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Letter addressed to a dignitary (מושב שרינו, verso l. 4). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is exceedingly faded. The largest block of still-preserved text, at the bottom of recto, includes the phrases "I assailed them (saṭawtu ʿalayhim) [and said to them], 'You seek evil things!' And we left..." Ends with the phrase וסלאמנא מעהו(?) יגדל נצח סלה ישע רב.

Accounts in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with some Romance words (e.g., grande) and possibly some words of Turkish or Persian origin. The commodities mentioned are mainly textiles/garments. Names mentioned include Eliʿezer al-Griego and Yosef b. ha-Ḥakham. Currencies include קרונה, גדיד, and פצה.

Document in Arabic script. Very faded. Needs examination.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Damietta.

Writing exercises, probably. In Ladino. (...פור איל קאמינו)

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded/fragmentary.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. On recto, presumably expenses, including for candelabras and possibly buzuqs (? bazāzīq). The price/quantity of every item on this list is a multiple of 24. On verso, a record of the income on a certain Shabbat, including an entry for "the sick" (al-marḍā).

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sephardi hand, probably late. Mentions the arrival of a ship. The sender is preoccupied about a lock.

Legal document. Involves Wahbān and Abū Isḥāq b. Yūsuf. The details of the case are probably too damaged to decipher.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Communal/official. Mentions al-jamāʿa al-maḥrūsa. Not much else is preserved.

Document in Italian. Probably accounts. Only a few damaged lines are preserved.

Letter addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. On recto, only pieces of two lines from the beginning are preserved.

Ketubba fragment. The groom's name is Nissim.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may known (there is a distinctive loopy אל). Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Names include Ibn al-Rūmī (l. 7) and Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yeshuʿa (penultimate line). Ends with a ḥasbala.

Letter in Ladino, probably. Needs examination.

Legal testimony. Very fragmentary. The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved.

Legal document(s). Fragment. Written across two columns (or two pages), so possibly a court register. The names Ṣāʿid and [...] b. Abū Naṣr appear. A sum of at least 2 dinars is mentioned in each column. The document on the right is dated the first third of Ḥeshvan, but the year is torn off.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals. Quite late.

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Late.

Bifolio from an account book. In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Many entries boxed and/or crossed out. The sums are fairly high (e.g. 44 dinars in one line). Mentions names such as Mūsā; Abū Sahl Menashshe; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū Naṣr al-Ṭaḥḥān; Abū Zikrī; Ḥusayn; and Ḥasan. T-S AS 201.82, T-S NS 83.18, and T-S NS 320.125 probably all come from the same ledger. ASE