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  1. 601List or tableJRL A 980

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic.Mentions payments associated with different days of the week; a bazzāz; Ibn Luʾluʾ; a qaṣṣār; Bū Saʿd; Abū Manṣūr; a qaṣṣār; potash (ushnān); something "in the hand of / belonging to the female slave" (bi-yad jāriya), Abū l-Faraj; a ṭaḥḥān.

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  2. 602LetterT-S 10J9.5

    Information about shipments of goods and about the account of the partners. Abū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān is mentioned favorably.

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    1. כתאב[י יאכי ו]אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה

    2. לט (?) כלת מן מרחשון ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה …

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    1. אני כותב לך, אחי היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויחמיר את שלומך ואת אושרך ויסלק ממך כל רע, ברחמיו,
    2. בט' במרחשון; שלומי טוב ואני מאושר, אבל…

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  3. 603List or tableT-S 10J16.33

    Very neat account concerning sugar and honey, in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  4. 604State documentT-S Ar.35.368

    Draft of a petition or note, in Arabic script, asking for charity on account of the sender's poverty. At lower left the name(s) of the sender(s) appear.

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    1. يقبل الارض وينهي ان المملوك رجل صعلوك
    2. وله عائلة وما هو عادة يرميه ولوجه الله تعالى
    3. النظر في حاله لوجه الله تعالى
    4. المملوك
    5. ابراهيم ابن محسن(؟)
    6. و…
    1. Kisses the ground and reports that the slave is a pauper
    2. and he has a family, and this [his state of poverty] is not usual, for the sake of God the …

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  5. 605List or tableT-S AS 146.87

    Refers to brokerage fees (samsara) and something related (ʿamāla or ʿimāla). Verso: Brief account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  6. 606Legal documentT-S AS 147.11

    Verso has four lines an unrelated account in Arabic.

    1. אן תקבל //אשרת עליה// עלי נפסה אן [[לו כאן פי ביע]] אן ולו תעין
    2. לה פימא אבאעה לעמה מן גמיע אלנסך אלדי
    3. תקדם דכרהם פרט ולו מקדאר תמנהם פמא לה
    4. אן ירגע …

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  7. 607List or tableT-S AS 200.152

    Fragment of a commercial account in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century.

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  8. 608List or tableT-S AS 205.188

    Small and much damaged mercantile account of items and weights, such pepper; some are crossed out.

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  9. 609List or tableT-S AS 205.194

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic (מחסבא מברכא) for Rashīd/Rosetta (עאן ראשיד אלמחרוסה) for the period Dhū l-Qaʿda 946 AH – Shawwāl 947 AH = 1541/42 CE.

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  10. 610List or tableT-S J1.44

    Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1040.

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    1. תמן ועשרין[
    2. ודפאפין וארבעא נכל וא[
    3. וכמסין דר` ועוד סנט
    4. אגרה נשארין עשרין דר` חמולה דרהמין
    5. תמן אלף גרידה סתין דר` חמולה דרהמין
    6. ואשתרי מן יוסף ק…

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    1. paid 20 .... 
    2. and 2 rafters, and 4 palm trees, and …. 
    3. and 50 dir., and an acacia tree 
    4. The wages of the sawyers, 20 dir. Transportatio…

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  11. 611LetterT-S NS 149.100

    Possibly a letter or official account. Portions of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions a sum of money (al-mablagh).

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  12. 612List or tableT-S NS 317.22

    Account. List of payments to different people. Mentions the death of somebody (all these payments may be related to the aftermath of the death); Masʿūd; the cantors and teacher; and "my passage to Damascus."

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  13. 613List or tableT-S NS 321.88

    Late account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the "citadel" (qalʿa) several times and the Ottoman-era title שויש (çavuş).

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  14. 614List or tableBodl. MS heb. f 56/59–61

    Account of revenue and expenditure for Tishrei, Ḥeshvan, and Ṭevet. Dated: 1495 Seleucid, which is 1183–84 CE. This extensive accounting is written on two and a half leaves of the notebook of Shemuel b. […] It lists the last expenditures for Tishri, and then the account of revenues for Heshvan, Kislev, and Tevet.

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    1. אלבאקי עלי אבו אלביאן אלגאבי אלי סלך תשרי אתצה
    2. מאיתין תלתה וסתין דראהם ונצף ורבע רסג [263 3⁄4]
    3. לה מן דלך ען תליים לסכן אבו סעד יח [ ¼ 18] ד אג…
  15.  Total, 64 1/4, and al-Sharīf, 12 1/2; (total,) 76 3⁄4. 

  16.  The account of Abūʾl-Bayān al-Jābī for the month of Marheshwan 1495, Kislev, and Teveth 

  17.  Dār al-Nāgīd, 44 1/2.

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  19. 615List or tableT-S K15.45

    Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent and building expenditures, probably ca. 1043. The recto of this leaf is a continuation of the two preceding accountings of revenue from rent (T-S NS 99.49 and T-S K25.84), mostly from the same names of houses and tenants being listed. The first part of the account, as preserved, lists some revenue for the month of Dhu'l-qa'da and the second, some for Dhu'l-hija.

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    1. עגוז דרהמי[ן
    2. ביתי אלצידלאני תמנ[יה דראהם]
    3. דאר אלברקי כמסה'
    4. מן דאר אלחפא[ר
    5. בית חסן אלבגדאדי כמסה דר'
    6. בית אבו נצר אלחמאל ארבעה' דר'
    7. בית בן סולימ…

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    1. . . . . The old woman, 2 dir. 

    2.  The two rooms of al-Ṣaydalānī, 8 dir. 

    3.  Dār al-Barqī, 5. 

    4.  From Dār al-Ḥaffār: 

    5.  The room of Ḥasan al…

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  20. 616List or tableBodl. MS heb. a 2/11

    Gigantic and calligraphically written account by Abū l-Bishr regarding the sale of merchandise in Ifrīqiyya from the beginning of the 11th century, probably for Yaʿaqov b. […] , and maḥlab (prunus mahaleb), a medicinal plant, plus packing, freight, tares, brokerage fees and commissions for exchanging Egyptian dinars for the Mahdī dinars apparently preferred in Ifrīqiya. Throughout the account, one feels the pressure of the active partner to explain himself to the investor and above all the necessity of keeping capital in motion: a couple of items are described as "stuck" (wāqif) because they won't sell, whereas the pearls brought half their investment in profit. […] Goitein in his unpublished notes describes this as "the large account on indigo etc. from al-Mahdiyya," whereas Gil assumes that it's from Qayrawān.

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    1. מערפה חסאב אבי אלבשר מן ד'לך עדל לך אלוזן 
    2. וסך קנטרין פט' רטל ידהב ללט'רף ואלטרח י'ד 
    3. רטל אלכאלץ קנטרין ע'ה' רטל מן סער י'ו דינר אל
    4. קנטר אלתמן…

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    1. Statement of account by Abū l-Bishr, as follows: A bale of lac weighing

    2. two qinṭars gross and 89 raṭls minus the containers and tare, 14

    3. raṭl.

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  21. 617Literary textAIU V.A.79

    Bifolium containing vignettes from Roman history, a bit about Jesus, and also the beginning of an account of a Jewish-Christian debate that took place "here in Avila."

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  22. 618List or tableCUL Or.1080 15.69

    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, maybe the name of a person: Najm(?)

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  23. 619Paraliterary textENA 624.4

    This Arabic-script letter is dated 29 Rajab 1187 AH, which is 1773 CE. The Judaeo-Arabic account on verso is dated 5558 AM, which is 1797/98 CE.

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  24. 620State documentENA 2980.4

    Fragment of a Fatimid fiscal account, probably. Two entries are preserved. The phrase "ʿan al-mamʿūl fīhā" is preserved in both.

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  25. 621List or tableENA 3585.1

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing the fees (wājib) associated with the indigo (al-nīl) brought to Dār al-Abzār ("the spicehouse," cf. ENA 2805.4b) and sold for 40 dinars, including the fees for brokerage (samsara), porter (ḥammāl) and weigher/weightmaster (wazzān) and moneychanger/accountant (jahbadh). The hand is probably known.

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  26. 622State documentENA 3979.8 + ENA 3979.7

    Fiscal account dated 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404 AH = 11 May 1014 CE if read correctly.

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  27. 623List or tableJRL A 430

    Account calculations. Dated 26 Elul 5539 AM (1779 CE).

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  28. 624List or tableJRL A 833

    Late account in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic, and western Arabic numerals. […] It may have been added to the fragment later on and its relationship to the accounts is unknown. Some of the entries mention almonds.

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  29. 625List or tableT-S 16.39 + T-S J2.77

    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 week after week during a full year.

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . .].ה אלדבאחה
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . .] לשטרות: פה כז
    3. [ברא]ש[ית] נח לך [. . . . . .] ויהיו תול יצחק
    4. . . . .] וישלח וישב מקץ ויגש…

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  30. 626List or tableT-S Ar.6.1a

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Sums of quantities of grain (waybāt) given as a loan, partially against security.

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  31. 627LetterT-S AS 176.384

    Discusses at length a family in distress on account of poverty and the capitation tax; the specific details are not clear.

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  32. 628LetterT-S AS 177.599

    He complains about his illness and inability to go out (on account of the jāliya?). He asks the addressee to send something with the bearer.

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  33. 629State documentT-S AS 216.179

    Possibly a receipt or a submitting of an account. Needs examination. مبلغ . . . على . . . .

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  34. 630State documentT-S NS 305.33

    The original text is probably an (official?) account in Arabic script. There are also several later lines of poetry or aphorisms (ان يركب البغلات قوم وهم في النسب الصادق اجدادها . . .

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  35. 631List or tableT-S NS 319.47

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Faded.

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  36. 632List or tableAIU XI.80

    Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing many materia medica and foods. including banana leaf (waraq mawz), "white leaf"; ʿaqīd; frankincense; ointment; chebulic myrobalan; emblic; mastic; something hindī; pepper; ṭaḥīna; sesame oil; olive oil; linseed oil; honey; garlic; (continuing onto verso) pepper; almond; raisin; apricot (barqūq); banana leaf; coriander; henna.

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  37. 633LetterENA 2738.37

    On the back is a short account.

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    1. עבדהא יעקוב
    2. בן אבו אלימן
    3. ב[שמ רחמנ]א
    4. אשרי משכיל אל דל ביום רעה ימל׳
    5. קד עלם אללה תע מא עבד הדרת
    6. הנגידות תכון משרתה לנצח //עליה// וינהי
    7. אלי סאמ…
  38. Your slave, were he no[t] confined to
  39. the house, unable to go out on account of the poll tax
  40. and had he not been sick for eight months,
  41. would have been able to earn a living.
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  43. 634LetterENA 4101.11a + ENA 4101.11b

    Marḥab, in Aden, sent to a notable in Fustat, containing an account of a messianic harbinger in Yemen, and his arrest and execution by the authorities.

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  44. 635List or tableJRL A 454

    A list of names with Arabic numerals- probably an account of debts from a broader ledger. Dated 28, 29 D[hū] l-Ḥijja [11]39 or [12]39 AH (the accounts mention kurush, so they must be 18th- or 19th-century).

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  45. 636State documentMoss. II,104.2

    Recto: State document. Possibly an account synthesizing multiple streams of revenue: capitation tax (māl al-jawālī), a tax on palm produce (māl al-nakhl or maybe the profits of merchants 'māl al-tujjār'), and a tax on the market (māl al-sūq).

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  46. 637LetterMoss. IV,27.3

    Yefet refers to a woman in distress (maybe on account of separation). They are looking forward to the arrival of Baqāʾ.

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  47. 638List or tableMoss. VIII,476.1 + Moss. VIII,476.2

    Account for the export of flax to Sicily. Around 1035.

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    1. ] הדא עלי מוסי בן יעקב אלקאבסי וחק בתוב אלפיג אסכנדראני [עלי] 
    2. [מוסא בן] יעקב אלקאבסי צבי יוסף בן יעקב בן זפפא מא הו מתמ[ 
    3.                    …

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    1. …זאת לחובת מוסא בן יעקב הקאבסי והמגיע ל… נושא המכתבים האלכסנדרוני, 
    2. מאת מוסא בן יעקב אלקאבסי משרתו של יוסף בן יעקב בן זפפא… 
    3. סך כל אלה: כ"ז די…

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  48. 639LetterT-S 8J36.7

    The writer calculates how much he has paid the addressee and how much of the account between them remains. The addressee is also ordered to borrow ten dirhams from a third person for trading purposes.

    1. וצל כתאב מולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם נעמה ודכר סלאמתה אדאמהא
    2. אללה לה וקד דכר מולאי אמר אלאכשב אנהא .ליה לקד תוגה אלי מא
    3. קבלתם סידי אבי זכריא חיים בן …

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  49. 640List or tableT-S Ar.54.92a + T-S Ar.51.118

    Bifolio from the account book of a real estate broker who also kept some agricultural property.

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  50. 641LetterT-S AS 148.177

    There are two people who are afraid on account of something. Mentions "the absent one" and "the name of the absent one (al-ghāʾib)."

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  51. 642Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 151.145

    Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay two dinars to the carrier of the note on the account of (?) the wife of Abū l-Makārim, dated Adar II, 1451 of the Seleucid Era (= 1140 CE); Coptic numerals.

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  52. 643List or tableT-S AS 180.177

    Commercial and/or dār account. There are many entries for specific dates (505 AH?)

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  53. 644List or tableT-S AS 182.261

    Unidentified document in Arabic script. Looks like an account mentioining fabric goods (mandīl, shuqqa, and fūṭa) and also Alexandria, but at the bottom "wa-l-nāʾib(?)

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  54. 645List or tableT-S AS 184.119

    Narrative account of commercial expenditures written in a mixture of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic.

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  55. 646List or tableT-S AS 185.163 + T-S AS 185.53 + T-S AS 185.90

    Several bifolios from an account book, in Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary hand and spellings.

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  56. 647List or tableT-S AS 207.156

    Account listing mainly materia medica, with corresponding quantities in units of raṭl.

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  57. 648List or tableT-S J1.32

    Account of expenditures ca. 1200. Various expenditures, mostly on repairs, are recorded by a parnas, R.

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    1. אלמצרוף מן יד ר' ישועה מן אגרה שעבאן ורמצאן
    2. חכר וחראסה ען       אגרה הד ורמי תראב
    3. שעבאן ורמצאן              י''ד
    4. צ'
    5. אפתכאך א<ל>טבאק כסוה לאמרא…
  58. (7-9) To Ṭāhir, the beadle, the balance of the account that was concluded with him by the judge, may God preserve him, 5¼. Paid to the judge as agreed, 29.
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  60. 649LetterT-S Misc.25.68

    Also mentions money delivery and asks Nahray to check it, weigh it, and write its account. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #590) VMR

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    1. [כ]תאבי [יאסידי אטאל אלל]ה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך
    2. מן דמסיס ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה וחדה אעלמך יאסידי
    3. אן כת[בת לך כ]תיב אן גיר האדא וס…

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    לאדוני אבו יחיא נהוראי בן נסים נ"נ, יתמיד אלוהים את שלומו ואת חסדיו לו; נסים בן כלפון נ"נ בן בנאיה.

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    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני, ייתן ל…

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  61. 650State documentT-S Ar.35.207

    Official-looking account in Arabic script. Bifolium from a ledger. Fiscal account from the Fatimid arsenal/navy? Mentions the Red Sea (baḥr al-qulzum) and "the ships" (marākib) on recto and again "the ships and the skiffs" (al-marākib wa-l-ʿushāriyya) at the bottom of the right page of verso.

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