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Private commercial accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Tall bifolio. The upper left entry of recto may refer to "the kārdār" in which case this …
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Recto (secondary use): Statement of sums due to Shelomo b. ʿAzzūn from Faraḥ b. ʿAṭṭiya for a banker’s note. Lists payments made with cash, with …
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Late accounts, fairly well-preserved. A partial year is visible on the recto _٧٧(?) or the scribe may have intended the ligature under ٧٧ as the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a small bifolio. The usage of Ottoman kurush makes it possible to estimate the dating as 18th- or 19th-century. The entries …
Memorial list for people from a prominent kohanim family. Shemuʾel/Yisrael ha-kohen starts the list. Then his son Meshullam and then Netanel. The next entry is …
Accounts, mentions various sums. Needs examination.
Recto (secondary use): Brief accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Bū l-Isḥāq b. al-Amshāṭī, Ibn al-Dihqān, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Rawwād, and Ibn al-Muṭrib.
Book list. Contains some unique entries such as כתאב פי אלחמש קראן פי רק מדהב = pentateuch (here קראן is מקרא) on a golden leaf. …
IB III, 27. Three sundry accounts written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in Yemen. Dating: 1140–44, 1149–1152.
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List of names and books that mentions Rabbi Yiṣḥaq Berab (החכם יצחק בירב), Avraham Ashkenazi, Avraham b. Alashqar. The paleography of this source helps to …
Small list, probably an inventory of books, containing the name Saʿadya and Mishna Zeraʿim. (Information from CUDL)
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Upper fragment: Grocery accounts in Arabic script. Mentions raisins, leeks, pigeon, eggs. Written on the back of a fragment of Judaeo-Arabic literary text.
List of materia medica, containing simples such as anise, galingale and mint. (Information from CUDL)
Business account in Arabic script. Maybe from a druggist. Very detailed. Mentions names such as al-Fakhr, Abū l-Khayr, Manṣūr, Saʿd, and Abū ʿAlī. Mentions commodities …
28 pages of communal and financial and legal records. Pages 1 and 14 are registers of deaths, one on page 14 dated 1661/1662 CE (5422 …
List of communal funds dated 1651 (Iyyar 5411 AM) that may relate to stipends allotted for Torah study given the fact that the verso mentions …
Small fragment of accounts, probably. Mentions the term "mablagh."
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the columns is headed "dār al-murabbaʿa." There are entries for construction expenses (e.g., rubbish collection (ramy …
Accounts with many different names listed by corresponding quantities in Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly communal. The dating is likely 15th- or 16th- century based on the …
List of payments made on a Thursday. In addition to the usual expenditure for bread, salaries, and extras, the official twice paid 3/4 dirhams to …
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Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known (Nahray b. Nissim?). Verso is rich in details of commodities and …
Substantial fragment of an elaborate, calligraphic calendar, in Hebrew, giving corespondences between the Hebrew and Islamic calendars. A year does not appear anywhere, but it …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing names and sums. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century, may be much later. Currency: fulūs. Mentions names such as R. …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions people such as Ibrāhīm al-Ṣayrafī and the brother-in-law of Abū l-Manṣūr. Mentions the jāliya, blanket/cloak (malḥafa), natron, …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic giving the value of something that was sold in Alexandria, probably mercury (ziʾbaq).
Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused for Hebrew pen trials.
Verso: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Menaḥem, Majd b. אלעזריזי(??), a scribe and judge (al-sofer al-dayyan), Sason, Ibn al-מדור, Hilāl the blind (al-ḍarīr), Bū …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is probably known (Nahray b. Nissim?).
Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: Looks somewhat late, perhaps 14th or 15th century (with names like al-muʿallim Farajallāh).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The lower section of writing on the verso may be the remnant of a letter address or a draft: "from Rīshd(!) …
List of accounts and calculations in Judeo-Arabic related to the weight, value, and prices of "raisins / זביב" (l. 3r, 8r) and other goods. Given …
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1055. Mentions silk from Sicily and Spain. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #278) VMR
בסם אללה אלעצים שרח ביע אלשש אלמבארך אלואצל פי סנה תמ[ ]
מן דלך עלי חיי כט רטל ⟦תנקץ טו דרה⟧ מקשר סער כ קיר אלרטל בלא געל
אלתמן כד דינ ⟦…
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Private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, many of the entries express different prices and garments. Dating: 11th-13th century. Mentions Bayān al-ʿAṭṭār. May mention "qibṭiyya" (Coptic) after two …
Document(s) in Arabic script. Possibly business accounts. Needs examination.
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Lists various types of currency (real baṭāqa, maḥābīb of different kinds) together with eastern Arabic numerals. One of the numerical figures …
List of items and sums. Commercial. Mentions the name Faraj several times. Jars (Ar. jarra) are mentioned several times. Several entries are circled.
Accounts, probably
Possibly a business account in Arabic script. Looks late. May also mention Hippocrates (Buqrāṭ).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as ʿAṭiyya al-Dallāl and Wafāʾ b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Difficult hand. Possibly late.
Booklist in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli, numbered, mentioning the titles and the number of volumes. Among the works listed are a Mishna, …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. (Information from CUDL.)
Small fragment of an account in Arabic script, maybe fiscal. On recto there is Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a document in Arabic script. Narrow vertical strip. Probably accounts based on the numerals on verso. The word ṣāḥibuhū also appears.
IB III, 23. Detailed accounts written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in India. Dating: 1132–39, 1145–49.
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Table of strings of letters in Hebrew script, with the corresponding Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentioning Abū l-Faraj and maqṭaʿ cloths several times; also flax.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Yaʿqūb and Abū l-Riḍā. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen?
List on a small slip of paper, 22 names of indigent persons, mostly women. The first three are in T-S NS J239v (Information from Mediterranean …
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