قائمة/جدول: T-S NS 321.7a
قائمة/جدول T-S NS 321.7aالعلامات
الوصف
Abū Zikrī Kohen, representative of merchants in Fustat, settles accounts with his banker Khiyār b. Nissim. Dating: 1134 CE. The two had concluded a partnership in November 1131 for the duration of one year in a banking business with Abū Zikrī as senior partner entitled to grant loans. From this partnership there have survived orders of payments to Khiyār ranging from 1¼ to 100 dinars between 1138 and 1141. In four columns, all crossed out with a vertical stroke probably indicating that the accounts were settled or transferred to al-daftar al-kabīr, the ledger referred to in other accounts that are similarly crossed out. Columns 1 and 2 contain Khiyār's debits, i.e., Abū Zikrī's payments to him or made for him; columns 3 and 4 contain his credits, mainly smaller sums, and continued on consecutive pages that are lost. The account shows among other things how many payments — even in dirhams — were made by book transfer. It also shows that Abū Zikrī, despite his position in the community of merchants, refrained from making overdrafts. He also avoidedd letting his money sit and deposited payments immediately. Abū Zikrī usually writes numbers in words, which sometimes throws off his line distribution from the otherwise regular spreadsheet format. Goitein's translation renders the numbers in numerals for ease of reference. In four columns beginning on verso left, recto right, recto left, verso right, recto right, i.e., the fragment has been conserved with recto as verso and verso as recto, and after folding the page, Abū Zikrī handled it in the usual manner of bifolios. (Information from Goitein, LMJT, and from Marina Rustow)
Translation: Goitein, S. D. (in English)
T-S NS 321.7a recto
النصوص المفرّغة
الترجمة
S. D. Goitein, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973).Column 1 (verso, left): Payments to the banker in cash
- The Elder Khiyār b. Nissīm
- Balance to his debit after all
- accounts
- to 10
- Shaʿbān
- 75⅙ dinar
- Other debits 6½ dinar
- 20 less 5 qīrāṭ
- Through his son-in-law 9 dinar
- From me 5⅛ dinar
- From the elder
- Abu l-Faḍāʾil 5 dinar
- From Zikrī 3 dinar
- From the same 1 dinar 10 qīrāṭ
- 28½ balance to his debit 28 dinar 5 qīrāṭ 1 dāniq
Column 1 (verso, left): Payments to the banker, mostly in cash
16. From me in gold 17¼, ⅛
17. In silver 11 dinar
18. Gold and silver 20 dinar, 13½ qīrāṭ
19. Also in dirhams 1 dinar
Column 2 (recto, right): Payments to the banker, mostly in cash, continued
- From me in gold 22 dinar, 2 qīrāṭ
- Promissory note 1½ dinar
- From my cousin 1 dinar
- 102½, ¼ din. less 1 habba ______________________________________________
- Debit beginning: his note on 7 dinar
- 109⅔ dinar ______________________________________________
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Balance of debit 14 dinar 1 qīrāṭ ______________________________________________
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Balance, debit 14 dinar ⅙
Column 2 (recto, right): The banker's promissory notes
9. His note 100 dinar
10. His note 66 dinar 9 qīrāṭ
11. His note 36 dinar
12. His note 30 dinar less ⅙
13. His note 26 dinar
T-S NS 321.7a verso
Column 3 (recto, right): The banker's credits
- The Elder Khiyār b. Nissīm
- Credit beginning: a note 9½, ⅛ dinar
- Paid to Abu Ί-Muna 1 dinar
- Note to Abu Ί-Muna 4 dinar
- To our lord 15 dinar exactly
- Note to Joseph 10 dinar exactly
- Price of . . . 9⅔, ¼ dinar
- To the hazzan 17 (or 16) qīrāṭ
- To the Nezer 1 dinar
- Credit 19 qīrāṭ
- Credit 23 dinar
- To the hazzan 1 dinar, 7 qīrāṭ
- Balance (price of) the slave girl 1 dinar
- To Musallam 7 dirham
- Note 1 dinar
- Note 10 dinar exactly
- Price of wheat 140 dirham
- Note to Ibn al-'Abd 3 dinar
- T o al-Qastallanl 3¼ dinar
- Price of grapes 5 dinar 1 qīrāṭ
- To Musallam 120 dirham
- A note 4 dinar, 2 qīrāṭ
Column 4 (verso, right)
- Note 2⅓ dinar
- Note 1 dinar 13½ qīrāṭ
- Note 5 dirham
- Note 3 dirham
- To me 1 dinar
- Note 109½ dirham
- Through Musallam 2 dinar ________________________________________
- Total
- 96½, ⅓, ⅛ less ¹⁄₁₄₄ ________________________________________
- To his debit
- 125 1/6 dinar ________________________________________
- Balance to his debit 28 dinar 1/8, 2 qīrāṭ ¹⁄₁₄₄ ________________________________________
- 〚My note on 70 dinar. He has cashed it.〛
- Credit against this 15 qīrāṭ
- Credit two notes for four payments
- of poll tax 6 dinar 10 qīrāṭ 2 habba and 4 dirham
- Note on 35 1/2 dirham
- Paid to me 30 dinar yellowish ones
- For customs duties 10 qīrāṭ
- 〚Note to the Rayyis 5 dinar cancelled〛
- Note given to Musallam 10 dinar exactly
- Note 7 qīrāṭ less 1 daniq 1/144 dinar
- Credit 30 dinar