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Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the transactions related to a house originally belonging to the amīr Iftikhār al-Dawla Mubārak al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī. The final transaction recorded in this document may have been made around 1130. The first one could have occurred at the beginning of the century or even earlier. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 98, 99, 375)

4 fragments of a ketubah from 1107. The bride is Sitt al-Dar b. Yefet. The groom is Eli b. Yehezkel ha-Haver be-Sanhedrin Gedola. Contains also a dowry list. Signed by: Mevorakh b. Isaac, Isaac b. Ghalib, Efrayim b. Sasson, A[vraha]m b. Shabetay, Issac b. Shmuel, Elya b. Daniel, Israel b. Shlomo, Shemaryah Hakohen b. Natan, Yosef b. Isaac (his father name is only partly preserved), Halfo[n] b. Mevorakh (in a very crude hand with error in spelling חלפו בר מברך). AA

Recto: geṭ for [...] b. Menaḥem (husband), dated Iyar [...]3 in Egypt. Verso: witnessed receipt, signed by [Ḥalfon b.] Menashshe (1100-1138 CE), and […] b. Moses he-Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)

Part of a ketubba for [ ]שתדו (Sitt [...]) (bride). Only a few words are preserved. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe involving a bridegroom and his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl. After a temporary dissolution of the engagement, the prospective groom agrees that all future income from his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl, would be considered her property. Verso: Short document in Arabic script. Needs further examination. (Information from Goitein's note card and CUDL)

Part of a ketubba for [S]itt al-Sharaf (אלשרף). (Information from CUDL)

Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.

Fragment from a deed of partnership. (Information from CUDL)

Possibly a fragment from a bill of release, mentioning Ḥalfon, Yefet, and […] b. Yaʿir ha-Shofet. (Information from CUDL)

Collection of short responsa concerning nidda (a menstruating woman). On recto there are a few lines from Saʿadya Gaʾon’s treatise on prayers, with a colophon. (Information from CUDL)

Colophon to R. Saadya Gaon's commentary to one of the prayers (תפילת שמונה עשרה), written in Ashkelon in 1061. Verso: the beginning of R. Saadya Gaon's Arabic commentary to the same prayer. (Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, 327, Doc. #528). VMR

Part of a ketubba. No names are preserved. (Information from CUDL)

Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Qūṣ. Bride: Sitt al-Gharb bt. Yehuda. See description for MS 8254, fol. 15 (PGPID 32292) for the whole story.

Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.

Beginning formula of a legal document, dated Marḥeshvan 1440 (= 1128 CE) in Fusṭāṭ, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)

Letter from Shemuʾel b. Avraham to Efrayim b. Shemarya (ca. 1007–55 CE). Address on verso. (Information from CUDL)

Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shemuʾel b. Nathan, dated 1145 CE. One of the parties is Abū Saʿīd Nathan b. Shelomo (known as Ibn Shalom). (Information from CUDL)

Awaiting description - see Goitein's index card.

Letter regarding business from Mūsā b. Nissim b. Surrī to Abū ʿImrān. On verso another, unidentified text is written. May have been sent from Qayrawān, as the writer mentions Funduq al-Maṭmūrī, also known from T-S 13J25.1. Information in part from CUDL.

End of a legal document, signed by David b. Mevorakh, Abraham b. Caleb and others. Below is a colophon written by Elʿazar b. Joseph b. ʿAmram, also mentioning Yefet b. Ṭoviyya. (Information from CUDL)