Geniza Lab

Recto: Declaration made by the merchant Yosef b. Moshe b. Barhūn al-Tāhirtī. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 8 days remaining in Iyyar 4807 AM, which is 1047 CE. Stating that a sum of 20 dinars assigned to him as a debt in a document of settlement drawn up a year earlier belonged to the daughter of Menaḥem al-Shaʿālī, the wife of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Zākī. The woman's deceased brother, Khulayf b. Menaḥem al-Shaʿālī, had been present at the drawing up of the first document. The present declaration is drawn up in the presence of Yehoshuaʿ and Sahlān, the sons of Menaḥem al-Shaʿālī and heirs of Khulayf. Verso: Draft of the same document with the additional information that the earlier document was drawn up in front of a court comprised of Alexandrians and Ifrīqiyans. The woman is described here as the wife of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Zākī who joins with Yosef b. Moshe (b. Barhūn al-Tāhirtī) in making the declaration. Also, it is mentioned that Khalaf/Khulayf died while traveling to Syria. Yosef b. Moshe asks the witnesses to declare he had already given the woman a debt acknowledgement before her brother's death. See AIU VII.E.55v, which is related. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)