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Join: Bodl. MS heb. d 66/119 + T-S NS J404
Bodl. MS heb. d 66/119
Recto/verso:
Section:
Records of book sales, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1540 Seleucid, which is 1229 CE. "To increase their meager income teachers got involved in book selling. In this sales contract the teacher Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the judge (dayyan) sells books."
Ed. S. D. Goitein, "Communal servants and physicians as booksellers" (in Hebrew), Kiryat Sefer 44 (1969); also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6C.2.3%20Bodleian%20%28c28-d65%29/Bodl.%20MS%20Heb.%20d%2066_119%20%28PGPID%206476%29.pdf.
Type: Legal document
T-S NS J404
Recto/verso:
Section:
List of sums promised or paid (the entries crossed out), ranging from 1/8 to 6 1/2, mostly in fractions, wherefore in cases in which exactly 1 or 2 dirhams were given the word sawa, 'exactly,' was added. The mother of the writer gives 2 dirhams, and in 3 instances the entries consist in balances owed to the contributors. The list probably represents school fees pledged or donated for needy children. On the reverse, notation of prices obtained for 4 books, e.g. Guide of the Perplexed, 30 dirhams, with 2 dirhams for brokerage (see Goitein, Kiryat Sefer 44 [1969], 125-126). In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.
Ed. and trans. Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (2005).
Type: List or table
