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Ledger of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: Late; the precise date must be written somewhere. 42 folios. Merits examination.

11 folios of writing exercises. The title page (BL OR 10128B.1) has a star of David with the name Eliyyahu Mosseri and the date 28 Adar 621 (perhaps 5621 AM = 1861 CE).

Needs examination (ASE).

Literary. Aramaic commentary on Song of Songs 8:7-8.

Manuscript copy of a printed work, copied out exactly in conformance with the formatting of the printed edition. The book is the Qaraite polemical work against Christianity called Ḥizzuq Emuna, by R. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham of Troki. This version was published in Amsterdam, 1705 CE. The book was originally published in אלטארף by Johann Christoph Wagenseil.

Yemeni diwan. 2 folios. Containing Shabazian poetry.

Judaeo-Arabic poetry. Dialogue between a youth and [...].

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Book of magical spells. In Hebrew. Some recipes attributed (erroneously) to Maimonides.

Poetry. Alternating verses in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Recipes. In Ladino and Hebrew. Some medical, some not. Some headed "secreto."

Forecasts. In Ladino. Foretelling the fortunes of the coming year based on the day of the week of the Copts' Feast of the Cross (ʿīd al-ṣalīb) (17 Thout).

Recipe against worms. In Hebrew. Late. Written in the margin of a literary text (commentary on Exodus).

Fragments of rhyming Hebrew lines.

Informal note from Abu ʿAlī, apparently accompanying the remainder of the 40 dirhems as the recipient had ordered.

Literary fragment. Cut into an acute triangle

Possibly too fragmentary to identify. Hebrew script.

Informal note from Yeshuʿa (or from a communal leader with the ʿalāma "Yeshuʿa"). In Judaeo-Arabic. It says that Abu Saʿīd should report to the court with his opponent without delay.

Literary. Small fragment.