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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 24 Shevat 4846 AM, which is 1086 CE. Mentions a Peraḥya.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating possibly to the 16-19th centuries. The recto and verso account for payments "אל ווצל" across two sequential days of the same week where the days are clearly listed in each as Friday (recto) and Saturday (verso). The entries below each heading include names and perhaps itemized entries expressed in alphanumerical figures. MCD.

Literary text, in Hebrew

Jottings in Hebrew script. Maybe accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The word thawb appears.

List of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic where the object "עדה" is being expressed in various quantities of the unit of weight "ratl", here expressed in plural form as "ארטל". In each line of the list a different name is mentioned and their related quantities of "עדה" vary in alphanumerical figures that appear below each appearance of the word. The verso has been used for alphanumerical calculations. MCD.

See tag.

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 [...].

See joins.

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.