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Accounting of building expenditures ca. 1230. Fragment of a leaf, of which the bottom left part is missing; it includes three columns of items on both recto and verso. The accounting refers to repairs in Dar Hayyun. Supplies of gypsum, clay, floor tiles, and lime form the majority of the items.

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• 13th c
• account
• communal
• coptic numerals
• qodesh
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Document date

14 Heshvan 5300 Anno Mundi (26 October 1539 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dated on the verso 14 Heshvan (שנת ברחמים)– which is a gematria given that the month Elul is normally referred to as רחמים. […] The paleography of the accounts matches this chronological designation. MCD

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• 16th c

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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Three other pages of ʿArūs's accounts appear in the neighboring shelfmarks.

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Document date

5 Muḥarram 1245 Hijrī (7 July 1829 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Ottoman-era, based on overall appearance and use of the honorific "effendi." The dated accounts on the verso may be related to the letter: 5 [Mu]ḥarram 1245 CE which is 1829 CE. There are several lines of accounts at the bottom. Long, well-preserved, and relatively easy to read (lots of diacritics provided).

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• 19th c
• arabic script

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

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

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Somebody (with a Greek name?) […] There is a note in a different hand in which Naḥum Binyamin Shelomo agrees that he owes Eliyyahu Kaspi (perhaps the scribe of the accounts) 130 gerushim.

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• late ja
• plato

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Document date

3 Kislev 5581 Anno Mundi (9 November 1820 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goren recounts having received a letter from David and sends news regarding the affairs of the ṣarrāfs (ṣayarīf), accountants/moneychangers, as well as the ṣayarīf al-kūbār, perhaps a leadership role or signifier of clout in the profession. […] Much of the paper was reused for accounts.

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• 19th c
• ben na'im
• late ja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a disorderly scribal hand. Dated 16 Dhu l-Qaʿda __45 AH, which could be 1145 or 1245 given the mention of Ottoman kurush coinage throughout the accounts (1733 or 1830 CE). Most of the entries include names, such as: ʿAlī al-Bsūsī, ...ʿī al-Fayyūmī, Khalīl Effendi, and many others.

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• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio that seems to have originally contained official-looking accounts in Arabic script but which might pertain to the qodesh rather than to the state (al-marsūm... iqtiṭāʿatuh bism Aḥmad b. […] On the other two pages, there are private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There is also one page of a medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing the factors to consider (temperament, strength, habitus, age) in deciding how to evacuate the patient. […] Ḥofni. The remaining accounts require further examination.

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• bleeding
• evacuation
• medical

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Document date

1698 Seleucid (1387 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio with weekly communal accounts for August–December 1387 CE (1698 Seleucid). […] The second fragment under this shelfmark is a bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals; unclear if related.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Accounts of a bookseller (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?). In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. […] Verso: miscellaneous accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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• booklist

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List of expenditures of the Qodesh ca. 1169-70. An accounting written in the hand of Judge Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi, on both parts of a leaf from a notebook, mentioning several houses of the qodesh. […] The Synagogue of the Babylonians is one of the main beneficiaries in this accounting. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 309 #72)

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• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• shemuel b. saadya
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Document date

Av 5333 Anno Mundi (1 July 1573–30 July 1573 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listing Avraham b. Meʾīr Arūbas and Yaḥya Yas__[?] […] The pair may have been involved in moneychanging given that variations of צרפ appear in each headings in connection with the accounts listed. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 981 AH = Av 5333 AM, which is 1573 CE.

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• late ja

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Dhu l-Qaʿda 1013 Hijrī (21 March 1605–19 April 1605 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic dated as [Dhu] al-Qa'da 1013 AH which is 1605 CE: "אל קעדה ס[נת] יג ואלפ", further down the recto the year [5]364 AM is also mentioned (1603/1604 CE). The accounting format is complex and bears multiple layers of figures being crossed out and adjusted.

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• 17th c
• silk

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Late accounts. The name Avraham Serano (סראנו) is listed on the verso but many other names are badly damaged and less legible. […] MS Heb. c 27/87 (1740 CE PGPID 19319) but these accounts JRL L 56 may be significantly older based on the paleography– perhaps as early as 16th-century.

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• 16th c or later

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Fustat by a father to his son, settling business accounts with him. The handwriting is that of the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), and the addressee is probably Moshe b. […] If Moshe wants to, he can return to Fustat and they can go through the accounts together in person. Abu Sahl tells Moshe not to worry about the capitation tax, because God has helped and they already have enough money for him. "Don't let anyone look at these accounts, not Mahfuz nor anyone else." Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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• abu sahl levi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts on verso, with the heading titled "ḥisāb al-awrāq min ....[?]"– perhaps referring to paper production based on the number of times "awrāq" is repeated throughout the various accounts. Dated through gematria that is not fully legible ל.מה סצנץ perhaps = 30+3?

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• 16th or 17th c
• paper

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Document date

427–29 Hijrī (1035–1038 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. For the community's expenses on the synagogue quarter. […] On verso there are further (related) accounts mainly in Arabic script but with some Judaeo-Arabic at the bottom.

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script. The hand is reminiscent of fiscal documents but these may be private accounts, based on the unsystematic layout and the headers "owed by him" (ʿalayhi).Recto mentionsn "on Wednesday the 26th" followed by "20 dinars," then perhaps "in the hand of Jaʿfar al-[...].

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Accounts with various types of coinage and goods mentioned. Likely dating to the sixteenth century on the basis of numismatic evidence. Two of the accounts mention "Brahīmī" coinage alongside bunduqī (gold ducats) and fiḍḍa (possibly medin).

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• cmp
• numismatic dating

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Synagogue accounts. Dating: 18th or 19th century. Probably headed Seder Balaq rather than Seder Kalla (as the Baker/Polliack catalog has it). […] On verso there are more accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mainly listing foods: almonds, hazelnuts, chard, fava beans.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Three other pages of ʿArūs's accounts appear in the neighboring shelfmarks. […] Recto states that Abū l-Mufaḍḍal (a person with this kunya appears in many of ʿArūs's accounts) sent two burniyyas; also mentions someone's brother in law; a thawb; Socotran aloe; and a qārūra of silver.

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• account
• arus b. yosef

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Document date

946 Hijrī (19 May 1539–7 May 1540 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a bifolium of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the year 946 AH (1539/1540 CE) on the verso. For similar usage of the letter ץ as 900 in sixteenth-century accounts, see for example: ENA 3150.4 - PGPID 40491.

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• cmp

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Inferred date

1241–1242 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts for the distribution of bread for the same period as in T-S K15.25 (1241/42 CE), for the thirteenth through the eighteenth weeks of the liturgical year. The accounts contain only the liturgical name of the week, that of the collector (jābī al-mezonot, changing every week), the sum delivered by him, the amount spent on bread (in the seventeeth week: 28 1/4 out of 54 dirhems) and the balance.

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on recto. The verso was used for a student's writing exercises in Hebrew script and Tiberian voweling. The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice.

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• arabic reused

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on verso. The paper was rused for a student's writing exercises in Hebrew script. The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice.

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• arabic reused

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Document date

5558 Anno Mundi (21 September 1797–10 September 1798 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, probably communal in nature– there are many communal lists from the turn of the 19th century matching this format (some of which also demonstrate reusage of Arabic-script documents). […] There are also sums in eastern Arabic numerals and the opening lines of an Arabic letter that must have been cut up and reused for the subsequent recording of accounts. Needs further examination.

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• 18th c
• arabic reused

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Primary language

Arabic

Original use: Two lines from a petition or report about property rights, mentioning an alley (zuqāq) in Fustat and something under the name of al-qāḍī al-sadīd and a 'mound' (kawm) that belongs by rights to the petitioner. Reused for accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Pinholes at the margin ~4–5mm apart. […] Secondary use: Lists of names and numbers in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, probably private business accounts.

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• petition
• pinholes
• rights
• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Accounting of the Qodesh (in the hand of Yefet b. David?). […] Bushayr on tiles and renovations. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, likely related to recto.

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Document date

8 Tevet 5492 Anno Mundi (6 January 1732 CE)

ENA 1822a.83a: Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals dated in one recto entry as 8 Tevet [54]92 or 6 January 1732CE. […] The latter surname also appears in l. 2r as part of another entry where funduqli coinage is in use. The same accounting format continues onto this fragment's verso.

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• 18th c
• ladino
• list
• to examine

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