List or table: T-S J1.41 + T-S NS 321.7m

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Two bifolios from a ledger of accounts concerning ships departing from Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Appears closely related to ENA 3730.2 (PGPID 39645) dating to 1534/35 CE and ENA 2898.3 + ENA 2898.4 (PGPID 12533) dating to 1540 CE, but there are discrepancies of handwriting and spelling. See also JRL SERIES B 7663 (PGPID 40386). These fragments may all be from the same ledger but in the hand of two different scribes. Each page specifies a ship and its name or owner, its captain, its destination (4 for Istanbul, 1 for Antalya, 1 for somewhere in the Levant, and at least 1 undeciphered), the date of departure, the names of people associated with the ship, and commodities and their values. Commodities include pepper, sugar, indigo, and it seems slaves (עביד). Joins: Alan Elbaum and Matthew Dudley. T-S J1.41: Recto, left page: Headed, "The ship of Kara Muṣṭafā (קרא מוצטפא) leaving for Istanbul on 24 Rabīʿ [I]. The entries underneath mention: Ḥājj Luṭfī; sugar; slaves (? ʿabīd); Muḥammad; the securities (? amānāt) of the captain; Muṣṭafā; Qāsim al-[...]. Verso, right page: Headed, "The ship of [...] Çavuşoğlu (שאוש אוגלי) leaving for [...]q on 25 Rabīʿ I." The entries underneath mention: sugar; [...] b. Muṣṭafā; ʿAllān b. ʿAlī; Ḥasan b. [...]; Ḥasan b. Maḥmūd; the securities (?amānāt of Ḥājj Yūnus); Yūsuf b. [...]; Ḥusayn b. ʿIzz al-Dīn; the securities of Ḥājj Ḥusayn; somebody called sanjaqdār (standard bearer); and David Sheʾaltiʾel. Verso, left page: The heading is unclear (תעא . . . ). Entries include: Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn; Yūnus Raʾīs; Waliyy b. ʿAbdallāh; Piri(?) b. ʿAbdallāh; and several sailors (sg. baḥrī, pl. baḥriyya), some of whom are named. Recto, right page: Headed, "The ship of [...] raʾīs, leaving for Istanbul on 26 Rabīʿ I." Entries include: Ḥamza ʿUṣfūr; [...] Muḥammad; indigo, slaves(?), pepper; Aḥmad b. Sayyid; Muṣtafa Subaşı (סובשי), Ḥājj Aḥmad; Ḥājj Muḥammad; Kapitan (קאפיטאן) ʿAbd al-Laṭīf; and Mikhaʾel. T-S NS 321.7m: Verso, left page: Headed, "The ship of [...] with the captain Ḥasan (חסאן), leaving for בר אלשאם(??) on 5 Ṣafar. Entries underneath go on to mention ʿAḥmad Dawāʾiʿī(?); Muḥammad Buraymat(?); ʿAli b. [...]; ʿAbdallāh; Muhammad b. Aḥmad; ʿAli [...]; and others. Recto, right page: Headed, "The ship of Ḥājj Yūsuf [...] with the captain Muḥamamd Maṣlūq, leaving for Apulia(??) on 14 Ṣafar. Underneath entries mention: Yūsuf b. Raʾīs; Muḥammad b. Yūsuf; Ḥusayn; Ḥājj Piri; Piri ʿAlī; Jurjī Naṣrānī; someone titled bölükbaşı (בלוק בשי); Muḥammad; Yūnus; Mūsā; Piri Jumayl(?); Ramaḍān; Ḥusayn and Maḥmūd; Ibrāhīm; Ḥājj Qāsim; Muḥammad and Yaʿaqov; and others. Recto, left page: Headed, "The ship of Khayr al-Dīn, leaving for Istanbul on 14 Ṣafar." The next entry refers to sailors (בחרייה) and the unidentified term סרמייא. Then refers to the captains Khayr al-Dīn and one other person; Khalīl; Muḥammad; Yūsuf and his companions; Aḥmad Raʾīs; ʿAlī; and various other names. Verso, right page: Headed, "the ship of Ḥājj Muḥammad Buraymat (? בוריימת) with the captain Ḥusayn, leaving for Istanbul on 19 Ṣafar. The entries underneath mention: Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh; Mūsā and Baḥrām (underneath these names the term janissary / yeniçeri / יניגרי appears); Ḥamza; Yaʿaqov; and others.