List or table: T-S Ar.39.79

Description

Contributors' list. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. 3 columns, 34 contributions. 27 give 1/4 (probably of a dirham) and 7 give 1/2. Two persons are called "son of the midwife," but are not listed together. Two others, also separated from each other, "son of the [female] dressmaker." A third pair, not listed together, nushādirī, "dealer in sal ammoniac." The list may have been a collection at a wedding (e.g., for cantors or musicians), when different members of the same families were present. Some persons, like Yiṣḥaq b. Nisan, are also in T-S K15.62. The name al-Ḥinnāwī ("dealer in henna") appears also in T-S K15.34. (Information from Goitein, Med Soc II, Appendix C, #131.)