List or table: T-S Ar.39.10

List or table T-S Ar.39.10

Metadata

Shelfmark
T-S Ar.39.10
Document Date
Primary Languages
Arabic
Greek/Coptic Numerals
Judaeo-Arabic

Description

Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. It seems payment to workers (ʿummāl). On verso there is a note in Judaeo-Arabic documenting a debt (25 of something) owed to Barakāt from Hiba b. [...]. Also mentions the cantor Bū l-Majd (aka Meir b. Yakhin). Dated: Beginning of Elul 1524 Seleucid, which is 1213 CE. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

Additional metadata

Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 39, f. 10; TS Arabic Box 39, fol. 10
Input date
In PGP since 2017
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Ar.39.10. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/8229/ (accessed June 5, 2026).