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Late account for a certain Tuesday, listing names and numbers. Names include "the slave; Abū [...]; Barakāt; his father; [...]; Abū Bakr; Anwār."
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Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic. Medieval-era.
List of donors to charity on the back of piece of vellum (fragment of an ancient marriage contract), headed by Avraham 'The Cherished,' al-sagul. This …
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Recto (secondary use): Accounts in neat Arabic script, mentioning various names such as Menaḥem, Salmān al-Qazzāz, Umm Hiba, and Ibn al-Jārūd(?), and sums in dirhams, …
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Verso: note of a merchant reporting his sale of commodities in ʿAydhāb in the month of Adar II 1440 Seleucid = February/March 1129 CE. Commodities …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions the month of Dhū l-Qaʿda. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Begins with the glyph. A house was apparently sold by [...] b. Nuṣayr. On the facing page there …
Accounts in Ladino.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
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 …
Verso: Memorial list in the hand of ʿEli b. ʿAmram, who was the head of the Palestinian congregation in Fustat 1055–66, but apparently already active …
Small fragment with grid in red and black ink and unidentified text in Arabic script.
Karaite declaration of a debt owed by two partners to a third person.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unclear if state or private.
Long list of names in several columns, containing over 75 names followed by the letters alef, beth and daleth, including Yehuda and Yaʿaqov Ashkenazi, Avraham …
Mysterious document. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are two lines of Judaeo-Arabic poetry about "ahl al-hawā." There follows the Hebrew alphabet. There follow three lists of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listed throughout the recto and verso of the bifolo, very difficult scribal hand. Medieval-era. Requires further examination
Accounts in a common hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef), mentioning names such as Abū ʿImrān, al-Rūmī and Abū Saʿd. (Information in part from …
Distribution of 150 pounds of bread to 39 households, in the same hand as T-S Misc.8.61. The large number of households receiving 3 loaves was …
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Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as the wife of Ibn al-Malīḥ(?) (in connection to a gold needle); Abū Isḥāq; …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating unknown (maybe ~13th or 14th century). Having to do with capitation tax collection and delivery? Several entries on …
Table of numbers. In Hebrew script. Unclear significance.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions sal ammoniac (nushādir, here spelled nushaḍir / נשאצ̇ר).
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Account of items with quantity and value (Fāyiẓ[?]) – 16 April 1933CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 262) – in Arabic. (information from …
Very neat accounts in Arabic script. Probably Ottoman-era. Mentions al-Qāḍī Muṣṭafā.
Business accounts in Hebrew, might be late.
List in Hebrew with at least one Ladino word (פיקוס), mentioning a diwan and sums of money. The exact meaning of the term "fico/pico" is …
Minute fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions some words (al-khayr... al-barakāt... Allāh...), all of which might be part of names. On verso …
Mathematical table in Coptic numerals. MR
Accounts related to real estate rentals and other properties in Cairo. Dated on the recto as 1 Heshvan 5319 AM which is 1558. This reading …
List in Arabic, perhaps accounts. Very damaged and faded. Requires further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Large account in Arabic script, possibly state-related. Needs examination.
Large bifolio of accounts, perhaps from the same scribe as T-S AS 185.158 (PGPID 39885). Dating is likely 16th-17th-century based on the paleography and, crucially, …
Mainly literary. At the bottom of verso there is a list of names: Avraham, Yaʿaqov, Netanʾel, ʿAmram, Ḥalfon, Yefet ha-...]; Ṭahor, Elʿazar, Moshe, Ṭahor. Dating: …
Accounts (list of items) in a mixture of Hebrew, Ladino, and Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Bill of lading for a shipment of pearl (luʾluʾ) and satin (zaytūnī) intended for Nahray b. Nissim. Possibly from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from Goitein’s …
Headed 'Still owed by the people,' this is the upper part of a long list of persons who had not yet made good their donor …
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List in Arabic that offers an inventory and other information for a variety of food and household items such as beans, honey, watermelon, sugar, charcoal, …
Notes on communal expenditures, with a summation of first five lines: 82.5 dirhams, besides the capitation tax. Also some names of notables: al-Samawʾal, al-Nafīs, probably …
Mercantile account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. "Notice of what I copied for al-Mahdiyya with [...] with Maʿālī as agent for Abū Saʿīd …
Table in Judaeo-Arabic. Accounts of some kind. Payments to a communal official? Line 2 reads "ketubbot and sheṭarot: 1 1/4."
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, late. Mentioning a variety of names, such as: Esther Medina, ʿAbd al-Rāhīb Mūsa, ʿAbdallah Mūsa, Yaʿaqov Barqī, among others. Requires further examination. …
First-person business accounts in Arabic script. Mentions several names and commodities. Refers to "the wax/candle sellers from ʿAsqalān" (al-ʿasāqila al-shammāʿīn).
Small fragment from a list of commodities. Mentions something Idnian (hindī); mentions sugar.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Account in Ladino that offers a wide array of financial entries and a detailed passage across the upper recto, which states: "לו] קי טייני קובראדו …
Book list. Dating: Likely 12th century, as none of the books listed are later than that.
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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto mentions: what Abū l-Faḍl is owed by Sitt Abū l-Surūr (two raṭls of lāsīn); silk; Ibn …