Accounts, with names including Zakkay, Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Munā. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 11 lines + marginalia (recto; verso is blank)
Detailed accounts of a ritual slaughterer from Fusṭāṭ, specifying the various community officials and other persons to whom he had made payments of 7 dirhams weekly over a full year. Dated 1179 or 1183.Condition: Badly torn, holes, slightly fadedLayout: 44 lines + marginalia (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Collection of alchemical recipes divided in chapters (bāb), including recipes for the preparation of good silver, of salt of calx, on the preparation of lead, on the calcification of salt (recto), on the cleansing of tin, on the pulverisation of sulphur. Recipes on verso end with a benediction with the tetragrammaton written as ייי.Layout: 48 lines (recto); 32 lines (verso)
Translation (Saʿadya) of Deuteronomy 7:22-8:1; 8:5-11; Hebrew incipits. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 14 lines (recto); 13 lines (verso)
Translation (Saʿadya) of Deuteronomy 7:22-8:1 and 8:5-11; Hebrew incipits. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 4 lines (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Recto: 1 Kings 7:51-8:11, most of the hafṭara for Pequde (Exodus 38:21-40:38). The title כי אפטרה is written at the top of the extant leaf. Verso: question to the jurisconsult Šihāb al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Abū l-Fatḥ regarding liability for damaged property. The house of a Muslim had collapsed onto the house of a Jew, damaging walls, ceilings, timber, marble, columns and household vessels and pots. The question is followed by the legal opinion by al-Ṭūsī (possibly an autograph). Ca. 12th century.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 39 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)
F.1: calendrical reckoning for the years 1018—19 and 1019—20. F.2: legal documents. Recto: document, mentioning Abū Abraham Ismaʿīl b. Ṭalyon, Maḵlūf b. Mūsā and a large number of objects; dated Adar 1338 of the Seleucid Era (= 1027 CE). Below is a document concerning debts which Judah b. Ḥudayd owes Ḵalaf b. Sahl. Signed by Samuel ha-Kohen b. Avṭalyon and Aaron b. Isaac, and dated Kislev 1336 of the Seleucid Era (= 1024 CE). Verso: document from Fusṭāṭ concerning financial matters between Isaac b. Elijah, known as al-Qaš[...] and Samḥūn. Dated Nisan 1340 of the Seleucid Era (= 1029 CE), and signed by Abraham he-Ḥaver b. Sahlān, Samuel ha-Kohen Roš ha-Qahal b. Avṭalyon and Ṣedaqa b. Yaḥya. Below is an addendum, concerned with modalities if Isaac travels abroad; with the same three signatories.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 16-20 lines
Babylonian Talmud, ʿEruvin 2a-b (f. 2) and 11a–12a (f. 1). F. 2v contains three notes of purchase. The book was initially purchased by Menaḥem b. Samuel. The second note records that the book was bought by the Palestinian Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen in Kislev of the year 1448 of the Seleucid Era (= 1136 CE). This note is in the hand of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Manasseh and is signed by Nathan ha-Kohen b. Solomon ha-Kohen and Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Manasseh. The signature of Nathan b. Solomon is surrounded by small letters indicating the date of the sale. A third note, written in a third hand, records that the book was bought by Menaḥem b. Beraḵot from the estate of the gaʾon in 1457 of the Seleucid Era (= 1145 CE).Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, badly stainedLayout: 14–36 lines + marginalia
Last part of a Judaeo-Arabic Bible commentary, probably on the book of Joshua. According to the colophon, the commentary was copied in Fusṭāṭ. A date was added at the end of the colophon in a different hand but is no longer legible.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines (recto); 15 lines (verso)
Lower part of a leaf from a commentary to Babylonian Talmud, tractate Giṭṭin, citing Maimonides’ Mišna commentary, Rashi’s Talmudic commentary, and the commentary of Joseph b. Yahaboy (an 11th-century authority known from other Genizah fragments). The commentary deals with the different kinds of inks to be used when writing a bill of divorce (geṭ). The reference to Maimonides lacks the blessing for the dead after his name (given after the names of the other commentators), suggesting that the commentary was composed during Maimonides’ lifetime.Condition: Torn, holes.Layout: 14 lines