List or table: ENA 1177.64

List or table ENA 1177.64

Metadata

Shelfmark
ENA 1177.64
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

What's in the PGP

  • Image

Description

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The goods listed include several garments, some of silk. Values are given in terms of the currency "ḥarf." This term for a currency is known from Yemen from at least the 16th century onward: see R. B. Serjeant, The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast (London, 1963), pp. 145f. There is some ambiguity as the ḥarf aḥmar or ḥarf dhahab aḥmar was a gold coin, presumed to be a name for the ashrafī and sometimes the sequin, whereas plain "ḥarf" was a name for a copper coin of low value. The goods listed in this account seem more likely to have been sold for gold ḥurūf instead of copper ones. But merits further attention. ASE.

Tags

Additional metadata

Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 1177, f. 64; ENA 1177, fol. 64
Input date
In PGP since 2017
Image
Transcription
Translation

ENA 1177.64 1

°
1

ENA 1177.64 2

°
2
Image Permissions Statement
  • ENA 1177.64: Images provided by the Jewish Theological Seminary Library (JTSL) CC-Zero / Public Domain
Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 1177.64. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/12719/ (accessed June 6, 2026).