Official letter to Ḥalfon he-Ḥaver, signed by Abraham b. Šemaʿya he-Ḥaver, descendant of Šemaʿya Gaʾon, and Isaac b. Samuel ha-Sefardi, formally asking for a testimony concerning the purity of the wares of Beraḵot.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 11 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Part of a begging letter, c. 1025 CE, written by Abū l-Faraj al-Ḥaver, in Tiberias, to Abū l-Ṭayyib the cantor, in which Jewish lepers, who reside in Tiberias in order to seek treatment in its hot springs, describe their symptoms, including deafness, blindness and mutilations, and ask for financial assistance from the Jewish community in Fusṭāṭ. In the main text of the letter, and in the one line of Hebrew in the address on the verso, blank spaces remain in which to insert the name of the recipient and his father. The remaining two lines on the verso are the address in Judaeo-Arabic.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 12 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Responsum of Hai Gaʾon; discussion of the dietary laws in Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic; poem יודעי יגוני by Judah ha-Levi.Condition: badly torn, holes, badly rubbed, stainedLayout: 10-13 lines
Copies of a legal document from Hai Gaʾon’s court and of a letter from him to Elḥanan b. Šemarya.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 22 lines (recto); 23 lines (verso)