List or table: CUL Or.1080 J104
List or table CUL Or.1080 J104Tags
Description
Account of the Qodesh: payments to building workers, ca. 1045. Two fragments written in Arabic script, on vellum, the verso of a letter. Apparently, this was an intiial record of the names of the people and the itemized list for the day on which work was done, to serve as a basis for payment and the final recording. The names seem to be of both Muslims and Copts. The record covers a period of about five months, from the beginning of July to the end of November, 1045. Gil's interpretation is that the work was done at the compound of al-rayis, by which a notable of the congregation was mean. The sums due aare not mentioned since there were set rates according to professional grade. Some of the workers are sani'in, which seems to mean here the more skilled masons; some banna'in masons; there is also a sabi, an apprentice. The only payment recorded is of one dinar, which was probably an advance. The handwriting seems to be of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp.208 #30)
Edition: Gil, Moshe
Translation: Gil, Moshe (in English)
CUL Or.1080 J104 1v
Transcription
Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).I
- بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم
- اثبات ما عملو صناع [
- ]يوم اﻻثنين الذى ثلثه عشر من ذى الحجه [
- وهو اليوم الثالث لعيد اﻻضحى
- صانعين اسم الواحد عبد ا[لله
- يوم الثلثا صانعين الرايس
- يوم اﻻربعا صانعين الرايس
- ويم اﻻثنين الذى هو عش[رون من ذى الحجه
- صانعين اسم الواحد[
- يوم الثلثا صانعين [
- يوم اﻻربعا صانعين ابو غالب وابو الخير
- يوم الخميس صانعين ابو غالب وابو الخير
- يوم الجمعه صانعين ابو غالب وابو الخير
- يوم الثلثا ﻻربعه عشر خلت من المحرم من سنه سبع وثلثين
- صانع واحد وهو الرقروق
- يوم اﻻثنين اﻻحد وعشرين خلت من المحرم من سنه سبع وثلثين
- بنا واحد وهو اليمن الشماس
- [يوم] الثلثا صانع واحد وهو ابو الي[من] الش[ماس]
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عند جعفر البنا دينار واحد
II
- صان]ع واحد وهو [
- يوم الخمي]س صانع واحد وهو ابو اليمن الشماس
- يوم الجم]عه صانع وهو ابو اليمن الشماس
- يوم اﻻرب]عا الذى هو ثمانيه عشر من صفر سنه سبع وثل واربعه مائه
- ابو ا]لسرور البنا ثلثه ايام متواليه الثلثا واﻻربعا والخم[يس
- ]ار جمله ما عملو(!) صناع
- ارب[عه وعشرين صانع
- ] دار [ ] حق اربعه
- الباقى له الى يوم الجمعه الذى هو
- عشرين من صفر صانع واحد اسمه [
- ]طاهر النجار يوم الجمعه لسبعه غشر خلت من جمادى اﻻولى
- وله من اﻻيام يوم الخميس ويوك الجمعه عمل معه
- ]يوم الخميس الصبى جعفر وعمل معه يوم الجمعه
- ] طاهر الحلبى (?) [
Translation
Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).I, verso
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In the Name of God, the merciful:
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Record of the work done by the special masons….
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.......... Monday, 13 Dhūʾl-ḥijja,
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the 3rd day of ʿĪd al-aḍḥā:
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2 special masons, one of them named ʿAbdallah….
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Tuesday, 2 special masons at al-Raʿīs.
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Wednesday, 2 special masons at al-Raʿīs.
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Monday, the 20th of Dhūʾl-ḥijja,
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2 special masons, one of them named ....
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Tuesday, 2 special masons ..
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Wednesday, 2 special masons, Abū Ghālib and Abūʾl-Khayr.
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Thursday, 2 special masons, Abū Ghālib and Abūʾl-Khayr.
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Friday, 2 special masons, Abū Ghālib and Abūʾl-Khayr.
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Tuesday, the 14th of al-Muḥarram of the year [4]37,
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1 special mason, namely Raqrūq.
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Monday, 21 of al-Muḥarram of the year [4]37,
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1 mason, namely al-Yumn al-Shammās.
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Tuesday, 1 special mason, namely Abūʾl-Yumn al-Shammās.
I, verso (margin)
Paid to Jaʿfar, the mason, 1 dinar.
CUL Or.1080 J104 1r
CUL Or.1080 J104 2r
CUL Or.1080 J104 2v
