Letter from Aaron ha-Kohen b. Namr to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Moses b. Ḡālib, mentioning the bearer of a previous letter, Abū l-Ḥusayn, and Ibrahim.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 17 lines + marginalia (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Recto: letter from Abraham to his mother, sister, maternal uncle, and to Sittī (my mistress) and Abū Isḥāq. He also mentions Samuel, Ḥayyim and the niece Ḥabība. Verso: letter to Abraham from his mother, with a small postscript to his wife Rachel, and the address יצל ליד רבינן יצו on recto.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 30 lines + marginalia (recto); 26 lines (verso)
Letter from Abraham to Ṭurkiyya and his sister Masʿūda, concerning money. He sends greetings to his mother and to Aaron al-Ḡarbī. Mordechai sends greetings to his family and Saul. C. 17th century.Condition: rubbedLayout: 16 lines (recto); 1 line (verso)
Note from Abraham, sent accompanying אלסדר (presumably a prayerbook), with an apology for the delay.Condition: slightly tornLayout: 8 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter from Abraham to his son Joseph and his wife Sitt al-Bayt, with greetings from many relatives. Mentions people including Obadiah and Ḵalīfa (c. 15th-16th century).Condition: holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 28 lines (recto); 3 lines (verso)
Letter to Mordechai Kohen from his brother Abraham, dated 5646 of the Era of Creation (= 1886 CE).Condition: tornLayout: 32 lines + marginalia (recto; verso is blank)
Letter in an unskilled hand sent from Gaza to Alexandria by Abraham, who is on his way to Damascus, to his mother and his wife. He sends greetings to ʿImrān and Joseph.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 14 lines + marginalia (recto); 4 lines (verso)
Letter, mostly in poetical Hebrew to Aaron Abū l-Ḥasan and his two sons, one named Yefet, written by Abraham, the muqaddam of Malīj.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly fadedLayout: 21 lines + marginalia (recto); 15 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter to Caro Frances from Abraham Gabriel concerning business matters. Dated 168 (5568 of the Era of Creation = 1807 CE), and mentioning people including Nissim Minyani (מנייני).Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 35 lines + marginalia (recto); 3 lines (verso)
F.1: grammatical and lexicographic treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. F.2: Abraham Ibn Ezra’s commentary on Genesis 1.Condition: badly rubbed, fadedLayout: 20–21 lines
Recto: a piyyuṭ by Abraham Ibn Ezra (אמונתך נודעה ביום טובה ויום רעה) with a title ascribing the text to Avram Ben Ezra. Verso: a short note in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the opening parts (petiḥot) of qinot.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 21 lines (recto); 2 lines (verso)
Letter to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr from Abraham Ibn al-Muqaddasī, relating to the buying of dates. Mentions al-Fayyūm and Judah b. Yešuʿa.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)
Collection of piyyuṭim including a piyyuṭ for the last day of Passover לבבתיני אחותי אשר פני דמשק צופה by Levi b. Mar Saul (f. 1r), a rešut la-nišmat יפתח עלמת חן ומעין נעלמה by Joseph b. Ṣadiq (f. 1r, bottom), a poem מעשה אלהים על גדולתו עד by Abraham Ibn ʿEzra (spelled Aḇram) (f. 2v) and שהדי במרומים ובשחק עדי.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 17–18 lines + marginalia
Letter, in which the writer (probably Abraham Kohen) denies influencing young men, and swears that he had not contacted ‘the teacher from Safed’ (c. 15th century).Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 35 lines + marginalia (recto); jottings (verso)
Recto: letter in the hand of Abraham Maimonides, mentioning Joseph. Verso: letter concerned with a legal dispute over an inheritance, mentioning Ibn Kamāl from Bilbays and Minyat Ḡamr.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 15 lines + marginalia (recto); 29 lines + marginalia (verso)
Recommentation letter by Abraham Maimonides for the Nasi Obadiah, mentioning Peraḥya the judge. On verso are biblical citations from Isaiah 29:17-19.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 22 lines + marginalia (recto); 5-9 lines in 2 columns (verso)
Letter from Abraham Maimonides to the judge Nissim in Alexandria, instructing him not to let Abū Manṣūr b. Abū l-Ḵayr, the tax-farmer of Sanhūr, re-marry before he has paid back his previous wife’s delayed bridal gift. In the hand of Solomon b. Elijah (13th century).Condition: holesLayout: 31 lines + marginalia (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Beginning of a letter or note in the hand of Abraham b. Maimonides to Moses, mentioning the elder Abū Naṣr b. Banīn (?). The note is prefaced with הנה אל ישועתי from Isaiah 12:2.Condition: torn, rubbedLayout: 5 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: short letter referring to a lawsuit. Verso: last lines of a responsum by Abraham Maimonides; dated Sivan 1547 Sel. era (= 1236 CE).Condition: torn, holes, slightly rubbed, stainedLayout: 5 lines (recto); 4 lines (verso)
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)