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Type: Legal document
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Miniature receipt (cf. ENA NS 83.413). Includes the glyph, payer's name, date, and the sum written in words and in Greek/Coptic numerals. Possibly a registration squiggle at upper right.
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Mostly in Arabic script with a few words in Hebrew. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm is to give Eliyyahu the Judge 5 of something (dirhams?). Very similar to the order in T-S K25.240. Needs further examination.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Contains some typically legal phrases (mā yaswā shayʾ... mustawiya jamīʿ mā.... baʿd yamīnihī aʿnī... ʿalā... wa-jarā baynī wa-baynahū...)
Likely a legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions Yaʿqūb b. عنودا(?) the Christian (l. 4). Needs examination.
Several diminutive notes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals - receipts? orders? The notable feature is that they are pierced and threaded together, and the collectors and conservators (very unusually) have left the string in place, so we are now able to see how these items were originally stored. Needs examination for content.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Maybe a legal document on recto and accounts on verso. But needs examination.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Maybe a legal document on recto and records of payments on verso. But needs examination.
Fragment of a deed of sale in Arabic script. Mentions payments in installments starting the beginning of Ramaḍān.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Mamluk-era?
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Mentions the name [...] b. Abū ʿAlī b. Muqla(?) b. [...].
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right corner). Maḥfūẓ b. Isḥāq al-Isrāʾīlī makes a declaration in favor of Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-[...]. On verso there is a later note in Arabic script (begins with a basmala, and the word "ruqʿa" appears).
Legal document in Arabic script. Seems like a contract of depositing a sum of money for the duration of someone's travel. On verso, in a different hand, there is a medical recipe in Arabic script.
Legal document in Arabic script.
Small note in Arabic script. Order of payment or receipt? Begins with the glyph, and then a name (Bū l-ʿIzz?).
Order or receipt in Arabic script with Judaeo-Arabic annotations for 2 dinars for [...] Makkī(?) al-Khabbāz from Yehuda b. Yosef (presumably this is Abū Zikrī Kohen).
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) and a jeweler (al-jawharī)
Possibly a promissory note. In Arabic script. "I owe the shayh [...] X dinars... in the year...." Needs further examination.
Legal document concerning the rent of a qāʿa in Ḥārat Zuwayla. In Arabic script. Dating: ca. 16th–18th century. Involves Ibrāhīm b. Ḥūr al-Yahūdī and a qāḍī (Aḥīd al-Dīn al-Fūnawī(?)). The note on verso may be the receipt for the payment described in the document on recto. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has traced over every word.
Brief note in Arabic script. Beginning with the glyph. Likely an order of payment, but it is difficult to read a single word.
