End of a medical treatise regarding different kinds of food and drinks, their tastes and their influences on the body depending on the time and the amount. Studying this book is said to free one from the long-windedness of ‘quacksalvers’. According to the colophon (P2 f. 1v), the copy was prepared in Alexandria and the scribe wrote it for himself. The name of the scribe is deleted and the name of a new owner, Abraham b. Saʿadya, is added below the colophon.Condition: Holes, rubbedLayout: 8–15 lines
An ownership inscription of a book that belonged to Mevasser ha-Levi b. Yešuʿa ha-Levi. The book was then purchased by Nadiv b. Saʿadya ha-Levi in 1469 of the Seleucid Era (= 1157 CE) and later inherited by Solomon ha-Levi b. Samuel. In the top part of recto, three notes, written in two different hands and addressed to unidentified brothers(?), report in the name of the šayḵ Abū l-Ḵayr about what various people said or did. This includes Abū Manṣūr’s opinion about the addressees’ father, a report about the house of Al-Raḥbī, who do not observe the laws of purity (טומאה וטהרה), and about Abū Išḥāq and his relative by marriage. In the account of the house of Al-Raḥbī, names are mentioned such as Ibn al-Baṭṭāl, Al-Kohen, ʿUqaib, and Ibn al-Baradānī. Al-Raḥbī is said to have a son in Alexandria.Condition: Slightly stainedLayout: 24 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: a page from Samuel b. Ḥofni's Kitāb al-Šurūṭ (see also T-S Ar.49.51). Verso: a letter from Alexandria, written between the lines of an official Arabic documentLayout: 52 lines (recto); 72 lines (verso)
Legal document, in which Ṯāmira bat Abraham appoints Abraham b. Solomon as her agent for suing Hiba b. Bišr, debtor of her late father, since she and her minor sister were the only legal heirs. Dated Wednesday, 26th Adar II 4848 AM (= Spring 1088 CE), and mentions Alexandria. Written and signed by Mawhūb the cantor b. Aaron the cantor and Tamām b. Nissim; signatures: David ha-Nasi b. Daniel ha-Nasi; ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yaḥyā, Hillel the cantor b. ʿEli.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 31 lines (recto; verso is blank)
(Draft of a) legal document: one party renounces its right of preemption to another under the condition that the house, which harboured the Babylonian synagogue, situated in the Bīr Jabr quarter of Alexandria and contiguous with the house of a priest (qissīs), may be sold only to a Jew; mentioning Abū l-Maʿānī Ibn al-Masjūnī and the priest Makārim.Condition: torn, rubbed, stainedLayout: 16 lines
Heḵšer (certificate of kashrut) from Alexandria (No Amon), for Sicilian cheese belonging to (?) Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Karam b. Abū l-[...], dated 502[.] of the Era of Creation (= c. 1260 CE), and signed by Judah the teacher b. Aaron the doctor and Yefet b. Joseph the teacher.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 16 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter from Alexandria to the family of Yešuʿa b. Sahl in Fusṭāṭ. States that ‘if you saw your sister, you would not know her’ and mentions legal actions and that Umm ʿImrān sends greetings.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Recto: legal document in which Nuḥaym b. Maymūn and Ḵulayf b. Furaḥ Zibrij present themselves to court in the week after the death of Surūra, daughter of Nuḥaym and wife of Ḵulayf. Surūra’s sister, Sitt al-Dār, had previously been engaged to Ḵulayf b. Yešuʿa, and should now marry Ḵulayf b. Furaḥ in her sister’s place. The document includes testimonies by the cantor Sahl b. Moses, Naḥmān b. Ṣedaqa, Sarī b. Ḥayyim the teacher, Azhar b. Simeon, Mevasser b. Naḥum and others. Dated Sivan (4)802 of the Era of Creation (= 1042 CE). Verso: Joseph b. Sulaymān and Sahl b. Mūsā testify again, this time in Arabic script, on the conditionality of the betrothal, witnessed by Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Ḥamdūn.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 18 lines (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Deed of sale of a house in Alexandria, dated 1205 CE. Signed by Judah ha-Melammed b. Aaron the physician and Yefet b. Moses. Approved by Anatoli b. Joseph, Elijah b. Zechariah and Solomon b. Ḥalfon.Condition: Badly torn, fadedLayout: 21 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: dissolution of partnership between Joseph b. Josiah Ibn al-Ḏahabī and Ḵalaf b. ʿIzrūn. Dated Wednesday, August 15, 1077 CE, in Alexandria. Witnessed by Ḥalfon b. Abraham, Mawhūb [the cantor] b. Aaron the cantor, […] b. Jacob, […] b. ʿAmram ha-Levi and Šela b. Mevasser. Verso: a few words in Arabic script.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 31 lines (recto); jottings (verso)
Legal document containing testimony regarding a business dispute in Alexandria. Ḵalīf b. Joseph and Aaron ha-Kohen b. Hillel make statements to the court concerning transactions not completed between the late Abū l-Ḥasan and Ezekiel the shopkeeper and about 4 books sold. In the hand of Abraham b. Nathan, ca. 1100 CE.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 57 lines (recto; verso is blank)