A late African copy of the Dalāʼil al-khayrāt, a 'manual' composed of blessings and prayers for everyday life and in particular for the pilgramige to Mecca. Partly composed of selections from the Qur`an and sayings of the prophet, the original work is attributed to the Sufi Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī (d. 1465 CE), who lived in in Marrocco . This text has been copied by hand throughout the Islamic world from North West Africa to South East Asia until the last century, with many copies containing illuminations and illustrations. The present manuscript is an example of an originally unbound copy, held together by a string, which is attached to the cardboard cover, probably self made or comissioned by the last owner of the book. The text is clear and in the right order. Not containing illustration, it is an evidently used copy, bearing witness of a tradition of manuscript production common to its region of descent.Layout: 106 59Script: African script in brown ink; vocalization in red ink
Part of a geṭ in which [...] b. Yefet divorces his wife, [...] bat Ṭoviyya. Dated Wednesday in the month of Ṭevet 1[..]1 (= 1[..]0 CE), probably in Fusṭāṭ. Witnessed by [...] b. the judge and [...].Condition: badly tornLayout: 16 lines (recto; verso is blank)
A large bifolium from a collection of Geonic responsa, including questions addressing Amram Gaon of Sura and Mattatya Gaon.Condition: Badly torn, holes, faded, stainedLayout: 35-36 lines
List of names with Coptic numerals (perhaps contributors and their contributions).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 18 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
Recto: accounts in Arabic. Verso: few letters in Hebrew and Arabic.Condition: badly torn, rubbed, badly stainedLayout: 4 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
Accounts with Coptic numerals. Mentions various female and male names such as Faraj Allah, Bint al-Kātib Abū Šaʿra, Ibrahim Ḏabbāḥ (‘the butcher’), Isaac al-Faranjī and Joseph al-Faranjī.Condition: holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 16 lines (recto); 12 lines (verso)
f. 1r: unidentified Hebrew. ff. 1v and 2r: apparently accounts or document. f. 2v: entitled ‘[...] sacrifice’. Mentions Ḵalaf Allūnī, Ḵalaf the collector b. Hārūn al-Ṣūrī and dirhams.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 4-9 lines
Accounts of a pharmacist, mentioning ʿAlī b. Naḥmān, and items, such as violet, and their quantities.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 22 lines + marginalia (recto); 23 lines (verso)
Accounts, mentioning different quantities of silk and sums of money, and the name […] b. Isaac.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 7 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Accounts, listing many names, including Joseph and Jacob; with Hebrew numerals.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 18 lines (recto); 20 lines (verso)
Accounts, mentioning gum arabic, Indian dates, various sums of money, measures and payments received from ‘her husband’.Condition: torn, rubbed, stainedLayout: 7 lines (recto); 5 lines (verso)
Accounts, mentioning expenditures in quantities of dirhams for hired workers such as a dancer and a porter, and individuals such as Abū ʿAbderraḥmān.Condition: tornLayout: 6 lines (recto); 1 line (verso)
Work that explains financial accounting, with examples including interest and loss.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)
Accounts: ‘Abū l-Ḥasan, ʿEli b. Nathan and Beraḵot b. Ezekiel, debt 30 dinars every months’.Condition: torn, rubbedLayout: 3 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Accounts, mentioning names such as Abū l-Faḍl, Abū Saʿd and Šerira; with Hebrew and Coptic (?) numerals.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 7 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Accounts, mentioning names such as Abū l-Faḍl and Sitt Abū l-Surūr and commodities such as silk.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 8 lines (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Accounts with names such as Barakāt and [Abū l]-Faḍl al-Parnas, with Hebrew numerals.Condition: torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 2 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Accounts of expenditures and income, mentioning dancers, and names such as Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-ʿAzz and Elijah, with Hebrew, Coptic (?) and Arabic numerals.Condition: torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: various lines
Accounts, mentioning wages and things held by the father of the writer. On verso a signature seal.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: various lines
Accounts of a pharmacist, including names such as Maḥāsin, Ḥasan and Joseph, commodities, such as amomum (qāqulla) and bdellium (muql azraq), prices and weights. Hebrew and Coptic numerals.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)
Accounts, mentioning Cairo and names such as Ibn Miska, Ibn Abū l-Surūr, Abū l-Ḵayr and Abū l-Ṭāhir, and quantities of currency. Hebrew numerals.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 14-16 lines (2r is blank)
Accounts, probably for charitable purposes, with names such as ‘niece of Ṭāhir the servant’, ‘wife of Abū Isḥāq the cantor’, ‘children of Sulaymān ha-Kohen’, Abū Saʿīd and Abū l-ʿAzz.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: various lines (recto; verso is blank)
Accounts, mentioning names such as Abū l-Faraj Mardūk and Abū Isḥāq, and several sums of money.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 14 lines (verso)
Accounts and lists, mentioning prices, weights, currency, place names such as Būṣīr and names such as Ṣalaḥ. Hebrew numerals. Arabic jottings on f. 1r.Condition: torn, rubbed, fadedLayout: 2-16 lines