Cairo Genizah : Accounts

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>A list of the beneficiaries of public charity, in the hand of the 13th-century judge Solomon b. Elijah. The payroll covers the seventh and eighth weeks of an unknown year. Although not specified, according to Goitein (1971: 450-451), the payments represent dirhams (in the first 15 lines) and loaves of bread (in the remaining 20 lines).</p>