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Accounts for 54 dirhams (not 64 as per Goitein) received by the collector (called Sulayman ha-Levi), plus 30 donated by Avraham the Pious (d. 1223) …
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List of Ottoman sultans (אלה שמות מלכי האוסמאנלסים אשר מלכו עד היום). In Hebrew and western Arabic numerals. There is a comment after Sulaymān II …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a very rudimentary hand. There is also a text block in Arabic script and alphabetic jottings on verso.
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script.
Arabic account - needs examination. Various entries beginning "bi-rasm....", including an amīr: Fayrowz. Possibly also "muʿālaja" (treatment by a physician?). Also mentions bi-dayr al-sharīf Bin …
Accounts on recto and verso, some of which list the weights of goods. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions al-Mahdiyya and ʿAllān. In the hand …
Bifolio from the account book of a real estate broker who also kept some agricultural property. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1233–36 CE. Names mentioned: the children …
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Small fragment of accounts in Hebrew script. Late. Mentions the currency אספרוש (aspros).
List of names, under two columns מצר (Cairo) and בולאק (بولاق , Boulaq or Būlāq, the northern river port of early modern Cairo (Maṣr al-Qadīma/Fustat …
Fragment of a commercial account in Arabic. Probably originally a much larger piece of paper. There are two columns of text on both recto and …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Damietta.
Table in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Accounts?
Lefthand fragment: Blessing for the circumcision of a boy. In Hebrew. Gives several names. But it is quite faded.
Memorial list, probably. List several kohanim.
Goitein describes this list as: 'Distribution of about 430 loaves of bread, weighing 450 pounds, to 104 households on the Friday before the Fast of …
In the name (of God)
Friday the 8th of the month of
Av, may its mourning be turned into joy.
Dispensed to the poor, may God …
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Verso: Beginning of accounts of expenses for building operations. For recto, see separate record. (Information from Goitein’s index card and CUDL.)
Accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals, written in multiple hands.Mentions: Mufaḍḍal b. [...]; a half qinṭār of myrrh; Abū l-Faḍl …
List of payments in Judaeo-Arabic dated as 14 Shvat 5595 or 13 February 1835CE. In both headings on the recto and verso Ḥayyim Griyani is …
IB III, 58. Memorial list for the family of Yosef b. Perahya Yiju, Egypt, early thirteenth century.
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Folio from a communal register, late. See tag.
Mercantile accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
List of quantities of gold dinar and other currencies (perhaps "wariq" on verso). Medieval era.
Bifolio of commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving silk. The term צפקה seems to be used as a unit of measure. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Recto: list of names, including Ibn Ḥusayn al-Sharābī, Abū l-Khayr, Abū Naṣr, Abū Saʿīd, Abū l-Kathīr and Ibn al-Kohen; Hebrew numerals. Verso: unidentified Arabic document. …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script.
List of houses and their owners. Dating: Probably 13th century, based on the hand and the names. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: List of names. In Judaeo-Arabic, followed by quantities of grain in waybāt. Very faded. Names include Abū l-Surūr; Abū Zikrī b. Moshe; Abū ʿImrān; …
Lists of food items and calligraphic signature practice by a certain Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi. 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Small fragment of an account in Arabic script, maybe fiscal. On recto there is Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Late accounts. On the recto the title al-qādi appears as part of the only full account listed. Based on the scribal hand, this document is …
Memorial lists.
Accounts. In Hebrew script. Partially in Judaeo-Arabic (אלחאל חסאב פרוצהם), but maybe also with some Judaeo-Persian. The names would have unusual spellings if this were …
List of recipients of charity, including the wife ('bayt') of a warraq (bookseller), and a khayyat (tailor). In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Mentioning days of the week and small sums of dirhams, including nuqra dirhams.
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Hajji Ali Bek.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Neatly arranged. Mentions Yaḥyā; builders; and woodworkers (khashshāb). On verso payments arranged according to days of the week.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? Dating: 12th century. Mentions people such as Abū l-Qāsim, al-Neʾeman, al-Ḥemdat and Shemuel al-Ṣiqillī. Mentions commodities such …
Accounts in Arabic script. On verso there is a literary text in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
List of goods with weights expressed in raṭl. Medieval-era. Some of the goods listed are olibanum/frankincense (לבאן) and purging cassia (כ[יא]ר שנבר). The verso contains …
Late accounts of properties of three men, David, Sulaymān and Yiṣḥaq
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on lined notebook paper, in some cases with a pencil rather than ink. Dating: Probably 19th century. Currencies: qirsh and qirsh …
Verso: Private accounts in Arabic script. Mentioning commodities such as myrtle, costus, labdanum, mastic, saffron, and quantities thereof.
Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions silk; Ṣāfī; pepper.
Brief list in Arabic with labeled numerical values. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet. On the verso a partial date is offered in the heading with the day of the week "יום ג" …
Accounts of a book dealer. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Hebrew script. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1556 Seleucid, which is October 1244 CE. Including …
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List of names, goods, and numbers. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Abū Isḥāq; a white liḥāf; ʿAlī b. al-Qaṭāʾif, …
List of names, probably contributions or revenue for the poor. Including: Mentions Abū Naṣr; Bayān; Makārim; al-Ṣanīʿa; Abū l-Manṣūr; Ibn al-Kātib; Maʿānī; darb al-mugharbilīn; Isḥāq; …