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Part of a letter explaining various talmudic sources and referring to a collection of responsa(?) which the recipient had sent to אדוננו שר השרים יחי לעד. (Information from CUDL)

Responsum concerning a problematic partnership, with an excursus on valid and invalid partnerships. (Information from CUDL)

Deed regarding the endowment of a small house in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the Babylonian synagogue. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from CUDL)

Maimonides’ epitome of Galen’s περὶ τῶν πεπονθότων τόπων (De locis affectis), from the second and third treatises, in Judaeo-Arabic, in Maimonides’ own hand. On the margin of P1 f.2v there is an example of Maimonides’ Arabic handwriting. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni’s Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Deuteronomy 11:26f. Verso: Arabic jottings, possibly a maxim or poetry; the lower text block is a copy of the upper text block. (Information in part from CUDL)

F. 2v: Jottings in Hebrew script and Arabic script (e.g., "qāla mawlānā al-ḥakīm al-fāḍīl ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ṭarḥān(?)... qāla mawlānā al-ḥakīm al-fāḍīl ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. ʿUmar b. Ṭarḥān...."). On the remaining pages there is a commentary on 1 Shemuʾel 1:22-24. (Information in part from CUDL)

Petition to a Fatimid vizier regarding the repayment of a debt. The petitioner asks for help in dealing with the head of the arsenal, Abū l-Aʿsar, who is claiming the repayment of a debt that the petitioner had never contracted. Dating: middle of the 12th century. On verso there is a calendrical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic, dealing with the number of days in the different types of years of the Hebrew calendar and the length of the day in hours and parts (חלקים). (Information from Khan and CUDL.)

Response to the endorsement of a petition by two men, one of whom is Ibrāhīm, son of the illustrious judge. The case is referred to the office of the chamber of al-Ẓāfir. Dating: Middle of the 12th century. (Information from CUDL)

Verso: order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 2 dinars for an eighth of a measure of raisins. Dated: Av 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE.

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 4 dinars and a half and an eighth of a dinar in cash (ʿayn) for grapes. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū l-Makārim 5 dinars. Dated Av 14[51] (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī, in cash, 2 and a half dinars (and following that another) half dinar. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). A note at the upper left states ‘total of 3 dinars’. (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay for grapes one dinar and one half and one third in cash. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay Abū Saʿid 5 dinars in cash. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay Rīḥān 2 dinars in cash. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay one and a quarter dinars for gum mastic. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay Makārim one and a half dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū Makārim 3 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay on account of the household of Amīn al-Dawlā 100 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū l-Makārim 3 dinars. Dated: Av 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE. On verso there is a note in Arabic script which is simply Abū Zikrī's name (Abū Zikrī b. Yūsuf). (Information from CUDL)