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Join: ENA NS 2.27 + ENA 2739.13 + T-S 10J29.1
ENA NS 2.27
Recto/verso: recto
Section:
Recto with continuation on verso: Legal document in Hebrew. In which the brothers Yefet, Mevorakh and Yosef, sons of the late Mawhūb b. Faraj, acknowledge receipt of their inheritance, after their oldest brother, Mufarrij, also deceased, had deposited their father’s estate with the ‘three elders’, i.e. Sahl, Yosef and Seʿadya, sons of Yisrael b. Yaʿaqov, known as the Tustarī brothers. (Information from CUDL, Gil, Palestine, doc. 329, and Goitein's attached notes.) On verso there is also a letter in Hebrew (see separate record).
Ed. Moshe Gil, Palestine During the First Muslim Period (634–1099) (in Hebrew) (1983), vol. 2; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6D.1.2%20ENA%20NS%20%282-23%29_%20pt%201/ENA%20NS%202.27%20%28PGPID%202681%29.pdf; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/4C.2.20%20Notes%20to%20India%20Book%20131-196/ENA%202739.13%20%28PGPID%206686%29.pdf.
Type: Legal document
Tags:
al-tustari
T-S 10J29.1
Recto/verso: verso
Section:
Verso: Letter in Hebrew, apparently in the hand of Yefet b. David. Published by Bareket, Shafrir Misrayim, doc. 24. On recto there is a legal document (see separate record).
Ed. Elinoar Bareket, Jewish Leadership in Fustat (in Hebrew) (1995).
Type: Letter
