Recto: letter from Judah b. Joseph b. al-Ḥanī al-Andalusi, in Jerusalem, to Abū Naṣr Faḍl al-Tustarī (i.e. Ḥesed b. Sahl Tustarī), in Fusṭāṭ. requesting to settle an account. Verso: bilingual address (in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic).Condition: HolesLayout: 25 lines (recto); 4 lines (verso)
Legal document from Jerusalem dated 417 according to ‘Pereq the lesser’ (= 1657 CE) concerning a disputed inheritance. Jacob Espadil (אישפדיל) made a statement before the court detailing how Kelaiah (כילייא), the wife of Isaac Obadiah, kept back some of the inheritance from her late sister Oro (אורו), widow of Solomon Pesante (פיזאנטי), which had been left to the orphan Judah (יאודה). Words have been deleted and additions made between the lines and in the left-hand margin.Condition: torn, fadedLayout: 11 lines + marginalia (recto; verso is blank)
Fragment from a deed of purchase, in which Mevasser the scribe b. Šela al-ʿAmtānī, and his wife Ḡāliyā (of Baniyas) b. Assalīmūn (of Dalāta, i.e. Dalūn), grant a right to Isaac b. Jacob he-Ḥaver, and his mother, Salma b. Yefet ha-Kohen (note use of a different ink, and perhaps a different hand, suggesting that originally a space was left and the mother’s name was added later), on account of a deposit being paid. Dated Thursday, 27th day of the month, 4805 (= 1045 CE), in Jerusalem. Witnessed by Elijah ha-Kohen, ‘fourth in the Academy, son of a Gaʾon’, and Solomon ‘the lesser, Head of the Yešiva of the Pride of Jacob’.Condition: torn, holes, fadedLayout: 23 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Power of attorney (שטר הרשאה) from Rachel the widow of Elʿazar Zussman to her son Moses Zussman. Dated Friday 2nd Eyar 5324 (= 1564 CE) in Jerusalem, and signed by Moses b. Jeremiah Samuel and Abraham Levi b. Moses the scribe.Condition: holesLayout: 18 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Deed of sale in which Sittūna bat Yefet sells of a quarter of two shops (probably in Ramla) to Abraham b. Nathan. Dated 4826 according to Creation (= 1066 CE). The deed is in the hand of Evyatar ha-Kohen b. Elijah Gaʾon, and although it was given in Jerusalem, it was validated in Fusṭāṭ. The validation on the second half of the page is in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. The validation mentions ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver b. Ezekiel ha-[...], Evyatar ha-Kohen [b. Eli]jah ha-Kohen Roš Yešiva, [Mevasser] b. Joseph, Jacob b. David, Isaac b. Yešuʿa, Hillel the Cantor b. ʿEli, Ezekiel the Cantor b. Solomon he-Ḥaver of the Sanhedrin, ʿEli he-Ḥaver b. ʿAmram, [Samuel] b. Isaac, ʿEli ha-Kohen ha-Parnas ha-Neʾeman b. Yaʿīš. Verso: a brief endorsement in Judaeo-Arabic.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 46 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Court record dealing with the distribution of the estate of Sulaymān the cantor ha-Ṣafidī between his son ʿAbd al-Kāfī (עבד אלכאפי) and Samuel ha-Levi b. Solomon ha-Levi, the representative of Elijah. The document refers to a previous deed of entitlement drawn up the previous year by ʿAbd al-Kāfī’s mother Ṣarifa (צריפה). There was some disagreement as to the division of the assets. A second column lists the items taken by ʿAbd al-Kāfī. Witnessed by Yešuʿa b. Quqari (קוקרי) and Aaron b. ʿAzuz b. Aaron the scribe. Dated Tišri 5293 (= 1533 CE) in Jerusalem, and issued in the court of the RaLBaH.Condition: Holes, slightly fadedLayout: 74-88 lines in 2 columns
Karaite ketubba for Sarwa bat Ṣedaqa b. Jarīr and Hezekiah b. Benjamin. Dated Friday 26 Ševaṭ, 1339 (= 1028 CE) in Jerusalem. The bride’s agent is Joseph b. Abraham ha-Kohen (appointment witnessed by Mevoraḵ b. David and Jacob b. Faḍlān). Witnessed by Solomon b. David ha-Kohen (who also write the document), Joshua b. ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Zīṭā, Nathan ha-Kohen b. Yeḥai, Joshua b. ʿAdiya ha-Kohen, Bišr b. Abraham ha-Levi, Nathan b. Nisan ha-Levi, ʿEli b. Muʿammar al-Šarābī, ʿUmar b. Joshua, Joseph b. Samuel, and Ṣedaqa b. Zechariah. This manuscript is unique in that it is the only known surviving Karaite marriage contract to have been written in Jerusalem.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 37 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter of ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel in Jerusalem to Allūn b. Yaʿīš Eli ha-Kohen b. Yaḥyā in Fusṭāṭ (ca. 1055 CE). Mentions Abū Zikrī he-Ḥaver (= Judah b. Saʿadya), Joshua he-Ḥaver, Abū Naṣr (son of ʿEli b. Ezekiel) and Sitt al-Ahl (according to Friedman one of the two wives of ʿEli ha-Kohen, according to Goitein one of his two daughters).Condition: rubbedLayout: 29 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Letter of ʿEli ha-Mumḥe (‘the Adept’) b. Abraham, Jerusalem, to Ephraim b. Šemarya, in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1045 CE), with the continuation and, inverted, the address on verso. Verso also contains Arabic jottings, part of which are written transversely across the page.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 12 lines (verso)
Upper half of a rhymed letter of thanks from Jerusalem to Fusṭāṭ, signed (in the continuation) by Solomon b. Judah and other prominent Jerusalemites.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 26 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter, written by Yoḥanan b. Solomon from Jerusalem to his cousin Šimʿon Aškenazi b. Yeḥiʾel in Cairo.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 13 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)