Geniza Lab

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Recording how much money the 'segan' (=deputy; this seems more likely than sajjān) and the rayyis took on each day.

Accounts in Arabic script.

Account in Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts in Arabic script. ASE.

Account of collections and distribution ('alladhi tahsul... alladhi yufarri[q]'), with the name of '[our] lord],' probably the head of the Jews, on verso. From a booklet (fold-line visible). Pages may not be continuous.

List (fragment) of distributions to two cantors and others. Cash for the needy or salary supplementation for the poorly paid; with Coptic numerals. Last item: the balance left with 'the collector of the mezonot: 4 3/4'.

List, in Judaeo-Persian, mentioning Yiṣḥaq parnas, a social welfare official. Has Coptic numerals, e.g. no. 5, and perhaps the Hebrew tq (= 500?). Handwriting, too, suggests this is a late list (16th century?), and unlike the alms lists, donor lists, and accounts from the classical period.Similar lists occur in ENA NS 77.54, ENA NS 77.51, and ENA NS 77.388. NB: This description corresponds to a different, unidentified shelfmark.

List of weeks (shin = shabbat) of the year, by weekly readings from the Torah, with a number in Coptic numerals for each, representing revenues, out of which charity and other communal expenses (especially salaries) were paid. This is the lower right corner of the page.

Accounts for the transport of a bale of purple cloth belonging to Abū l-Afrāḥ b. Yosef, from Old Cairo to Sfax. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. This document is particularly instructive, as it contains no less than fifty-eight detials concerning one single shipment. In most of the other accounts preserved in the Geniza only the major expenses and proceeds are listed. Goitein's translation is attached. A full discussion may be found in Med Soc I, pp. 339ff. Recto, line 8, also contains a reference to a [fee for] sealing of the consignment and jahbadha.

Detailed account in Judaeo-Arabic, much of it for expenses entailed in the dyeing of silk.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Abū Zikrī and pepper.

List of accounts from a bookseller, mentioning a number of titles of known works. (Information from Halper, Catalogue)

List of Ibn Yiju's deposits and expenditures after arriving in the Egyptian capital.

Fiscal account beginning with the words waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr. Mentions several amount in dinars

Accounts in Arabic script.

Account of a parnas, ca. 1152. Details of rent collection, written in the hand of the Judge Hiyya b. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 269 #54)

This document, which continues onto the verso, lists in detail payments to individuals, some for commodities (including bread, flour, and meat), as well as amounts owed (possibly for rent) connected to a qodesh ('holy trust', that is a pious foundation; see Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations, 3-4 et passim). The payments are made on behalf of a haver ('member (of the yeshiva),' apparently associated with the administration of the qodesh). A man named Wahish appears in three other documents related to the revenues of a qodesh in the 1040s (see Gil, ibid., 194, 201-2, 206-7). All quantities are in dirhams.

This is the verso continuation of an account of payments and debts connected with a qodesh (pious foundation).

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.