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Unidentified. Might be from a legal discussion of some sort.
The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the calendar controversy: that the Four Gates, a Babylonian algorithm, are inadequate because they do not cover all the days of the week, and that festivals should not be excessively postponed, as the Babylonians did in the years of the contro versy. It also rejects the Palestinian addition of 641 parts to the midday calendar limits.
Recto: letter, dated [.]3 of Kislev. Verso: unclear but probably the addressee. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment. Only few words
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably late, based on handwriting. Concerns some legal issues and contains a sharp rebuke against someone (the addressee?), including the line "we do not consent to your being a messenger, from your first actions the end was already clear." Also quotes Proverbs 26:11 ("As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly").
Arabic letter, possibly official correspondence based on the handwriting and the wide space between the lines. This is the upper right corner. It might contain only the opening blessings. On verso there is some Aramaic literary text.
A legal discussion? Very damaged, deals with monetary issues.
Minute fragment from a late legal deed regarding marriage. The bride's name is Sara.
Letter addressed to Shelomo b. al-Gazi(?). In Hebrew. Dating: Late, based on handwriting. This is a letter of recommendation for the bearer (המוביל), who is named Yosef Reʾuven, apparently a scholar and an orphan whose father is dead. Concerning something (a sum of money?) to be deposited or which is already deposited in Ṣefat (Safed).
Legal deed, minute fragment, very damaged.
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Concerning some communal and/or legal issue.
Recto: beginning of a very damaged legal deed. Verso: a list of births of sons.
Two fragments from the bottom part of a late bill of appointment
See PGP 22999
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic written in the margins of recto and on verso of a page of Rashi’s Talmud commentary (Ḥullin 118a–b). The commentary looks like it is written in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya hand (or the hand of his brother Shelomo), late 12th century or early 13th. AA
Fragment from a legal deed written by Hillel b. Eli (Dating: 1066-1108)
Recto: legal query in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Upper right corner, containing only the greetings for מרנו ורבנו א[. . .] הרב המוהבק הפטיש הח[זק]. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing zaʿtar(?), rosewater, camphor, and saffron. (Information in part from CUDL)
Late latter from a man to his brothers-in-law Aharon and Mordechai, contains mostly regards to various people. Most of the letter is faded.
Fragment from a late legal deed dealing with support for orphans. It was agreed that the shop belong to the deceased will be mortgaged for 4 years and this money will be used to support the orphans.
Fragment from the book of legal formulae, no. 23 (divorce deed). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.