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  1. 1151LetterT-S NS 298.11

    And I know that you are angry on account of the china (el sini)... greetings from myself, Khalifia Ajiman... and from your mother Doña Jamila, widow of the perfect scholar Rabbi Yom Tov Shalom, may his soul rest in Eden...."

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    1.  ליד החכם הנעלה לכבוד ולתהילה
    2. כהר אברהם שלום נרו יאיר אכיר
    3. מצפת תוב 
    4. והלכי(?)
    5. למצרים יעא
    6. וממצרים ישלחנה החכם
    7. הנעלה לכבוד ולתהלה כהה
    8. יהודה קאש…

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  2. 1152LetterAIU XII.83

    Khalfa and tell him that Abū l-Surūr is with them and about to set sail with the nakhuda, and no one needs to worry on his account. He then writes (it seems) that he and his party will also be setting sail soon, presumably to Yemen or India, and may God preserve them.

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  3. 1153LetterCUL Or.1081 J28

    The sender complains about a long history of having to sink money into this house on account of his neighbor. He asks the addressee to treat the house just as he would treat his own house and not to neglect this matter.

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    1. ורד פי אלעשר אלאול מן תשרי סנה דתתמט לעולם
    2. ישועה בן אברהם נע [סל?]מאן בן אלעזר

    3. וקפנא אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלריס אלגליל אדאם תמכינה וקדאסתה ו…

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  4. 1154LetterSassoon 713

    Shelomo gives a detailed account of the Almohad invasions and persecutions in the West from 1145 to the present-day (on the day he wrote the letter, a messenger arrived with the news that Bijaia had fallen to the Almohads).

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    1. ואומר מי יתן לי אבר כיונה אעופה ואשכונה וגו׳
    2. אל תירא כי אתך אני אל תשתע כי אני אלהיך וגו׳
    3. מגדל עוז שם [ייי] בו ירוץ צדיק [ונשגב]
    4. כי תעבור במי…

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  5. 1155List or tableT-S NS 83.12 + T-S NS J570

    Two bifolios from a mercantile account ledger written in the same hand. These were written several years apart (T-S NS 83.12 dates to 1050–52 CE and T-S NS J570 dates to 1054–55 CE).

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  6. 1156Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.9r–10r

    Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Dayyān, the widow of Abū l-Faḍl al-Ṣayrafī declares that she has received from Abū l-ʿAlā al-Tājir (her late husband's brother) all the payments that are owed her on account of her husband's death (the delayed marriage payment and the belayot, i.e., the items from her trousseau that had been worn out from use), and she releases him from all claims. (2) Abū l-ʿAlā al-Tājir declares that he has received from Sitt al-Ahl all that she owes him of her dowry (qumāsh) and household furnishings (athāth), and he releases her from all claims. (3) Sitt al-Ahl purchases from Abū l-ʿAlā half of her late husband's house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for 160 dinars.

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  7. 1157List or tableMoss. IV,21.1 + T-S NS J240 + T-S 20.137

    IB III, 18. Five accounts written by Ibn Yiju in India, 1136-1139, 1145-1149. […] Ibn Yiju used the verso to write his accounts. The accounts on the verso of T-S 20.137 have been published in Goitein and Friedman, India Traders. The accounts on the verso of T-S NS J240 have not yet been transcribed.

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    1. באקי חסאב מן אלבצארה ג מתאקיל
    2. וכאן לה ענד אלכאדאר (!) לענה אללה יד מתקאל
    3. עלי בהארין היל מא דפע היל אשתרית לה
    4. בהארין עוצהא מן פנדרינה ביז מ…
  8. Balance in his favor: one m. and one quarter, with which the whole account is closed {alt. tr.: after all accounting}.
  9. verso (section ii)

    1. Lngy’s debit for expenditures: ten fīlī dirhems and one Egyptian mithqāl.

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  10. 1158List or tableT-S J1.20

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the heading (recto) 11 Av 5502 AM which is 1742 CE. […] These accounts are related to quantities of Ottoman gold coinage in fındıklı and maḥbūb. The recto's heading mentions the name Mordekhay Mūnīr in connection with the accounts (likely as the individual who handled these funds).

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  11. 1159LetterT-S AS 177.29

    Note in Arabic script, with the final word (ve-shalom) in Hebrew. Referring to "the accounts which the master wrote at the top of this page" (there are indeed accounts written at the top of the page, evidently written by the addressee). The addressee is asked to sort things out with 'the dear boy,' because the accounts are defective (nāqiṣ).

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  12. 1160List or tableENA NS 47.26

    The verso of the left fragment contains accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that are organized according to the months of the Islamic calendar. The accounting style is terse and structured mostly by alphanumerical figures. […] The word "dīwānī" is repeated throughout the accounts. MCD.

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  13. 1161List or tableT-S 8J16.19 + T-S NS 323.13

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. […] This seems to be the third reuse of the fragment: first it was a decree, then it was a letter, then it was torn and used for accounts (note that the accounts constitute the only document that is not continuous across the tear).

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  14. 1162List or tableT-S AS 185.109

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a highly-trained scribal hand on recto. […] The heading states that the accounts are in the name of a certain Ḥayyīm Ḥefeṣ in connection with a market ([?]סוק אלאגנב= international/foreign market). The accounts on the verso are in a different scribal hand.

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  15. 1163List or tableENA NS 85.1250.1

    Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script.

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  16. 1164List or tableT-S NS 270.84

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is known from other accounts.

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  17. 1165List or tableENA 2219.50

    Accounts, listing weights and payments. Dating: 11th or 12th century. […] Yosef. Several of the accounts deal with silk. This fragment is likely a page from the same book of accounts as the neighboring shelfmark.

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  18. 1166LetterT-S AS 181.28

    Accounts, or letter mentioning accounts, in Arabic.

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  19. 1167List or tableT-S NS 306.43

    Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Probably private business accounts.

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  20. 1168LetterT-S 10J12.16

    She urges him not to drink wine "on account of your illness. . . May God protect us from illness while separated (al-maraḍ fī l-ghurba). . .

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    1. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתך ואין למו מכשול
    2. שלום שלום לרחוק ולקרוב אמר ייי ורפאתיו
    3. אלדי אעלם בה ולדי ואלעזיז עלי וענדי גמע אללה שמלי בה קריב עלי מא י…

    I inform you, my dear son—may God reunite me with you soon in accordance with His wish, and so may it be His will—I inform you that many letters would not suffice if I were to try to describe the anxiety, the loneliness, the solitude, and the worry that I have experienced on your account. My anxiety since your departure on Friday renews itself each moment, and there is no escape, for such is God’s judgment, and at night [I have] disquieting dreams and insomnia.

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  21. 1169List or tableJRL B 2692

    Recto: Accounts in Arabic. Verso: Possibly accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Isḥāq al-Yahūdī.

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  22. 1170List or tableENA 3681.8

    Accounts, early modern. One of the names on the verso is Muḥammad Jalabī (Çelebi) Muḥasebeci ("the Accountant" in Turkish). […] These entries point to the likelihood that the accounts are connected to a ceramics production and/or long-distance commerce in such goods.

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  23. 1171List or tableJRL C 146 + JRL C 147

    Minute fragment of accounts, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. These accounts are related to the neighboring shelfmark JRL SERIES C 146.

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  24. 1172List or tableJRL C 147 + JRL C 146

    Minute fragment of accounts, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. These accounts are related to the neighboring shelfmark JRL SERIES C 147.

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  25. 1173List or tableT-S NS J54

    Accounts. Four pages of daily accounts of five to six laborers.

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  26. 1174State documentENA 3920.7

    Probably fiscal accounting. Dated: 575 AH = Accounts in Arabic on recto and verso, probably state.

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  27. 1175List or tableT-S Ar.35.337

    Accounts in extensive detail on the recto, medieval-era. The accounts continue on the verso, where there is also a literary text in Hebrew with some Tiberian voweling.

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  28. 1176List or tableJTS MS 10801.5

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Uses the unit of measurement قدح (=keddah). Headed "raṣd al-aṭʿām," perhaps meaning the balancing of the accounts of food.

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  29. 1177List or tableT-S AS 152.37

    Recto: accounts. Expenses are listed, with coptic numerals: carats (qirāṭ) and piasters (qirsh) are mentioned. Verso: accounts mentioning wages. (Information from CUDL)

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  30. 1178List or tableT-S As 177.487

    Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One page is a summary of accounts with Abū Riḍā. Mentions sugar and safffron among other commodities.

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  31. 1179List or tableJRL C 116

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 8 Muharram 1267 AH which is 1850 CE. This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.

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  32. 1180List or tableAIU VI.B.174

    Recto: Accounts in Ladino in muayyadis, naming Shelomo, Hakham Moshe, Yizhaq M[...?][…] Verso: Continuation of the accounts, mentioning Yizhaq the uncle (tio) of Shelomo. […] Perhaps this was the envelope, came apart from the letter, and was then reused for accounts.

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  33. 1181List or tableT-S NS 327.89

    (1) Possibly official accounts, in Arabic script. Looks Ayyubid or Mamluk[…] (2) Draft of a letter in Arabic script, similar hand as the accounts. (3) Subsequently reused for accounts for minute sums of money in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  34. 1182List or tableENA 3735.12-13

    Accounts, badly damaged with very little legible text. The accounts portray extensive usage of Greek-Coptic numerals.

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  35. 1183List or tableENA NS 52.30

    Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One column is headed "kharāj" (therefore fiscal in nature?). The accounts with numerals at 180 degrees may be a secondary use.

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  36. 1184List or tableJRL C 140

    Accounts that mention the "Karo y Frances Kon[panya]" in the heading and a wide variety of coinage types and quantities. This folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.

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  37. 1185List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 2111/28

    Accounts of Moshe Mizraḥī (or at least in his hand - perhaps these are communal accounts).

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  38. 1186List or tableJRL C 122

    Accounts in Arabic in the name of Yeshūʿa al-Yahūdī. […] This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.

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  39. 1187List or tableJRL C 119

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with eastern Arabic numerals. […] This bifolio was once part of a broader ledger– one of the headings begins with the common invocation "may this defter be blessed if God wills it." The accounts relate to income (וארד) from a variety of sources, such as the "ṭaʾifat al-qaṣabaya[?]" […] The following names appear in the accounts: (recto) Muḥammad Ṭara[?], al-Ḥajj Ismaʿīl, (verso) Muḥammad Ḥarārī, and Nissīm Ḥāmī, among others.

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  40. 1188List or tableAIU VII.F.84

    Recto: Ladino accounts of sales involving Ḥayyim Alarcon b. Ḥayyim Yūsufī. Verso: Ladino accounts mentioning "the deceased" several times and 6 June 1788 (1 Sivan 5548).

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  41. 1189List or tableT-S AS 152.201

    Accounts with names and quantities of money in dirhams. Mentions the house of Umm Thanāʾ; Umm Bū ʿAlī; nails; a chair. Maybe communal accounts or alms distribution. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  42. 1190List or tableJRL C 174

    Accounts of sales to individuals on various dates in the month of Ramadan 1241 AH which is 1826 CE. The accounts were recorded on a bifolio that may have once been part of a broader ledger.

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  43. 1191List or tableENA 4020.57

    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. Many of the lines are crossed out.

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  44. 1192List or tableJRL C 42

    Accounts in Arabic dated on the verso's heading as Jumada I[ or perhaps II?] […] The structure of the accounts is complex and may represent a fragment of a broader financial ledger.

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  45. 1193List or tableJRL C 138

    Communal accounts list holdings and monetary values, probably expenses or contributions. […] This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.

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  46. 1194List or tableT-S AS 148.57

    Accounts in Hebrew and Arabic script, mentioning names such as Abū l-Barakāt, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Saʿd, and quantities of currency. On verso jottings written across the Arabic accounts. (Information from CUDL)

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  47. 1195List or tableT-S NS 83.7

    Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. 16th-century, pre-1573 CE based on mention of the Radba''z (d. 1573). […] This is likely the case given the dating of the paleography and the fact that Moshe Ben-Abidirham is listed here in these accounts with the rabbinic title Ḥakham. Other individuals mentioned in the accounts include: (recto) Moshe Medina, "the orphans of R. […] This final name helps date the accounts as pre-1573 given that the entry is "אשת" (wife) rather than "אלמנת" (widow).

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  48. 1196List or tableBodl. MS heb. f 22/40

    Recto: Accounts of the bookseller in Judaeo-Arabic, here listing books sold or belonging to the widow of Bū Saʿd. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script (continuing onto Bodl. MS heb. f 22/41r) in which he says he has settled accounts with 'my father the teacher' and neither owes the other anything until the end of Rabīʿ I, except for the following books.

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  49. 1197List or tableJRL C 182

    Booklet of accounts, the binding is intact. Dated in the sixth image as Tuesday 18 Iyyar [..]93 AM, which is likely [55]93 based on the paleography. Further confirmation emerges from the fact that in 5593 AM, 18 Iyyar indeed fell on a Tuesday– which was not the case in 5493 (the other plausible year based on the paleography). Many of the accounts are dated according to the weekly Parsha readings, as is the case with many communal accounts, however, it seems more likely that these are private business transactions.

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  50. 1198List or tableENA 2898.25

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Some names are listed: Manṣūr Saʿadī, Aḥmad Bu-Beys[?][…] This document is from a larger set of accounts and is thus related to the neighrboring shelfmark ENA 2898.26.

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  51. 1199List or tableENA 2898.26

    Accounts on both the recto and verso, early modern. […] This document is from a larger set of accounts and is related to the neighboring shelfmark ENA 2898.26.

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  52. 1200List or tableT-S Ar.34.6

    Accounts of some sort in Arabic script. Several calendar dates are specified. […] Two of the headers might be "jujube" (ʿunnāb), in which case these might be agricultural accounts. Needs examination.

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