State document: ENA 3941.4

State document ENA 3941.4

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ENA 3941.4
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Primary Language
Arabic

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Description

Official salary receipt issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated: Jumādā II 1239 AH (1824 CE). In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "This brief document is a receipt for a salary payment from the director of a silk factory in Alexandria to the gatekeeper (bawwāb) of the wakāla where the factory was probably located.... Ibrāhīm, the gatekeeper of the Wakālat al-Bīṭāsh, receives a salary of 20 pāras... from the grandee al-Ḥājj ʿUmar Agha, who is styled nāẓir anwāl al-ḥarīr, or supervisor of the silk looms." (Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah, 163)

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Alexandria

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Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 3941, f. 4; ENA 3941, fol. 4
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In PGP since 2017
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ENA 3941.4 recto

°
recto
Jane Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah (Open Book Publishers, 2026).

Recto

  1. وداعة
  2. من يد قدرة الاكابر وعمدة الاعيان ذو العز والشان حضرة
  3. سيدنا الامير المكرم الحاج عمر اغاه ناظر انوال الحرير لثغر سكندرية وذالك
  4. قبض ابراهيم بواب وكالة البيطاش نظير جمكيته المقييدة
  5. بديوان انوال الحرير بالثغر المذكور عن شهر جماد اخر سنة ١٢٣٩ تسعة وثلاثون 

Below

  1. شهر: ١
  2. عشرين
  3. بارة          غروش[؟]
  4.                  ستة
  5. ٢٠             ٦

Below

  1. ستة غروش رومي وبارة عشرين فقط لاغيير

 

 

Witness

  1. شهد بذالك
  2. احمد غانم الحجرةجي [؟]
  3. الزبيدي [؟]
Jane Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah (Open Book Publishers, 2026).

Recto

  1. Deposits

  2. from the hand of the exemplar of the great and support of

    the notables, of power and renown, his excellency

  3. our master the noble amīr al-Ḥājj ʿUmar Agha, supervisor of the silk looms for the port of Alexandria. That [amount]

  4. was collected by Ibrāhīm, the gatekeeper of Wakālat al- Bīṭāsh, as his salary, registered

  5. in the Bureau of Silk Looms in the aforementioned port for the month of Jumād[ā al-]Ākhir, the year 1239, thirty-nine [~ February 1824].

Below

  1. Month: 1
  2. twenty

  3. pāras      ghurūsh [?]

  4.                      six
  5. 20                  6

Below

  1. Six Rūmī ghurūsh and twenty pāras only, nothing else.

Witness

  1. Aḥmad Ghānim al-Zabīdī [?] the ḥücreci [?] (chamber-supervisor)

  2. bore witness to that.

ENA 3941.4 verso

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verso
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  • ENA 3941.4: Images provided by the Jewish Theological Seminary Library (JTSL) CC-Zero / Public Domain
Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 3941.4. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11247/ (accessed June 5, 2026).