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Late letter (or letters?) in Judaeo-Arabic from Ya'aqov Bibas.
Perhaps writing exercises using a late Judaeo-Arabic letter as the basis? Needs further examination.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter in Ladino.
List of names. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Some of the names include: Nissim Mosseri; Nissim Levi ʿAjamī; Bialobos ʿAfīfī; Zakito Gallico; David Mosseri; Avraham Palombo; Yosef Mir; Pesaḥ and Natan Levi; Merkato Ḥayyūn.
Letter from Yehoshuaʿ Azulay. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 17th–19th century. Currency: grossos (גרושש), a generic term for non-Ottoman silver coins. The letter mentions various business matters and people including Shelomo b. Shanji and Ḥayyim Nafūsī. Discusses the marriage of a certain Yiṣḥaq in the margin. Needs further examination.
Letter in Ladino.
Late accounts.
Fragment of a beautifully illuminated calendar (?).
Late accounts.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic by Moshe [...].
Letter from Yoshiyyahu the grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaon (Gil's identification). Dating: ca.1030 CE. Quite faded and damaged. Refers to correspondence with notables of Fustat and Palestine, including Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, and to the sender's profession as a copyist.
Renderings of modern amulets.
Modern writing exercises with corrections in purple ink.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Among the few shelfmarks in this folder that probably comes from the classical Genizah period. There is a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, some writing in Arabic, and several other blocks of writing (parts of the letter?) at different angles on both sides of the leaf. Needs further examination. ASE.
Mysterious fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions several names (Yehuda; [...]n al-ʿAmmānī; Abū ʿAbdallāh).
Legal fragment. Portions of 13 lines are preserved, but it's unclear if any details of the case or document type are preserved.
Ketubba, small fragment. The hand may be known. Looks 13th century.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves a deceased person named Bū l-Riḍā and someone named Elʿazar. There are at least two lines crossed out.