Cairo Genizah : Document; accounts

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Recto: Arabic-script document, written in tawqīʿ script. It may be a draft or discarded legal document (it has been torn down the centre). Accounts, the expenditure for one week, which start in Arabic script (with the word 'Friday'), and then continue in Judaeo-Arabic are found in the margins. Raṭl and a money order (waraq) are referred to. Verso: continuation of the accounts written in the margins of recto. Written in Judaeo-Arabic, with Hebrew numerals. Comprises a list of names (Yedutun; Yiftaḥ; Elijah al-Rūmī; a servant; and Nissim), under which are written sums in Hebrew numerals. Some of these names are also found in T-S NS J105.</p></p>