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Accounts in Hebrew and Ladino on dated alphanumerically on 1v and 7v as 5600AM (התר) which is 1839/1840CE. There is a large title on 1r possibly indicating that all 14 folios of this fragment, or at least this page, served as a "פנקס הכנסה והוצאה" (a register of income and expenses). In certain places the lists are organized by the weekly parsha readings of the liturgical calendar and then in other contexts the full calendar months are noted instead. On 1v there is a note in Judaeo-Spanish mentioning payment to a communal gabbay "me debe mi senyor padre 155 grushes a el anyo ke me izo de akhnasa [collection?] a el gabbay." The parsha reading system of recordkeeping is common across communal registers from earlier in the nineteenth century and in the eighteenth century. The register fragment is a rich source for tracing surnames, such as Beniste (1r), Cesana (1r, 2r), Franko (2r), Kaballero (2v), and others. A list of calculations on 7v has a peculiar entry "baqshīsh del kalsado de Kandia" ("a payment from the drunkard from Candia"). See Kohen and Kohen-Gordon's dictionary entry of Ladino for "kalsado". In the later folios, the content shifts away from entries about people's payments to inventory lists of goods such as: "asucar/sugar", "limon/lemon," portuqal/orange," "miliḥ/salt" (10v).Taken together, this register fragment represents one of the largest from the nineteenth century and holds a vast array data for further examination. MCD.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century.

Accounts in Hebrew and Ladino.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Calligraphic. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 417 AH, which is April/May 1026 CE. Many intricate details about transactions. The main commodity is thawbs. Fellow merchants: Abū Yaʿqūb; Abū Naṣr; Abū l-Ṭayyib Marwān; Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Hillel;

Accounts in Hebrew and western Arabic numerals. Late. Mentions 'the fattoria' several times, probably referring to the mercantile arrangement of 'factors/fattores' representing an employer. Currencies: real/reales (spelled ריאליץ) and עוט׳(?).

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Curious spellings, with long vowels in unexpected places (אבין for אבן and מבורוך probably for מבורך). Does this point to a late origin?

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Exact account of expenses for a distinguished, sick foreigner, showing also how these expenses were covered. Written by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (active in Fustat 1125–50 CE). "Various medical prescriptions conclude with the note: "Meal—cooked chickens." How this worked out in practice is seen in the daily accounts listing the sums expended for a sick foreigner and the sums showing how they were collected, as summarized here. The list is in the unmistakable hand of the judge Nathan b. Solomon ha-Kohen, who was active in the Egyptian capital in the years 1125 - 1150, but who signed (as first signatory) a document in Tyre, Lebanon, as early as 1102. (Tyre was conquered by the Cru­ saders in 1124.) At the writing of this account he seems to have been an old man and was probably retired.4 9 The account refers to the first twelve days of the month Shevat (Jan.-Feb.). The sums refer to the silver coin dirhem. Expenditures: Daily: Bread—3/4; on Saturday a larger amount: 7/8 or 1. A chicken—2 1/8, or (mostly) 2 1/2. (Medical) potion—1. Weekly: Hot oil —1. Listed only once: Rose water—3/4. Creme—1/2. Honey—1/2. Lentils—1/4. Saffron—1/4. Nile water—1/4. Larger sums were spent on bandages, cotton, laundry, and a new cloak. The patient was probably treated gratuitously by a physician of the community. The expenditure was covered by (a) income from a house belong­ ing to the community; (b) six donations, in one case a husband and his wife—referred to as "his house"—contributed separately; (c) a collection made in the two rabbinical synagogues of Fustat (which brought only 7 dirhems); (d) 1 dinar less 1/24 (qirat), worth at that time 35 1/2 dirhems, donated by "our lord," meaning the Head of the Jewish community, probably the court physician Samuel b. Hananiah (1140-1159)." Mediterranean Society, II, p. 458; IV, pp. 232, 233.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

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)

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

See PGP 20645

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

Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1040. Mainly materials for ceilings and roofs, palm branches, ropes, reeds, etc. Treesare also listed and the supply of doors. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 189 #20)

Account of the qodesh ca. 1234. This is a double leaf from a notebook, containing four columns of items. Both revenue from rent and building expenditures are included. There are Muslims and Christians among the tenants listed. The document is typical of a first recording of revenue and expenditures for private reference. Details on revenue from apartments are mixed together with accounts of bricks and baskets for building purposes. Mentions a wind catcher (bādhanj). (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 435 #131)

Account. Revenue from rent ca. 1230. A record of revenue listing 27 tenants of the qodesh. The first part is canceled by a stroke of the pen. This, and the word nuqila, i.e. "transcribed," show that the contens of such leaves used to be posted into notebooks. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 441 #132)

Account for sales of flax. A calligraphic copy on vellum, ca. 1025. The account was sent from Ifrīqiya to Egypt and provides exact details about 120 bales of flax. Accounts in the same hand and possibly from the same book are also found in CUL Or.1080 J291, BL OR5554A.53-54r, Moss. VIII,476.1-2. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 383 and Goitein index cards linked below.)

Account for Av and Elul 1494, and Tishri 1495 sel. ca. 1183. A double leaf, taken from the notebook of Judge Shemuel b. Saadya, this document contains two accoutns of revenue from rent, for the period Av 1494-Tishri 1495 sel., in which Elul 1494 appears twice, each time with different items. Each list of revenues is followed by one of expenditures for the same period. The first list of revenues includes 26 items, totaling 373.5 dirhams, and the second 20 items, totaling 367.5 dirhams. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 343 #87)