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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts of a merchant. Mentioning goods such as pepper (filfil), oil (dihn), cumin (kammūn), bitumen (qifār), brazilwood (baqqam), sugar and syrup (sukkar wa-sharāb). Mentioning names such as Abū Naṣr, Abū 'Alī, al-Shaykh al-Itrābulsi, and Abū l-Qāsim. ASE.

Accounts in Arabic script.

Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic(?) numerals.

Accounts in Arabic. The names are mostly or entirely Muslims.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. List of names, commodities and amounts, in a very crude hand. Some of the names: Abū Shalib(??), Muḥammad, Abū Yaʿqūb, Ibn Mardūkh, Ibn Bakhtyar, Abū l-Rajā, Abū Bakr, Abu Nuṣayr, Fityān. AA

Business accounts in Arabic script, with some Hebrew mixed in (e.g. the name of the month Tevet).

List of commodities. verso of which is overwritten with an Arabic note and jottings. AA

State accounts relating to the tax farm of the lands of Dayqūf, in the province of al-Bahnasā, administered by Basṭiyya b. Marqūra and the property of the office of the noble lady of al-Āmir in the "Muḥawwil chamber" (al-majlis al-muḥawwil was a chamber in the qaṣr al-baḥr, which in turn was a component of al-qaṣr al-kabīr, the great palace complex of the Fatimid caliphs). Dating: this account is for the kharājī year 550, which corresponds to 551/52 AH and 1156/57 CE. The produce of the land consists of 200 irdabbs: 133 irdabbs of wheat and 66 irdabbs of barley. The verso contains a summary of the document on recto. (Information from CUDL and Khan.)

Accounts of a wine dealer (or at least somebody who sells liquid by the jarra) in Judaeo-Arabic. Customers include Makārim al-Ṣayrafī, Barakāt al-Azraq, Maḥāsin b. al-[...]; the son of Simḥa; Abū ʿAlī b. al-Sukkarī; Bū Manṣūr b. al-Dhahabī; al-Shaykh al-Makīn and his brother Abū l-Baqā'.

Account: building expenditures and revenue from rent, ca. 1039. This record contains details about sums of rent collected from "the Estate of the Synagogue of the Palestinians" for A.H. 429 and 430. It was written at the end of 1039. The revenue list mentions the first period during which Dar Qutayt was inhabited whereas before it had been empty. The building expenditures refer in part to the synagogue. The three parts of the document have found their way into three different boxes of the Taylor-Schechter Collection. Written in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 167 #11)

Fragment mentioning sums of money, evidently an account.

Accounts of a slaughterer, written, it seems, by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 227, 228, 571)

Account of revenue from rent ca. October 1201. A double leaf of a notebook, of which only the upper part is preserved. It was originally an account of both revenue and expenditures, but only a few items are preserved of the latter. Its first part contains revenue for the month of Marheshwan, followed by that for Kislev. The account contains 27 names of inhabited apartments belonging to to 15 compounds, inclusive of the funduq. The total revenue of Marheshwan was 269 dirhams, as against the expected 555.5 indicating a loss in revenue of 286.5, i.e. more than half. This is of course one of the indications of the famine and distress of the period. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 388 #103.) In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (c.1181–1209).

Accounting of expenditures in Dammuh ca. 1182-83.

Account of expenditures in Dammuh (ca. 1182-3) by Sayyid al-Ahl, consisting of a list of disbursements made at the plantation in Dammuh in the course of a year. Most of the items pertain to building operations, including labor and materials, such as fence, mud and lime and stones for the well. Eight dirhams are mentioned as expenditure for the supply of palm branches. The total yearly amount of the expenditures was 628 dirhams, and since probably wariq dirhams are meant, this would represent ca. 15.5 dinars. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 324 #78) EMS

Account of building operations ca. 1200. List of expenditures, recording the daily amount of construction work lasting two weeks, of which the details for six days are preserved. The main items refer to preparation of mortar and plastering. Written in a calligraphic hand, the accounting was perhaps intended for public display. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 396 #107)

Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent, ca. probably 1043. This record written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya still refers to "the four months" mentioned in T-S 20.168, and seems therefore to be a continuation of it. It refers mainly to the collection of the arrears that were enumerated in the former part. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 195 #23.) See also Goitein's note card.

Fragment (lower part) in the same hand [Shelomo b.Eliyyahu's] as T-S K15.74; T-S K15.88; T-S NS J256. List of cash receipts, arranged according to days and indicating which official collected the sums and to whom they were delivered. In several cases, orders of payment, referred to here as hawala, literally, transfer of debt, were given. Some items are noted as 'balance of his vow,' or 'part of what he owes.' Only the column 'Tuesday,' headed by the Nagid who gives 10 dirhams (next highest payment: 5), is completely preserved (9 contributions). Besides a hawala of 5, there were 34 dirhams in cash, of which 25 were delivered to the parnas Baqa, while the writer retained 9. The total of one collection, presumably for a week, was 162 dirhams, for which a collector's fee of 6 dirhams was charged, while three other persons, two parnasim and a beadle, brought 45 plus 19 dirham plus 1 dinar and 45 plus 10 1/2 [? not visible on microfilm]. Total 119 1/2 dirhams plus 1 dinar; also a sum of approximately 160 dirhams, for which a jibaya, collection fee, of 6 dirhams was paid. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 488, App. C 45, dated first part of 13th century)

Account of a partnership, ca. 1218-19. Fragment of a leaf on which the accounting for the apartment of Ibrahim b. al-Sha'ir is presereved. The apartment is in the compound named after Menashshe (b. Yosef, the judge). Ibrahim b. al-Dayyan, mentioned in our documents of this period, is perhaps the son of the judge who lives in the apartment, half of which belongs to the qodesh. The compound is elsewhere described as shirkat al-Dayyan R. Menashshe. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 422 #125)