Letter from Abraham Maimonides to the judge Nissim in Alexandria, instructing him not to let Abū Manṣūr b. Abū l-Ḵayr, the tax-farmer of Sanhūr, re-marry before he has paid back his previous wife’s delayed bridal gift. In the hand of Solomon b. Elijah (13th century).Condition: holesLayout: 31 lines + marginalia (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Solomon, the Yemenite Rav, in Jerusalem to a notable called Yešuʿa (according to Motzkin 1970, 344 this is actually Elijah the judge). Verso has jottings in the hand of Solomon b. Elijah.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 18 lines (recto); 13 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter to Elijah the judge from Abraham b. Solomon the Yemenite, talking about his personal situation and the general circumstances in Palestine.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 28 lines + marginalia (recto); 11 lines (verso)
Recto: letter from the uncle of Solomon b. Elijah’s wife, Abū l-Barakāt in Alexandria, to Solomon and his wife. The uncle takes exception to Solomon calling his wife ‘shameless’ and says that when he heard that Solomon had beat his wife, the family had threatened to intervene. However, afraid of gossip, the family had decided against an intervention. The dispute between Solomon and his wife was to do with a lack of housework on her part. Verso: accounts in Arabic and Hebrew script.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 38 lines (recto); 3 lines + accounts + jottings (verso)
Recto: letter to Elijah the judge from Abū l-Barakāt in Alexandria, reporting the death of Rabbi Samuel. This is probably the same Abū l-Barakāt, uncle of Solomon b. Elijah’s wife, whose handwriting can be seen in T-S 13J8.23. Verso: prayer, starting אתה חונן לאדם דעת מלמד, asking for forgiveness from sin, and jottings giving the start of verses and mentioning the name Abū Naṣr b. Abū Qayn. 13th century.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 37 lines (recto); 13 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter to the judge Elijah from his wife’s nephew Abū l-Barakāt Ibn al-‘Aṭṭār (son of the perfumer).Condition: rubbedLayout: 31 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Letter to Umm Joseph, mother-in-law of Bayyān al-Buḵtaj (‘the cooked’?), inquiring after her health, from Abū l-Faraj. Elijah the judge, to whom the letter is sent, is asked to read it out to her. On verso is a list of people including Abū ʿAlī, Manṣūr b. Naqqād, Ḥusayn, Jacob, Joseph b. Solomon, Ṣedaqa b. Abū Naṣr, Sulaymān Ibn al-Parnas, etc.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 15 lines + marginalia (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Letter in which the husband and the paternal uncle Abū l-Faraj try to persuade the addressee, a woman in the city, to join her husband in a small countryside town. The letter includes some threats—such as the wife being left as an abandoned woman if she disobeys—and instructions on how she should go about the move. Mentions Abū l-Ḥajjāj Ibn al-Ṭabīb (son of the doctor) and ‘the judge’ (possibly Elijah b. Zechariah, as handwriting looks similar to Solomon b. Elijah, who may have acted as a scribe). C. 13th century.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 18 lines + marginalia (recto); 23 lines (verso)
Letter to the judge Elijah from his brother-in-law Abū l-Faḍl in Alexandria (13th century).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 23 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter from Abū l-Majd and his father Abū l-Faraj to Elijah the judge (13th century).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 33 lines + marginalia (recto); 31 lines (verso)
Letter from [Abū l-]Maʿānī in Alexandria to al-Mukarram, son of the Kohen Abū l-Baqā. He asks the addressee to thank the Nagid Abraham Maimonides for the appointment of the inspiring new teacher Abraham ha-Kohen the judge. Sent to the caravanserai al-Maḥallī.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 14 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)