قائمة/جدول: CUL Or.1080 15.45

الوصف

List from 1593 CE dated Elul 5353 and early 5354, headed as "the remainder of the houses of the qodesh of the Musta'rib congregation. It then gives street names and lists of people, perhaps the tenants of the qodesh. Some of them have notes about rent payments as well--how much has been paid, how much remains to be paid. The list may be useful for cross-referencing people and locations from other 16th-century documents. The first account entry on the recto is related to the communal leader R. ʿOvadya Kāhna and "the expenses of Dammūh" (perhaps the synagogue/pilgrimage site). Sixteenth- and post-sixteenth-century references to this sacred site are crucial because it is likely that the Synagogue of Moses at Dammūh was destroyed in 1498 CE at the direction of the Mamlūk Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir (For this incident, see: Paul B. Fenton, "Sufis and Jews in Mamluk Egypt," in Muslim-Jewish Relation in the Middle Islamic Period, ed. Stephan Conermann (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2017), 42.) It seems likely that the Dammūh Syangogue was in fact rebuilt given that it is mentioned in Yosef Sambari's late-seventeenth-century chronicle: Sefer Divrei Yosef, ed. Shimon Shtober (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1994), 158. R. ʿOvadya Kāhna is listed as deceased in the opening lines (1-5) of a communal legal document in 1595 CE (JTS: MS 9160, fol. 1, PGPID 11073). Some additional names of those mentioned include: (recto) Yeshuʿa Buḥeyrī, Slīman Shāmī, Shemuʾel ʿImānī, Khalīfa Shāmī; (verso) ʿOvadya Ḥajar, Shelomo עכאס (ʿAkās?), Yiṣḥaqqar Gvālī. MCD.