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End of a legal query mentioning a ketubba. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh. Only formulaic content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document or statement integrated into the letter on verso. Verso: letter in a different hand, mentioning ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd [...] and Egyptian dinars. (Information from CUDL)

List of payments; contributors listed include Jacob, Shemuʾel (?), Faḍl, Mūsā, Ḥusayn, ʿAbdū l-Raḥīm, Joseph, ראיס and אדוננו; Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)

List, probably of tax or rent revenue. It describes the houses and apartments in a particular street darb al-Sadu[...], mentioning the house of the company of Abū l-Faḍāʾil, Ibn al-Qallād, Ḥus[ayn] b. Nathan, Umm Shām, the apartment of ʿAlī al-Labbān, apartments of Christians, the apartment of the silk trader (al-qazzāz), upper storey and lower storey of Bahrām and Sulaymān, the ‘big market’ and several shops (dukkān). On both sides of the leaf there is also unidentified Arabic script. F. 1v: in a different hand, list of ‘the business of our master’; with receipts from the Christian tax collector, expenditures and prices. (Information from CUDL)

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly consists of expressions of longing and greetings. The sender was happy at the news of the arrival of the addressee (referred to as "mālik al-riqq"). Mentions al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, the father of the addressee. (Information in part from CUDL.)

List or accounts. (Information from CUDL)

List mentioning a half dinar, several houses and Umm Fāris. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Fragment of a legal document, referring to transactions and mentioning Ibn al-Bayrūtī and ‘in the hand of Abū ʿAlī ha-Levi’. Verso: jottings. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: letter with another fragment of a document stuck to it; letter mentions [...] ha-Kohen ‘the wise judge’. Verso: jottings. (Information from CUDL)

Legal document mentioning a certain Nathan ha-Kohen, who bought dyed cloth from Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Joseph, a well known purveyor of purple from the end of the 11th century, and discovered while packing it that it was discoloured or unevenly dyed. Verso contains two names, Sitt al-Ahl bint Mūsā and (probably the writer) Hiba b. Faraḥ, also known as Ibn al-T[...]. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Lower part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender places an order worth 16 dirhams, including for 1/2 ounce of Iraqi copper sulfate (zinjār). There are also inquiries about prices. (Information in part from CUDL)

Verso: Upper part of a letter in Arabic script. Addressed to Abū Zikrī. Mentions Ibrāhīm al-Khandaqī(?). Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)

Bottom part of a letter addressed to "Sayyidnā." In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions [...] al-Maḥallī; Bū l-ʿIzz Yūsuf; [...] b. Mūsā; Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm; and [...]b b. Khalaf. The addressee is asked to order them "to come up every week/Friday with two or whatever is possible." (Information from CUDL)

Recto: letter, mentioning the Nasi Abū [...], Shemuʾel Ibn al-Dayyān and Abū Jacob Isaac. Verso: address in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic; directed to Ibn al-Bustānī al-Makḥūl Hiba Ibn al-[...]. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts, including debt and receipt of payment. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts with Arabic and European numerals. (Information from CUDL)

Accounts with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)

Beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Stating that the two representatives (nuwwāb) of the Gaʾon have fulfilled his order. (Information in part from CUDL)

Recto: tiny fragment from a legal document. Verso: unidentified. (Information from CUDL)