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Miscellany containing formularies for excommunication (invoking the Shem ha-Meforash) on 74/70v, flowery rhymes for letter openings, etc. On 74/72r a copy of letter of interest to scholars of pilgirmage routes: a letter of recommendation for a pilgrim who came to Salonica from "Russia" (רוסיאה) and does not know neither Hebrew nor Arabic or Greek, but only "the language of Canaan", the local language of his homeland. On 74/71r a formula to be written on the last page of a daftar of the Torah when the copying is finished.

Letter from a Jerusalem pilgrim writing from Alexandria, admonishing his relatives, who were staying in his house in Fustat, to exercise utmost consideration towards “the lady of the house” (his wife). She had always been an excellent companion to them. Ca. 1160. (Information from Goitein’s index cards) EMS

Fragment from guide for pilgrims.