Letter from Abraham b. Ḥalfon b. Naḥum in Ashkelon to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Ḥayyim (c. 1090 CE).Condition: holesLayout: 26 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Ṭahor (whose name is written at the top left-hand side of the letter) in Alexandria to ‘our lord Ḥananel’ ‘the great judge’ in Fusṭāṭ, for whom he had apparently sold clothing. Sulaymān b. Abū Naṣr is mentioned.Condition: torn, slightly fadedLayout: 19 lines + marginalia
Letter from Abraham he-Ḥaver b. Šabbetay (first half of 12th century), head of the Jewish community in Minyat Ziftā, to the Egyptian Nagid Moses b. Mevoraḵ, congratulating the recipient for his success in dealing with the Jew hater Šippeṣ, with a metaphorical reference to Haman and Mordechai. Regards are sent to the recipient’s sons, Mevoraḵ and Judah, and also to his mother, on behalf of the writer’s son.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 48 lines (recto), 6 lines (verso)
Recto: end of a piyyuṭ, acrostic שמ]ריה], and a poem for Purim by Abraham ibn Ezra, יום בהמן אף אל חרה ליהודים היתה אורה. Verso: piyyuṭ for Simḥat Tora,בקרוב עת אומן להסיעו מנשיה, and a second entitled בסיטה, beginning כל אשר חי ימות.Condition: stained, rubbedLayout: 16 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)
From a collection of poetic works by Abraham ibn Ezra, including a mi kamoḵa אל בפלא אשורנו בלבי, with a rubric ולה גירה and numbered 110, and an epistle written to Samuel b. Jāmiʿ, which is numbered 115 in the margin.Condition: Holes, rubbedLayout: P2: 18.3 x 13.2; 21 lines
Collection of liturgical poems: (a) [א]ליך קראת[י] with the acrostic אני פרחון (recto); (b) rešut beginning שדי אשר יקשיב לדל, by Saʿadya (verso); (c) the beginning of a third poem, שם אלי מנת גורלי, by Abraham ibn Ezra.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 16 lines (recto); 18 lines (verso)
Liturgical poems for Purim or for Parašat Zaḵor, including (a) part of אחשוק ולא אדע מקום עופר by Abraham ibn Ezra; (b) a poem headed אחרת אני ברוך חזק, which begins אם צר לעומתי; (c) a third poem, beginning lost, which includes the hemistich וברית שבת כלולה.Condition: holes, stainedLayout: 10–11 lines
Piyyuṭim: (a) ממכון שבתך עניני יה בערכי לך עתירה, with the acrostic משה בר [...], headed בשמך רחמ; (b) אם תאהב דרך אמת ללמוד by Abraham ibn Ezra; (c) ארץ מה לך עוד נבוכה by Abraham ibn Ezra; (d) שני זיתים נכרתים by Solomon ibn Gabirol.Condition: torn, stainedLayout: 10–17 lines
Letter dated 1560 CE, from Abraham Šolel in Jerusalem, to his brother-in-law in Egypt.Condition: tornLayout: 27 lines + marginalia (recto); 7 lines (verso)
Business letter to Mercado Caro and Simeon Fransis from Abraham Haman and Gabriel Ḥefez (חפז), dated 1797 CE.Condition: tornLayout: 31 lines + marginalia (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Letter from Abū Manṣūr b. Abū Saʿd to Abraham, sent to the Palestinian synagogue in Fusṭāṭ. Mentions, among others, Joseph b. Abū ʿImrān, Ezekiel the judge and Sitt Rayḥān.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 20 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Recto: letter from Abū Maymūn Yaʿqūb in Jerusalem to his son Abū ʿImrān in Fusṭāṭ, describing how he is bedridden after the death of another son and how he wishes to see him before his death. Verso: Arabic address to Abū ʿImrān.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Collection of recipes taken from works by Abū Maʿālī ibn Tammām, Ibn Al-Tilmīḏ, Dāwūd ibn Abī al-Bayān and Ibn Jumayʿ, dealing with illnesses of the stomach and the intestines.Condition: Torn, tiny holesLayout: 13 lines
Note to the teacher Nāsir, mentioning a certain Ibn [ʿAbd] al-Raḥmān and lists a number of goods in pounds (raṭl). Possibly sent by Abū Mūsā.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 16 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Abraham in Alexandria to Ḥalfon b. Nathaniel, discussing Judah ha-Levi. Dated 3rd Sivan (1141 CE).Layout: 16 lines (recto); 16 lines (verso)
Letter of Abū Naṣr b. Abraham to Abū Zikrī Judah b. Joseph ha-Kohen. Mentions a coral box, a leather flask and a turban as well as business transactions.Condition: torn, stained, rubbedLayout: 5 lines + marginalia (recto); 4 lines (verso)
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Abraham in Alexandria to Ḥalfon b. Nathaniel in Fusṭāṭ (c. October 1140 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 26 lines + marginalia (recto); 25 lines (verso)
Additional leaf of a letter, probably from Abū Naṣr b. Abraham of Alexandria, concerned with business matters and Sukkot greetings.Condition: holesLayout: 30 lines + marginalia (recto; verso is blank)
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Abraham informing the addressee that Judah ha-Levi set sail on Wednesday, the first day of Šavuʿot (= 1141 CE), after leaving him a letter for the Nagid Samuel b. Ḥananya, which accompanies this letter; dated 12th Sivan. Arabic on verso describes someone who went up to Cairo and met the leader of the community.Condition: torn, slightly rubbed, stainedLayout: 9 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Commercial letter of Abū Naṣr b. Abraham in Alexandria, sent to Cairo, dated 15th Tevet, reporting on prices of various goods (Iraqi silk is in great demand) and other matters in Alexandria. Greetings are sent to Abū l-Kaṯīr Ephraim, with the news that his wife and son are well and wishing divine punishment upon the person that had caused a rift between Ephraim and his son. Also mentions Abū l-Maḥāsin and Abū l-Surūr.Condition: Torn, holes, badly stained, rubbedLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 11 lines (verso)
Recto: begging letter from Abū Naṣr, ‘son of the doctor’, acknowledging receipt of letters from the addressee and from Abū l-Maʿālī. Verso: jottings in a crude hand in Arabic script.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 22 lines + marginalia (recto); 4 lines (verso)
Recto: note from Abū Riḍā to Abū Zikrī, acknowledging the receipt of the purse of Ibn ʿAlī and promising to send perfume with Ibn ʿAlī. Verso: draft of a Judaeo-Arabic letter and lines in Arabic script.Condition: holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 11 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Letter to Mevoraḵ b. Saʿadya from a poor widow of Abū Sarī, whose daughter had been married to Joseph b. [...] b. Qasqās (קסקאס) (who also died) asking him for help in her financial affairs. Mentions the name Abū Saʿd.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 20 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Letter from Abū Saʿd al-Maḡribī, possibly in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1060 CE).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Letter from Abū Saʿīd to his son, who had recently been ill, concerning the forwarding of responsa.Layout: 14 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Letter from Abū Saʿīd in Alexandria to his father in Fusṭāṭ, with greetings to Sayyid al-Ahl, Abū l-Faraj, Michael, the teacher Isaac, Sahlān, Mūsā b. Ḥassūn and their relatives.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 11 lines (verso)
Recto: note from al-šaykh Abū Saʿīd dealing with a monthly wage that partially consisted of an ounce of myrobalan, possibly for medicinal purposes. Verso: unidentified Arabic text, very fragmentary.Condition: TornLayout: 4 lines (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Letter to Abū l-Barakāt b. Yefet from ‘his brother’ Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-[...], sent via the perfumer’s market and Abū l-Faḵr Ibn al-Maššāṭī (the flax comber). Mentions the death of Abū Naṣr and his sister Zayn (who the writer apparently had hoped to marry), and refers to Alexandria, with greetings to various family members and individuals including Joseph and Abū Y[...] Ibn al-Sabbāk (the caster).Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines + marginalia (recto); 16 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Abzārī in the Maghreb to his brother Abū l-Barakāt in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1098 CE).Condition: torn, holesLayout: 16 lines (recto); 7 lines + jottings (verso)
Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Abzārī (?) to his mother, sent to Abū l-Barakāt. Also mentions Abū l-Munajjā. On verso are also jottings in a different ink.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 7 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines + jottings (verso)
Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. [...] in Palermo to Abū l-Barakāt b. [...] (known as Ṭāriq). The letter opens with biblical citations such as 1 Samuel 25:6, Psalms 121:7 and 121:8 (c. 1060 CE). Letter continues on verso where there is a writing exercise in Arabic script.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 7 lines (verso)
Letter concerning business matters written by Abū Surūr; addressed to ‘my master al-Kohen’, mentioning Abū Jacob Joseph and a certain Judah.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 10 lines (recto); 1 line (verso)
Title page and beginning of an introduction of a polemical treatise on the Karaite calendar by Abū Yaʿqūb Joseph b. Abraham al-Baṣīr, entitled Al-Kitāb ʿalā Aṣḥāb al-Iʿtidāl (“Book against the People of the Equinox”). According to the introduction, Joseph b. Abraham al-Baṣīr was moved to dictate this book when he saw that people incorrectly established the date of Passover because they relied on the equinox instead of the state of the barley crop.Condition: Torn, rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 11 lines (recto); 4 lines (verso)
Begging letter from the teacher Abū Yaʿqūb, asking for money for medication and sugar for his child. Verso: chancery document in Arabic script and Arabic jottings.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 26 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
letter from Abū Zikrī to Abū ʿAlī, detailing ophthalmological health problems, and mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan. Abū Zukrī is suffering from a cataract, which is impairing his vision and make him see ‘like a piece of marble’, and intense eye-pain. Verso: letter of reply to Abū Zikrī written around an Arabic document, which gives advice regarding health, suggesting eye-washes with a bucket of well-water, bloodletting, and that Abū Zikrī avoid consuming dairy products.Condition: Holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines + marginalia (recto); 26 lines + marginalia (verso)
Recto: copy of a letter and its reply by Abū Zikrī, followed by rhymed piyyuṭ headed פראגעה דאפעזה. Verso: jottings in Arabic script.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 33 lines (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Maḥrūz b. Jacob concerning business matters (c. 1136-49 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines + marginalia (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Letter by Abū Zikrī Kohen in Fusṭāṭ, sent to Alexandria, containing news about Aden.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 14 lines + marginalia (recto); 13 lines + marginalia (verso)
11 minute fragments (paper), of which two are parts of an order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, mentioning Abū l-Faraj (row 1, nos 2-3), and one is an unidentified fragment in Judaeo-Arabic (row 1, no. 1).