List or table: JRL C 183
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Booklet of jewelers' accounts, probably belonging to members of the Romano family in Cairo. The binding is still intact. Dated in the eighth image as [Dhū] l-Ḥijja 1220 AH (1806 CE), which the scribe mentioned as the starting point for a year's worth of accounts (so indirectly 1221 AH). Although most of the pages are blank, there are sporadic accounts with many details of transactions in precious gemstones, such as: "cut diamond [sold to] Muḥ[ammad]/Maḥ[mūd] Qabbānī," "pearl [sold to] Esther ʿAfiyya," "piece of emerald from Vida and ..la[?]." Many of the transactions mention the weight of each gemstone and some of the prices are astronomically high: "piece of emerald - 12,320 medin," "box of diamonds (ḥuqqat elmāṣ) – 38,000 medin," "pearl – 20,756 medin." Various members of the Romano family are mentioned in two headings and the heading in image 8 lists a year's worth of transactions involving "ha-R[av] N. (N[issim]?) Romano and his son(s)/daughter(s)," pointing to the likelihood that they were the jewelers to whom this account booklet belonged. MCD.
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