List of names with Coptic numerals (perhaps contributors and their contributions).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 18 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
Accounts with Coptic numerals. Mentions various female and male names such as Faraj Allah, Bint al-Kātib Abū Šaʿra, Ibrahim Ḏabbāḥ (‘the butcher’), Isaac al-Faranjī and Joseph al-Faranjī.Condition: holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 16 lines (recto); 12 lines (verso)
Accounts; list of names such as Ḥusayn, Abū ʿUṯmān, Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd al-Ṣamad, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Joseph and Ibn Ḥusayn; with Coptic numerals.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 4-5 lines
Recto: 4 lines of Arabic at the top of the page comprise a bill for building material with Coptic numerals. Recto and verso: Psalms 92:1-93:5.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 13 lines + 4 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Notes on the calendar, written in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Samuel, with Coptic months and numbers, new moon times for seven months of the year 4940/575 (= 1179/1180 CE), and pen and ink trials.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 15 lines (recto); 18 lines + marginalia (verso)
Draft of an introduction to a work on the calendar describing among other things a method for putting together a Jewish calendar based on the idea that the calendar repeats exactly every 247 years. The introduction also announces two chapters on equinoxes and solstices (the tequfot): one easy and approximate and another precise but complicated. Recto also includes a calendar for 1180/1–1190/1 CE. Verso contains three additional texts: 1) calendar calculations for the years 1180/1-1182/3 CE, including Hijra dates written with Coptic numerals; 2) a mnemonic for the date when prayer for dew should be replaced with prayer for rain; 3) the end of the treatise on calendar by Josiah b. Mevoraḵ al-ʿĀqūlī based on the idea that the Jewish calendar repeats itself exactly every 247 years, copied here in a hand different from the rest of the texts.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 22 lines + marginalia (recto); various lines (verso)
Calendrical work on the calculation of the tequfa of Nisan. Mentions the 19-year cycle 261 (beginning in 1180-1 CE). Coptic numerals are written on the top and bottom of the fragment.Condition: faded, stainedLayout: 13 lines + marginalia
Recto: calendar providing the molad and the qeviʿa of each month, and giving the dates of holidays. Verso: account in Arabic script, using Coptic numerals. The account is marked as deleted by a set of vertical strokes through the columns.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 8-17 lines in 2 columns (verso)
F. 1: calendar for the 19-year cycle 259 (beginning in 1142-3 CE), giving for each year of the cycle the days of the week of the beginning of all months of the year, of holidays and fast days, and the date and time of the tequfot. F. 2: pen trials in Arabic script, pen trials in Hebrew script, and calculations in Coptic numerals.Condition: torn, rubbed, stainedLayout: 3-12 lines
Recto: jottings in Hebrew and Arabic. Verso: calendrical table with days of the week of the New Moon and holidays. Coptic numerals.Condition: slightly stainedLayout: 19 lines
Recto: work on calendar reckoning mentioning the maḥzorim, the moladot and the different kinds of Hebrew year; names of the months of the year and the numbers of their days in Ladino are written vertically on the leaf. There are also a few draft lines of some phrases contained in the petition that appears on verso, and a list of figures in the marginalia, as well as an endorsement of the petition that appears on verso. Verso: petition to Saladin from ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā, the Jew, a resident of Malīj, in the province of al-Ḡarbiyya, in the Delta. Ca. 564-589 AH (= 1169-1193 CE). ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā complains about the tax collectors, who forced him to leave his family and job and to work for them, and asks for the production of a rescript that would allow him to go back to his town and family. Arabic on recto: answer to the petition maintaining that since ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā had some experience as a tax collector, he could not avoid this service.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly stainedLayout: 21 lines + marginalia (recto); 46 lines + marginalia (verso)