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)