List or table: T-S Ar.54.44

List or table T-S Ar.54.44

Metadata

Shelfmark
T-S Ar.54.44
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

What's in the PGP

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Description

Bifolio possibly from an account book of a druggist (ʿaṭṭār) or possibly the liquidation of a druggist's estate. Looks like the hand of Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. The names include: Azhar; Faḍāʾil al-Ḍarīr; Faḍāʾil the brother of the deceased; Abū l-Ḥasan al-Levi; Abū ʿAlī al-Parnas; Abū l-ʿIzz b. Nuʿmān; Abū l-Bayān al-Ḥazzan; Khalaf; Abū l-Faḍl al-Kohen; Munajjā b. Abū Saʿd; Abū Saʿīd; Ibn Faḍāʾil b. Nuʿmān; Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Faḍl; Abū Saʿīd; Maḥāsin b. al-Kohen. The goods include: madder (fuwwa); vessels (qumqum); sandalwood (ṣandal); containers (ʿilba); arsenic (zirnīkh); chests (ṣundūq); plums (qarāṣiya); potions (sharāb); antimony (rāsakht); litharge (martak); nutmeg (jawza); myrobalan (halīlaj, amlaj); aloeswood (ʿūd); camphor (kāfūr); pots (qaṣriyya); rose (ward); mahlab; costus; ṣandarūs; mastic; cardamom; and clove. The term qashsha (קשה) (scraps?) appears numerous times. (Information in part from Goitein's attached notes.)

Related People

Scribe
Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (uncertain)

Additional metadata

Provenance
Geniza
Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 54, fol. 44; TS Arabic Box 54, f. 44
Input date
In PGP since 2017
Image
Transcription
Translation

T-S Ar.54.44 1r

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1r

T-S Ar.54.44 1v

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1v
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