Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Recto: accounts submitted by Abū l-Barakāt Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Talmid Abu l-Faraj, headed by مملوكه שלמה אמת.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

(On verso there are also a few lines of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.)

Related Places

2

العلامات

• arabic
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• khaybari
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1134 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are largely undeciphered mercantile accounts involving shipments of silk in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

Related People

3

Related Places

2

العلامات

• ib4
• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

1430 Seleucid (19 September 1118–7 September 1119 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reused on verso for accounts in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe as well as jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script; see separate record.

Related People

2

Related Documents

1

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are also drafts of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew letters, as well as a small section of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

العلامات

• hananel b. shemuel
• maimonides
• responsum

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

603 Hijrī (8 August 1206–27 July 1207 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script with names and numbers arranged in neat columns.

العلامات

• arabic script
• coptic
• jafr
• magic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

T-S Ar.22140 was reused for a Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Isaiah 54:1 and 1 Samuel 1:11, while T-S K25.221 was reused for Hebrew poetry headed with the name of the meter, כפיף, and for Arabic accounts. Join: Marina Rustow. On the bottom fragment, there are traces of ink below lines 2 and 3 that demonstrate that the paper was folded when the ink was still wet.

العلامات

• arabic script
• dimme
• lost archive
• petition

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Document date

25 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (19 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

Related People

6

Related Places

1

العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• tax receipt

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Saʿd with arithmetic lessons by which the boy was to master complex accounts. Arithmetic lessons were to be held through the use of the abacus.

Related People

1

العلامات

• arabic script
• education
• language
• mother
• son
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Secondary document: Accounts in Arabic script on verso. Several numbers are mentioned, and potentially dates.

العلامات

• al-najah
• bialphabetic
• jahbadh

1 مناقشة

Document date

14 Nisan 5581 Anno Mundi (16 April 1821 CE)

Verso: An unrelated list of accounts appears on the verso of this ketubba. A variety of coinage types are mentioned and the appearance of Maḥmūdīya in line 1 points to the likelihood that the list was recorded following the onset of Sultan Maḥmūd II's reign in 1808.

Related Places

1

العلامات

• 19th c
• ketubba

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. The upper portion of recto may be a list of customers and their orders, as various names and garment types are mentioned.

Related People

1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reused on verso for Arabic accounts (see separate record).

Related People

2

Related Places

1

Related Documents

1

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning fruit of the Syrian ash (lisān ʿuṣfūr), clove, saffron, and sugar among other items.

Related People

4

العلامات

• nisaburi

1 مناقشة

Document date

13 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (7 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

Related People

6

Related Places

1

العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• damin
• tax receipt

3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة

Document date

24 Ṣafar 405 Hijrī (24 August 1014 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Ḥasan on behalf of the Bureau of Supervision; and (3) (under) the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

Related People

6

Related Places

1

العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• damin
• tax receipt

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Ṣāliḥ would have liked to come to Fustat and help with finding the will and accounts of the deceased, but he was prevented by the death of Abū l-Ḥasan b.

Related People

2

Related Places

2

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
• illness: marad
• illness: physician
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

1418 Seleucid (1 September 1106–18 September 1107 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is also some accounting in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning goods related to the India trade.

Related People

3

Related Places

1

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reused for jotted Judaeo-Arabic accounts on verso. (Information in part from CUDL and Mediterranean Society, I, p. 221.)

Related Places

1

العلامات

• prices
• trade

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1789–1850 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly recorded by a bookseller and, based on one type of coinage in use, the yüzlük ("יוזליס" l.3r), the document dates probably to the late-18th or 19th century (the Ottoman yüzlük was not minted until 1789CE).

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• book trade
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso was reused for accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, probably by the addressee.

Related People

2

العلامات

• flax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Detailed and important" according to Goitein's index card.

Related People

1

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tuesday, 4 Av 1473 Seleucid (17 July 1162 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Each attests to transactions and deposits; apparently, the partners did not trust one another "as two proper witnesses", and they required direct testimony of the partnership accounting. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 190)

Related People

3

Related Places

4

العلامات

• court record
• partnership

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

middle third of Tammuz 1529 Seleucid (6 July 1218–15 July 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are a number of provisions concerning the assets of the concern: first, Munajjā is entitled to one dinar from Abū al-Khayr for fourteen months, a debt recorded in a separate document; second, the balance of all the shop’s merchandise is to be retained by Munajjā; third, the first 800 dirhams of the shop’s debts will be repaid by Munajjā (any excess will be repaid by the two partners jointly); fourth, both partners will share in collecting accounts receivable, with the funds divided equally between them; and, fifth, six copper basins will go to Munajjā (which previously belonged to Abū l-Khayr, as he is held responsible for anything missing from them).

Related People

3

Related Places

1

Related Documents

1

العلامات

• druggist
• partnership
• pharmacy

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

423 Hijrī (19 December 1031–6 December 1032 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The first (bottom) is an order for delivery of dues to the office of land tax (dīwān al-kharāj) written by the accountant Abū Musabbiḥī Abū l-Qāsim al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn, in which it is stated that Abū l-Ḥasan Mājid b.

العلامات

• kharaj
• tax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Ladino

Large cluster of 14 bifolios with accounts and lists in Ladino. These folios may have all be part of the same ledger given the sewing marks that appear on the inner spines. 15th-century or later based on the paleography.

العلامات

• 15th c or later
• ladino
• ledger
• sewn documents
• shanji

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic for Saturday 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda through Friday 14 Dhū l-Qaʿda.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Verso: another letter (both are possibly drafts), also addressed to a notable, in the same hand, written transversely in relation to the text on recto, overwriting an earlier Arabic text (mercantile or fiscal account). (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The last two lines are difficult to contextualize but an attempted interpretation could be - with the command of the overseer of his business/accounts, someone wrote from the dīwān regarding what is obligatory on the different types of taxes.

Related Places

1

العلامات

• 'ushari
• customs tax
• dimme
• maks
• official correspondence
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين

Document date

1090 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the verso there are jottings and accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals ("expenses on Sunday: syrup(?)...

Related People

1

العلامات

• partnership
• ulla ha-levi

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1703–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the verso, the lists are more scattered yet follow a format similar to the recto where more names can be found among the accounts: Ḥayyīm Zagdun. Eliyyahu Shtawī, Yiṣḥaq Yaʿabes, Ḥayyīm Dayyan, MCD.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Excerpts from the Gospels, or possibly Toldot Yeshu (though the depiction of Jesus seems too positive and faithful to the New Testament accounts for this to be the case). In Judaeo-Arabic.

العلامات

• new testament

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A letter with Abu l-Ḥasan arrived with the news that you are sick, and we were pained on your account, myself and the mother. As for Tawus and Mas'udah, they did not greet us (?).

Related Places

1

العلامات

• 13th c
• apostate
• giza
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He continues with an account of the illnesses afflicting his family members (r23–v1), all of which he has described in previous letters but has not received any response.

Related Places

3

العلامات

• 16th c
• afif b. ezra
• disability
• disability: hearing
• disability: speaking
• (+ 14 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

4 Ḥeshvan [13]94 Seleucid (1082 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The rest of the document seems to detail his efforts to settle his accounts. On verso there is a Hebrew/Judaeo-Arabic glossary of Halakhot Gedolot.

Related Places

1

العلامات

• nahb
• prison

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 8 Iyyar [1411] Seleucid (19 April 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is not entirely clear who sues whom for what, but it seems that Yefet sues Yehuda for the remaining 30 dinars and 1 qirat owed to him from the balance of the accounts relating to the mint (Dār al-Ḍarb), and in the same court session Yehuda sues Yefet for an old debt of 121 remaining dinars out of an original debt of 145 dinars "from the days of the late judge (shofeṭ)."

Related People

5

Related Documents

2

العلامات

• customs
• mint

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

430 Hijrī (1039 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of the Qodesh in the hand of Yefet b. David b.

العلامات

• account
• communal
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reused for business accounts on verso in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef (according to Goitein's notes).

Related People

1

العلامات

• business dispute
• partnership

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

List of accounts that records alphanumerical monetary figures in connection with one "Shemuel al-Ashqar / שמואל אלאשקר" on the 19th of the month Shaʿbān, however, the year is not included in the recto's heading (l.1r).

Related Places

1

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر