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The text is badly damaged but one can read ʾišhād fulān ʾišhād fulān (l. 3)

Several words written in a thick pen a trial of the pen. Among others one reads the words šayʾ, ḍāʿaf Allāh

Legal query and responsum in Arabic script. The query is written in a tiny handwriting with a thin pen, begins with the words ʾallaḏī ... wa-yašhad bihi ʾaṭāla llāh baqā ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-qāḍī al-ʾaǧall. The responsum, written with thick pen, reads among other things qad ḫaraǧa ʾamrunā ʾilayhim bi-miṯl ḏālik wa qad taqaddamnā ʾilayhim ...

Pen trial consisting of three basmala

Arabic script. One part of it looks literary. There is also a string of titles addressing someone (al-qurashī . . . al-ajall); there are some drawings; and there is what looks like a signature in Arabic script.*

Legal document describing a gathering to assess the bride's dowry. Fragment, only the right half is preserved.(Provably written by Moshe b. Perahya, the muqaddam of Mahala an-Kubra. Seems to be written under the authority of David Maimuni. AA) Verso: List in Arabic script, perhaps an account.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Large and well-preserved.

Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq to Abū ʿImrān [...] and perhaps ultimately to the writer's son (li-waladī). In Judaeo-Arabic (for the letter) and Arabic script (for the address). The writer complains about his distance from his family and his financial straits and inquires about the well-being of his relatives, especially the old woman: "Has she recovered from the illness of her eyes? Has she started to make out things from a distance or from nearby?" Verso: Apart from the address of the letter on recto, there is a second letter, written in Arabic script. Perhaps the response. Needs further examination. ASE

Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Only one line and a couple words from the line below are preserved. "irtifāʿ mā. . . lā yadillu ʿalayhi. . . ʿabduhu." Reused for Hebrew literary text.

Recto: Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding division of a property; mentions Seʿadya, Maṣliaḥ and his brother, and ends with the phrase, "my wife is ne'emenet." Verso: A few words in Arabic script from the end of a much larger document.

Letter, probably. In Arabic script. It seems to be a first-person narration regarding a journey (anā wa-man maʿī. . . kharajtu. . . ilā qarīb al-ẓuhr). Needs examination.

Recto: Document in Judaeo-Arabic with two lines underneath in Arabic script. It may be an outline for the drawing up of a legal document, since it is headed "mā yuktab bi-ʿawn Allāh." R. Yeḥiel is mentioned. Verso: The page is filled with Arabic script and a few lines of Judaeo-ARabic. Needs examination.

Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

Mysterious document. In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Probably some kind of account. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century. Mentions days and time periods and people such as Sulaymān; Abū l-Faraj b. al-Sadīd b. al-Faqīh(?) Ibn Makkārī; ʿĪsā b. [...] al-Mutaṭabbib.

Recto: Letter. In Arabic script. Needs examination. Verso: Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded.

Document in Arabic script. Needs examination. On verso there is a literary text in Hebrew.

Fragment, wide margin on the left, two sides of commercial accounts.

Table in Arabic script, possibly an account.

Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥammād b. Hiba al-A[...] makes a declaration concerning the jahbadh of the diwan and a sum of 70 dinars. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 435 AH, which is 1043 CE. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic midrashic text on the 10 commandments.

Document in Arabic script. Difficult to read. On verso there are various jottings in Arabic script as well as the name ʿEli b. [...] written in Hebrew script.