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Letter - needs examination.
Fragment of a legal document - needs examination.
On recto ab Arabic account? On verso remains of an address of a letter sent to Sa'adya b. Halfon - needs examination.
A piyyut on recto. Fragment of an Arabic letter on verso - needs examination.
Petition. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The petitioner seems to be a female slave (and not just a figurative slave/mamlūka): "wa-tunhī al-mamlūka annahā jāriya kānat...." In the margin, it may say that "she is in the room of ʿAlī Ibn Zaf[fān or Zaffāt]."
Commercial text referring to names - needs examination. (info from FGP)
Arabic letter. On verso few words from a large calligraphic shivity (synagogue ornamental text) - needs examination.
Damaged legal document. On verso an Hebrew poem - needs examination.
Arabic letter - needs examination.
Letter in Ottoman Turkish. T-S NS 306.84 and T-S Ar.39.435 may be related, since both concern shipments of firewood (odun) and have the same script and formatting. (Information from Jane Hathaway.) Needs examination.
Commercial text referring to the sale of cheese - needs examination. (info from FGP)
Torn Arabic letter - needs examination.
Letter - needs examination.
Arabic: petition (recto); Judaeo-Arabic: letter (?) addressed to a woman (verso)- very damaged - needs examination. (info from FGP)
Account - needs examination.
Monograph; Saadia's formulary of legal documents - sections pertaining to divorce and halisah; published, with translation, by Ben-Sasson, 'Fragments from Saadya's Sefer Ha-Edut ve'Ha-Shetarot' in Shenaton Hamishpat Ha-Ivri. (info from FGP)
Monograph; recto: formulary of legal documents, including part of שטר הלואה, numbered ג(?) (info from FGP)
Bifolio with copies of letters addressed to dignitaries. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Damaged. The letters' addressees include: Shelomo the head of Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov (i.e., the father of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon). There is also reference to the Nagid, probably Moshe b. Mevorakh. On verso there is a copy of a letter to the Nasi. AA
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Ḥeshvan 1478 Seleucid, which is October 1166 CE, under the authority of the Gaon Netanel b. Moshe ha-Levi. (This is the latest known document to invoke the authority of Netanel, though he was still alive in 1169 CE, as we learn from Bodl. MS heb. a 3/6.) The merchant-banker Yehuda receives from the merchant-banker Tamīm b. Mevorakh a loan of 9 1/2 dinars. It is specified that 5 dinars are to be paid back and then the rest in monthly installments. Written by Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 239 and from Goitein's index card.)
Business letter from Musa b. Ishaq b. Hisda to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ibn Awkal. This letter is a response to a letter sent by the addressee. The sender blames a third party, Yosef al-Sabuni, for slandering him. He also sends an account and complains that he does not have enough money for processing (beating flax) and packaging his goods. (Information from Gil)