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Communal records, perhaps defective, consisting in payments to specified persons (all in promissory notes, ruq'a), to three officials, for bread, and for the transport of palm branches (for Sukkot). Sept. 24, 1219, two days before the first Sukkot holiday. (b) Complete accounts of revenue and expenditures on Sept. 29, 1219, the eve of the concluding Sukkot holiday (officials, bread, some needy persons). (MR Cohen: hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) [(c) = App A 152 an addition in Arabic characters in which a lazzām, or revenue farmer, leases a vineyard from the community against a weekly payment of 10 dirhams. Normally one would expect yearly or half-yearly, but in that period (1219), when the community was always short of funds, weekly revenue, even though small, was welcome (Mediterranean Society, II, p. 430)]. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 452, App. B 48)

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic of sales of wine (sharāb) to various people, including Abū l-Ḥasan, Abū l-Faraj, and the scribe's mother. ASE.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1040. A badly damaged fragment of an account written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Work done at Dar al-Barqi is mentioned, and various payments for water, bricks, clay, lime, pillars, gypsum; also, repairs of doors and windows. Water carriers, masons, diggers, and helpers are paid for different periods of work, in the course of several weeks. The names of the months are preserved, Shevat and Adar. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 191 #21)

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India Book III, 18: Five accounts written by Ibn Yiju in India, 1136-1139, 1145-1149. These accounts are written on the other side of a letter from Madmun from Aden to India (see II, 23, PGPID 5479).

Accounts of weekly expenditure of a type similar to App. B 41-43, 49, and also in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. A clean copy for three weeks, always opening with the amounts collected by two persons: first week, two laymen; second,the beadles Tahir and Mahasin; third, Tahir and the cantor Abu al-Majd. Cash was 74 dirhams in the first week, 32 1/2 in the third. Here too the standard price for bread was 1 dirham for 10 pounds, since in the second week 9 loaves of bread were resold for 7/8 dirhams. In the second week, a loan of 10 dirhams had to be taken from the judge Hananel to cover the expenses for the bread, and in the third, another loan from a different source. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 461, App. B 77 [dated to 1200-1240]).

Accounts in Hebrew characters, several lines.

Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent, ca. 1040. A very damaged leaf, in the handwriting of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. The revenue from several apartments and shops is listed, as collected monthly, during Rabi' al-awwal, Rabi' al-akhir, and Jumada'l-awwal. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 182 #15)

Slip of paper with expenditure for one week. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 462, App. B 81 [dated 1200-1240])

Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1060. A draft that was copied later. Mentions goods as textile and cloths. Seems like mentions debts for goods that were already paid back. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #290) VMR

Verso: Account of the qodesh. Dating: Ca. 1119–20 CE. Accounting written on the verso of a letter addressed to Judge Avraham b. Natan. The accounting is obviously a draft, since revenue from rent and expenditures, mainly payments to officials, are mingled indiscriminately. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 240 #42). A previous PGP description listed this fragment as containing a "Responsum of the Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda," but this appears to be erroneous.

Shipping certificate of Yosef b. Khalfa. Summer 1062. Details about textile products to send with boxes of crocus. The same goods are mentioned in Bodl. MS Heb b 3.23. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #564) VMR

Accounting of building expenditures ca. 1230. Fragment of a leaf, of which the bottom left part is missing; it includes three columns of items on both recto and verso. The accounting refers to repairs in Dar Hayyun. Supplies of gypsum, clay, floor tiles, and lime form the majority of the items. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 433 #130)

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium. Mentions pomegranate seed, licorice, rose water, Abū Sahl, and Alexandria. See PGP 20645

Fol. 1 verso: List of names in two columns, accompanied by various sums. Fol. 2 verso: accounts of the elder Shalom Sujaryyir. Fol. 2 recto: personal account for the week ending on Shabbat naso. (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, ed., Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, 601) EMS

Account of the qodesh, ca. 1120. Revenue from different people is listed, mostly without specifications. The sums seem to represent money of the qodesh deposited with different parnasim. Sums of rent from the compound of al-Masasa, apparently "the compound of the Jerusalemites," are explicitly mentioned, and also from "the compound of the orphan girl," mentioned in T-S NS J292 verso. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 242 #43)

Account of the qodesh for display ca. 1222-23. This document is the final copy of the record of which the preceding document (ENA 3824.1) is an earlier draft. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 431, #129). (Written by Sheolomo b. Shmuel. AA)

Accounts in the hand of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhirtī. Barely legible. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, p. 7.)

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