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Coptic and Arabic, the Arabic to the right of the Coptic perhaps the Coptic is a transliteration of the Arabic? Biblical text? (Information from JRL catalogue.)

JRL Gaster ar. 85

Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Lessor: "Shaykh al-Islām" ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-ʿIbādī(?). Lessee: Shemuel b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī al-Rūmī. The property is a first floor (al-ṭabaqa al-ūlā) in the glaziers' quarter (rabʿ al-zajjājīn). The period of the lease is 6 years (1113–19 AH), with the rent to be paid at the beginning of each year. The document itself is dated Rabīʿ I 1112 AH, which is 1700 CE. The witness signatures and a stamped seal appear at 90 degrees in the right margin. (Information in part from JRL catalogue.)

JRL Gaster ar. 86

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