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ENA NS 47.29
Recto/verso: recto and verso
Recto and verso: Court record(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. One side (record #1) consists of a lengthy list of valuable commodities and luxury items, including books and account ledgers, but it is not a dowry list. Perhaps the inventory of an estate of a wealthy merchant. There are interspersed comments about people who have taken specific items, e.g., the wife of Sulaymān, Ṣemaḥ b. Yosef (although he denied this in court), and Abū l-Ṭāhir. On the other side, there is the end of what is probably a second record (#2), two more complete records (#3 and #4), and the beginning of a fifth (#5). Records #3–#5 are all dated Iyyar 1390 Seleucid , which is 1079 CE. Record #3 involves Abū l-Fakhr(?) the former partner of Abū l-Faraj, and Avraham ha-Kohen, and a quantity of cloves. Record #4 is a declaration by Daniel b. Aharon ha-Kohen made prior to traveling to the Maghrib, in which he makes arrangements for his assets should he die on the journey. Some of the assets are in al-Mahdiyya. Mentions the names Moshe b. Aharon ha-Kohen and al-Talmid. Witnessed by Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Talmid. Record #5 involves someone named Seʿadya b. [...].
Library: JTS
Type: Legal document
