Geniza Lab

Legal letter. Written on parchment (14 lines). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. He reports that he has come up with a good idea to resolve a documentation dilemma, namely that before something is deleted in a certain document as he had previously agreed with the addressee, the witnesses should be summoned again and a new qinyan should be made, so that they cannot complain after the fact that they never signed the document in its ultimate form and that it has been "falsified" or "forged" (muzawwar, line 9). (Information from Goitein's index card, MR, and Oded Zinger's forthcoming edition.)