Collection of alchemical recipes divided in chapters (bāb), including recipes for the preparation of good silver, of salt of calx, on the preparation of lead, on the calcification of salt (recto), on the cleansing of tin, on the pulverisation of sulphur. Recipes on verso end with a benediction with the tetragrammaton written as ייי.Layout: 48 lines (recto); 32 lines (verso)
Last part of a Judaeo-Arabic Bible commentary, probably on the book of Joshua. According to the colophon, the commentary was copied in Fusṭāṭ. A date was added at the end of the colophon in a different hand but is no longer legible.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines (recto); 15 lines (verso)
A grammar of the Arabic language in Judaeo-Arabic. The text consists of short chapters dealing with morphological and syntactic issues (infinitive, root vs. non-root status of some consonants, plural forms, case endings after particles, etc.). Some predominantly Kufan grammatical terms are attested, such as ḵafḍ.Layout: 88 lines (recto); 51 lines (verso)
Legal document written in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning Nathaniel and the elder Abū [...].Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 7 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Legal document; witness statement from Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the Nagid and a certain al-Marjānī (‘the coral merchant’).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 6 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Legal document (will); written in Fusṭāṭ, in which Elʿazar ha-Levi, known as Abū Naṣr b. Abū l-Ḥasan, entrusts on his deathbed his employee, Barakāt b. Yešuʿa Ibn al-Mūrid (‘supplier (of gold and silver) to the mint’), with his perfume store, fixing for him daily wages amounting to 2 3/8 dirhams. Dated to the middle decade of Tammuz 1555 Sel. era (= 1244 CE).Condition: holes, slightly rubbed, stainedLayout: 25 lines (recto); 3 lines + jottings (verso)
Legal document from Fusṭāṭ; one of the witnesses is Solomon b. Abraham b. Ezra. Concerns Abraham al-Ḥarīrī from Damietta, and financial affairs regarding a house.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 12 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Legal document mentioning Šela b. [...], Fusṭāṭ and the Gaʾon. Signed by [...] b. Ṣedaqa, Yefet b. Saʿadya and [Jose]ph b. Yefet.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 16 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Legal document from Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the elder Sulaymān and Abū l-Bahā. It is dated but the date is lost.Condition: tornLayout: 7 lines (recto; verso is blank)