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Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef, messier than usual.
No Scholarship Records
Accounts, late. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Shaʿbān 980 AH (פץ), with tzade sofit as 900 rather than 90 (somewhat common among 16th-century fragments).
Text is arranged in columns with discrete entries, probably accounts of some sort. Needs examination. On verso there is also a Judaeo-Arabic text praising the attributes of God.
Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in a rudimentary hand. Needs examination.
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning at least two Ottoman military officers with title Ağa on the recto of the larger fragment.
Recto: Accounts, mentioning Moshe Kohen and listing amounts of money for the weeks of Shemot through Tetzaveh.
But the rest seems to be more like accounts, so perhaps it is a private copy of a legal testimony.
The bullk of the letter consists of accounts.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic dated in Shawwal 1237AH which is January/February 1834CE.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals.
Several pages of late accounts in Hebrew script. The first page is in Latin-script Italian and mentions the words "imposto" and "via Livorno" as well as the names: "Katrina," "Gambillo," and " il Sig[nore] Ieuda."
Seven sides of elaborate accounts in form of a ledger, in Arabic Siyaket script.
Could be an inventory or accounts. Verso: Faded remnants of Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Private accounts, in Arabic script. Contains a few names against sums of money, probably in Coptic numerals.
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.
Mentions various numbers and sums of money. Reused for jotted accounts on verso. Needs further examination.
Reports that the addressee had sent a pair of tefillin with 'the mamlūk,' whom the sender found dead. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script, mentioning a ṣayrafī.
Private accounts, likely of a moneychanger. In Arabic script, but consisting mainly of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.
Judah. Verso: possibly accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic concerning attendance somewhere and asking the addressee to do some favor. Verso: Jotted accounts mentionining Mūsā and sums of money. (Information in part from CUDL)
The word "kiswa" appears - referring to the covering of the Kaʿba? Reused for accounts in Arabic script (also on recto) and a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (on verso).
Fragment of a report in Arabic script about fiscal matters (fishy accounting?). Mentions the large figure of 1,000 dinars.
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]....[ ]ـصهو واخذ عبده ويعـ…….
].... اخذ كتابه وجده عبده قد قدر لما لم يكاتبه عبده به ولا
]. قدر ما بحتاج اليه اسقف(؟) سعر الف دينار …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals.
Accounts in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. The Judaeo-Arabic portion reads, "Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa b.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Bifolio of business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Arabic script. Bifolio. Numbers written out in full rather than as numerals.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and western Arabic numerals.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Mainly words of patronage in a high register of Arabic. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Verso and margins of recto (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions names such as Yaʿaqov Pinḥas; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; ʿAbd al-Munʿim; and the term jāmakiyya (salary).
The lines of Judaeo-Arabic on verso may be jotted accounts in the hand of ʿArūs. Nearly completely preserved—needs examination.
Reused on verso for jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Bifolio of accounts. Dated: Ramaḍān 639 AH = March/April 1242 CE.
Accounts. Mentions al-Shaykh Bū l-Faraj, [...] Ibn al-Tilmīdh or al-Talmid, Abū l-Fakhr, Abū l-Ḥasan, and Manṣūr.
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
It is possible that these are intended to spell out words (other documents are known that use Coptic numerals as an alphabetic cipher) but it may simply be sums for accounting. Needs further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing many names. E.g. al-Zakiyy, al-Qalyūbī, al-Sharīf, Manṣūr, al-Summāqī, Najm, סיכה, ʿIwaḍ, קרשלה, Fāris, Yaḥyā, Makīn, Jamāl.
There are pen trials in the upper margin and accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.
On verso, scattered accounts in Arabic script.
Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Detailed, mentioning many specific names and commodities (manly textile goods: maqṭaʿ, miʿjar, maʿraqa; also mentions candles and cotton).
Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script. Verso: List of materia medica and minerals including arsenic (zirnīkh), barberry juice, tubular (marāzībī) tutty, ambergris, sarcocolla (ʿanzarūt), and ḥajar armanī (lapis lazuli?).