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Tax receipt for Bū l-Faraj b. Bū ʿAlī. Needs further examination.

Document in Arabic script involving Nissim al-Yahūdī. Dated: 1240 AH = 1824/25 CE.

Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Looks late.

Literary text in Arabic.

Order or receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Mentions the name Bū Naṣr b. Barakāt al-Maḥallī.

Recto: Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: List of foods/spices in Arabic script (e.g., pepper). Faded.

Formal document of some kind (receipt?). Mentions Ramaḍān 55[.] AH.

Table of names in Arabic script, most entries circled.

Accounts or possibly a recipe in Arabic script. There are also a few words in very large letters, possibly from an earlier state document.

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A few words in large Hebrew letters.

Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals; unclear if private or state. On verso mentions Bū l-Faraj in an additional note.

Petition from a Jewish man to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably Muslim addressee (Fakhr al-Dīn Jamāl al-Ruʾasāʾ, Ṣ[...] Amīr al-Muʾminīn). and then the description of a Jewish man who is presumably in need of help of some kind. There is a single word in Hebrew in the upper margin. On verso several lines of rhymed Hebrew (including one line against gentiles). On verso there may also be the remnants of the address of the letter on recto (in Arabic script). Needs further examination.

Unidentified text in Arabic script. Part or all of it looks like poetry.

Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Official-looking receipt for Abū Saʿd. Needs examination.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Long horizontal strip.

Letter addressed to a Muslim dignitary with many lines of titles (al-malikī al-kāmilī... al-zāhid...). In Arabic script. The sender seems to wish to purchase some property from him. Needs examination.