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ENA NS 83.15, recto: Fragment of a text in taʿlīq script, possibly documentary. The keyword عرض is repeated at least twice and the final line …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The heading on the verso possibly mentions a tax farmer (multezim). The scribal hand is idiosyncratic and thus requires further examination …
Accounts
List of weights and quantities of pepper, ginger, and perhaps other goods, medieval--era. MCD.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Narrow bifolium. In a rudimentary hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Many names of commodities and people.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text; probably a contributors list. Mentions [Abū l]-Faḍl; [Abū l-]Karam Ibn al-Mūrid; Futūḥ; and Ibn Nufayʿ. Verso: unidentified Arabic text; probably from …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including construction expenditures. Late.
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 and Greek/Coptic numerals. Crude hand (probably same as T-S AS 186.97 (PGPID 39928)). Mentions Abū Manṣūr; a ruqʿa sums in nuqra dirhams; …
Account.
Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals that can be dated as c.1732 CE through the joins ENA NS 39.2 and ENA NS 27.7. Some …
Accounts in Hebrew script. In Judaeo-Persian? Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century.
Lists of names in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Upper margin of verso and recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
List of names of those present at the sermons and preaching offered at a collective meeting of rabbis from Yemen and Persia – Bassatine Cemetery …
Synagogue/communal document. Dated: 5554 AM, which is 1793/94 CE. Lists of parshiyot and names (e.g. Frances, Yaʿaqov Aripol, Ḥayyim b. Hini, and dozens more).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Abū l-Faḍl; ʿIzz al-Dīn; ʿUmar; Aḥmad; al-Ṣāyigh; Yūsuf. Possibly mentions pepper (filfil). Reused for Hebrew poetry/prayers.
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 …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Some names are listed: Manṣūr Saʿadī, Aḥmad Bu-Beys[?], Budeyr al-Ashrek[?]. This document is from a larger set of accounts and is …
Recto (secondary use): Mentions 16 "golden dirhams" which seems oxymoronic and may help with dating. Also mentions nuqra dirhams.
Secondary use: Memorial lists in Hebrew. The most noteworthy section is the middle one with a portion of the Yiju family tree together with a …
Recto: Memorial list, headed 'Yisraelim.'
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of a prolific scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs.
Accounts in Hebrew script and western Arabic numerals. Late.
This document lists the differences between the Palestinian and Babylonian calendars in the years 921/2–923/4CE. The purpose of this text is unclear, but it confirms …
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List of donations or communal payments in Judeo-Arabic for the Maghrebi congregation of Cairo (קק מערבים). The heading may be dated as [5]565 (1804-1805CE) but …
An honorary list to Avraham ha-Nagid and Moshe ha-Nagid. We know only little on the late Negidim from Maimonides' family. His grandchild David b. Avraham …
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 in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably belongs with the preceding shelfmarks.
Table in Arabic script and other cryptic markings (VMR).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. The scribal hand is difficult to place chronologically, perhaps 15th- to 17th-century. Requires further examination.
Accounts. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic, probably state-issued. Medieval-era. There are many well-preserved entries on the recto and verso. Requires further examination.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Three other pages of ʿArūs's accounts appear in the neighboring shelfmarks. Mentions pepper; tartar, brazilwood, and lac …
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Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1065. Details about trading pearls. Mentions partnership with Nahray’s circle of traders. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, …
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Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Mentions people such as Abū Zikrī (to whom the writer owes 1 dinar); ʿAlī al-Ramlī; Ḥasan al-Ashqar; …
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Bifolio of accounts. Faded and smudged.
List of names, roughly alphabetized. It is unclear for what purpose (a community census?). Dating: 11th century. Names include: Wahbān b. Isḥāq ʿAkkāwī; Wahbān b. …
Arabic script (VMR)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Possibly a contributions list. Dating: Probably 13th century. People include R. Ḥananya, R. Eliyya, Bū l-Faḍl, Ibn al-ʿŪd[ī], Farajallāh, …
Accounts in Hebrew. Late. Currency: ducat (דוקטי). Mentions Muʿallim Shemuel and שי׳ שואבדו. A school is mentioned on the verso (בית ספר).
Recto: List of sums promised or paid (the entries crossed out), ranging from 1/8 to 6 1/2, mostly in fractions, wherefore in cases in which …
Table of materia medica or perfumes and their value in dinars. In Judaeo-Arabic. Items include three kinds of aloe (ʿūd), ambergris (ʿanbar), perfume (? ʿabir), …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like small expenses for foods (fava beans, lentils, etc.). Needs further examination.
List of names and corresponding monetary values for payments in medin and silver kuruş (the latter is written as a "ق" interjected occasionally in the …
List, commercial. Late. A variety of the entries list "builders" (בנאין) so perhaps some figures represent construction costs. Dated: [Dhū] l-Qaʿda 933 AH (1527 CE), …
Book list. Dating: Probably 13th century, as the latest book mentioned is Sefer ha-Madaʿ (from the Mishneh Torah) by Maimonides. (Information from Allony.)
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Sums of money donated by members of the Jewish community in Cairo. ENA 2348.4 mentions Ibn al-Abraṣ, who may be the grandfather of the physician …