List or table: AIU VII.D.72

List or table AIU VII.D.72

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AIU VII.D.72
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

Description

A list from a greengrocer or druggist? Or a shopping list? In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a crude or at least hasty hand. Many names of foods and herbs are given along with some people's names. Items include sumac, chard (salq), rue (sadhāb), green onion (baṣal akhḍar) or alternatively another kind of onion (baṣal [...]), mulūkhiyya, taḥīna, coriander, linseed oil (zayt hār), olive oil (zayt ṭayyib), honey ("from the kitchen/factory (maṭbakh) of Bū [...]"), saffron (followed by the name Bū Manṣūr), mastic (followed by the name Bū l-Faḍl), pepper (followed by the name Bū ʿAlī b. Bū Daʾūd), and cinnamon (followed by the name Saloman [sic!] al-ʿAṭṭār). In line three the writer seems to offer an option: "and if we/you think best (wa-in kān narāhu [or yarāhu?]... or mulūkhiyya...."

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Alliance Israélite Universelle
Historical shelfmarks
AIU VII D 72
Input date
In PGP since 2020
Alliance Israélite Universelle, AIU VII.D.72. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/30568/, accessed November 27, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/30568/