Part of a legal ruling from Ramla, mid-11th century CE, in which the brothers Joseph and Nahum, sons of Yannay b. Nahum al-Baradānī the cantor, enlist the Sicilian judge Maṣlīaḥ b. Elijah, in a claim against Hillel b. Isaac.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 11 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Part of a power of attorney, from Ramla, dated to Sunday, 7th Elul 4825 (= 1065 CE), in which Hiba the Egyptian b. Israel ‘the lame’ authorises Abraham b. David al-Kafarmandī, to bring his wife al-Ḥasana b. Sahlān (known as Ibn Azjāj ‘the glazier’), from Fusṭāṭ to Ramla.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 12 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Power of attorney, in which the woman Malka b. David appoints Abraham b. Sulaymān (also referred to as Abraham b. Solomon), to act on her behalf in all her claims against her husband, Muḵtār b. Salāma the Damascene, who has been absent for over two years, and to seek a divorce in the event that he refuses to return to her immediately. Dated Friday, 7th Iyyar 4775 (= 1015 CE), from Ramla. Written and witnessed by Samuel b. Ṣemaḥ the cantor, also witnessed by Jacob b. Ḵayrān, Ḵalaf b. Israel, and Gaʾon Josiah ‘Head of the Yešiva of the Pride of Jacob’ (i.e. Josiah b. Aaron).Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 30 lines (recto); 6 lines (verso)
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)
Recto: geṭ in which Manasseh b. Samuel divorces his wife, Ḥusn bint Joseph. Dated Adar 4786 (= 1026 CE) in Ramla. Witnessed by Abraham he-Ḥaver b. Samuel the Third and Judah ha-Mumḥe b. Šilo. Verso: brief text in Arabic.Condition: rubbedLayout: 25 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Part of a Karaite ketubba for Jacob b. David al-Šulḥanī (groom) and Sayyida bat Wahb al-ʿArḍī (bride). Dated Wednesday, 10th Elul 1403 after the Babylonian Exile (= 1006 CE), in Ramla. The bride’s agent is Menaḥem b. Job al-Ḥalabī, and his appointment was witnessed by David b. Isaac ha-Kohen, the scribe, and Ḵalaf b. […]. The extensive trousseau list of the wealthy bride includes tunics, cushions, mattresses, boxes of ḥalanj wood, several buckets, and houses in Ramla, Ibn Ṣafar-Street, next to the house of Solomon b. [Ḥayyim]. Witnessed by Faraj b. Mevasser ha-Levi, Ṣemaḥ b. […], Ephraim b. Judah, Joseph b. […], and Jacob b. […].Condition: Torn, holes, stainedLayout: 15 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Part of a Karaite ketubba for Jacob b. David al-Šulḥanī (groom) and Sayyida bat Wahb al-ʿArḍī (bride). Dated Wednesday, 10th Elul 1403 after the Babylonian Exile (= 1006 CE), in Ramla. The bride’s agent is Menaḥem b. Job al-Ḥalabī, and his appointment was witnessed by David b. Isaac ha-Kohen, the scribe, and Ḵalaf b. […]. The extensive trousseau list of the wealthy bride includes tunics, cushions, mattresses, boxes of ḥalanj wood, several buckets, and houses in Ramla, Ibn Ṣafar-Street, next to the house of Solomon b. [Ḥayyim]. Witnessed by Faraj b. Mevasser ha-Levi, Ṣemaḥ b. […], Ephraim b. Judah, Joseph b. […], and Jacob b. […].Condition: Cut, torn, stainedLayout: 20 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Part of a Karaite ketubba for Jacob b. David al-Šulḥanī (groom) and Sayyida bat Wahb al-ʿArḍī (bride). Dated Wednesday, 10th Elul 1403 after the Babylonian Exile (= 1006 CE), in Ramla. The bride’s agent is Menaḥem b. Job al-Ḥalabī, and his appointment was witnessed by David b. Isaac ha-Kohen, the scribe, and Ḵalaf b. […]. The extensive trousseau list of the wealthy bride includes tunics, cushions, mattresses, boxes of ḥalanj wood, several buckets, and houses in Ramla, Ibn Ṣafar-Street, next to the house of Solomon b. [Ḥayyim]. Witnessed by Faraj b. Mevasser ha-Levi, Ṣemaḥ b. […], Ephraim b. Judah, Joseph b. […], and Jacob b. […].Condition: Torn, holes, stainedLayout: 17 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Ketubba for the remarriage of Sarwa bat Mevoraḵ and Marwān b. Ṭoviyya, dated Sunday 22nd Ṭevet 4812 (= 1052 CE) in Ramla. The couple were previously married to each other. As this ketubba is cancelled, it appears that the couple later divorced for a second time. The agent of the bride is Joseph ha-Levi b. Ḵalaf. Witnessed by Solomon ha-Kohen b. Yefet, Joseph ha-Levi b. Isaac, [ʿA]mram b. Mevasser, Yefet b. Mawhūb, Yešuʿa b. Isaac, Ḥasan b. Zechariah, and Joshua the cantor b. ʿEli he-Ḥaver, who also wrote the document. Verso: calculations and notations.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 19 lines (recto); 11 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 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)
Letter from Ḥasan b. Mu’ammal in Ramla to Abū Naṣr al-Aḥwal (the cross-eyed) in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1052 CE).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso)