c) Contract from Dhamar, near Bir ash-Sharif; Thursday, 20 Shevat 1999 Seleucid Era (1688) (last two numerals not quite clear). Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew. Paper, 145 X 79 (74 X 79), 15 lines. No text on verso. Only slightly damaged. Yemenite cursive script. Names of Ibrahim (ben) Sa c id Hagag, (?)'pBba nbwl- and "my son Yahya" mentioned. d) Maimonides, Mishne Tora, hilkhot gerushin XII, 1-6. One almost complete paper leaf, 174 x 118 (150 x 92) 19/20 lines. Yemenite mashait script, 17th cent. (?). Recto side headed with large letters : *i®r trap plB. This heading is preceded by the last four words of the preceding chapter. A small scrap of paper with text of the same MS, 87 X 31, belongs with this leaf. e) Maimonides, Mishne Tora, hilkhot tcPaniyot IV, 16 - V, 8 (fragment). One paper leaf, 208 X 138 (165 X 112), 29 lines. Yemenite mashait script, 17th cent. On the middle of recto in large letters ’sran p“iB. First words: ••• 'aim x"® mm mr na ’ibl Last words : *?B8® ini. f) Maimonides, Mishne Tora, hilkhot yesode ha-tora V, 11 - VI, 1 (fragment). One paper leaf glued onto the former binding of Hebr. 225 -1, 210 X 145 (180 X 125), 22 lines. Yemenite mashait script, 17th cent. The 21st line is a heading in large letters in black and red : •*m pIB First words:... a®n Vibn bbsa p® Dnnx anai am Last words: mampn m»®n p a® Taxan tbs] A small scrap of paper with text of the same MS, 123 X 31, belongs with this leaf. g) 1) Notes or short commentaries on the parashiyyot Ahare mot, Qedoshim, Emor and Be-har Sinai. One paper leaf, 121 x 151, damaged, 35 lines. Yemenite cursive script, 17th. cent. Many of the words have dots written over them *). 2) One leaf glued onto the former binding of Hebr. 225 -1, 210 X 146. The text, which is not written in the same hand as 1), is barely legible. 3) Three tiny scraps with text from the same MS as 1). *) The indication of scriptural quotations by dots may reflect an ancient practice, already in use by the Geonim (cp. Y. Kafih, ffamesh Megillot (Jerusalem 1962), p. vm; E. A. Adler, Ginze Mizrayim (Oxford 1897), p. 19).