Letter by Abū Zikrī Kohen in Fusṭāṭ, sent to Alexandria, containing news about Aden.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 14 lines + marginalia (recto); 13 lines + marginalia (verso)
11 minute fragments (paper), of which two are parts of an order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, mentioning Abū l-Faraj (row 1, nos 2-3), and one is an unidentified fragment in Judaeo-Arabic (row 1, no. 1).
Recto: probably part of an Arabic document. Verso: order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking Abū l-Ḵayr to pay Abū l-Makārim.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 5 lines
Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār to pay out the price of the gypsum to the bearer of the note.Condition: torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār to pay the bearer of the note one dinar and a carat. Dated Adar 14[.]1 Seleucid era, probably 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: torn, holesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Covering note for a consignment sent from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Nathan b. Samuel.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār to pay to the leader (‘al-raʾīs’) 2 dinars. Circa 1141 CE.Condition: holesLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār to pay 10 dinars to the family of Rayḥān. Dated Sivan 1452 Seleucid era (= 1141 CE).Condition: holes, stainedLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Moses, trustee of the Yešiva.Condition: torn, slightly rubbed, stainedLayout: 3 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Order of payment written by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Ḵayr to pay money to the bearer of the note. Dated Tammuz 1451 Seleucid era (= 1140 CE). Verso: Arabic document.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 5 lines
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer, Abū l-Ṭayyib, 4 dinars and [...]. Dated Tišri 1453 (= 1141 CE).Condition: Torn, holes, stained, rubbedLayout: 6 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd 6 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 3 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Rīḥān 3 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī 2 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 5 dinars for wax (candles). Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū l-Makārim 5 dinars. Dated Av 14[51] (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 6 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the (אליודפיה) household 2 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 4 dinars and a half and an eighth of a dinar for grapes. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order to pay someone half a raṭl of soap, by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Verso: unidentified vocalised Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 6 lines (recto); 7 lines (verso)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen; instructing Abū l-Ḵiyyār to pay the carrier of the order the price of mercury.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to pay 6 raṭl and a sum of money to the elder Ḵalīl.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking the elder Ḵalīl to pay the bearer of the note one raṭl of [...].Condition: torn, holesLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār to pay Abū Manṣūr.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 3 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār to pay two dinars to the carrier of the note on the account of (?) the wife of Abū l-Makārim, dated Adar II, 1451 of the Seleucid Era (= 1140 CE); Coptic numerals.Condition: holes, faded, badly stainedLayout: 6 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: order to pay Abū l-Faraj 2 okkah of oxymel (sikanjabīn) and rose; signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Verso: Arabic and Hebrew jottings.Condition: torn, fadedLayout: 4 lines (recto); jottings (verso)
Recto: vocalised text in a crude hand. Verso: order of payment, mentioning a raṭl of olive oil, signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 9 lines (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Part a letter in the handwriting of Abū Zikrī Kohen, probably sent from Aden to India (ca. 1130/40 CE). The letter has been cut, leaving only the margins at the top and one side.Condition: Torn, stained, rubbedLayout: 10 lines (recto); marginalia (verso)
Recto: order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 2 dinars for an eighth of a measure of raisins. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). Verso: unidentified text in Arabic.Condition: HolesLayout: 4 lines (recto); 6 lines + marginalia (verso)
Recto: Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū l-Makārim 3 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). Verso: unidentified note.Condition: HolesLayout: 5 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer one and a quarter dinars for gum mastic. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay Abū Saʿid 5 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī 2 and a half dinars (and following that another) half dinar. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). A note at the upper left states ‘total of 3 dinars’.Condition: HolesLayout: 5 lines (recto); 1 line (verso)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay for grapes one dinar and one half and one third. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay one and a quarter dinars for gum mastic. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)