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)
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)
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 Faraḥ b. Joseph b. Faraḥ to Abū Saʿd Ḵalaf b. Sahl Sukarī. The two also corresponded in T-S 8J27.13 (ca. 1056 CE). In the empty space on verso accounts are written in a different hand - some with Arabic script and Coptic numerals.Condition: Slightly torn, holesLayout: 19 lines + marginalia (recto); various lines (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)
F. 2v: piyyuṭim by Judah ha-Levi, יחלץ לבבך ומועדך יחלי and אחלי יכונו לפני אל ארחי, with Judaeo-Arabic heading. The other folios contain a list of names in Arabic, including Muḥammad al-Maghribī b. Yaḥyā and Abū ʿAlī b. Abdallah; the nisba al-Ismāʾīlī occurs frequently. There are several Coptic numerals at the bottom of f. 1v.Condition: holesLayout: 5–27 lines
Commercial letter from Manṣūr ha-Kohen (possibly Manṣūr b. Sālim, stepbrother of Elijah the judge) to Elijah the judge.Condition: FadedLayout: 18 lines + marginalia (recto); 22 lines + marginalia (verso)