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Accounts in Arabic script.
Official letter. Resembles T-S NS J602 and T-S NS J605, but it is not clear which of these (if any) come from the same original document.
Official letter addressed to the congregation of Minyat Zifta.
Letter addressed to "the two congregations." In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Moderately wide space between the lines. Almost all of the body is missing.
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged/faded. The addressee is evidently an important person, as recto consists mostly of poetical praises. The substance of the letter may begin halfway through verso. There may also be an address on verso (the name Yaʿaqov ha-Zaqen is legible - perhaps the father of the addressee?). There is also an undeciphered line in Arabic script underneath the address.
Circular letter from the office of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. This fragment preserves the last few lines of his genealogy and the first three lines of the letter, with huge spacing between the lines.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions somebody in Sūsa; Abū Zikrī al-Ṭabīb; a container of sal ammoniac; pepper; and Abū Saʿd (or Saʿīd) Maymūn b. Khalfa.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century. The beginning and ending are missing, along with a strip from the right side. Regards to Abū l-Ḥasan. The sender gives a message to pass on to somebody in Cairo. He mentions various business transactions and a sum of 86.5 dirhams. Mentions someone's in-law Ḥayyim.
Recto: Karaite calendar giving the dates of the new moon by observation for a portion of the year 1362 Seleucid (1050/51 CE). Edited by Gil in his book on the Tustaris. Cf. ENA 4010.35 + ENA 4196.15, a related calendar for the years 1045–48 CE. This fragment was reused for business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate record.)
Verso: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document. Lower right corner. Involves [...] al-Dīn, someone's wife Sitt al-Nās, the conditions in her ketubba, a quarter (of a house?), and Abū l-Faraj.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th or 14th century. Mentions Rabbenu David (may God bless him), followed by several lines expanding on the sender's desire to serve him.
Letter addressed to [Eliyyahu the Judge?] Ibn al-Rayyis al-Iskandarānī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper left corner is preserved. The sender says he or she "does not sleep at night" on account of preoccupation. The rest of the letter is quite obscure; mentions a boat in the last line. On verso there is also a list of names in Arabic script.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū l-Surūr and [M]anṣūr. Conveys condolences on the death of their mother. On verso are a few words in Arabic script.
Letter fragment from Abū Manṣūr, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the closing greetings are preserved.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late. Mentions a consul; France (פראנסה); R. Yaʿaqov; and the government (sulṭān).
Legal fragment. Betrothal (erusin) document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Surviving names include Yeshuʿa ha-Zaqen and Avraham.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.