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T-S Ar.42.174

Bill of sale of a slave. In Arabic script. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Ramaḍān 438 AH, which is October/November 1090 CE. Seller: Ḥanūn b. ʿAllūn, the Christian clerk (kātib) in the Dār al-Dībāj (‘residence of the viziers’). Buyer: ʿArūs b. Yosef, a wealthy cloth merchant, many of whose accounts and letters are preserved in the Geniza. The sale is for an unnamed Christian woman and for her son Qiwām. Price: 21 dinars. (Information from Khan and CUDL)

Editor: Ed. and trans. Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (1993); also ed. Ṣabīḥ ʿAodeh, "Eleventh Century Arabic Letters of Jewish Merchants from the Cairo Geniza‎" (in Hebrew) (1992).

Library: CUL

Type: Legal document

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