Accounts, with names including Zakkay, Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Munā. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 11 lines + marginalia (recto; verso is blank)
Accounts of Abraham Ibn Yijū in India, mentioning Maḍmūn b. Sālim, Joseph, and Ḵalaf b. Isaac.Condition: Badly torn, holes, stained, badly rubbedLayout: 20 lines (recto); 5 + 14 lines + marginalia (verso)
Accounts for a female business partner, possibly in the handwriting of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions a certain Abū ʿAmr.Condition: Torn, holes, stained, rubbedLayout: 7-9 lines + marginalia
Translation (Saʿadya) of Deuteronomy 7:22-8:1; 8:5-11; Hebrew incipits. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 14 lines (recto); 13 lines (verso)
Translation (Saʿadya) of Deuteronomy 7:22-8:1 and 8:5-11; Hebrew incipits. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 4 lines (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Notes on the calendar, written in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Samuel, with Coptic months and numbers, new moon times for seven months of the year 4940/575 (= 1179/1180 CE), and pen and ink trials.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 15 lines (recto); 18 lines + marginalia (verso)
Introduction to a treatise on the calendar by Josiah b. Mevoraḵ al-ʿĀqūlī, which claims that the Jewish calendar repeats itself exactly every 247 years. The introduction is followed by a critique of the 247-year cycle composed by Joseph b. Āraḥ (first half of the 12th century), copied in the hand of Joseph b. Jacob ha-Bavli.Condition: HolesLayout: 15-18 lines (f. 1r and 2v are blank)
Recto: calendrical treatise, dealing with the number of days in the different types of years of the Hebrew calendar and the length of the day in hours and parts (חלקים). Verso: petition to a Fatimid vizier regarding the repayment of a debt. The writer asks for help in dealing with the head of the arsenal, Abū l-Aʿsar, who is claiming the repayment of a debt the writer had never contracted. Dated to the middle of the 12th century.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 27 lines (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Recto: commentary in Judaeo-Arabic on Isaiah 29:8, in the hand of the judge Ḥananʾel b. Samuel. Verso: an unidentified Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic draft text (many deletions) in the same hand, written transversely in relation to the text on recto.Condition: tornLayout: 12 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Lower part of a leaf from a commentary to Babylonian Talmud, tractate Giṭṭin, citing Maimonides’ Mišna commentary, Rashi’s Talmudic commentary, and the commentary of Joseph b. Yahaboy (an 11th-century authority known from other Genizah fragments). The commentary deals with the different kinds of inks to be used when writing a bill of divorce (geṭ). The reference to Maimonides lacks the blessing for the dead after his name (given after the names of the other commentators), suggesting that the commentary was composed during Maimonides’ lifetime.Condition: Torn, holes.Layout: 14 lines
Recto: probably part of an Arabic document. Verso: order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking Abū l-Ḵayr to pay Abū l-Makārim.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 5 lines
Order of payment by David ha-Nasi to the three communal officials, Maḥfūẓ, Sālim and Abū ʿAlī, to pay out a quarter dinar to the foster sons of al-Afḍal (according to Goitein’s card index; however, al-afḍal could also just be part of the honorific title).Condition: torn, holesLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)