List or table: ENA NS 74.18

List or table ENA NS 74.18

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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand from the 16th-19th centuries with entries designated according to the "masruf / expenses" of individual people such as Mu'allam Muḥammad (l. 1v). On the recto quantities of coinage in Ottoman cedid are listed as well as goods such as wax and eggs. There is also mention of a "muhtasib / מחטסב" a market overseer in the Ottoman empire whose significance is also widely attested in scholarship regarding the medieval economy. MCD.

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ENA NS 74.18 1

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ENA NS 74.18 2

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