Recto: Genesis 40:8-13. Verso: legal document regarding the welfare of orphans and mentioning Cairo. Witnessed by Judah b. Ṭoviyyahu (who may be the same individual who signs other 12th-13th century documents such as T-S 13J3.23), Ṭāhir b. David, and ʿAmram b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 14 lines
ff. 1r-2.r: unidentified document in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the Harem of Muḥammad ʿĀli in the Citadel of Cairo, and a certain Jamīla. Some of the phrases on f. 1v are repeated on f. 2r. On f. 1r there are Judaeo-Arabic pen trials in the hand of the writer of the letter found on f. 2v. Fol. 2v is a letter in Hebrew written in a different hand, mentioning a certain Zuntanai and Joseph Pinto.Condition: torn, stainedLayout: various lines
Legal query concerning the shop of Abū l-Munā b. Ḥayyi[m], also mentioning Cairo (al-Qāhira).Condition: badly torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 17 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Legal document, dated 1770 of the Seleucid Era (= 1459 CE) and written in Cairo, mentioning ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Muḥāsin and [...] b. ʿŪḍ.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 17 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Legal document from Cairo, dated Friday, 27th Sivan, 1817 of the Seleucid Era (= 1506 CE).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Legal document; dated ‘on Thursday the 21th Tammuz 1443 (= 1132 CE) in al-Muʿizziyya (Cairo) at the seat of the Nagid’. It relates to a legal dispute involving Abū Zikrī al-Kohen and a certain Mordechai over 30 dinars; also mentions Abū [...] Ḵallūf, Sabīl al-Dīn and and Alexandria.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 10 lines (recto); 11 lines (verso)
Legal document concerning the inventory of a shop belonging to Elʿazar b. Āraḥ Ibn al-Šammāʿ and his brother Abraham, estimated at 11 and a half dirhams. Dated Cairo, Av 1419 of the Seleucid Era (= 1108 CE), and signed by Abraham b. Ḥalfon b. Abraham and Isaac b. Abraham.Condition: holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 20 lines (recto; verso is blank)
F. 2r: court record regarding claims between Abraham ha-Levi b. Ṭoviyya and Abū l-Faraj b. Maʿmar. Also mentions Ibn al-Ḏahabī, Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭībān. Signed by Abraham b. Nathan Av Bet Din and Ḥalfon b. Joseph. Dated 1420 of the Seleucid Era (= 1109 CE). F. 2v: Milāḥ bat Ephraim ha-Levi Roš ha-Qahal, wife of Šašon b. Yefet, sells a number of dowry objects to pay for the repairs of a house in the Ḵandaq quarter of Cairo and to buy bees. Signed by Abraham b. Nathan Av Bet Din and Ḥalfon b. Joseph. Dated Elul 1421 of the Seleucid Era (= 1110 CE). F. 1r: agreement between Ṣedaqa ha-Levi b. Mešullam and Maʿālī b. Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Hawārī for when Ṣedaqa had stood as guarantor for Ḥusayn al-Ḥammāmī b. Makkī; dated Tammuz 1421 of the Seleucid Era (= 1110 CE). F. 1v: betrothal deed from Cairo between Joseph b. Solomon and Baḡdād bat ʿUlla ha-Levi. Signed by Yefet b. Yešuʿa, Peraḥya b. Ezekiel, Joshua b. Abraham and Joseph b. Moses ha-Kohen, with Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew jottings. Dated Marḥešvan 1422 of the Seleucid Era (= 1110 CE).Condition: holesLayout: 13-22 lines + marginalia
Legal document from Cairo and Fusṭāṭ. The rich goldsmith Abū Yaʿqūb Joseph b. Samuel’s (known as Ibn Naḥum) estate is recorded after his death for his minor children. Mentions Abū Sahl, Abū Sulaymān, Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī, Abū l-Faraj b. Qasāma, Abū l-Ṭāhir, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ayyūb, Mūsā b. Musallam al-Qazzāz (the silk trader), Mūsā b. Faraj the Christian, Ṣāfī b. Naḥrīr, Maṣliaḥ the Sicilian, Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣanānīrī, and Abū Isḥāq b. Ṣulḥān. Signed by Abraham b. Nathan Av Bet Din, Abraham b. Šemaʿya he-Ḥaver (descendant of Šemaʿya Gaʾon), Isaac b. Samuel ha-Sefardi, Mevasser ha-Levi b. Yešuʿa and S[...]l b. Saʿadya. Dated 1425 of the Seleucid Era (= 1114 CE). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh (who also signed the document).Condition: tornLayout: 12-19 lines
Deed of emancipation of a female slave by Ṭoviyya the doctor b. Yefet, dated 1421 (= 1110 CE), in Cairo. It is signed and witnessed by Abraham b. Nathan Av Bet Din and Abraham b. Ḥalfon b. Abraham at the foot of recto and again on verso.Condition: holes, stained, rubbedLayout: 16 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1182 CE, regarding the conveyance of part of a house. The parties are Abū Manṣūr b. Šemarya the elder b. ʿEli the physician, known as Ibn ʿAdī and Abū Saʿd al-Ṣabaḡ b. Abū l-ʿAlā. Signed by Jacob b. Elijah he-Ḥaver, Manasseh b. Elʿazar, and approved by Judah b. Moses, Samuel b. Abraham and Mevasser the teacher b. ʿEli.Condition: Holes, fadedLayout: 36 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Abū Saʿd Ḥalfon and Abū l-Fadl Joseph, sons of Moses Kohen, a high government official, sell a Nubian female slave named ‘Dexterity’ to their sister Zayn Sitt al-Dar for twenty dinars. Witnessed by Ṣedaqa ha-Levi b. Solomon and Aaron ha-Kohen b. Namir, and approved by Abraham b. Nathan. Dated Tevet 1416 (= 1105 CE) in Cairo.Condition: Slightly fadedLayout: 31 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Legal document from Cairo, in which Ḵalaf b. Ibrahim is sentenced to flogging for breaking the dietary laws (kashrut). Signed by Aaron b. Ephraim b. Tarson, Solomon b. Ṭoviyya, Ṭoviyya b. Yefet and Joseph ha-Kohen b. Solomon. Addendum with a statement by Ḵuzayr Ibn al-Ḥarām (?), signed by Aaron b. Ephraim and Sulaymān b. Ismaʿīl, dated 1339 of the Seleucid Era (= 1028 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 23 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Deed of sale, written by Abraham b. Nathan b. Abraham, dated Tuesday, 5th Kislev 1420 (= 1108 CE), in Cairo, in which Sitt al-Aqrān b. Joseph ha-Kohen, wife of Judah b. ʿAllān, sells her female slave Naʿīm to Sitt al-Muna b. Nathan, widow of Nahray b. Nissim, for the sum of 20 dinars. Witnessed by Menaḥem b. Samuel, Yaʿir ha-Kohen b. Saʿadya, and Ṣemaḥ ha-Levi b. Jacob. Verso: Arabic text, perhaps related to the legal text on verso.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 37 lines (recto), 9 lines (verso)
Witness statement concerning the release of Yešuʿa b. ʿAllān by Sitt al-Kull bat [...] ha-Kohen. Signed by Abraham b. Ṣedaqa, Yešuʿa b. Ḡālib and Abū Isaac ha-Kohen b. Judah. Dated 1427 of the Seleucid Era (= 1116 CE) in Cairo.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Court record, in which Peraḥya ha-Kohen b. Ṭarfon testifies concerning the night in which Solomon (Salāma) b. Abraham al-Šīrājī assaulted and tore the clothes of Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf. Solomon accused Abū l-Surūr of dragging him to the Muslim authorities, which Abū l-Surūr denies and instead accuses Solomon of abusing the Jewish leader. Abū l-Surūr was then excommunicated. The witnesses are Joseph b. Rajā, Joseph b. Manṣūr, Mevoraḵ b. Isaac, Joseph b. Mevoraḵ, and Elʿazar b. Joseph, and Ibn al-Qāš is also mentioned. Written by Abraham b. Nathan and dated 27th Adar 1415 of the Seleucid Era (= 1104 CE) in Cairo.Condition: holesLayout: 53 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: geṭ in which Ezra b. Joshua initiated divorce from his wife, Šumaisa bint Mordechai. Dated Friday, 24th Adar 1[.]50 (= 1[.]39 CE, perhaps 1650 = 1339 CE, cf. T-S 20.10), in Cairo. The divorce was not completed on this occasion as there are no witnesses. Verso: unrelated jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, and three lines of a child’s handwriting exercise.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 23 lines (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Karaite ketubba for Rebecca bat Joseph of Byzantium (מארץ רומיה) and Elʿazar b. Siman Ṭov b. Šemarya. Dated Thursday 13th Tišri 1512 (= 1201 CE) in Cairo, in the time of the Karaite Nasi Amaryahu (אמריהו) Judah b. David b. Ḥasdai b. Sar Šalom. The bride’s agent is ʿAmram ha-Levi b. Joseph ha-Levi b. Isaac ha-Levi by the testimony of Elʿazar b. Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar and Isaac b. Yefet b. [...] b. Isaac the Rabbanite. Witnessed by Isaac b. ʿAzaryahu (also the scribe), Nathaniel ha-Kohen b. Mešullam and Elijah b. Ḥalfon. The text of the ketubba is Hebrew but the validation at the end is in Judaeo-Arabic. There is a heading in large letters at the top of the document.Condition: Torn, holes, stainedLayout: 28 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Part of a ketubba for Nāšiyya bat Moses ha-Kohen b. Aaron ha-Kohen (bride) and David ha-Nasi b. Daniel ha-Nasi Roš ha-Yešiva Geʾon Yaʿaqov (groom). Dated 23rd Ševaṭ 1393 (= 1082 CE), probably from Cairo. The dowry is over 1100 gold dinars. As the bride is from a prominent Karaite family, and the groom is a high-ranking Rabbanite, there are special clauses in the contract stating that the groom will not force the bride to compromise her Karaite principles, and the bride will join her husband in observing the Rabbanite feasts. Attested by the Bet Din and witnessed by Yequtiʾel b. Moses, Nissim b. Maḥbūb, Solomon b. Isaac, Ezekiel ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver b. ʿEli he-Ḥaver, Hodaya b. Josiah, Joseph b. Samuel, Joseph b. Elʿazar, Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar, Aaron b. Abraham, Nathaniel b. Yefet he-Ḥaver, Aaron the Cantor b. Abraham, Hillel the Cantor b. [...], Abraham b. Isaac.Layout: 18 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: part of a copy of a ketubba for ʿAzīza bat [...] and Saʿīd b. Isaac. Dated 5294 (= 1534 CE) in Cairo. The original ketubba had been lost and this copy was made as a replacement. Lower part of document not preserved, including any names of witnesses. Verso: pen trials and two draft legal documents (one in Judaeo-Arabic and one in Hebrew).Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 18 lines (recto); 27 lines + marginalia (verso)
Recto: legal document from Cairo, written under the authority of the Nagid Jonathan, concerning Raṣon b. Samuel. Dated Tišri 1807 of the Seleucid Era (= 1495 CE). Verso: accounts in Arabic script.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 9 lines + marginalia (recto); accounts (verso)
Recto: agreement regarding a three-storey house in the ‘big Maḥalla’ (i.e. Cairo), dated 1432 (= 1121 CE). The parties involved are Yešuʿa b. Yešuʿa the Byzantine (from Bilād al-Rūm) and Abraham ha-Ger (‘the convert’) b. Moses. Signed by Hillel ha-Kohen b. Saʿadya, Abraham b. Yešuʿa, and Nissim b. Šela. Verso: alphabetic pen trials, atbaš, and jottings of names.Condition: Torn, holes, fadedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 7 lines (verso)
Recto: inventory of all kinds of building materials and wood (probably after the dismantling of a house), followed by ‘we saw the house and nothing remained after the aforementioned matter’. Signed by ʿEli b. Yešuʿa, Mevoraḵ b. Nathan, Ḥalfon b. Saʿadya, Solomon b. Moses and Yaʿīr ha-Kohen b. Saʿadya. Verso: betrothal deed between Nathan ha-Levi b. Isaac and Sitt al-Bayt bat Nathan ha-Parnas from Cairo. Dated Marḥešvan 1420 of the Seleucid Era (= 1108 CE). Written and signed by the clerk Moses ha-Levi b. David, also signed by Ṣemaḥ ha-Levi b. Jacob and ʿAmram b. Šemarya.Condition: holesLayout: 13 lines + marginalia (recto); 13 lines (verso)