriting: blocky, calligraphic. The writer bemoans that he has lost all his money and merchandise. "The reason for the debt is that my work is with ... the Shaykh Abū Saʿd known as Abū [...]." The fragment ends around here. Probably he is going to ask for help.

Letter addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions preparations for the holiday. Reports that Abū l-Murajjā is healthy; wishes health to the shaykh Abū l-Bayān; rebukes the addressee for failing to send news of Sitt Qawām.

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions the arrival of people by boat. The scribe uses final ה for א, eg יומנה הדא.

Letter fragment in Hebrew. What remains consists solely of praises for the addressee.