Recto: geomantic designs consisting of series of horizontal dashes organised in groups of 4 lines each and laid out in two columns. At the end of the second column there are four lines in Ladino mentioning a Sabbatical year. Verso: jottings, including the name Abram.Condition: TornLayout: 4 lines + jottings (recto); jottings (verso)
Letter in Ladino to David Conforte from his son Samuel, which was then reused for a draft of a halakhic treatise on divorce.Condition: holesLayout: 23-46 lines + marginalia
Recto: probably a letter in Ladino. Verso: draft of the beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic note to Abū Saʿd b. Moses, expressing the writer’s desire to see him, followed by a short text concerning circumcision.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 15 lines (verso)
Leaf from a medical work in Hebrew with some vocabulary in Ladino, focussing on fevers, their different kinds and their treatment. The extant text describes the use of baths and of drinking medical potions.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly stainedLayout: 33 lines
Recto: three recipes of folk remedies, integrating magical elements. The ingredients include turpentine and organic foodstuffs like sardines. Drawn at the bottom of recto are magical characteres, the Tetragrammaton, pentagrams and the name of the angel Sama’el. Verso: scribal exercise with formulae for book endings, in which the scribe makes his writing-implement talk in the first person.Condition: Torn, rubbedLayout: 23 lines (recto); 4 lines + jottings (verso)
Commercial letter in Ladino, ca. 1834 CE, in Egypt. It concerns the dispatch of goods from Fusṭāṭ and mentions the ships Enrico e Maria and Francesca. A Magen David is drawn in the margin on verso. At the foot of verso is a list in three columns.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 40 lines (recto); 42 lines (verso)
Business letter from Judah Fariente to Judah Gatenio, dated Kislev 167 (= 5567) of the Era of Creation (= 1807 CE). Mentions people including Solomon Baruḵ, Abraham Crispin, Isaac de Quriel, Musṭafa and the writer’s wife Palonba.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 33 lines (recto; verso is blank)