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List of donations collected on the week of Hayei Sarah (recto) and Toldot (verso), October-November 1803 CE (Heshvan 5564). Legible surnames of donors include Frances …
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Image 1: The end of an account in Arabic, along with what might be a fragment of a legal document discussing buildings in ḥārat al-yahūd. …
Another 28 folios from the ledger of donations collected in the years around 1800 CE. These entries are for the year 5559 (1798/99). ASE.
Verso: lists of names organized alphabetically with corresponding payments toward the communal kashrut tax (gabela) for the months of Nisan, Iyyar, Sivan, 5582 AM. Recto: …
List of donations received from dozens of men and families and some calculations. Arranged by months and parshiyot, and many names are repeated in different …
List of names designated according to a column of sequential eastern Arabic numbers. Although the meaning is unclear, a preliminary reading of the cursive is …
Recto: Legal document involving a business arrangement between Avraham Yuʿbaṣ and Shabbetay Skandarī and at least one other person. The bottom is missing, along with …
Late accounts mentioning Merkado Karo, Me'ir ben Naʿim, Eliyyyahu b. Ṣahal, Mordekhai Bialobos.
Substantial, late acccount in Judaeo-Arabic, at least one part of which is headed "list of debts." People named include: Avraham Yerushalmi; Yehuda Leon; Yeshūʿa al-Ḥāmī; …
Accounts related to the Must'arabi community of Cairo in the year 5556 which is 1795/1796CE. The bifolium is very damaged along the edges but the …
4 pages from a ledger of copies of 17 different legal documents (witness names appear in the hand of the scribe). All are from the …
Late list of wealthy contributors, about 30 per week (Information from Goitein index cards.) Verso: There are also several lines of Arabic script.
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Large list, probably 18th or 19th c, of names and numbers arranged according to holidays and shabbatot, perhaps charitable donations pledged/received.
Legal document from Fustat/Cairo, dated January 1821 (Shevat 5581). It seems to be a partnership agreement between various traders active in the early 19th century, …
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Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 4 Jumāda al-Awwal '54 which could be 1154 AH (=1741 CE) or 1254 AH (=1838 CE) based on the mention of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and eastern Arabic numerals). Dated: 5582 AM = 1821/22 CE. Headed: "The expenses (maṣrūf) of the Sephardic [congregation] מצות in Fustat/Cairo for …
Late accounts, arranged according to parshiyot, mentioning names including: Page 1: Yom Tov (?) Aripol, Nissim Nuṣayrī, Nissim Raṣon, Avraham Hakim (?), Page 2: Eliyyahu …
List of donations to the fund for clothing for the poor for the year 550[9] AM = 1747/8 CE. The list of contributors' names is …
List from 1593 CE dated Elul 5353 and early 5354, headed as "the remainder of the houses of the qodesh of the Musta'rib congregation. It …
28 pages of communal and financial and legal records. Pages 1 and 14 are registers of deaths, one on page 14 dated 1661/1662 CE (5422 …
Late donation list, probably.
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very neat, laid out in a grid according to parshiyot, probably donations collected from the people named. Dozens of names appear …
Legal document involving a partnership between a large number of the Jewish merchants active in Egypt ca. 1800 CE: Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, Avraham Cesana …
Communal donation lists from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries (based on individuals mentioned). At least one of the headings is dated according to …