Geniza Lab

Account of the compound of the Jerusalemites ca. 1191-93. Personal notes of the panason, in which they recorded rent payments by six tenants of Dar al-maqadisa. Several payments are in dinars and some of them seem to be advance payments. The accounting is written on a double leaf from a notebook, in two different scripts, one of them quite awkward, and the other obviously the work of a skilled writer. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 369 #97)

Accounts, probably for wine sent to the castle (burj), with sums of money in silver of good quality and mentioning the names of Yaʿaqov Ṭayyib and Moše Ṭayyib.

Accounts in Hebrew, mentioning silk and olives among other goods.

Accounts in Arabic dated June/July 1824 (Dhū l-Qaʿda 1239).

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts of Abu Zikri Tabib in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim (Goitein) or Yehuda b. Saadya (Gil). A leaf folded to four pages, of which the last one is blank. All three pages are crossed out. Dated 1065 (Gil). (Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 2, p. 901, and Goitein's index cards)

List of expenditures for a week. Here, 100 pounds of bread and its transportation cost 22 1/2 [1/4 MR Cohen] dirhams. The salaries recorded are typical. When a beadle is listed here with a salary of 4 dirhams (instead of 2, as usual), the sum certainly included arrears for the preceding week. Also, some entries of personal expenditure made by the official.' MR Cohen: Same names as in lists of Shelomo b. Zechariah from the beginning of the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society II, p. 462, App. B 80)

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems. Fragmentary.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Shipping certificate from Nahray b. Nissim probably to Moshe b. Yahya al-Majani. Around 1065. Detailed the coins that were in a coin packet. Verso: Details about several dinar amounts, as well as the name b. al-Majani. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #301) VMR

List of persons, headed by R. Nahray (Nahray), on the payroll of the community. Goitein says: scholars on the payroll of the Cairene commuity. Similar to BodlC28.6 (App. B 12) and T-S K15.70 (App. B 13), both ed. Mann, Jews, II, 246-247. (Information from Mediterranean Society II, 441, App. B 14).

Accounts in Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts in Arabic script which list monies (given in Greek/Coptic numerals) owed to (ʿinda) various people, such as Ḥayyim (حايم), Makārim, Yūsuf, Maḥāsin, Abū l-Faraj, Ibrāhīm, Mukhliṣ, Abū ʿAlī, Khalaf, Barakāt, Ḥasūn, Bū Saʿd, Hilāl, and Mūsā. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent, ca.1040. The upper part of a leaf, writtten by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 181 #14)

Payroll [similar to T-S K15.9] in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, for the seventh and eighth weeks of the liturgical calendar. Mostly same names and sums as that list. The entries for the eighth week are in Arabic script. Some payments of arrears from the sixth week are also noted. This is a full report. The numerals are not defined. In the first 15 lines they represent dirhams, in the remaining 20, loaves of bread. Another difficulty: Here, bread costs 32 dirhams (and the distribution is 126 pounds = loaves); elsewhere, about 10 pounds cost about 1 dirham (150 pounds of bread cost 15 d. in App. B 42 and 13 1/3 in App. B 47). Goitein's solution: 'There still were two distributions every week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, as had been the practice a hundred and more years before. Our list notes the number of loaves allocated to each household for one distribution (habitual in all lists of the poor), but registers the total spent on bread during one week (by the distributor concerned). The comparatively rare occurrence of the item '2 loaves for one person' catches the eye, especially if compared with the lists from the early eleventh and twelfth centuries.' (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 450-451, App. B 41 [dated 1210-1225])

Account: revenue from rent in Damascus.

Accounts of the Jewish community. Location: Cairo. Dated: 18 Elul 1809 Seleucid, which is 1498 CE (not 1495 as Ashtor thought). Expenses include a lot of construction work and materials, wax and sweets for 'the orphans,' money for 'the captives,' and others.