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Karaite marriage contract. Fragment. Mentions a mill and the elder ʿAmram. Witnesses: Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq and [...] b. Ḥayyim.

Legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps from a court register. It looks like there are at least 4 different acknowledgments of debt. The dates are missing in some of the entries, but they all seem to be dated between Adar I and Adar II of 1459 Seleucid, which is 1148 CE. (1) Bū Saʿd will repay 0.5 dinars per month. (2) The brother-in-law of Ibn al-Shadīqī(?) owes 5 dinars + 1/3 dinar + 1/2 qirat. (3) Yiṣḥaq al-Maghribī owes the nephew of Abū Naṣr 10 (or 30?) dirhams. He will repay 3 dirhams a week. (4) The witnesses and the son of the cantor testify that Ibn al-Amshāṭī owes a certain amount. This entry appears to be quite long and involved, but is difficult to read due to the imprint of other text on top of it. The same fragment also contains a philosophical commentary on Genesis (same side as the legal documents) and a literary text on legal procedure (other side).

Letter of condolence from Eli ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Hesed ha-Tustari, Fustat, end of 1045 or beginning of 1046.

Literary text, on vellum. There is an ownership note mentioning Elʿazar b. Efrayim.

Seliḥot.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Abū l-Faḍl; ʿIzz al-Dīn; ʿUmar; Aḥmad; al-Ṣāyigh; Yūsuf. Possibly mentions pepper (filfil). Reused for Hebrew poetry/prayers.

One folio cut widthwise into two halves. Written by various Yemenite hands. As 3\1 One side (ab) of the folio, slightly missing from one edge. Part a: A short legal(?) document about the high price of grains in Ṣanʿāʾ. Deals particularly with the astrological causes of the famine in the year 194[.] Seleucid, which corresponds to a year in the range 1628–38 CE. Part b: Under the Title "מחזור ..", Jewish calendar prototypes: years coded מש"ה; הש"א. In a different hand, larger characters. AS 3\2 One side (cd) of the folio, probably its primary usage. A Commentary on an Unknown Talmudic Treatise on the Laws of Prohibited Marriage Originally two columns, one the subject and the other the commentary, each written by a different hand. The full width of the commentary column, and half of the subject column, are extant, missing from the bottom. (DK CATALOGUE)

A letter from Israel ha-Kohen b. Shemuel b. Ḥofni to Yaʿaqov b. Moshe. The writer announces his intention to write a Talmud commentary and recommends a letter bearer, Avraham b. Shelomo. The fragment is lost. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 181.)

Fragment of an opening to a letter to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal. The letter was written in Jerusalem. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #197) VMR

Perhaps a letter. Gotein's note reads in part, "Calligraphic (Torah script) to Yosef Rosh Kalla ve-Aluf (=Ibn ʿAwkal) [...] Thanks and שנתחדשה הצרה זאת. Scheiber, 488–89." The current shelfmark is most likely DK M75, which is not available on FGP.

Letter in rhymed Hebrew prose with Judaeo-Arabic at the end, from an unknown writer to a certain Yiṣḥaq ha-Sar. Image not available on FGP.