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Accounts, mentioning some interesting commodities (e.g., kibrīt ʿirāqī, sweet pomegranate, quince, jasmine, salt, meat, breat).
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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.
Business accounts in a common hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef).
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
List of valuable items, mainly garments, in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Possibly related to a trousseau list.
Bifolio of mercantile accounts. Dating: probably 11th century. The hand may be known (Nahray b. Nissim?). Mentions names such as Abū Isḥāq (Ibrāhīm) b. Farrāḥ; …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Tripoli, Lebanon. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Accounts in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic(?). Mentions the ship of איסטיפאני. Needs examination.
Neatly written accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the term 'maṭbakh' several times and possibly honey at the top of verso. Dating: likely …
Table of names related to communal fundraising or alms. Several of the entries seem to concern al-Muʿallim Moshe b. Shemuʾel b. Yosef al-Kohen al-ʿŪdī. On …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: first half of the 19th century based on the mention of Moshe Ben-Naʿim and the paleography (which …
Upper fragment: Bifolio of accounts. Listing names (e.g., ʿAlī al-Tinnīsī and the Andalusī cantor), precious items, and amounts. Possibly accounts of an 11th-century Maghrebi trader. …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic giving the value of something that was sold in Alexandria, probably mercury (ziʾbaq).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions payments to various agents (wukalāʾ) including Būlāq and Jiblīl (? גיבליל) and "al-Gharbī" and Bashṭa (בשטה or בשכוה?). Verso is headed …
Two names in Hebrew script: Shelomo b. David and Riḍā b. Yeshuʿa.
Minute fragment. One Arabic word on recto. Two fragmentary names on verso (Avraham b. Shl[...] and Yosef b. Hal[fon?]
Genealogical list of Shemuel b. Ḥananya's family. On verso there are several practice openings for a letter to a son in Arabic.
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Goods include honey and pressed dates (ʿajwa).
List in Judaeo-Arabic, written with a graphite pencil. The writing method and paleography help date this fragment to the 19th-century. The list names חנין סמען …
Accounts with list of names and Coptic numerals. Rudimentary hand. Mentions names such as ʿAlwān; Abū l-Surūr; ʿAbd al-Kāfī. (Information in part from CUDL)
Account. No image
List of accounts on a bifolium that may have once comprised a broader financial ledger. The method of bookkeeping is terse but relies on a …
An account containing details about items sold. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 152)
חרירי
א א גכאניה
א גכאניה חרירי
ב ד מן
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Bifolio of accounts. Two pages are in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning aṣḥāb al-dār and a qāḍī. One page is a list in Judaeo-Arabic …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto, one of the entries mentions iron. The scribal hand is difficult to place chronologically, perhaps late medieval or 16th-17th-century. Requires …
List of payments in dirhams, mentioning Ibn al-Ṭaffāl and Abū l-Qāsim. (Information from CUDL)
Distribution of collection (tafriqah) to officials. Among those mentioned: Salim the Parnas, Abu l-Ḥasan the Ḥaver, Khalil the cantor and his cousin, al-Ahuv, al-Rayyis Abu …
Astrological table in Arabic script, mentioning the sun and the planets, such as Mercury and Jupiter.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions shipments and prices and the names Abū l-Faraj and 'al-shaykh' and Marwān and al-Sīrajī.
Bifolio containing two lists of names with eastern Arabic numerals (contributors to charity?). Dating: 18th or 19th century. The righthand page is all women: Simḥa …
Detailed accounts in Arabic. Refers to a ruqʿa and 'kātib al-muwaffaq.' Needs further examination.
Memorial list of successive members of the community of Fustat embedded in one of the regular prayers. (Information from Bareket)
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Small fragment of accounts.
Commercial accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions pepper.
Calendar for the year 5574 AM (1813/14 CE) with Jewish holidays and some notes about corresponding dates within the Hijrī calendar and the constellations (Cancer, …
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 …
List of contributors. About 130 people are listed. Dating: probably 16th or 17th century. See Med Soc II, App. C, 78. (Information from Goitein's index …
Long account in Judaeo-Arabic. Of persons to whom pitch (zift) was sold, headed by a general (al-qāʾid Abū Tamīm), the representative of an amir (Yūḥannas …
Notes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unclear what they are for.
Small fragment of accounts, maybe official.
Bifolio of business accounts.
Recto and verso: Memorial list for the family of Abū l-ʿIzz containing names such as Ḥalfon, ʿUlla, Solomon, Yefet, ʿUzziel, Gūlā, and Saʿadya. Some names …
Minute fragments from a list of items and prices. Mentions a carpenter and baskets.
List. An almost entirely 'egalitarian' list of contributors from the first half of the eleventh century' (Goitein) Forty-four persons pledge 1/2 (dirham), nine parties, of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic: names, numbers, some crossed out. Names: Makīn; Abū Saʿd; Abū l-Faḍl; Moshe; Abū l-Majd; Abū l-Riḍā. Dating: probably late 12th or 13th …
Accounts.
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe some sort of account. There are four distinct entries, which have a large word in the right margin, …
Census for the capitation tax. List of male persons with consecutive numbers over the names. First complete no. visible is 19, but some names are …
יט ך
כג כד
כה כו כז
Accounts in Arabic script. On recto there are Hebrew poems by Yehuda b. Efrayim (according to the Arabic-script header), including three verses that are palindromes …
Accounts in Arabic script. On verso the first letters of three lines, very widely spaced, can be seen.