Bodl. MS heb. b 11/23

Legal document. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: First decade of Av 1465 Seleucid, which is July 1154 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Sābiq b. Abū al-Ḥasan the tax-farmer of dyeing acknowledges a debt of 32 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars to Abū l-Maʿālī Shemuel b. Yehuda. He will pay back one-half by the end of Av (i.e., after one month has passed) and the other half by the end of Elul. Signed by Shelomo b. Zarʿa; Peraḥya b. Shemuel. The validation (qiyyum) is written and signed by Shabbetay b. Avraham (who may have written the entire document) and three others: Yefet b. Yosef ha-Melammed; Elʿazar b. Shemarya; and Shela b. Yefet. On verso there are a few words in Arabic script (unfortunately covered up by the conservators), possibly a filing note. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)
Library: Bodl.
Type: Legal document