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Accounts related to maritime shipping. The dating is likely 1530s-1540s CE based on a variety of related fragments in the same scribal hand tagged in …
No Scholarship Records
Minute account fragment in wariq dirhams. Medieval-era. The lower entry may mention olive oil. Requires further examination.
Bifolio of Hebrew piyyuṭ. On the righthand page of recto there are circled accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions savin (abhul), sandarac (sandarūs), alum …
Late accounts in Arabic, possibly a bifolio from a broader defter. One of the account headings on the verso mentions al-ṣarrāf. Merits further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Cairo. May even give a year, but needs further examination.
Small note written on a piece of parchment, of a book copyist, describing a copy of Talmud Eruvin composed of 13 pamphlets , each composed …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. List of dozens of items for a druggist's store. Quantities and prices (the latter in Greek/Coptic numerals). Items include Indian myrobalan and …
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Recto: Accounting of the Qodesh (in the hand of Yefet b. David?). Dating: probably ca. 1040s CE. Listing the expenditures of the parnas Abū Yosef …
Interesting accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, partly in the first person ("Friday: baṭṭāl. Sunday: I went out. . . "). Mentions 'ghilmān al-ṣāḥib', provender for a donkey …
Very damaged account in Arabic script. Probably late.
Large list with entries in Hebrew. 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Accounts in an orderly scribal hand on a bifolium whose folding and size is suggestive of the existence of a broader ledger (from which there …
Accounts in Arabic script.
Late accounts. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Of the minimal text available the name Muṣtafa is legible.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. Mentions several baked goods and associated items: bread (khubz), cake (kaʿk), raisins, taḥīna, qaṭāʾif.
Verso: On verso there is a list of names and Greek/Coptic numerals, with R. Avraham as the title at the top; likely a contributions list.
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Makārim al-N[...]; the Qodesh; a house; sums collected; payments for two months to the collector of ground tax …
Strings of Greek/Coptic numerals. It is possible that these are intended to spell out words (other documents are known that use Coptic numerals as an …
Book list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Most of the entires are the biblical commentaries of Ibn Balʿam (d. ca. 1070). Saadya's Sefer ha-Galuy also appears.
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List, mainly of women's names. E.g. bint al-ṬZ[...], bint Zekharya, bint al-BLN[...]. Recto is in a different hand.
Recto: List of names and numbers (written out in words) in Arabic script. Purpose unclear. On verso a list of names in Judaeo-Arabic: "The house …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Messier than usual (which is saying a lot). Dating: late 11th or early 12th century. Mentions Abū …
Writing exercises in both Hebrew and Arabic script, with a fascinating array of drafts and calligraphic practice across both languages. The ink and penstrokes appear …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, based on currencies, which include גדיד (cedid) and קרונה (the latter is likely the Spanish escudo minted as early as …
Book list, many described by their opening section rather than title, perhaps belonging to R. Yiṣḥaq (see bottom of verso). Ibn Maymūn is listed as …
Large bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, difficult early modern scribal hand. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The main heading on the recto …
Large (private) account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The name Abū Isḥāq appears at the top of verso.
Page from a communal register of contributions. Dated Vayelech Parsha (=29 Elul) 5559 AM which is September 1799.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The first section of accounts on the recto lists "people" collectively in …
Accounts of a banker. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small sums. Mentions Abū Yaʿaqov; Yosef b. Simḥa; and Abū l-Khayr. Merits examination for understanding the procedure by which …
Book list. Location: Bilbays.
List of names and numerical figures on recto, with accounts continued on the verso in a more concise format. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Verso might be a continuation; contains cryptic lists of numbers.
Bifolio of business accounts, probably. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
List of accounts(?) with many alphanumerical figures and some names. Medieval era. Most of the entries on the verso are crossed out. Requires further examination.
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic headed "God is the repayer" (al-wāfī Allāh). Names Hibat Allāh (1/2); Bū Saʿd (1/2 + 1/8); Nafīs (1/4); Yosef (1/4 + …
Jottings including business accounts
List of donors to charity, in large characters, apparently destined for display, 6 persons under the heading 'Sunday' and another 10 under the heading 'Wednesday.' …
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Lines of Coptic numerals, some rows crossed out.
List of 31 contributors in Arabic and Coptic numerals (1, 1 1/2, 2 2 1/2, 3, 4 4 1/2, 5, 8, 9) but no denominations …
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Recto: late note concerning financial matters. Verso: accounts.
Late accounts, listing sales of garments and syrups, mostly to Yaʿaqov ʿAṭias, Yūsuf Seviliah, and Avraham al-Darʿī.
Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Bifolio of business accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Extremely neat and legible. The entries on verso mention payments to an embroiderer (muṭṭariz) and repairer of …
Booklist. Dating: Likely 11th century, since the latest author mentioned is Hayya Gaon (d. 1038).
Accounts, probably.
Accounts mentioning months and some numbers. Also a drawing. Late
Large list, probably 18th or 19th c, of names and numbers arranged according to holidays and shabbatot, perhaps charitable donations pledged/received.
Small fragment of accounts, maybe official.