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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script on verso. Lovely handwriting. Mentions the addressee's father, the neighbors, and going up to see the Rayyis.

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Currencies include the "real" and "qurūsh."

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Literary fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.

Recto: List of people who have died and notes about prayers for them (?). Verso: Document in Arabic script, perhaps accounts.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Tiny fragment in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about isolation (al-wiḥda wa-l-inqiṭāʿ) and is anxious for the addressee to give an update about something.

List of substantial sums of money, it seems both income and expenses. Possibly a legal document, but it is faded and this is not clear. The Palestinian synagogue and the year 1031/32 CE (1343 Seleucid) are mentioned. Needs examination.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, probably. Too faded to read.

Partnership agreement in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (active ca. 1180–1210). The parties are Abū Saʿīd and [Abū l-]Riḍā. On verso there are the remnants of a halakhic treatise or responsum in the same hand. AA

Four minute fragments from a letter in Judeo Arabic. Only few words survived on each piece. Fustat and Alexandria are mentioned on fol. 1. 13th century. AA

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small fragment (upper left corner). The paties are Abū l-Faraj and Ṣedaqa b. Berakhot. AA

Two minute fragments from the end of a legal deed. Signed by Yosef Hakohen b. Halfon. AA Hebrew and Judeo Arabic

Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.

Letter from the cantor [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to his maternal uncle Bū Ibrāhīm(?), in Shubrā Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dated: 1439 Seleucid = 1127/28 CE. The surviving text of the letter suggests that it is a letter of condolence, possibly upon the death of a woman (הגבירה). Mentions a cantor (al-ḥazzan al-sh[...]) and another cantor the son of Avraham ha-Kohen. AA. ASE.

Small fragment of a business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions [...] b. Jabbāra and a report that ʿAbdallāh traveled from Zanjbār/Zanzibar to Mirbāṭ. Few other specifics are preserved. AA. ASE.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains, "I suffer from this city and its inhabitants unspeakable suffering. May God for the sake of His great name see fit to deliver me from it speedily." He then reports that a man named R. Shemuel has arrived from the land of the Franks. Information in part from Friedman, Dictionary, p. 751 (ضجر).

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.