T-S 16.134
Recto/verso: verso
Bill of release (draft or copy). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dated: Tishrei 1356 Seleucid, which is 1044 CE. Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Shelomo Ibn al-Raqqī, representing also his mother Mubāraka bt. Levi b. Yaʿaqov and her sister Bahiyya bt. Levi (the widow of Aharon ha-Levi and the mother of Mevorakh b. Aharon), releases Yaʿaqov b. David Ibn al-Dawātī from all claims having to do with the support of Yaʿaqov's three children Faraj, Bishr and Sitt al-Bayt. Yaʿaqov is providing food and tuition for them and is also providing a Nubian female slave named Shaʿith (who remains the property of Yaʿaqov). Yaʿaqov has paid rent to Bahiyya for his apartment in Dār Ibn al-Shaʿʿāb. (Mentioned in Goitein, Med Soc I, p. 135.)
Editor: Ed. Elinoar Bareket, Jews of Egypt 1007-1055 (in Hebrew) (1995).
