Recommendation letter by Abraham Maimonides (b. Moses Maimonides) in his own hand, addressed to a judge in a provincial town. Dated 1547 of the Seleucid Era (= 1235 CE).Condition: torn, holesLayout: 17 lines + marginalia (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Recto: business letter from Abraham Monsun to David, in Egypt (16th–17th century). Verso: calculations, probably accounts.Condition: torn, rubbed, stainedLayout: 20 lines + marginalia (recto); accounts (verso)
Letter by Abraham al-Dimašqī the teacher b. Jethro, with lengthy Hebrew blessings, and asking for support.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 22 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: part of a Karaite ketubba (it mentions the custom of the בני מקרא), accompanied by a note. Addresses in Judaeo-Arabic (in different hands and ink, from each other and the ketubba) have been added to the blank space on recto and to verso. The sender is Abraham b. Abū Joseph, and the recipient, a Karaite (probably, suggested by הששנה הפרחת) named Manṣūr b. Abū l-Ḥasan of Damascus.Condition: Badly tornLayout: 10 lines (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. David b. Suḡmār, probably in Alexandria, to his son David in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1055 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 20 lines (recto); 14 lines (verso)
Recto: commercial letter. Verso: letter from Abraham b. David b. Suḡmār, ca. 1055 CE.Condition: Badly torn, holesLayout: 13 lines + marginalia (recto); 13 lines (verso)
Letter sent from Alexandria, in which the writer, Abraham b. Elʿazar the doctor, reports about the arrival of a ship from Marseilles containing queries from a distant country to Maimonides. He complains about a new imposition by the Sultan and the general poverty of the local community.Condition: Torn, slightly fadedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 21 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farraḥ to Nahray b. Nissim (c. July 1053 CE).Condition: holesLayout: 26 lines + marginalia (recto); 12 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farraḥ in Alexandria to Joseph b. Mūsā Taherti in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1050 CE).Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 28 lines + marginalia (recto); 20 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farrāḥ in Alexandria to Judah b. Moses b. Siḡmār (c. June 1066 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 29 lines + marginalia (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farrāḥ in Alexandria to a trader in Fusṭāṭ, c. 1056 CE.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 21 lines + marginalia (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farrāḥ in Alexandria to Isaac b. ʿEli al-Majjānī (c. 1050 CE).Condition: holesLayout: 12 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farrāḥ Iskandarānī to Nahray b. Nissim, concerning the arrival of ships from Sicily (c. 1055 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 15 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Farrāḥ Iskandarānī to ʿAyyāš b. Ṣedaqa (c. 1050 CE). Accounts in the margin.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 16 lines + marginalia (recto); 5 lines + marginalia (verso)
Recto: draft of a Hebrew letter concerning consignments of money, charitable collections and the sending of books. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic letter from Abraham b. Hillel, introduced by 1 Samuel 25:6. It describes the arrival of a letter from ‘the son’ (probably the addressee’s) Moses ha-Kohen and sends congratulations on the opening of a perfumer’s shop, with jottings mentioning Manṣūr Ibn al-[...].Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines + marginalia (recto); 18 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Isaac in Fusṭāṭ to Ḥalfon b. Nathaniel in Alexandria (c. February 1140 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 22 lines + marginalia (recto); 20 lines + marginalia (verso)
Recto: letter to the dignitary Jacob in Alexandria from Abraham b. Isaac Ibn al-Zūlāfī in Palermo. The right margin has continuation of piyyuṭ from verso. Verso: piyyuṭ for Passover with many biblical quotations. Jottings in Arabic script at the top of the page.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 31 lines + marginalia (recto); 26 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Isaac al-Andalūsī in Jerusalem to Nahray b. Nissim in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1065 CE).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Jacob, referring to Ramla. Prefaced with a Judaeo-Arabic basmalla.Condition: torn, stainedLayout: 14 lines (recto); 1 line (verso)
Letter from the head of the Alexandrian Jewish community (Abraham b. Jacob al-Darʿi) to the Nagid Mevoraḵ b. Saʿadya who appointed him, reporting on local affairs, especially the favourable treatment accorded the Jews by the new governor with regards to collecting the poll tax from the poor. Ca. 1100 CE.Condition: Slightly torn, fadedLayout: 40 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)