Recto: commercial letter. Verso: letter from Abraham b. David b. Suḡmār, ca. 1055 CE.Condition: Badly torn, holesLayout: 13 lines + marginalia (recto); 13 lines (verso)
Letter sent from Alexandria, in which the writer, Abraham b. Elʿazar the doctor, reports about the arrival of a ship from Marseilles containing queries from a distant country to Maimonides. He complains about a new imposition by the Sultan and the general poverty of the local community.Condition: Torn, slightly fadedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 21 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farraḥ to Nahray b. Nissim (c. July 1053 CE).Condition: holesLayout: 26 lines + marginalia (recto); 12 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farraḥ in Alexandria to Joseph b. Mūsā Taherti in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1050 CE).Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 28 lines + marginalia (recto); 20 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farrāḥ in Alexandria to Judah b. Moses b. Siḡmār (c. June 1066 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 29 lines + marginalia (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farrāḥ in Alexandria to a trader in Fusṭāṭ, c. 1056 CE.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 21 lines + marginalia (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farrāḥ in Alexandria to Isaac b. ʿEli al-Majjānī (c. 1050 CE).Condition: holesLayout: 12 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farrāḥ Iskandarānī to Nahray b. Nissim, concerning the arrival of ships from Sicily (c. 1055 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 15 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farrāḥ Iskandarānī to ʿAyyāš b. Ṣedaqa (c. 1050 CE). Accounts in the margin.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 5 lines + marginalia (verso)
Recto: draft of a Hebrew letter concerning consignments of money, charitable collections and the sending of books. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic letter from Abraham b. Hillel, introduced by 1 Samuel 25:6. It describes the arrival of a letter from ‘the son’ (probably the addressee’s) Moses ha-Kohen and sends congratulations on the opening of a perfumer’s shop, with jottings mentioning Manṣūr Ibn al-[...].Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines + marginalia (recto); 18 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Isaac in Fusṭāṭ to Ḥalfon b. Nathaniel in Alexandria (c. February 1140 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 22 lines + marginalia (recto); 20 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter by Abraham Av Bet Din b. Isaac Alluf, formerly a captive, requesting aid on behalf of his fellow captives Joshua b. ʿEli and David b. Samuel. Addressed to the leaders of the congregation. Early 11th century.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 38 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: letter to the dignitary Jacob in Alexandria from Abraham b. Isaac Ibn al-Zūlāfī in Palermo. The right margin has continuation of piyyuṭ from verso. Verso: piyyuṭ for Passover with many biblical quotations. Jottings in Arabic script at the top of the page.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 31 lines + marginalia (recto); 26 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Isaac al-Andalūsī in Jerusalem to Nahray b. Nissim in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1065 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Jacob, referring to Ramla. Prefaced with a Judaeo-Arabic basmalla.Condition: torn, stainedLayout: 14 lines (recto); 1 line (verso)
Letter from the head of the Alexandrian Jewish community (Abraham b. Jacob al-Darʿi) to the Nagid Mevoraḵ b. Saʿadya who appointed him, reporting on local affairs, especially the favourable treatment accorded the Jews by the new governor with regards to collecting the poll tax from the poor. Ca. 1100 CE.Condition: Slightly torn, fadedLayout: 40 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Recto: begging letter to Mevoraḵ b. Isaac from Abraham b. Jethro from Damascus. Verso: list of names, most of them bankers, including Abū l-Faḍl b. Ṣaḡīr, Abū Naṣr b. Abū Sulaymān and Abū ʿImrān Mūsā, the ḡulām of Ibn ʿAwkal, and a poem in praise of a merchant, followed by a dirge.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 38 lines + marginalia (recto); 36 lines, partly in 2 columns (verso)
Short letter from Abraham b. Nathan to an unknown recipient, acknowledging the receipt of cheese and a corresponding heqšer (certificate of kashrut), brought by Ṣedaqa b. Šemarya.Condition: holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 8 lines (recto; verso is blank)