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Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Rudimentary hand and quite faded.
Notebook, probably belonging to a 15th-century Byzantine merchant, filled with records of various transactions. The language is primarily Hebrew but the months are Julian (אפריל …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions al-Ṣayrafī Abū l-Ḥusayn; al-Qaṭṭān; al-Qāhira; Yaʿaqov the brother (or ṣabiyy?) of Yeshuʿa; Maʿālī; brazilwood.
Verso: Account, maybe state/official. Mentions "al-mablagh" and "al-ʿamāla," and numbers are written both in words and in Greek/Coptic numerals.
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Short list of materia medica: tragacanth, costus, myrrh,, sandarac, dry storax.
Bifolio of neatly written Judaeo-Arabic business accounts. Dating: likely 16th-century based on the paleography. At first glance, the accounts appear to be dated "in 962 …
Recto: trial of the pen. Verso: arithmetic calculations.
Accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Hebrew script. Late. Mentioning Mordukh Kohen and Torah finials (rimonīm). Possibly mentioning the holiday Purim in the heading, but the scribal hand is …
Recto: A short account in Judaeo-Arabic. "That which I still owe Abū l-Barakāt al-Qazzāz b. Sulaymān al-Kohen: 33 dirhams. Of that, he collected 7 dirhams …
Accounts with many names listed under subheadings dated according to the succession of weekly parashot. In Hebrew. Dating: 18th or 19th century. Possibly contributors to …
Consecutive bifolia on the calendar in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi spanning the years 1204-07 and 1209–09 respectively.
Accounts.
Late accounts, naming goods in multiple colors.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Listing purchases made on behalf of somebody (אשתרי לה מן דלך). THe name Saʿīd appears in …
Accounts. Needs examination.
Narrow bifolio of accounts and intriguing entries in Arabic script, with some Judaeo-Arabic mixed in. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era. Mentions various credit and …
Table in Arabic script, possibly with sums of money underneath each entry. Needs examination. On verso there is a page from a work on magic …
Accounts in Arabic on verso. Further examination required in order to provide a dating estimate and full description.
Unidentified
Marginal note in a literary manuscript. May refer to prices of things, including garments: א כמרי ותלת רבע אלכליע ואלקטן וב אלעאקי(?) וב אלא רבע …
Bifolio containing an account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Begins on the lefthand side of recto. The two columns on verso mention various Dārs, …
Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On recto and above, the Shemaʿ and benedictions for the evening service on weekdays and Shabbat. (Information …
Recto: accounts. Expenses are listed, with coptic numerals: carats (qirāṭ) and piasters (qirsh) are mentioned. Verso: accounts mentioning wages. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listing a variety of grocery items and home goods. Dated 28 Tevet 5537 AM (1777 CE). The heading on the right side …
List of communal contributions received in the month of Adar I that dates to the late-18th or early-19th centuries, based on the names mentioned on …
List of names, such as Sulaymān, Ibrahim, Isaac and Ṣedaqa. (Information from CUDL)
Bifolio containing two pages of Hebrew poetry by Shelomo ha-Qaṭan. The other two pages are in Arabic script. One is accounts with Greek/Coptic numerals. The …
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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Accounts of the Qodesh in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Yefet (also called Ḥusayn b. Dāʾūd) along with the parnas Yaʿaqov b. …
In Thy Name, (oh Merciful)!
Record of the expenditures made in the estate of the Synagogue in the year 429
by Ḥusayn b. Daʾūd b. Shekh…
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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. ENA 2875.35 belongs before ENA 2875.34. See Goitein's index card for more information.
Recto: 4 lines of Arabic at the top of the page comprise a bill for building material with Coptic numerals. Recto and verso: Psalms 92:1-93:5. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Narrating the progress of a construction project in relation to "the breaking of the canal" (kasr al-khalīj). Mentions …
List of prisoners imprisoned for nonpayment of the capitation tax. Fragmentary. twenty-four names preserved, with sums representing the amounts still due, to be provided by …
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Table of Judaeo-Arabic prognostications or horoscopes for various domains (agriculture, prosperity, government, knowledge, etc.) arranged in an ornate red grid. Late hand.
Recto is an unidentified document in Arabic script. Verso is accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably 12th or early 13th century. Related to …
Accounts with Coptic numerals, mentioning Shelomo Baḥbāḥī. (Information from CUDL)
List of 36 names, all beginning with al-Shaykh Abū […]. Written on three vertical strips of paper. Goitein estimates the date to be from the …
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Alexandria.
Accounts in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Needs examination.
A butcher's bill for meat for Rosh Hashana. Goitein writes, "On weekends the standard fare was chicken, but for the two days of New Year, …
List of expenditures of the Qodesh ca. 1169-70. An accounting written in the hand of Judge Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi, on both parts of a …
The Babylonians, paid for lime, 1. For transportation of bricks, 1⁄2. For
nightwatch: Dār ʿAbla,' for the month of Ṣafar, 1/2. Rent
for…
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Accounts of a shopkeeper, it seems describing the proceeds of the sale of 9 out of 15 thawbs, living 6 in the shop.
Recto: Account in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, with some Arabic script. Names: Mufaḍḍal; Abū l-Thanāʾ; the children of Ibrāhīm; Abū Saʿīd; Makārim; Sulaymān; the children …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists various foods and household items (pepper, saffron, eggs, olive oil, lemon, tahina, and many more).
Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic. Mentions al-Yahūdī Ibn al-Raʾīs al-Shaykh Bū l-Faraj (this is probably Eliyyahu b. Zekharya); al-Naṣrānī; Ṭāhir al-Simsār (who has or …