List or table: T-S NS J221

List or table T-S NS J221

Shelfmark: T-S NS J221

Document Date: Tishrei 1531 Seleucid (September 1219 CE)

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Communal records, perhaps defective, consisting in payments to specified persons (all in promissory notes, ruq'a), to three officials, for bread, and for the transport of palm branches (for Sukkot). Sept. 24, 1219, two days before the first Sukkot holiday. (b) Complete accounts of revenue and expenditures on Sept. 29, 1219, the eve of the concluding Sukkot holiday (officials, bread, some needy persons). (MR Cohen: hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) [(c) = App A 152 an addition in Arabic characters in which a lazzām, or revenue farmer, leases a vineyard from the community against a weekly payment of 10 dirhams. Normally one would expect yearly or half-yearly, but in that period (1219), when the community was always short of funds, weekly revenue, even though small, was welcome (Mediterranean Society, II, p. 430)]. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 452, App. B 48)

Collection: Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Input date: In PGP since 2017

How to cite this record:: Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S NS J221. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/4657/, accessed November 23, 2024.
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