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In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "ENA 3958.10 is an abbreviated acknowledgement, or iqrār, dated 1244 AH/1829 CE, of liability for a loan by an official known as Ḫāḫām Başı (Khākhām Bāshi in Arabic). […]
The document renders his name Bārkār or Bārkāra. This name is close enough to that of the leading rabbi of Istanbul’s Jewish community at the time, Ḥayyim Yaʿḳov Benyakār, to make it plausible that the figure named in the loan agreement is, in fact, Benyakār, whose name could also be rendered Bāryakār, using the Aramaic bār instead of the Hebrew ben for ‘son of’. […]
Shimʿūn was the Jewish international merchant, encountered in Ch. 3, Doc. 6 [PGPID 30998], whose company, Karo y Fransīs, had financial dealings throughout the Mediterranean between roughly 1790 and 1830.
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- فقط خمست عشر الف غرش لا غير
- وجه تحريره
- ص [١] وله.... لما كان يوم الاربع المبارك في تلاتة وعشرين خلت من…
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