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Letter in Hebrew. Small fragment.

Letter fragment. In Hebrew.

Letter mentioning [Abū] Zikrī and illnesses. Small fragment. (Information in part from CUDL)

Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Cut diagonally across the text to make a rectangle. Mentions a dinar and a sixth, the price of the commodities, a request to send something to someone, an empty musk bag (nāfija fārigha) and half of something, and someone complaining of something.

Document, probably a letter, mentioning a judge and his paternal uncle Joseph, Abū l-Alā and several sums of dinars. (Information from CUDL)

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Large but very faded. The writer asks the addressee to have Abū l-ʿIzz write something; perhaps the copies whose price is mentioned two lines later. (Information from CUDL)

Letter to Nathaniel the Seventh (השביעי בחבורת ארץ צבי). (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. document. Verso: Hebrew text that looks like a legal document but might just be praising somebody - needs further examination. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter; unidentified (Information from CUDL). One side is piyyut. The other has only fragments of Hebrew words.

Original use: Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Formal and deferential, might be a state report or petition: من اهتمامها بذلك لا عد[متها . . . لاسارع الى قضاها . . . Secondary use: grammatical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic (handwriting of Hillel b. ʿEli?).

Fragment from the end of an 11th-century mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Either the sender or the scribe is named Abū l-Surūr, and he greets [...] b. Yehuda.

Small fragment. Bottom part of a letter signed by [... b.] Shlomo Head of the Yeshiva. Maybe Masliah Gaon is intended. AA

Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From the Jewish community of Ḥamāh (Hama, Syria). Seems to concern a communal controversy over ritual immersion ("...min amr al-ṭevila"). Mentions Rabbenu Yeḥiel (perhaps Yeḥiel the Frenchman, who was embroiled in ritual immersion politics in Jerusalem in the early 13th century; see the article of Roni Shweka, "And every day they make quarrels"). Also mentions a martyr who was killed in ʿAkko. Recto: unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, likely also a letter. Faded and damaged.

Unidentified, with biblical citations such as Psalms 137:6 and 41:6. On verso there are also formulae typical of letters. (Information from CUDL)

Form letter. Addressed to an important person, but the spots for the actual names have been left blank.

Recto: letter addressed to Moshe b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen, confirming the arrival of his letter. Verso: document in a different hand, stating the payment of several sums of money. (Information in part from CUDL)

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in large blocky letters. Mentions a certain Tamīm and a Torah scroll. The portion labeled 'recto' is the back of the letter, containing part of the address, referring to at least one cantor. After the address the phrase אמאנה מואדיה. (Information in part from CUDL)

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to be from a cantor to a notable, conveying how he prays on his behalf (compare CUL Or.1080 J27).

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely an 11th-century family and/or mercantile letter. There are congratulations for a bride (al-ʿarūsa).

Letter mentioning Saʿadya Peʾor ha-Soḥrim and the father of the addressee. Jottings on verso include Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)