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Tag: poverty
140 records found
List of the Pesiqa, upper part of three pages containing the names of contributors, headed by Abu al-Mufaddal, who pledges 1/8 dinar. The others give dirhams, namely: 1 party gives 3 d; 8 parties give 2 d; 16 parties give 1 d; 4 parties give 1/2 d;, 2 (sum not preserved). As indicated by the cut of the extant fragment, it probably contains less than half the original list. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 503, App. C 119)
List of contributors to the poor. Coptic numerals.
List of contributors, including several moneychanger/bankers, a Ben Netira, a ghulam (slave-boy or factor), 'two foreigners', a broker (dallal), a parnas, a Marwan.
List of contributors containing Coptic numerals. (Information from Goitein's typed texts)
List of 39 recipients of 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1 1/2 dirhams during the 1020s, a period of famine, and belonging together with Mediterranean Society, II, App. B 1-3, pp. 438-440. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 240 and 438, note 111)
List, probably of donors to charity and other communal expenses, only two lines preserved; mentions a ratl of oil (probably a contribution to the synagogue). (transferred to ENA NS 77) formerly ENA Uncatalogued 4.2a.
List of distribution of wheat. In the hand of the court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ibn al-Qata'if (dated documents 1100-1138). This fragment was transferred to ENA NS 77 but is currently unlocatable.
List. Fragment containing names of recipients of charity, including a blind woman, the widow of Shemuel the hazzan, Mukhtar the doorkeeper.
List (fragment) of recipients, including the phrase "he should be checked out" below the name of "the acquaintance of the son of Da'ud" and "the acquaintance of the son of the dayyan of Barqa. This reflects a system of verification of public charity in Fustat. Verso has Avraham al-Iskandrani and others. ENA NS 77.47 seems to be part of the same list. (Information from Cohen, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, p. 99)
List (fragment), apparently of donors to charity. On one side, names, the first one 'min Abu...' and the last readable line begins 'the Alexandrians]'; the other side, names and numbers and also measures of wheat (waybas). This is unusual in that it combines cash and wheat together in the same list.
List (fragment) of distribution of sums of money for charity, with accounting notes
List of recipients of charity, mentioning "in the synagogue of the Palestinians," which probably refers to a person who lived there. Also two women with the notation "she should be checked out" (yukshaf ʿanha), meaning her deservedness should be verified. ENA NS 77.242 seems to be from the same list. The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages, no.69.
List (fragment) of recipients of charity, mentioning someone who "lives in the golden stone" and also an orphan Ibn al-Qaṭā'if. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
List (fragment) of recipients of charity, including ghulam Hosha'na and "the widow of the shaykh Abu al-X" and two "ma`rifas," meaning people "known" by a local resident, who vouched for their deservedness.
List (fragment) of recipients of alms
List of contributors to charity, no sums given.
List of recipients of charity, including the wife ('bayt') of a warraq (bookseller), and a khayyat (tailor).
List of donors of wheat to charity. See also ENA NS 77.107.
List of distributions for charity, some of the entries similar to the T-S K15 lists, dated ca. 1107 (see Goitein, Mediterranean Society, II, Appendix B 19-23)
A hastily written list of 37 contributors whose names are provided in abbreviated form. Perhaps a collection for a singer at a minor family event; 37 persons, including Abu al-Fadl b. Qata’if and the cantor Yakhin senior. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society 2:507) EMS
