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)
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: legal document stating that Abū l-Riḍāʾ received 25 dinar from אלרב (according to Fred Niessen Elʿazar al-Qaṣbī) for transactions dealing with 200 mann of sal ammoniac (nušādir), which is to be delivered in instalments. Dated 28th Muḥarram 547 (= May 1152 CE). Also mentions the witnesses Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī and another elder. Verso: another document relating to the one on recto, in which Abū l-Riḍāʾ received money from [...] the judge b. Jacob on the 18th of Iyyār. Also on verso accounts with Coptic numerals.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 11 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Order to a cheesemaker to hand over to the bearer of the note 2 1/2 (cheeses?, pounds?), quoting Deuteronomy 24:13; with Coptic numerals.Condition: slightly rubbedLayout: 6 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 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 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 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 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 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 (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 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 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 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 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 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 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)
The fragment is a palimpsest. The upper text consists, on the right-hand side of the leaf, of a children’s writing exercise of the alphabet with the various different Tiberian vowels signs. The left-hand side holds a list of substances in Judaeo-Arabic, including gum, sugar and other commodities, with some irregular spellings. It is possibly a portion of a medical prescription. Verso contains some pen trials in Hebrew. The under text on recto, written transversely in relation to the upper text, is in Bohairic Coptic, and is probably a liturgical text.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: upper text: 10 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso); under text: 26 lines (recto)
Recto: piyyuṭ in Hebrew. Verso: commodities with prices in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 14 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
Piyyuṭim in Hebrew with Judaeo-Arabic postscript; two names in Arabic with Coptic numerals.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 12-14 lines + marginalia
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