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Legal document in Arabic script. Includes a few lines of math/accounts. Dated 1239 AH, which is 1823/24 CE. Needs examination.

Legal document in Arabic script. Dated 1235 AH, which is 1819/20 CE.

Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 1243 AH, which is 1827/28 CE.

Court document. Financial settlement between a husband and his wife? All the parties are Jewish. Dated: 26 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1056 AH, which is 2 February 1647 CE. There is a stamp at the head of the document. The beginning of the document is framed as a letter written to a higher authority. On verso there is an additional note concerning the same case from the following month. Needs further examination; the document is very clearly written, and most of it should be legible. (Information in part from JRL catalogue.)

Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Date: Late, perhaps Ottoman-era. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script involving Nissim al-Yahūdī. Dated: 1240 AH = 1824/25 CE.

Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Looks late.

Order or receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Mentions the name Bū Naṣr b. Barakāt al-Maḥallī.

Formal document of some kind (receipt?). Mentions Ramaḍān 55[.] AH.

Possibly a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-Faraj and prayer(?).

Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragmentary (only the upper left corner is preserved). A portion of a date and several names are mentioned, including one Jewish judge (Dāʾūd b. [...] al-Yahūdī al-Dayyān). It appears that verso was not photographed.

Legal document of some kind. In Arabic script. Involving Ibrāhīm ʿAdda and Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAṭiyya. Needs examination.

Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Apparently nearly complete, with only the first few lines missing. Dated: Wednesday, [..] Rajab 1163 AH, which is approximately June 1750 CE. Aṣlān b. Yūsuf al-Yaḥūdī known as al-Dūka(?) rents a 'sitting hall' (al-qāʿa al-muʿallaqa) which is on the road of the seven halls (Darb al-Sabʿ Qāʿāt). The lessor is al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm the son of the late Muḥammad al-Janzūrī, who is the wakīl (agent/representative) of al-Ḥājj Shihāb al-Dimāṭī (or al-Dimyāṭī?). The period of the lease is 3 months. The signatures of the witnesses are written at 90 degrees in the right margin. On verso there is a filing note in Arabic script, summarizing the contents. (Information in part from JRL catalogue.)

Order of payment. In Arabic script. Bilāl al-[...] instructs Abū ʿAlī to pay the bearer 113(?) dirhams.

Order of payment in Arabic script with a Hebrew emet.

One side: Petition or letter in Arabic script. The other side: Portion of a legal document in Arabic script. Someone acknowledges a debt to someone (... wa-dhimmatī wa-khāliṣ [mālī]...) and mentions crops (al-ghullāt).

Receipt or order of payment for a teacher.

Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Contains part of the physical description of one of the parties (...wāḍiḥ al-jabha...). Verso: Probably records of receipts of payments, may or may not be related to recto.

Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Involves Nissim al-Yahūdī. A sum of 143 (riyals?) is mentioned, each riyal valued at 90 medins (niṣf fiḍḍa).

Legal or official document. In Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān 1240 AH, which is 1825 CE. (But note that the year 1241 appears at the bottom and the year 1242 on verso.) Appears to be a receipt for a sum collected 'from all of the households... from the heads of the (Jewish) sects in al-Maḥrūsa (Fustat/Cairo).' The name Yosef Gershon (يوصف قرشون/יוסף גירשון) appears, and he may be identified as the head of the Jewish sect (shaykh ṭāʾifat al-yahūd). There is a stamped seal at the bottom that may be legible. (Information in part from JRL catalogue.)