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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, probably. Too faded to read.

Partnership agreement in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (active ca. 1180–1210). The parties are Abū Saʿīd and [Abū l-]Riḍā. On verso there are the remnants of a halakhic treatise or responsum in the same hand. AA

Four minute fragments from a letter in Judeo Arabic. Only few words survived on each piece. Fustat and Alexandria are mentioned on fol. 1. 13th century. AA

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small fragment (upper left corner). The paties are Abū l-Faraj and Ṣedaqa b. Berakhot. AA

Two minute fragments from the end of a legal deed. Signed by Yosef Hakohen b. Halfon. AA Hebrew and Judeo Arabic

Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.

Letter from the cantor [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to his maternal uncle Bū Ibrāhīm(?), in Shubrā Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dated: 1439 Seleucid = 1127/28 CE. The surviving text of the letter suggests that it is a letter of condolence, possibly upon the death of a woman (הגבירה). Mentions a cantor (al-ḥazzan al-sh[...]) and another cantor the son of Avraham ha-Kohen. AA. ASE.

Small fragment of a business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions [...] b. Jabbāra and a report that ʿAbdallāh traveled from Zanjbār/Zanzibar to Mirbāṭ. Few other specifics are preserved. AA. ASE.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains, "I suffer from this city and its inhabitants unspeakable suffering. May God for the sake of His great name see fit to deliver me from it speedily." He then reports that a man named R. Shemuel has arrived from the land of the Franks. Information in part from Friedman, Dictionary, p. 751 (ضجر).

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th century. Mentions a bill of divorce (possibly); a gentile; and some commodities and prices.

Order of payment. In Arabic script (one line) and Judaeo-Arabic (three lines). The addressee is to give the bearer a sum of money.

Two columns at 180 degrees to each other, one in Judaeo-Arabic and one in Arabic script. The Judaeo-Arabic column is a list of names.

Letter fragment (upper right corner). In Hebrew. Addressed to some dignitary: ha-Sar ha-Gadol Rabbenu.

Will, fragment. Preserves the middle part of the last 5 lines. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: The hand looks late, probably no earlier than 13th century. Mentions various items of real estate and also mentions something that will go to 'the orphans.'

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.

List of names with numbers. "The midwife/wet nurse (dāya)"; "The wife of Ḥabīb"; Simḥa; Eliyya; Tawfīq, etc. On verso there are additional jottings, including a novel take on the name Sulaymān, spelled שليمان. This might be Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Deed of sale, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very fragmentary. Describes the location of a property with reference to neighoring landmarks. Mentions Kātib al-Jaysh and Ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ.