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Bifolio of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Distinctive hand and format. Refers to the nākhūdha ʿAlī (recto left side, l. 3), suggesting a connection …
No Scholarship Records
Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. The entry on the right side of the recto mentions a …
List in Judeo-Arabic of monetary amounts and calculations related the communal "chest / ארגז" of the Mustʿarabīm in the end of Nisan 5590 which is …
Detailed account of a kosher butcher from Fustat, specifying the various community officials and other persons to whom he had made payments of 7 dirhams …
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Accounts of ʿArūs b. Yosef. (Information from Goitein's index cards).
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Table giving the correspondences between Greek/Coptic numerals and letters of the Arabic alphabet (in the abjad order, considered as numerals). Verso contains recipes in Arabic.
Long list of contributors, in the handwriting of the judge Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. The bottom half of the right column on recto is in …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There is also a text block in Arabic script and sundry jottings.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on lined paper. Dated in multiple locations on the verso, with the clearest instance being Ṣafar [1]254 (1838 CE). Requires further examination.
Document in Arabic script, probably a private or official account. Reused on recto for a Hebrew text written with very poor spelling (phonetic). Needs examination.
Accounts in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic(?). Mentions the ship of איסטיפאני. Needs examination.
One side: Names in Judaeo-Arabic, including Isḥāq b. Bahā b. Bahā the uncle (ʿamm) of Manṣūr. The other side: Accounts in Arabic script, naming Rashīd …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions ginger.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerical figures. At least one currency is listed as "בנדוק / bunduq", which is the Venetian gold ducat, and based …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 8 Muharram 1267 AH which is 1850 CE. This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.
Fragment from the end of an account in Arabic script, maybe official. Concerning flour, mentioning 50 irdabbs. Phrases: ما تسلمه من دار المذكور وهـ[ـو] . …
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 or distribution list. Four columns per side. In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Coptic numerals. Well preserved. Dating: Looks late, perhaps no earlier than 14th …
Accounts listing a variety of names and corresponding quantities in Hebrew alphanumerals. Requires further examination. Late.
Accounts. Mentions people such as Mīkhāʾīl and goods such as mastic. Needs examination.
Recto: Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very cursive. Verso: List in Arabic script.
Accounts in Hebrew and Ladino.
List of legal works, including Saʿadya’s Sefer ha-ʿEdot ve-ha-Sheṭarot. The verso probably has part of the name of the author or the owner of the …
Business accounts in Arabic script and a few Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing various textiles/garments and prices in dirhams. Also mentions the ruqʿa of the banker (al-ṣayrafī).
On verso there are records of the birth of the boy Muḥammad (انشاه الله تعالى نشوا صالحا) on Thursday night 27 Dhū l-Qaʿda 904(?) AH …
List of foods and amounts: taro, egg, onion, chard and cilantro. Shopping list? Omelette recipe? ASE/MR
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20 pages of lists of names with some accounts, organized by days of weeks.
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. A jeweler notes jewelry brought, polished and repaired, and sold. Goitein notes, "important for study of profit." Mentions people such …
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Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent, ca. probably 1043. This record written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya still refers to "the four months" …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful! The list of what was collected of the arrears:
Suhayl, 4 months, 40 dir.
The sister of Sahlān, 3 (months), 15…
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12 pages of calendrical writing, with molad calculations and Islamic calendar conversions, for the first decade of the 19th century.
List of contributions, calligraphically written. With Greek/Coptic numerals. 32 names are preserved, of the type common among Jews at the end of the Middle Ages …
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Secondary use: business accounts in Arabic script, with some Hebrew mixed in (e.g. the name of the month Tevet as part of the dates in …
Late accounts. Dating: probably 16th-century, based on the paleography.
List of many important people (e.g. a lineage of the heads of Yeshivat Gaon Yaʿaqov) with family trees. "This is the ʿitra of al-Rayyis Abū …
Bifolio from an account ledger of a merchant. Refers to the sum contained in two purses (ṣurratayn) in the weight (sanja) of Alexandria: 151 dinars …
Accounts in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew script jottings. One of the Hebrew sections contains a name: "I wrote this for myself, the talmid (student/scholar) …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists many calendar dates, but possibly not the year. A ḥamām is mentioned in the third entry on …
List of communal contributions or perhaps "sales of wheat[?]" (עלם מביע קמח) for the year 5589 AM which is 1828/29 CE (התקפט). Although the year …
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and one line of Arabic). Mentions al-Qāʾid Abū l-Karam; Manṣūr al-Tinnīsī; al-Zaʿīmī; Abū l-Faraj; an amīr; Ghālib.
Accounts in an erratic scribal hand. Late. A dīwān is possibly mentioned in an entry along the lower edge of the recto and __gān Bāsha, …
List of account calculations in Judeo-Arabic designated on the verso according to months of the Hijri calendar. The paleography helps to estimate the dating of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with many abbreviations. Recto is headed "purchases on Sunday." Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. The unit of weight ʿidl (bale) is …
Fragment of a calendar in a red grid. Closely resembles (but not direct join with) BL OR 10578C.44.
Recto: 1) Draft of the opening of a letter to a dignitary (al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-jamālī) 2) Accounts (table of names with numbers). Verso: Arabic …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Recto: Much effaced list of donors to charity. With one exception all called by their first names. Nineteen pledges of at least twenty-two persons. (Information …
Practice of drafting a state document, Ottoman-era. Probably an instance of someone practicing an epistolary address to the Ottoman Sultan rather than an honorific of …
Small folio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Alexandria. Very faded and damaged.
Late list of foodstuffs and amounts in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems with some Hebrew too. Items named include oil, honey, taḥina (? spelled with a tav), …
Document(s) in Arabic script. Possibly business accounts. Needs examination.