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Legal document in Hebrew. 16th-century. Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Allāh the Qaraite, known as Fayrūz, attests that he owes Moshe Ḥazzān b. Yiṣḥaq(?) a certain sum of muayyadis/medins. He will pay one medin a week. Dotan Arad estimates the dating of this fragment as 16th-century in the edition that appears in his dissertation (p. 353).

Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Monday 2 Adar 5497 AM, which is 1737 CE. ʿEzra b. Eliyyahu Rofe Fayrūz acknowledges a debt of 31(?) golden fonduclis from Yosef Levi b. Naḥum Levi (or the grandson of Naḥum Levi?). This took place in the house of Moshe ha-Rofe b. Aharon Ẓaʿīr. There are no signatures and there are several corrections; probably a draft.

Qaraite marriage document (ketubba?). Attesting that the bride (Qamr bt. Moshe Levi b. Shelomo Levi Qayyim) and the groom agreed upon the conditions. ʿEzra b. Eliyyahu Rofe Fayrūz appears (the groom?), also known from Yevr.-Arab. II 1183.

Letter from Yefet Fayrūz, in Damascus, to Eliyyahu Fayrūz, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Catalogued as 18th century. Needs further examination.

Letter from Yeshaʿya Kohen, in Damascus, to his nephew Aharon Kohen, in Fustat/Cairo. (The writer is the paternal uncle of the addressee.) In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. The letter mainly consists of very flowery greetings. There is a second letter directly underneath the first, addressed to Gedalya Fayrūz, also consisting almost entirely of greetings. There are two versions of the same postscript in which David Nasi Rofe adds his greetings to all the aforementioned people.

Letter from Sulaymān al-Kohen, unknown location, to his mother and brothers Faraj Allāh, Yaʿaqov, and Yiṣḥaq, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Consists mainly of greetings. Many people are named.