Geniza Lab

20 orders of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen. See individual PGPIDs (18979 through 18998). See also Goitein's attached notes.

Verso: order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 2 dinars for an eighth of a measure of raisins. Dated: Av 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE.

Recto: Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Includes the phrase "anā al-ghāʾib wa-anta al-ḥāḍir." The sender set sail on a boat/ship.

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 4 dinars and a half and an eighth of a dinar in cash (ʿayn) for grapes. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū l-Makārim 5 dinars. Dated Av 14[51] (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī, in cash, 2 and a half dinars (and following that another) half dinar. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). A note at the upper left states ‘total of 3 dinars’. (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay for grapes one dinar and one half and one third in cash. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay Abū Saʿid 5 dinars in cash. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay Rīḥān 2 dinars in cash. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay one and a quarter dinars for gum mastic. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay Makārim one and a half dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū Makārim 3 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay on account of the household of Amīn al-Dawlā 100 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Recto: Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū l-Makārim 3 dinars. Dated: Av 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE. On verso there is a note in Arabic script which is simply Abū Zikrī's name (Abū Zikrī b. Yūsuf). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay Abū l-Faḍl 7 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd 6 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer one and a quarter dinars for gum mastic. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 5 dinars for wax (candles). Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī 2 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 3.5 dinars in cash (ʿayn). Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)