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State document that begins "waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr."

Accounts in Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Each entry is headed with a day of the week.

Three lists of contributors, the first for the lighting (in the synagogue) with wax candles. Mostly in Arabic script. See Goitein's note cards and Med Soc III, 492–93.

Recto: Document in Arabic script. Dated, but the date is difficult to read. List of crops (qamḥ, shaʿīr, fūl, others) and quantities. Headed with a paragraph naming Abū ʿAmmār(?) b. ʿAbd al-Ghaniyy(?) b. Ismāʿīl and mentioning the dīwān. Likely state/tax related. On verso there are Hebrew piyyutim. Needs further examination.

Recto: A few words in giant, calligraphic Arabic script: mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl. . . . Verso: Rhymed Hebrew maxims about the months of the years, including Tammuz, Sivan, and Av (the last, roughly translated, "in like a lion, out like a lamb").

State document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text. In the hand of ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel?

Document in Arabic script. The ends of two lines are preserved. Wide space between the lines, possibly a state document. On verso there is Hebrew and Aramaic literary text.

Two lines of Arabic script on a bifolium containing Hebrew literary text. Not much of the Arabic is legible apart from the name Ṣadaqa b. al-Shaykh [...] wa-l-salām.

Document in Arabic script. Possibly describing the locations of different properties. Several names appear in the list: Taqiyy al-Dīn. . . [...] al-Naṣrānī. . . Ṣāfī. . . al-rayyis Najā. . . Aḥmad al-Qashshāsh b. ʿAbd al-Malik. Reused for Hebrew literary text.

A fiscal document, one of several state documents recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, active in Jerusalem, d. ca. 1055, social services officer (parnas) of the Jerusalem Rabbanite community, a correspondent of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Other of his recycled texts include T-S NS 109.34, T-S NS 110.6, T-S NS 199.154, T-S NS 277.168, BL Or. 5557B.19, T-S 8H22.18, T-S H5.11, T-S H7.25, T-S K6.33, T-S Misc. 10.32, T-S NS 109.34, Moss. IV,383.1. Signed documents in his name: T-S 13J36.6, writing from Ramla to Eli ha-Kohen b. Yahya, before 1071 (the head of the yeshiva is referred to as still residing in Jerusalem); T-S 10J29.5, a letter from Jerusalem; see Goitein for five letters of Eli I ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel sent through ʿUmar b. Yusuf and son(s) to a postal agency in Old Cairo, called three times "al-Ḥusayn b. Ṭāhir," and twice "Najāʾ b. al-Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī and Tamim b. Najāʾ"

State document in Arabic script. Likely a fiscal account There is a ḥamdala and a ṣalwala at the bottom. Reused for Hebrew literary text.

Document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text. Needs examination.

Fragment in Arabic script. Only the beginning of one line is preserved. Reused for Hebrew literary text.

Report from a Fatimid official. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 495 AH (August–Sept 1102) — but this reading might be incorrect. Talks about the cutting off of the roads. From 1102 to 1107 there was a Fatimid campaign out of Ascalon against the crusaders.

Document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic liturgical text. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script. Accounts?

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

Family letter in Arabic script. The writer mentions visiting Ḥamā (kunt batnazzal ilā Ḥamā); reports that he/she now has three daughters; sends regards to a brother and conveys Ḥamāma's regards as well. On verso there is a ṣiduq ha-din in Hebrew. Dating: The handwriting looks late, perhaps no earlier than 14th century

Decree fragment. One fragmentary line and the top of another. Illā 'adda afṣadda al-in[ ]. Reused for the Hebrew script document on recto--a fragment of ten lines.