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Tag: jewelry
3 records found
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. A jeweler notes jewelry brought, polished and repaired, and sold. Important for study of profit. Mentions sharika and בשכאס(?). (Information from Goitein's note card.)
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions jewelry changing hands and the court in Cairo.
Upper part of a will in a hand that resembles that of ʿImmanuʾel b. Yeḥiʾel (active ca. 1231–65), in which the husband of Sutayt bt. Nadiv clarifies that half of the house in which he lives belongs to his wife, as well as the jewelry that has been given as collateral to Yosef Ibn Nufayʿ in Fustat against a loan of 150 nuqra dirhams; "it must be ransomed with the money of the orphans." Lastly, the female slave named Nasrīn [belongs to Sutayt]. (Information from Goitein's index card and from Med Soc III, p. 255 n. 35.)
