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Probably from a notebook of drafts, lists, and accounts. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions the government, probably in the context of of fines or taxation (טלב אלסלטאן); Abū Manṣūr; and Khibāʾ bt. [...].
No Scholarship Records
Recto (secondary use): Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Tripoli (Libya), al-Mahdiyya, Abū ʿImrān Mūsā, Nizārī dinars,
The addressee is asked to greet/'serve' people on the sender's behalf (ukhdum ʿannī majlis al-shaykh al-ajall...). On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
The purpose of the letter is to make progress in settling business accounts.
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Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Business accounts? Verso: Various jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, including a genealogy (ʿAmram b.
There are several lines of accounting mentioning ducats (peraḥim); medins (מאידיס); and Sulaymānī paras.
Bifolio of mercantile accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 11th century, maybe 12th.
Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rich and detailed. Headed with the name of Ibn al-Zūlāq(?).
Might be about provincial administration: "wa-yudabbir amūr al-nāḥiya. . . wa-anna katabū kitāb ilā l-qāḍī. . ." Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts of a druggist. In the hand of the court clerk Yosef b.
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Verso was reused for a few lines of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Bifolio of (communal?) accounts and/or legal records, mainly in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with some Judaeo-Arabic interspersed.
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto contains an inventory (thabat) of something.
Includes praises for Catherine the Great. Reused for accounts in Eastern Arabic numerals on verso, suggesting that it reached its destination (rather than being collected by Firkovich in Crimea).
Quran 28:10)—perhaps she means that she could spare no attention for this matter, because she was so preoccupied on account of her children, who are still sick, as the addressee knows.
In your name, O merciful one
If I were to begin to elaborate for you, my brother, my lord and favored one, and he who [...] those longings …
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Bundār in Aden and entered in the latter’s account book, including the purchase of cast copper to be sent to India. […] Request that Ḥasan list the accounts of all the transactions made for Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥakīm, approval without reservation of all that Ḥasan had done for Lebdi personally (as communicated to him in a letter) and order to buy goods for the payments due to Lebdi and al-Ḥakīm.
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He visited Alexandria, but it seems that Mufaḍḍal discouraged him from seeking a ruling from the judge [A]natoli on account of his strictness. In the remainder of the letter, he repeats his request in various ways.
Another may be a continuation of the accounts on recto along with calculations of total sums of money.
List of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic where the object "עדה" is being expressed in various quantities of the unit of weight "ratl", here expressed in plural form as "ארטל".
At the bottom of recto, the writer says that he forgives his sister for what she said, considering her difficult circumstances (qillat ḥīlatihā) and the suffering of the children. Reused for accounts. Needs further examination. Information in part from Goitein's note card.
Recto: accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning names such as al-Parnas, Abū l-Surūr al-Dumyāṭī, Yeshuʿa, al-Qazzāz, Salāma b.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mainly for foodstuffs: eggplant, coriander, mulūkhiyya, chickpeas, etc.
Recto (secondary use): Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic.
The basmala is repeated in the opening lines and some of the subsequent exercises resemble an accounting-based structure. Recto: Two sections of texts in different scribal hands, one of which is a brief note or letter draft in the first-person regarding scribal practices (געל אלמצחף...
This list in Hebrew is likely from a broader booklet ENA 2898.7-14 where other accounts mention payments in sherifi (שרפי= produced post-1425 CE).
Accounts of a shopkeeper (bookseller?) in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 15th–18th century; this can likely be narrowed based on identifying the people mentioned.
Accounts listing names and corresponding numerical figures.
Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known (Nahray b.
Bifolio of business accounts in Arabic script, probably of a clothier or dyer.
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals.
On folio 37v, there are 3 lines of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, naming Abū l-ʿAlā', Abū l-Faraj, Yūsuf, and al-Muʿallim.
Bifolium of potential state accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on large pages (~12cm) listing immense sums of money.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Detailed and well-preserved.
The lower part of the letter is lost. Reused for accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the upper margin of recto.
Accounts in Judeo-Arabic on a bifolium whose distinct diagonal ligatures may be traceable as part of a broader register of fincancial bookkeeping.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with eastern Arabic numerals.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: ca. 1100 CE.
Verso: address of the letter on recto and accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef (see separate record).
Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts of a wine dealer (or at least somebody who sells liquid by the jarra) in Judaeo-Arabic.
Shelomo, Aharon al-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and the settling of accounts. Signed and probably written by [A]haron ha-Kohen b.
Multifragment. Fol. 2: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: Probably 11th century.
Bifolio of accounting for the purchase of wax (sharḥ shary al-shamʿ).
On verso there are a few lines in Arabic script at 90 degrees to the address, perhaps accounts. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listing various debts. Mentioning names such as Abū Naṣr b.
The letter starts in Hebrew, but the marginal text is in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: accounts, with sums in dirhams. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Goes on to mention various other business matters and people such as Ibn al-Janānī. Reused for accounts in Hebrew script and Hebrew numerals.
The note begins "yaʿlam al-shaykh al-ajall. . . .al-afḍal. . . " Reused for various jottted accounts in Arabic script, mentioning names such as Jamāl al-Dīn, the brother of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, [...] b.
Neatly written accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, at two different scribal hands appear on the recto and verso of the bifolio.