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Minute fragment from the beginning of a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves [...] b. [...] ha-Nikhbad and Abū l-B[...].

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Letter addressed to Abū l-Khayr b. Nissim. Small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Not much is preserved beyond the opening salutations. The text in the margin mentions Tinnīs.

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Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. There is Hebrew text on verso in a different hand, but seems too faded to read.

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Bill of sale for a female slave. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Either the buyer or the seller is named [...] b. Shemarya. No other details preserved.

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Minute fragment from a legal deed (upper left corner) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves [...] al-Amshāṭī and [...] al-Barqī.

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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions Bāb Zuwayla in Cairo.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni hand. Mentions a farāsila of cumin and a qirsh (so Ottoman-era?). Mentions Sayyidī al-Nasab al-ʿAqīq Yosef.

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Accounts in Hebrew with a couple words in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century. Currency: peraḥim.

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Legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1088–1187 CE. Involves a man and woman and sustenance/alimony payments (mezonot).