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List of payments, See PGP 24734

List of payments on certain days of the week and list of names, written by Tamim b. Yosef (was active from the last days of Maimonides until at list 1231). See his signature in Freer: F 1908.44H. AA

Dowry list and nuptial gift of a rich bride. In the hand of Natan b.Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1128–53 CE.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving silk.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic

Account of burial expenses of a dead man who belonged to the lower middle class. The account lists the expenses in three coins: dinars, qirats and dirhams. Besides a tunic, two robes and a cloak, the dead man got a scarf, which also covered a large part of the body. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 160)

Letter of appeal, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rhyming (-dī). On a reused list of various expenditures of the community. (See Goitein, Med Soc, II, App. A 46.)

Account of expenditures ca. 1200. Various expenditures, mostly on repairs, are recorded by a parnas, R. Yeshu'a. Written on both sides of a leaf, of which the verso contains the behinning of a letter, not pertaining to this topic. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 394 #106)

See PGP 20645

Accounts or distribution list. Four columns per side. In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Coptic numerals. Well preserved. Dating: Looks late, perhaps no earlier than 14th century, possibly substantially later. For the document that Goitein cites as T-S J1.34, see T-S J1.43.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic

Mysterious fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Filled with text of various kinds. Some of it may be a draft of a letter to a dignitary. Needs further examination.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in Hebrew. Late. Building expenses? Currencies include cedid and perhaps ashrafi.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Barhūn al-Tahirtī. Two folios.

Two lists similar to T-S K15, fols. 5, 15, 39, 50, written by the same scribe and having mostly same names; one of the lists dated Friday Marheshvan 14. Has a special section for the Rum (Europeans) (42 persons). The second total at the bottom of col. II represents the addition of 4 loaves resulting from changes in three allocations in the list. Ca. 1107. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 443, App. B 23)

See PGP 20645

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions Istanbul.

Detailed accounts in Arabic script. Unclear if it is connected to recto or not. Lists goods such as pepper, bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr), a large and heavy ruby (ḥajar yāqūt kabīr thaqīl), silver, coral, a thawb. Mentions an Abū Saʿd as well. ASE

Legal document, draft or copy. No signatures. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevasser b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī presents an itemized list of goods for which ʿArūs b. Yosef owes him money. ʿArūs claims that he has fully settled all accounts. If ʿArūs proves to be lying, then he will be considered accursed and will not earn merit (? יכון בכלל ארור לא יזכר). In the upper left corner there are two names pertaining to a different document: Meshullam ha-Kohen b. Yosef and Ghaniyya bt. [...].

Distribution list. Dating: Ca. 1030 CE. Important but much damaged list of the type of B 2b: distribution of sums of 5 dirhems and its multiples (many of 15 or 20 some even of 30), also several of 7 1/2 dirhems. Many names identical with the contemporary lists B 1, 2, 52 (e.g., the rare Maʿshūq, "Beloved," here, ll. 1 and 7 = B 1, l. 35), also some new persons. Here, as in B 2b, after the sums assigned, numbers are added, which seem to indicate here the number of persons in each household. A note: "For transport and the balance of the flour—21" shows that simultaneously with this distribution of money the poor received certain quantities of flour. Goitein, Med Soc II, App. B, #100 (p. 465). NB: Goitein cites this fragment as T-S J1.34.