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)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay Makārim one and a half 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 Abū Makārim 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 Rīḥān 2 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 on account of the household of Amīn al-Dawlā 100 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 5 lines (recto); jotting (verso)
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Ḵayr Ḵiyyār, instructing him to pay Abū l-Faḍl 7 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).Condition: HolesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Ḥananel to ʿArūs b. Joseph concerning business matters, and mentioning commodities such as sal ammoniac.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines + marginalia (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Recto: letter from the uncle of Solomon b. Elijah’s wife, Abū l-Barakāt in Alexandria, to Solomon and his wife. The uncle takes exception to Solomon calling his wife ‘shameless’ and says that when he heard that Solomon had beat his wife, the family had threatened to intervene. However, afraid of gossip, the family had decided against an intervention. The dispute between Solomon and his wife was to do with a lack of housework on her part. Verso: accounts in Arabic and Hebrew script.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 38 lines (recto); 3 lines + accounts + jottings (verso)