[Shopping list] : manuscript

Timespan:

To 1500; Early works to 1800

Date:

1000s

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Saffron crocus -- Purchasing -- Early works to 1800; Fishes -- Purchasing -- Early works to 1800; Fishes -- Purchasing; Fishes; Shopping -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Shopping; History; Saffron crocus; Purchasing

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : nearly complete; damaged; folded widthwise into eight equal parts

Geographic Subject:

Egypt

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Recto is in Judeo-Arabic, 12 items have bars above them, possibly signifying payment. Among the items are fish and saffron. Verso bears similar list in in Arabic characters. This is likely to have been the primary inscription, as it has been cut off at the top.; Judeo-Arabic and Arabic. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 474

Collection:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)