Short letter from Abraham b. Nathan to an unknown recipient, acknowledging the receipt of cheese and a corresponding heqšer (certificate of kashrut), brought by Ṣedaqa b. Šemarya.Condition: holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 8 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: letter signed by Abraham b. Nathan Av Bet Din, concerned with the matter of a reconciliation between Maḥfūẓ al-Qudsī and someone else, most likely his wife. Verso: Hebrew blessings.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 6 lines + marginalia (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Accounts of Abraham Ibn Yijū in India, mentioning Maḍmūn b. Sālim, Joseph, and Ḵalaf b. Isaac.Condition: Badly torn, holes, stained, badly rubbedLayout: 20 lines (recto); 5 + 14 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Samuel b. Hošaʿna the Third in Ramla to Abraham ha-Kohen b. Isaac b. Furāt (c. 1035 CE). Abraham b. Samuel asks Abraham b. Isaac to remove Abū ʿAlī b. Ayyūb from the environs of the synagogue. Abū ʿAlī had built himself a house near the miqve (ritual bath) and was growing vegetables on a plot of land owned by the synagogue.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter from Abraham b. Saʿadya (the Ḥaver from Hebron) in Bilbays to Moses ha-Kohen b. Ḡulayb in Fusṭāṭ.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 25 lines (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Saʿadya to Moses b. Abraham Taherti (c. 1050 CE).Condition: holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 27 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Letter concerning the poll tax (ḵarāj), from Abraham b. Saʿadya he-Ḥaver to Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Binyām. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan and his brother, Moses al-Salām ha-Kohen, Peraḥya, Bayān and the mother of Bayān.Condition: Holes, rubbedLayout: 28 lines (recto); 4 lines (verso)
Recto: letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic from Abraham b. Saʿadya he-Ḥebroni, on behalf of refugees from Hebron that are now in Bilbays. Abraham writes to Isaac b. Samuel ha-Sefaradi (active ca. 1090-1130 CE) in Fusṭāṭ, concerning the building of a new synagogue in Bilbays, replacing an old synagogue that had been torn down. The entire community joined forces to dismantle the synagogue and rebuild the new building. The letter lists the donations given by members of the community, and describes in detail the surrounding properties and their owners. A muslim judge initially objected to the construction of the new synagogue, so the community tactically rebranded their construction as a ‘home’, to which the judge had no objection. Verso: jottings of an Arabic philosophical text.Condition: StainedLayout: 52 lines (recto); 40 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Solomon, the Yemenite Rav, in Jerusalem to a notable called Yešuʿa (according to Motzkin 1970, 344 this is actually Elijah the judge). Verso has jottings in the hand of Solomon b. Elijah.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 18 lines (recto); 13 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter to Elijah the judge from Abraham b. Solomon the Yemenite, talking about his personal situation and the general circumstances in Palestine.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 28 lines + marginalia (recto); 11 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Yijū to his brothers and sisters after his safe return from India, written in Aden in 1149 CE.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 31 lines + marginalia (recto); 12 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Šabbetay of Minyat Zifta, Egypt, to various congregations, including Bilbays and Benhā, concerning the preparation of cheese for Passover.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter from Abraham b. Šabbetay, judge of Minyat Zifta, to Abū Isḥāq ha-Kohen b. Samuel. It’s a personal letter that discusses various bits of news, including an annoying house guest is an inveterate gambler. It mentions a number of people, including Abū l-Faraj, Abū l-Ḵayr, Abraham Ibn al-Azhar and his son Ibrahim the cantor.Layout: 20 lines + marginalia (recto); 16 lines + marginalia (verso)
Official letter to Ḥalfon he-Ḥaver, signed by Abraham b. Šemaʿya he-Ḥaver, descendant of Šemaʿya Gaʾon, and Isaac b. Samuel ha-Sefardi, formally asking for a testimony concerning the purity of the wares of Beraḵot.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 11 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter to Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Surūr from Abraham b. Ḥabīb concerning business matters. Mentions Faraḥ Abū Harūn (?) b. Rajā, and Abū Zikrī Abū l-Wafā Tamīm. 11th-13th century.Layout: 13 lines (recto), 2 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Ḥalfon b. Naḥum in Ashkelon to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Ḥayyim (c. 1090 CE).Condition: holesLayout: 26 lines + marginalia (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham b. Ṭahor (whose name is written at the top left-hand side of the letter) in Alexandria to ‘our lord Ḥananel’ ‘the great judge’ in Fusṭāṭ, for whom he had apparently sold clothing. Sulaymān b. Abū Naṣr is mentioned.Condition: torn, slightly fadedLayout: 19 lines + marginalia
Recto: end of a piyyuṭ, acrostic שמ]ריה], and a poem for Purim by Abraham ibn Ezra, יום בהמן אף אל חרה ליהודים היתה אורה. Verso: piyyuṭ for Simḥat Tora,בקרוב עת אומן להסיעו מנשיה, and a second entitled בסיטה, beginning כל אשר חי ימות.Condition: stained, rubbedLayout: 16 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)
From a collection of poetic works by Abraham ibn Ezra, including a mi kamoḵa אל בפלא אשורנו בלבי, with a rubric ולה גירה and numbered 110, and an epistle written to Samuel b. Jāmiʿ, which is numbered 115 in the margin.Condition: Holes, rubbedLayout: P2: 18.3 x 13.2; 21 lines