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Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Headed by an ʿalāma: tawakkaltu [...] ʿalā Allāh. The Arabic word at the bottom of the page may also be some sort of registration mark (or signature of the scribe?). In which the undersigned Bayān b. Mūsā and Abū Surūr b. Abū l-Majd report the death of the Jew Yūsuf al-[...] al-Ṣaghīr b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh on the date of Tuesday, 27 Dhū l-Qaʿda 632 AH, which is 13 August 1235 CE. Yūsuf's heirs are his father Ibrāhīm al-M[...] and his son [...] [...] Makārim(?). Cf. Khan, ALAD, docs. 125–31 for a cluster of similar documents from the same period.

Library: CUL

Type: Legal document

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