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Inventory of some kind. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very faded. Mentions the kohl that was with Abū l-Riḍā; if Abū l-Riḍā has arrived...; and Alexandria.
List of names, goods, and numbers. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions Abū Isḥāq; a white liḥāf; ʿAlī b. al-Qaṭāʾif, Abū Naṣr [...], Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Qamḥa, Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen.
Legal document. Small horizontal strip torn from the middle. Concerning a property and a period of years and an agreement reached by everyone. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi.
Bifolio of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe pertaining to the properties of the qodesh. Mostly has to do with real estate and mentions the ground rent (ḥikr).
Either a small fragment of a letter or a very short letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to graciously write something for the bearer.
Legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto: Something involving a woman and her father; profit; half of a house. Dated: Monday, 18 Ṭevet. Verso: Dāʾūd b. N[..] will have to pay [...] every week (unclear why). Dated: 1444 Seleucid, which is 1132/33 CE. If he is late, there will be a penalty owed to the ʿaniyyim.
Small fragment of a letter. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very damaged.
List in Arabic script. Unclear significance.
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. The text on verso seems to be the conclusion, sending regards to various people, including the sender's maternal aunt Jamāl, to cousins (bint ʿamm) Umm Yūsuf and Umm Barakāt, to Umm Bū l-Faḍl, and to Abū l-Ḥasan.
List of names. On parchment. Very discolored and faded. Mentions: Ṣafiyy al-Dawla; Hibatallāh; the cantor Yehuda b. Ḥasan; Sayyid al-Ahl al-ʿAṭṭār.
Either a letter or a literary text. In Judaeo-Arabic. Describing people being held under house arrest (tarsīm), the arrival of a war fleet (qaṭāʾiʿ, cf. T-S 13J19.29), the government, and the destruction of a country.
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Referring to a payment.
Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Very damaged. Mentions kohl.
Tiny fragment of a legal document. Mentions Karīm b. [...] and a house.
Text in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably technical/literary, but maybe a letter. Mentions the use of vitriol (zāj) in prescriptions and a certain year.
Short list of names (Zekharya, ..., Yeshuʿa, Elʿazar b. Sh[...], Aharon b. Hill[el], Yefet b. Shem[uel], Yosef b. H[...], Shemarya Hakohen
See PGPID 23866
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Resembles the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis (cf. T-S 12.654 and the related fragmented edited by Gil). Mentions [...] ha-Dayyan b. al-Neʾeman (ZL). It is difficult to make sense of the rest, but there is some conflict, an insult (נקצה וגהלה ועדם . . . ), and some learned quotations.
Damaged fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)