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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of community of revenue from houses rent, Ca. 1250. Contains, listed in two columns, several current entries of revenue and expenditures. Both Hebrew letters and Coptic numerals are used.

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• 13th c
• account
• qodesh
• waqf

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand from the 16th-19th centuries with entries designated according to the "masruf / expenses" of individual people such as Mu'allam Muḥammad (l. 1v).

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• late ja
• list
• muhtasib

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Lists many names, including Abū Bishr; Abū Isḥāq; ʿArūs; Khalaf; Abū l-ṭāhir; Ibn al-ḥijāziyya; Salāma; Abū l-Munā; al-Dimyāṭī; and Musallam/Muslim Ibn al-Qābila ('son of the midwife'). Several entries are overlined. On verso (different hand): "our master"; Abū l-Mufaḍḍal; the son of Abū l-Surur; David; Shemarya.

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• qabila

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late business accounts. The layout is chaotic due to the scribe's economical paper usage. The word מרשל(?) is repeated in many entries. Probaby related to T-S NS 190.87 (PGPID 23892), T-S NS 225.67 (PGPID 24204), T-S NS 225.69 (PGPID 24206), T-S NS 225.71 (PGPID 24209), and T-S NS 225.72 (PGPID 24210).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late account, names and numbers. The heading of each side of the bifolio is dated sequentially 6-7 Ṣafar s[ene] __38 AH.

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• 16th c or later
• fgp stub
• late prosopography

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Primary language

Hebrew

Communal letter in Hebrew, from a city in Palestine (per Goitein and Mann) or Damascus (per Gil) to the yeshiva in Jerusalem (per Gil) or Fustat (based on the accounts on verso). Dating: 1050–55 CE, based on the likely identifications of Ḥaydara and Khaṭīr al-Mulk. […] Whenever the Jews succeeded in swaying a ruler (כל מושל ושליט) to restore the water supply, their enemies united and denied that the Jews had any right to the water. […] On verso there are communal accounts in Arabic script—see separate record. For further analysis and identifications of the state officials involved, see Gil, History of Palestine, sec. 599, and Rustow, Lost Archive, p. 255.

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• capitation tax
• damascus

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand listing debts (mentioning several times al-hijaziyya). ENA 2615.1-3 all belong together

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Document date

Nisan 1502 Seleucid (28 March 1191–26 April 1191 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of an agreement for a planned engagement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Nisan 1502 Seleucid = 1191 CE, or perhaps 15[4]2 Seleucid = 1231 CE. […] Elʿazar ha-Melammed (cf. ENA NS 17.19 (PGPID 2428)) and ʿEzra b. Yefet ha-Levi, the agent of ʿAmāʾim bt. […] Likely the same handwriting as T-S AS 160.143 (PGPID 29327). On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and other jottings in Judaeo-Arabic.

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• engagement

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Inferred date

1707–1850 CE

Accounts in Judeo-Arabic with a variety of coinage types including dirham, kuruş (aka guruş) and zingirli– of which the latter two suggest a dating of some time in the eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Some of the entries incude notes indicating people "באסם / in the name of" and on occasion locational notes, such as on the recto "דאלך ענד פלונבו" or "this is at Palonbo's" (l. 8r, 17r in left side of bifolium) or "׳ענד ס׳ לוריא" which is also "at S[eñor] Luria's" (l.16r on right side of bifolium).

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• 18th or 19th c
• effendi
• list
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two bifolios from a ledger of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Multiple entries begin אסתכרת אללה סבחאנה ואנפדת צחבת סידי ("I consulted God the praised and sent with my master X"). […] Fol. 2r, left page: Mentions sending something to Alexandria Fol. 2v, left page: Mentions sending something to the Ḥijāz. The next entry apparently mentions sending something to Nubia (בלד אלנובה).

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• ib-addenda
• ib6

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Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage in neighboring shelfmark). […] This fragment is directly related to the neighboring shelmark ENA 3518.1– the two fragments may be joins from a financial ledger.

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• 16th c
• numismatic dating

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning primarily the trade in pepper (filfil). […] A sum of ~184 dinars is cited at the end; it seems that Maymūn is responsible for ~30 dinars of that.

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• list
• pepper

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Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a bifolio that still retains part of its binding. […] The dating is 18th- or 19th-century based on the mention of the Ottoman kurush. Some of the entries mention transactions with specific people, such as "money transfer with Ḥabīb Levi" and "ḥūjjat Ḥasan ʿUrsī" (possibly costs related to a transaction before a qadi court).

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• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Wednesday, 17 Tishrei 1807 Seleucid (5 October 1495 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Looks like the same hand as ENA NS I.95b (PGPID 11545). Reused on verso for accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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Primary language

Arabic

Written by a Muslim, as he begins and ends with prayers for Muḥammad. He refers to himself as "the slave" (al-mamlūk), in the tarjama. Most of the letter is occupied with accounts, which seem like a calculation of the religious tax (zakāt) as the writer refers to the sum as "sunna".

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts mentioning a wide array of commodities and shops. […] The header קרקעות appears several times, probably related to real estate holdings and/or transactions. Throughout the entries there are references to: T-S NS 224.234 (recto) emerald, "the waqf", honey, chicken, almonds; T-S NS 224.235 (recto) "the houses of the Alexandrians"; T-S NS 224.235 (verso) silk, pepper, figs, cinnamon.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. […] Both recto and verso have a similar set of entries.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Petition or decree. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. Between the lines and on recto (secondary use): Account in Arabic script.

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• list

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Account for burial expenses. Goitein (Med. Soc., 4:160) interprets the deceased as belonging to the lower middle class, but he may have been affluent: in addition to a tunic, two robes, a cloak, a scarf, and numerous porters and laborers, there may also be a mausoleum involved. […] NB דואמיס are trestles, per Goitein and Blau, on which to rest the coffin or bier both at the cemetery and en route. For additional burial accounts, see Bodl.

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• account
• burial
• coin
• private

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī to whom Shelomo also wrote CUL Or.1080 J28 (PGPID 8852), CUL Add.3343 (PGPID 3962), and ENA 2559.10 (PGPID 12340). (Some sources in the secondary literature have identified him instead as Abū l-Barakāt b. […] All his money goes to potions and chickens, and all the women who visit him tell him that he is the victim of a spell.

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• excommunication
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: etiology
• illness: marital
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Inferred date

1517–1517 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the month of Rajab on the verso above the main heading, possibly with a year in the left corner כגץ which is 923 AH (although this may be a stylized repetition of Rajab or some kind of abbreviation). […] Further research is required on the format of this potential year within the genre of 16th-century accounts. Some of the names mentioned include: Nāṣr b. […] Probably the same scribal hand as T-S AS 210.50 (PGPID 22816) and ENA 2903.8 (PGPID 12535). MCD.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. […] For confirmed usage of this term that approximates the Turkish spelling iskele, see: ENA NS 77.197 (PGPID 13526). Requires further examination.

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Document date

3 Sivan 5594 Anno Mundi (10 June 1834 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentiong Menaḥem Mizraḥī in the heading. Dated 3 Sivan [55]94 AM which is 1834 CE. The entries below each heading on the recto and verso mention a variety of other individuals: (recto) Efrayim Ḥaqīm, Raḥamīm Levi, Nissīm Nājr (perhaps a mispelling of Najjār), Barūkh ʿAfīf, Yiṣḥaq Barakha, Musa Faron, Tadros/Tedros al-Bīta, (verso) Yosef Elīshʿa, Ḥayyīm Ṭābr.

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• 19th c
• late prosopography

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Primary language

Hebrew

On verso there are extensive accounts in Arabic script, some entries beginning with "al-dār."

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Judaeo-Arabic

She also asked him to appoint someone to make a collection for this purpose. Reused for accounts dealing with women and clothing; see separate record. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 37 and Goitein's index card.) See also ENA NS 83.107 (PGPID 14157).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Also mentions people who "fled" and Maghribī(s). On verso there are accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official. The number 600 appears in the bottom entry.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ḥakīm. Probably 11th century. The hand is known from other similar fragments (e.g. ENA 3731.8 (PGPID 40518)).

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Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is looking forward to the addressee's intended visit to al-Mahdiyya. He describes the situation in the Maghreb, and he mentions silk business and a large transfer of money to a yeshiva.

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• 11th c
• al-mahdiyya
• epidemic
• epidemic: wakham
• illness
• (+ 2 more)

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Hebrew

Due to the difficulty of leaving, he resorted to "a trick" and told them that he wanted to visit all the graves of the righteous in Palestine, so he left and his party traveled the country from Dan to Be'er Sheva.

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• 16th c
• damascus
• late heb
• late jerusalem
• sephardim

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1439 Seleucid (8 October 1127–6 November 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A young wife, whose father-in-law was also her uncle and who had a brother living in the same town, asks her mother to visit her urgently. The sender also complains that the addressee had asked him to return a bible codex lent to him.

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• personal
• women's letters

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Judaeo-Arabic

He urges his sister to come visit from Fusṭāṭ. He is contemplating going to Jerusalem.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: qillat al-'afiya
• safed
• suicide

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Account of items, weights, names and prices. Medieval era. The unit of weight barqalu appears throughout the entries. One of the names mention is Ibn ʿAmrān. Requires further examination.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Late account in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals, referring to the children of Masʿūd. Possibly written on a letter envelope based on the folds in the paper visible solely from the verso.

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• envelope

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerals with intermittent usage of Western Arabic numerals. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The entries are extensive, mentioning a variety of names and goods: one of which (פירפין) appears at least three times on the recto.

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• list

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Document date

485 Hijrī (12 February 1092–31 January 1093 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in multiple hands, several entries crossed out.

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• list

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Judaeo-Arabic

Reused for business accounts on verso. On the writer, see India Book II, 6 (DK 230.3 (alt: XIX) (PGPID 5422)), India Book II, 9 (Moss. II,160 (PGPID 5451)), and ENA NS I.84 (PGPID 11967). Very little of the content of this letter remains.

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• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited
• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew alphanumerals. Possibly dated in the first line of the recto, left side: ס׳ סגץ (s[anat] 963 AH), but the preceding word is too damaged to know for sure if this is a Hijrī year or perhaps a non-calendrical part of the entry. The terms "sharf" and "ashrīf" on the recto may be references to late Mamlūk ashrāfī or Ottoman şerifī gold coinage, supporting a possible dating estimate of 15th- or 16th-century.

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Inferred date

1707–1800 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1707 CE based on the mention of Ottoman cinzirli coinage (first minted in that year). […] The first or last name Morkos (מורקוס/מורקס) is repeated in several entries, which is an Arabic rendering of the name Mark and common among Christian communities.

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• christians
• numismatic dating

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Document date

1 Heshvan 5319 Anno Mundi (13 October 1558 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts related to real estate rentals and other properties in Cairo. […] Yahuda, the wide of Ben-Shanjī, Meʾīr Morḥayyīm, (verso) the widow of "Aba Mārī" (perhaps the scribe's parents), Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq. There are entries on the recto and verso relating to bathhouses.

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• 16th c
• bathhouse

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