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Arabic medical treatise on digestion.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Various names are mentioned.

Arabic poetry of praise for somebody. Late.

Legal document in Arabic script, central portion of either a contract or a deed of sale. Dating: Likely Mamluk or Ottoman era. The name of the one of the parties is al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Karīm and the amount mentioned is 30,000 dirhams. Needs examination.

Narrative literary work in Arabic script.

Alchemical instructions in Arabic script. On one side of the paper, at 90 degrees, there is another undeciphered list in Arabic script.

11th-century legal documents (one document on recto and a later document on verso), contracts, or deeds of sale mentioning fuṣūl intiqāl with signatures of witnesses at the bottom. Names and signatures also follow on the verso which seems a later document. One of the signatures on the recto is dated 17th Rabīʿ al-Ākhar 433 H/19th December 1041.

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Poetry in Arabic script. Most lines are crossed out with a single horizontal line.

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Letter/petition for charity in Arabic script.

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)