Letter from Abraham b. Samuel b. Hošaʿna the Third in Ramla to Abraham ha-Kohen b. Isaac b. Furāt (c. 1035 CE). Abraham b. Samuel asks Abraham b. Isaac to remove Abū ʿAlī b. Ayyūb from the environs of the synagogue. Abū ʿAlī had built himself a house near the miqve (ritual bath) and was growing vegetables on a plot of land owned by the synagogue.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: fragment from a power of attorney in which Abraham b. Isaac appoints Ephraim b. Moses the physician, to collect a debt owed to him by Yefet b. Ṯābit in Fusṭāṭ. Dated Thursday, 6th Marḥešvan 1368 (= 1056 CE), in Ramla. Witnessed by Ḥayyim he-Ḥaver b. Solomon, Joshua b. Abraham, Isaac b. Ezra, Yešuʿa ha-Kohen ha-Parnas b. Ṣedaqa, Solomon b. Jacob, and Boaz the cantor b. David. Following the signatures of the witnesses, all six signatures are validated in an attestation from the court of Daniel (b. ʿAzariah), ha-Nasi, Head of the Yešiva of the Pride of Jacob. It appears the power of attorney was written by a court scribe, while the attestation was written by Daniel himself. Verso: two unrelated lines in Arabic script.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 27 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Letter from Jacob b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī in Ramla to Nahray b. Nissim in Fusṭāṭ, describing the hardships of his journey at sea (c. 1060 CE).Condition: slightly rubbedLayout: 15 lines + marginalia (recto); 13 lines (verso)
Recto: treatise with citations such as BT Horayot 13b, BT Bava Meṣiʿa 107a, 2 Chronicles 33:10-13 and Deuteronomy 13:18. Verso: letter (including responsa) in Arabic script from Joseph b. Kulayb in Ramla to Nathan b. Abraham, probably in Tyre (c. May 1041 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 37 lines + marginalia (recto); 19 lines (verso)
Letter, mostly in rhymed prose, c. 1030 CE, written by Joseph ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver b. Solomon, Roš ha-Yešiva, in Jerusalem or Ramla, to Jacob he-Ḥaver b. Isaac Av Bet Din, the Jewish chief justice of Aleppo. The writer informs the recipient that, after a seven month search, ʿAṭiyya ha-Levi b. Judah, had been located and had given to Joseph ha-Kohen b. Jacob a bill of divorce to be delivered to his wife Jamīla bat Ṣadaqa, who resides in Aleppo. Both this letter and the confirmation that the divorce document is on its way are carried by Joseph b. Ḥusayn al-Musqī.Condition: holesLayout: 26 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Letter from Joshua he-Ḥaver b. ʿEli in Ramla, to Judah b. Saʿadya in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1060 CE).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 24 lines + marginalia (recto; verso is blank)
Letter to Abū Yūsuf Jacob b. Mūsā from Mubārak b. Ḥananya (?), concerning casualties and survivors of an earthquake, possibly in Ramla. Mentions people including Abū ʿImrān the doctor, Ibn Joseph, Ibn Hiba אלמטרי the butcher, and אבן אלמקידסי.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 18 lines + marginalia (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Letter from Solomon b. Judah to an unknown addressee, mentioning monies paid to the father of Abū l-Faraj. Dated 1033-1037 CE.Condition: tornLayout: 6 lines + marginalia (recto); 1 line (verso)
Letter, dated 1020 CE, written by the Gaʾon Solomon b. Judah, to Abraham he-Ḥaver b. Sahlān, regarding the troubles he had faced in Jerusalem, including earthquakes, which had prompted him to flee to Ramla. Solomon enumerates nine other letters that he had sent, including two carried by Ḵalaf b. Moses, a young man from the city of Tyre, two others addressed to Šemarya b. Yefet, regarding Isaac from Wadi al-Qurī, who had abandoned his family four years since and was living in Fusṭāṭ, and one delivered to Ephraim ha-Kohen, by Manasseh ha-Kohen. Greetings are sent to Abraham’s son Sahlān (note use of nickname ‘the straight one’, in a pun on his name), Abraham’s brother-in-law Saʿadya b. Ephraim, Mevasser, Obadiah and his son Joseph. Includes a brief list of perfumes and sweet odours in an allusion to the recipient’s trade as a perfumer; with allusions to Psalm 72:7, BT Beraḵot 6b, BT Šabbat 140b and BT Ḥullin 7b.Condition: holes, fadedLayout: 55 lines (recto); 26 lines (verso)
Letter from the Gaʾon Solomon b. Judah in Ramla to his son Abraham in Tyre to be forwarded to Damascus, dated Wednesday, 27th Tammuz 1344 (= June 1033 CE). Solomon writes that he is with his daughter, who has recently miscarried and is very ill. He has sent another copy of the letter with a Damascene Muslim in Abū Mūsā’s caravan.Condition: Slightly torn, holes, stained, rubbedLayout: 20 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Letter from Solomon b. Judah in Ramla to his son Abraham in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1029 CE).Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 32 lines + marginalia (recto); 31 lines (verso)
Letter from Solomon b. Ṣemaḥ in Ramla to the community of Fusṭāṭ, sending greetings to various groups within the Jewish congregations in Fusṭāṭ, and expressing thanks for financial help in securing the release of Jewish prisoners (c. December 1033 CE).Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 21 lines (recto; verso is blank)