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[Booksellers account] : manuscript

Metadata

DS ID:

DS25920

Shelfmark:

Halper 469

Title:

Booksellers account

Accounts

Place:

Orient

Date:

early-mid 11th century

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Judeo-Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

nearly complete; damaged, faded; verso is blank

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : nearly complete; damaged, faded; verso is blank

Note:

A register of payments due for books sold. The books are all Gaonic works, including Tafsir Rasag le-sefer Daniyel (presumably that of R. Saʻadia Gaon and not those of his Karaite counterparts, as the rest of the items here are Rabbanite), Sheʾeltot of R. Aḥa, Kitab al-Biwaʻwal-Ashria (R. Ḥai Gaon's legal monograph). The list also includes descriptions of the bindings.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Early works

Sheʼeltot (Aḥa, of Shabḥa)

Account books

Shirá wa-al-bayʻ (Hai ben Sherira)

Bookbinding, Medieval

Booksellers and bookselling

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942. Tafsir Rasag le-sefer Daniyel

Geonic literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421453503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3348h14x/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania