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Court proceedings (possibly in draft form) from January/February of 1182, involving Ibn Ibrahim and Abu Zikri b. Atiyya. The mention of 'lie' (line 6) and 'one of them threatened me' (right margin) suggests that the matter at hand was some sort of dispute. Regarding the use of qadh instead of qad in line 4 see J. Blau, Dictionary of Mediaeval Judaeo-Arabic Texts (Jerusalem: 2006), p. 535 as well as his Studies in Middle Arabic (Jerusalem: 1988), p. 212.

Verso of document (possibly a draft) of court proceedings from January/February of 1182.

Legal. Small fragment: very little content remains. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Faḍl is mentioned.

Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Calendrical fragment? Gives the date of Rosh Hashana 1363 Seleucid = 4812 AM = 44[.] AH. All these refer to 1051 CE.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter fragment. Dating: Perhaps 16th century or later. Appears to be in Hebrew. Needs examination.

Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Verso might be a continuation; contains cryptic lists of numbers.

Late account, names and numbers. AA

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Literary work in Hebrew. Dating: Probably late. Possibly horoscopes or prognostications based on given names, including Gedalya and Yeḥezqel.

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions flax; someone's brother Yaʿaqov; Abū ʿAlī; and the Franks.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Legal fragment regarding Menashshe ha-Zaqen.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with an Arabic-script address. Very faded. The name Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī appears at the end, but it is not immediately clear whether he is the writer. The address includes the name Abu l-Barakāt.

Continuation of letter from Allush (\'Lamb\') ben Makhlūf al-Nafusi to Mahruz ben Yaʿaqov in which the writer asks the addressee to intervene in a matter concerning his brother, the well-attested India trader Yiṣḥaq ben Makhlūf al-Nafusi. Mentioned also are the elder Madmun, Ibn al-Dimyati, and Abu Said. Beginning of letter on recto (B 4037-1). Third or fourth decade of the twelfth century.

Letter from Allush ('Lamb') b. Makhlūf al-Nafusi to M[ahr]uz ben Yaʿaqov, 1130s or 1140s. Business letter concerning payments involving and owed to various merchants, including someone named Madmun, perhaps the representative of merchants and Nagid of Yemen, Madmun ibn Ḥasan (d. 1151); Abu Said ibn al-Dimyati; Abu Zikri, perhaps the representative of the merchants in Fustat during the first half of the twelfth century with the same name; and the writer's brother, Yiṣḥaq (= the well-attested India trader Yiṣḥaq ben Makhlūf). Allush appears again in a court record dated 1132 as having bought a house in his brother's name [Bodl. MS heb. b 11/21]. The letter also mentions Abu Said Makhlūf and Ibn Elisha, travel to the Maghrib and Aden, and shipments of pepper. Conclusion and address on verso. (Information from Arnold Franklin and M.A. Friedman and S. D. Goitein, India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza, p. 263)

Hebrew poetry.

Memorial lists.