List or table: BL OR 10599.27

List or table BL OR 10599.27

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A list of dozens of names arranged in two columns per side. Prefaced with "the names of the households who are invited (? maʿzūma)." Some professions are listed and with further research the names of many community members: R. Yiṣḥaq Beirav, Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar, Efrayim al-Ḥāmī, Moshe Dammūhī, and others. The latter individual R. Moshe Dammūhī was a communal leader of the Mustaʿrib congregation of Cairo known from a variety of other sixteenth-century documents (T-S 8J8.23 PGPID 16227; T-S NS 99.59 PGPID 19852). MCD.

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