List or table: T-S Ar.30.34

List or table T-S Ar.30.34

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Shelfmark
T-S Ar.30.34
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

Description

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions people such as 'the woman' (al-sitt); Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn Siqbāl al-Andalusī; Barakāt Ibn Shūʿa; "my cousin (ibn ʿammī) Yiṣḥaq; and 'the woman the daughter of al-Kharazī.' Lists both credits and debits. Concerns a wide range of commodities, from household goods to garments to foods and materia medica (e.g., sumac, chebulic myrobalan, a preserve, qāqullā, rhubarb) to gems (e.g., a ruby worth 2 dinars) and gold (e.g., unminted washed gold (dhahab maghzūl, i.e. maghsūl)). (Information in part from Baker/Polliack catalogue.)

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Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 30, f. 34; TS Arabic Box 30, fol. 34
Input date
In PGP since 2019
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Ar.30.34. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/20435/, accessed November 23, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/20435/