Cairo Genizah : Accounts; jottings

Solomon b. Elijah

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Recto: list of payments to officials and families of deceased officials on שבת בשלח، i.e., the sabbath of Parašat Bešallaḥ (the sixteenth week of the annual cycle), written in Judaeo-Arabic, with Hebrew numerals. The names mentioned include: 'R. Samuel b. Solomon (May he rest in peace), partner of R. Ḥalfon'. Then the following names are written under the headings of 'the revenue' and 'the expenditure from it': Joseph Šomer; R. Yedutun; the house of al-Mevin; Abī Ṭāhir; Al-Šayḵ Abī l-Faḍl Šomer; R. Manasseh ha-Dayyan; R. Yiftaḥ; ʿAlī al-Kohen b. al-Naḥḥal; and the house of R. Daniel. Written by Solomon b. Elijah (see, for example, T-S NS J76 for the same hand). The last two lines on verso are written in a cursive hand, and read 'his loan, half [oh which] [A]bī l-Faḍl [has?]'. Verso: jottings in Arabic-script, in two different hands. The first (written in musalsal script) begins with, 'Praise be to God!'. The second sentence (written in nasḵī script, along the left-hand margin) mentions 'the book'.</p>