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Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Yefet's handwriting in this letter is better than usual. Refers to some seliḥot (cf. AIU VII.E.12). (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document mentioning a teacher, a sum of dinars and ‘the price of the garden’. The partial names [...] ha-Levi and [... b.] שאטי[..] are preserved. (Information from CUDL)
List of numerals, probably in relation to the calendar. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Both sides contain formulary for documents relating to the sale of a female slave (שחרורה... אלש]רוט אלמשתרטה פי ביע הדה אלגא[ריה...).
Legal document concerned with a woman and her financial claims in connection with her husband, apparently while he was travelling. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document concerning inheritance and mentioning Yeshuʿa. (Information from CUDL)
Official letter. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The hand may be known. Wide space between the lines. Addressed to a community, and containing a recommendation (or appointment?) for the bearer ("no one is to oppose him... representing us... honor him and respect him... he is deserving of all good deeds..."). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Very faded. Mentions sending something with 'al-zaqen.' Mentions 10 dirhams and 4 dirhams. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No signatures, and probably unfinished. It concerns the death of the trader Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen in Yemen (diyār al-Yaman), and presumably his estate. Mentions the local ruler (sulṭān tilka l-diyār). On verso, there is a document with list of names, such as Yefet, ʿAllūn and [...] Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer). (Information in part from CUDL)
List (accounts) with sums of dinars, with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: beginning of an Arabic letter. Verso: unidentified Hebrew script (possibly the address, the sender may be [...] b. Elishaʿ). (Information from CUDL)
Autograph letter from Maimonides to a judge. The addressee is asked to mediate between the bearer Abū l-Fakhr and his legal opponent Abū l-Maḥāsin. If he is unable to do that, he should at least make one of them take an oath that he has no property 'neither here nor anywhere else.' (Information from CUDL and Friedman, Dictionary, 75, 116–17, 141, 165.)
Leaves from a notebook with accounts, mentioning commodities such as pepper. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Much of the date is broken off, but mentions a number of names names such as Elʿazar, Abraham, Ibn Najā, Shemuʾel and Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information from CUDL)
List of houses and their owners. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper right corner is preserved, containing a few words from the opening and a sizeable text block from the right margin. Mentions 2 months... al-rayyis... a house. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter mentioning names, such as Abū Zikrī and Sulaymān, towns, such as ʿAydāb, and commodities, such as musk. In the address on verso Judah ha-Kohen and Maḥrūz b. Jacob are mentioned. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts listing expenses of אלזיתי. Mentions ‘the Christian’ al-Mubāshar and ‘the house of the judge’. Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Letter mentioning the servants (ghilmān) of the amīr, going to Caesarea, and a Ḥaver. Also mentions "I sent him back to the Morning Breeze Inn" (funduq rīḥ al-ṣabāḥ). (Information in part from CUDL)
Drafts of the beginning of a letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. Dating: Probably Ottoman-era. Includes the greeting "nawāfij al-misk bi-l-khitām" based on Quran 83:26 (cf. Yevr.-Arab. II 2362). (Information in part from CUDL)
