Legal document or letter with a witness statement in it, apparently written in Bilbays, under the authority of David Sar ha-Sarim, mentioning half of a house.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 10 lines (recto); 2 lines + marginalia (verso)
Testimony concerning a loan by Ṭahor Kohen b. Solomon known as Ibn al-Labbān to Mubārak ha-Kohen b. Solomon. Dated 1535 of the Seleucid Era (= 1224 CE) in Bilbays under the authority of Abraham Maimonides (b. Moses Maimonides). In the hand of Solomon b. Elijah.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 10 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Legal document from Bilbays concerning a settlement between Sulaymān and Nafīs b. Jacob and Dawūd b. Joseph regarding payments for wine left by the late Abū l-Waḥš b. Sulaymān. Dated Sivan 1564 of the Seleucid Era (= 1253 CE), and signed by Abraham b. Elʿazar and Yaḥyā b. Ṭahor ha-Levi.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 20 lines (recto); jottings (verso)
Two legal documents concerning the betrothal of a nine year old orphan girl. Recto: legal document dated Bilbays 1532 of the Seleucid Era (= 1221 CE). The maternal grandmother of the bride Sutayt refuses to provide the full dowry after the groom Abraham b. Yefet did not fulfil his financial promises stipulated in the engagement document on verso. Verso: the original betrothal deed, dated 1529 of the Seleucid Era (= 1218 CE). It is stipulated that the groom Abraham b. Yefet will marry the bride Sutayt three years later.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)
Recto: geṭ in which [...]el b. Šela (known as Abū l-Munā) b. Mahd[...] (from the city of Qūṣ) divorces his wife, Sadīda bint ʿŪḍ (from Fusṭāṭ). Dated Thursday, 18th Ševaṭ 5039 (= 1279 CE) in Bilbays (next to the land of Goshen). Witnessed by Samuel b. Peraḥya and Benjamin ha-Kohen b. Solomon. Verso: halakhic text in Judaeo-Arabic, written in a different hand, giving instructions for a garden.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 20 lines (recto); 27 lines (verso)
Recto: legal document from Bilbays, in which the widow Sitt al-Nuʿm bat [...] acknowledges receipt of her claims from her husband Moses (known as Mufaḍḍal) ha-Levi b. Samuel’s inheritance. Dated Elul 1515 (= 1204 CE), and signed by ʿUlla b. Samuel, Elʿazar b. Sar Šalom. Verso: Hebrew Bible; Leviticus 3:9-13; 3:6-9.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 27 lines (recto); 11 lines in two columns (verso)
Letter of recommendation by the muqaddam of Bilbays to Isaac b. Sason (the Cairene member of Maimonides’ court) concerning a widow and two orphans from Damascus. Refers to a similar letter received by him from Ascalon.Condition: torn, rubbedLayout: 16 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter from Daʾūd, the muqaddam of Bilbays, to Elijah the judge, reporting how he saved from confiscation the estate of an Alexandrian woman who died in Bilbays.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 28 lines + marginalia (recto); various lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Saʿadya (the Ḥaver from Hebron) in Bilbays to Moses ha-Kohen b. Ḡulayb in Fusṭāṭ.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Letter to the judge Elijah from an unknown writer in Bilbays.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 22 lines + marginalia (recto); 5 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter to the Nasi Solomon b. Yišay in Fusṭāṭ from his servant in Bilbays (c. 1240 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 20 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter from Umm Makīn in Bilbays to the judge Elijah (13th century).Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 22 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)