List or table: T-S K25.140.1

List or table T-S K25.140.1

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Shelfmark
T-S K25.140
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Bifolio from a ledger of accounts. One page contains a list of names; another two pages contain Hebrew poetry along with various jottings. The fourth page consists of Judaeo-Arabic accounts, probably of a broker in the slave trade. Dated: Ramaḍān '70 AH. Based on the handwriting, reasonable candidates for the year are 970, 1070, or 1170 AH (corresponding to 1563, 1660, or 1757 CE). There are 5 entries. The currencies are not named, and the financial accounting is not entirely clear. (1) Buyer: al-Ḥajj Yāqūt. Seller: Shāma bt. Aṣīl al-Dimyāṭī the agent of [...] Fāṭima. Slave: A black woman named Dāma l-Surūr. (2) Buyer: Muṣṭafā b. Raṣīl(?). Seller: Yūsuf b. ʿAbdallāh. Slave: A black woman named Mubāraka. (3) Buyer: ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh. Seller: Not named? Slave: An Abyssinian man named Rayḥān. (4) Buyer: Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdallāh. Seller: Asmāʾ Tamʿa(?). Slave: A black woman named Ḥasbī Allāh. Apparently the purchase was completed without cash. (5) Buyer: Ḥusayn al-Rūmī. Seller: al-Ḥājj Abū Naṣr b. Muḥammad. Slave: A black woman named ʿAdīla or ʿUdayla.

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Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Box K, 25, fol. 140.1; TS Box K, 25, f. 140.1; TS K, 25, fol. 140.1;TS K, 25, f. 140.1;T-S K25.140.1
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In PGP since 2021
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T-S K25.140 1r

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1r

T-S K25.140 1v

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1v

T-S K25.140 2r

2r

T-S K25.140 2v

2v
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S K25.140. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/34879/ (accessed June 10, 2026).