T-S 16.22

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, dated 1449 (= 1138 CE). A tax-farmer (ḍāmin), Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. ʿUlla (known as Abū l-Munā the perfumer b. Ḥasan), grants Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Yaʿqūb a license to sell and dye silk for 18 dinars per month in a certain quarter of Fustat for the duration of Abū l-Surūr’s tenure in office. Abū l-Surūr promises not to accept any higher offer or to discontinue the lease (paying a fine of 100 dinars if he does so). Abū Isḥāq may subcontract the labour to others if he wishes and Abū l-Surūr agrees to use his influence with the police if any subcontractors evade payment of their dues. Abū l-Surūr reserves for himself the right to employ female brokers (bayyāʿāt, "saleswomen") in the quarter in question. Signed by [...] Kohen, descendant of Yosef Kohen and Natan b. Shemuʾel, and written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–1139 CE). On verso are a few lines in Arabic.
Editor: Ed. Yaara Perlman and Joshua Picard https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PxqQ9axRAQUWtqXHIEz9LlUB4FvYoseyV4e2o6TKa4c/edit?usp=sharing; also ed. Yaara Perlman and Joshua Picard https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PxqQ9axRAQUWtqXHIEz9LlUB4FvYoseyV4e2o6TKa4c/edit?usp=sharing; also ed. Gershon Weiss, "Legal Documents Written by the Court Clerk Halfon Ben Manasse (Dated 1100-1138)" (1970); also ed. Gershon Weiss, "Legal Documents Written by the Court Clerk Halfon Ben Manasse (Dated 1100-1138)" (1970); also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5C.2.5%20Mediterranean%20people_%20B_%20II_%201-20/T-S%2016.22%20%28PGPID%203455%29.pdf.
Library: CUL
Type: Legal document
Tags: tax dimme lost archive tax farming judaeo-arabic women in business
Part of join:
T-S 16.22 + T-S 10J5.17