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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal settlement in the hand of the addressee, written between the end of the letter and the address. The senior partner Khallūf b. […] Saadya, later Nagid, or head of the Jews in the Fatimid empire, but was finally settled by "elders," who took the trouble to go through all the accounts and came up with a complicated settlement. Since the draft is in the hand of Yeshuʿa, we do not know whether this was the end of the story. (Information from Goitein, Letters, p. 134.)

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• mevorakh b. saadya

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late, detailed, narrative accountentries in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography and coinage in use (Ottoman jadīd) support a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. Each entry mentions an Anno Mundi month, there may be an alphanumerical year listed somewhere.

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Accounts, badly damaged with a few legible words. The surname Qaṭawī is visible on the right fold of the recto and the currency bundūqī (likely Venetian ducats). Most importantly, the post-1425 CE numismatic reference sherifi (שריפי) appears in several entries– leading to the conclusion that this fragment is 15th-century or later.

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• 15th c or later
• numismatic dating

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14 Muḥarram 946 Hijrī (1 June 1539 CE)

Accounts related to the operation of a "press" (אלמעצרה) of some kind, possibly for sesame seeds given the mention of ṭaḥīna in line 5. Dated in the heading as Thursday 14 Muḥarram 946 AH (1539 CE). Many entries mention names, such as: Yeshūʿa ʿAbd-al-Wāḥid and Avraham Ben-Ṣahal.

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• 16th c
• pressing
• tahina

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Ramaḍān 96[0]–Ramaḍān 96[9] Hijrī (11 August 1553–3 June 1562 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: a partial Hijrī date is visible in the middle section of the recto: שהר רמצן סנ[ת .]סץ, which is Ramaḍān 96[.] […] One of the recurring words throughout the entries may be Ladino: בייש or ביוש. Requires further examination.

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26 Sivan 5632 Anno Mundi (2 July 1872 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew. Western Arabic numerals are in use with one entry on the recto dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE. This dated entry also mentions S[eñor] Yiṣḥaq Menashshe and lists a variety of coinage types such as "old one ducats / דוקאדו ישן אונו" and "new ducats / דוקאדוס מואיבוס".

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• 19th c
• ladino
• list
• silk

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28 Nisan 5492 Anno Mundi (23 April 1732 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

ENA NS 39.2: Accounts in Ladino in western Arabic numerals dated on the verso most likely as 28 Nisan [54]92 or 23 April 1732. The accounting format on the recto is orderly and may be a fragment from a broader commercial ledger.

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• ladino
• list
• to examine

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3 Tishrei [5]605 Anno Mundi (16 September 1844 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 3 Tishrei [5]605 AM (1844 CE). The main heading mentions that the entries are a "list of expenses for the procurement (lit. bringing) of etrogim." Based on the time of year– a couple weeks before Sukkot –these etrogim were likely being sourced ahead of the upcoming holiday celebration. The accounts list a variety of other expenses, such as "food and coffee," as well as the costs of "riding donkeys" (rakūb ḥamīr), which were involved in the transport of etrogim over multiple days mentioned.

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• etrog
• etrogs

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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning a variety of itemized money transfers in the name of Ḥayyīm Ṣanūʿa who also appears in nearby accounts JRL SERIES C 109 (PGPID 31959). […] The headings of other entries mentions Raḥamīm al-Ḥāmī and Shemuʾel al-Griyanī.

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• 18th or 19th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. Likely a join with ENA 3740.2–3.

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• arabic

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List of entries that designates names in Arabic script and expresses figures in Coptic numerals. […] Throughout the document there are elongated ligatures typical of headings in accounting documents. The verso features the same documentary format.

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• arabic script
• coptic numerals
• list

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Primary language

Hebrew

Accounts in Hebrew with a couple words in Judaeo-Arabic. […] The script is similar to Ashkenazi-Italqi geniza fragments from the same time period, such as ENA 1066.1-10 (PGPID 9938) and T-S Ar.30.232 (PGPID 20354).

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• ashkenazi

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Document date

1078 Hijrī (23 June 1667–10 June 1668 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 1078 AH on the verso which is 1667/68 CE. Many of the entries mention the currency "kalb", which in this timespan was likely a reference to quantities of Dutch lion thalers.

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• 17th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

received word suddenly that the amir is coming for some work tomorrow, which alarmed him because he has not prepared for such a visit. "By my life, if he comes, we will move our אסבת (hides?

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• amir
• chickens
• hospitality

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24 Tishrei (1)364 Seleucid (21 September 1052 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document further stipulates the boy visit the father on a Sabbath or a weekday, whenever he (the father) wished.

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• alimony
• divorce
• muslim courts
• register

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1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The letter mentions the visit of the Gaʾon's son, Avraham b. Shelomo, and refers to Barqa (Cyrenaica, on the Libyan coast), the teacher Yehuda b.

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• captives
• pirates
• ransom

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1248 Hijrī (31 May 1832–20 May 1833 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Ottoman-era accounts, signed by the state official Maḥmūd Kāshif Nāẓir Qism al-Anw...(?). The document from the beginning seems like an itemized calculation and towards the end is the acknowledgment of payment, or the due of 822 Kuruş and 30 silvers.

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• dimme

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts, probably for charitable purposes, with entries such as "widows"; "the niece of Ṭāhir the beadle"; "the wife of Abū Isḥāq the cantor"; "the children of Sulaymān ha-Kohen"; Abū Saʿīd; and Abū l-ʿIzz al-Jabbān.

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• account

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Neatly written, large, and detailed. Evidently he wrote much more neatly when submitting accounts to his partners as compared to his notes for himself. Headed: "explanation of the account of my master Abū l-Faḍl [...]." Mentions transactions in labdanum(?)

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Primary language

Ladino

Large cluster of 14 bifolios with accounts and lists in Ladino. These folios may have all be part of the same ledger given the sewing marks that appear on the inner spines. 15th-century or later based on the paleography. […] The latter man may be identical to the Yaʿaqov Ibn Shanjī mentioned in: ENA NS 52.13 (PGPID 12344), ENA NS 43.13 (PGPID 11787). […] , probably a surname based on how it appears at the opening of each entry (perhaps Ashkenazi?). Folio 4v mentions payment to Yiṣḥaq Marnon(?).

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• 15th c or later
• ladino
• ledger
• sewn documents
• shanji

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Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Accounts in Judeo-Arabic listing a variety of individuals and corresponding monetary sums in "silver / פצה" that were recorded on a grid original drawn with a straight edge. At the beginning of each entry before the name appears "טרפ / taraf" is written, which is in Ottoman Turkish is literally a "side" or "place". Some of the entries list the parsha readings of the liturgical calendar In this context, however, it means "for Moshe Mizrahi's [part]".

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• 18th or 19th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The margins were subsequently reused for accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. […] The letter consists almost entirely of respectful blessings and greetings; the purpose of the letter seems to be a request that the addressee bring other, enclosed letters to the attention of "ḥaḍrat sayyidnā" (=the Nagid Mevorakh?)

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Document date

968 Hijrī (22 September 1560–10 September 1561 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in several locations according to the Islamic calendar, probably in the year 968 AH (חסץ) but this alphanumerical designation is backwards compared to other contemporary usage in which ץ appears as 900 (see for example ENA 3720.2v PGPID 39645).

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• cmp

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts or inventories in Judaeo-Arabic organized in entries associated with days of the week.

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• inventory
• lemon
• olive oil
• pepper
• soap

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew anphanumerical figures as well as western Arabic numerals. The headings for each entry on the verso begin with the specific days of the week and in the first two the word "קונסול / consol" appears.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions 'my master the ḥaver.' Ends with a ḥasbala. Verso: a price-list in Arabic, or maybe accounts of monthly rent payments (اجرة المحرم...)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dated in the second entry on the recto: 24 Nissan but the year is unclear.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Many food, spice, and preservative items are listed on the recto: beans, saffron, cherries, honey, wax, ḥalūmī cheese, כשכבל cheese– possibly related to the cheese type mentioned in Yevr.[…] II 1579 - PGPID 28040. The verso entries mention a variety of people by first name.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Communal accounts, probably from the early 13th century. Mentions the terms 'jibāya' (collection) and "jābī' (collector) several times. Entries include citrons and myrtle (for sukkot), the beadle (khādim) of Dammūh, trash collection (ramy turāb), Wafāʾ al-[...], Farajallāh, capitation taxes (al-jawālī) for the foreigner from Damascus (lil-gharīb al-Dimashqī); Ibn Sharwīl or Sarwīl; under the header 'mezonot' (food distribution), names include Hilāl. […] Yakhin). Verso: Arabic accounts. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• account
• tax

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic whose paleography helps to date this fragment as sixteenth- or seventeenth-century. In the opening lines a Muslim qadi (אלקאצי) is mentioned but his name is lost to textual damage. At least two of the entries mention copper "jadīd" as the relevant coinage type, a form of payment that was in use during the late-Mamluk and Ottoman administrations.

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• list
• ottoman shipping

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic, listed in extensive detail on both sides of a bifolio. Medieval-era. Some of the entries use the unit qirāṭ. All of the numbers are written out with words rather than numerals.

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Primary language

Arabic

Reused for Judaeo-Arabic (accounts?) on verso: "for honey: 1, for wine: 2, for entering...."

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• dimme

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Document date

505 Hijrī (10 July 1111–27 June 1112 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: refers to "the end of year '4"; "1 Ramaḍān of the year '4" and "year '5," likely 504 and 505 AH = 1111/12 CE.

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• account
• arus b. yosef
• holes

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29 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404 Hijrī (31 May 1014 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: End of Dhū l-Qaʿda 404. Both the recto and the right margin of verso (the tax receipt side) contain a fiscal account (see PGPID 39214), suggesting that the paper for the tax receipt was cut from the account.

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• tax receipt

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. […] The name Abū l-Faraj appears in an item at the end ("gift for Abū l-Faraj"?). (Information in part from Goitein's note card.)

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• funeral

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): account (table form) in a fiscal hand, transverse to Arabic text. The first entry refers to a white Dimyāṭī garment that is bleached (muḥawwara) and hemmed (muḥashshā). The next entry refers to four white Dimyāṭī shawls (ṭayālisa, pl. of ṭaylasān) which are bleached (muḥawwara) and embroidered (muṭarraza).

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• fiscal
• tiraz

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436 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal accounting. Dated (on T-S Ar.38.120): 436 kharājī = 1044/45 CE plus or minus a couple years. There are three or four distinct documents present: (I) the end of a petition with blessings for the caliph or a high authority (wa-li-mawlānā ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi al-raʾy al-ʿālī) (II) account for the receipt of grain(?) […] "kitchen") (III) two more blocks of fiscal accounting, at 90 degrees to each other. Needs examination.

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• dimme
• matbakh

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Document date

5 Tammuz 5437 Anno Mundi (5 July 1677 CE)

Primary language

Spanish

Just before the calculations begin, "ermano Aron de Abram" is mentioned in what may indicate familial ties to the fragment's author (l. 14r). In lines 8-9r, "en comienda" as separate words is mentioned for example in the phrase: "dara la inclusa con mil en comiendas." Below the accounts one "rais Fattiah" is mentioned, perhaps a ship captain.

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• 17th c
• damietta
• spanish

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mainly for foodstuffs: eggplant, coriander, mulūkhiyya, chickpeas, etc. A certain Shelomo Sholāl is mentioned in the first row of entries on the verso, who may be a descendant of the final Nagids.

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• food
• late ja

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Primary language

Hebrew

This list in Hebrew is likely from a broader booklet ENA 2898.7-14 where other accounts mention payments in sherifi (שרפי= produced post-1425 CE).

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• 15th or 16th c
• numismatic dating

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