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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: "...the brothers... in a great rage on account of... because the judge (shofeṭ)... all of the capitation taxes... prayers from the old woman... [greetings] to all under your care."

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Mentions Mūsā al-Ṣay[rafī?], Sayyidnā, "not sleeping at night," and Cairo. (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter mentioning the teacher Shemuʾel. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: letter. Verso: writing exercises. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: List of names in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL)

Fragment from a late letter in Hebrew

Letter mentioning Abū Saʿd. (Information from CUDL)

Probably a letter (only a few words are legible), apparently sent to Fusṭāṭ, mentioning al-Maḡribī and Abū [Ni]ssim (?). (Information from CUDL)

Letter to a judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he has sent a copy of a power of attorney (nuskhat al-wakāla) involving al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Nafīs [with?] Abū Isḥāq and instructed him to give it to the addressee. The addressee is now asked to show it to the judge Rabbi Yeḥiel (likely Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim, active 1213–33 CE) and look into it and help extricate the sender from some legal dispute. On verso there are also some legal formulae in Aramaic. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Letter. Minute fragment. On recto few words and some letter on the margins. On verso ישע רב and few words in Arabic. AA

Letter. (Information from CUDL)

Letter, apparently sent to Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL)

Probably a letter, possibly a draft, mentioning the elder Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Maʿālī. (Information from CUDL)

Letter. (Information from CUDL)

Letter from Salmān b. [...] to [Abū Sa]ʿīd Khallūf b. Zikrī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Dating: Probably first half of the 11th century, if the addressee is identical with the Khallūf b. Zikrī mentioned in T-S Ar.18(1).101, who is probably the Khallūf b. Zekharya who sent T-S 13J17.11. Mentions "the merchants and "from the Sultan and from the Wazīr." (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter. (Information from CUDL)

Recto: letter from Yaʿaqov b. Joseph b. Ismaʿīl al-Aṭrābulsī, in Ashkelon (ca. 1060 CE), concerning trade and sums of money owed by Abū Yaḥyā Nahray b. Nissim to the writer. Verso: Arabic address. (Information from CUDL)

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Discussing a woman who was possibly abandoned (dawwar/dawwir ḥawālayhā... wa-khallāha...). (Information in part from CUDL)

Letter mentioning Abū Isḥāq. (Information from CUDL)

Note of seven short lines written in the most beautiful oversized majuscules, but cut out of an old letter in Arabic script. The writer praises a banker, but mentions no names or facts. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 237)