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Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Somebody (with a Greek name?) bought "the rest of Plato's Laws (nāmūsiyya)." A cane seller (bayyāʿ al-qaṣab) is mentioned. The writer's business is not immediately clear; needs further examination. There is a note in a different hand in which Naḥum Binyamin Shelomo agrees that he owes Eliyyahu Kaspi (perhaps the scribe of the accounts) 130 gerushim.

Query in Judeo-Arabic addressed to an unidentified legal authority concerning a husband's financial obligations towards his wife. The text mentions several objects including the wife's household effects and gold and silver jewelry, and the existence of three children. Undated. Recto is largely effaced and appears to be unrelated.

List of names from different families.

List of verses or piyyutim, probably.

Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judeo Arabic. The hand is typical to 13th century, and might be by Shlomo b. Elya (compare with TS NS 304.7). AA

Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late, perhaps Mamluk-era. Needs examination.

very faded, almost illegible.

Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Hebrew and Judeo Arabic. The writer inform about what has happened to our coreligionists in Fustat, but the letter is fragmentary and almost nothing survived. AA

Document or notes in Arabic script. Perhaps a draft of a letter or petition. Needs examination. On the other side there is Hebrew literary text. AA. ASE.

Fragmentary record of testimony from the 'Permanent Court' in Fustat dated Sivan 1367/May-June 1056.

Court proceedings (possibly in draft form) from January/February of 1182, involving Ibn Ibrahim and Abu Zikri b. Atiyya. The mention of 'lie' (line 6) and 'one of them threatened me' (right margin) suggests that the matter at hand was some sort of dispute. Regarding the use of qadh instead of qad in line 4 see J. Blau, Dictionary of Mediaeval Judaeo-Arabic Texts (Jerusalem: 2006), p. 535 as well as his Studies in Middle Arabic (Jerusalem: 1988), p. 212.

Verso of document (possibly a draft) of court proceedings from January/February of 1182.

Legal. Small fragment: very little content remains. In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Faḍl is mentioned.

Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Calendrical fragment? Gives the date of Rosh Hashana 1363 Seleucid = 4812 AM = 44[.] AH. All these refer to 1051 CE.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter fragment. Dating: Perhaps 16th century or later. Appears to be in Hebrew. Needs examination.

Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Verso might be a continuation; contains cryptic lists of numbers.

Late account, names and numbers. AA

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.