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BL OR 5545.3

Legal fragment from Fustat, involving the business dealings of Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy among others, dated [Iyya]r 1089 CE (1400 Seleucid). The month could also be read as Adar, but the body of the document mentions something that happened in Nisan of the same year (482 Hijri). The reshut of the Nasi David b. Daniel is invoked in lines 4-7. Protagonists/testifiers named include: [Abu Ishaq?] Avraham ha-Levi b. Ṭoviya ha-Levi, Abu ʿImran Moshe b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Abu ʿAlī [Ye]fet ha-Kohen b. Salma (?) al-Dallāl. ASE.

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Type: Legal document

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