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There are 3 items sharing this shelfmark:515/1: Formulary for a Qaraite ketubba. In Hebrew.515/2: Prayer for Moshe Firrouz. In Hebrew. 515/3: Several lines of jottings in Arabic script, on verso of a literary text in Hebrew on kashrut.

Book of legal formularies. In Aramaic and Hebrew.

There are 4 documents sharing this shelfmark. 538/1: Ownership notes for a copy of the legal code Aderet Eliyyahu by the Qaraite hakham Eliyyahu Bashyazi (d. 1490). There are also jottings in Latin script ("Mog Bog Moy Pan" etc.). 538/2: Non-Geniza. Catalogued as correspondence between לוצקי and the Qaraites of הליץ. The date 1751 appears in one of the letters. 538/3: Hebrew poem in honor of a certain Shelomo.538/4: Letter or letters in Ladino.

There are ~10 documents sharing this shelfmark. 546/9: Letter from the Qaraite community of Damascus (specifically Yosef ha-Kohen Khāṭir) to the Qaraite community of Fustat/Cairo (specifically Yaʿaqov Ṣāliḥ). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century.

A Karaite ketubah. The groom is Yosef b Aharon Hakohen. The bride is Esther.

Page from the Book of legal deeds by R. Nathan from Sijilmasa, parallel to p. 196-197 in the printed edition. Contains deed of release of a slave and Qiyyum (establishment) of a deed. AA

Legal fragment. Preserving the date 1441 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, and little else.

Diwan of Anatoly b. Yosef and epistles of Shemuel b. ʿEli. See S. M. Stern, "A Twelfth-century circle of Hebrew poets in Sicily: Anatoli ben Yosef the Judge and his friends," JJS 5 (1954): 60–79 (pp. 62-63, 65) and Simḥa Assaf, "קובץ של אגרות ר' שמואל בן עלי ובני דורו," Tarbiz 1 (1930), p. 112 and 3 (1932) p. 346.

Numerous pages of a handbook filled with someone's exercises for learning to write either Arabic or Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, probably Ottoman era. Of documentary interest in part because many of the writing exercises appear to be copies of actual letters. There are also many names of people and places, presumably in Cairo. Needs further examination.

Halakhic text on divorce. Late.

Colophon of a Bible donated by a Karaite woman in the name of her dead son.

Colophon a Bible by a Karaite

Karaite colophon dedicated to the Karaite Nasi Yehezqiyahu b. Shlomo

Colophon of a Karaite Bible from Jerusalem

Colophon of a Bible

Colophon of a Bible

A colophon on a Bible. Was first acquired by 'Azaryahu Hakohen. It was later sold to Abu al-Faraj Hibat Allah Nethanel b. Halfon, and later on passed to Abu al-Faraj Nissim b. Mevurakh. AA

Recto: Colophon stating that this copy of the 'ketuvim' has been checked completely without any errors. There is a brief disquisition on the canonical raised letters such as the ʿayin in Job 38:15. Underneath, the date of the checking of the manuscript is given as Heshvan 127[2] Seleucid = 4721 AM, which is 960 CE. Verso: Ownership/acquisition note dated Kislev 135[.] Seleucid, which gives the range 1038–48 CE.

Fragments of magnificent Hebrew calligraphy accompanied by a combative note from a scribe: "Furthermore, the wicked inhabitants of Mahdiyya(?) harass me in the work of God, seeking to deter me from writing. May God pursue them in His wrath. . ." It goes on in this vein. There are also much inferior pen trials on verso.

Legal document / ownership note for a codex of the Torah. Location: Baghdad. Dated: Friday, 13 Iyyar 1360 Seleucid, which is 1049 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The document attests that Eliezer ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Daniel Ibn al-Ṣulḥī sold this codex to Yaḥyā b. Seʿadya Ibn al-Ḥajawī for the price of 30 Imāmī dinars (i.e. from the caliph's mint). Witnessed by Yosef b. Aharon. There is a subsequent ownership note in the upper margin stating that Daniel Ibn Abī Yaʿqūb acquired the codex from the Yaḥyā b. Seʿadya mentioned in the original document. There are at least two further ownership notes, one of which mentions the Qaraites.