ENA 2558.4
Deed of sale of part of a house. Location: Fustat. Precise date is not preserved. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Sitt al-Banāt bt. Shelomo (Salāma) al-ʿAṭṭār inherited 1/6 of a house in the al-Mamṣūṣa neigborhood of Fustat from her late husband Abū l-ʿAlā' b. Dā'ūd. The other parts of the house are owned by the qodesh and by a Kohen known as Ibn Abū l-Khurasān. The widow sells her share of the house to David ha-Kohen for a price of 11 dinars. The buyer receives the husband's will and all former property deeds. Witneses: Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo; Yeshuʿa ha-Levi b. Ḥalfon; Shabbat b. Avraham b. Shabbat; Ḥalfon b. Menashshe; Ḥalfon b. Ghālib; ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Menashshe. The term "mushāʿa ghayr maqsūma" (l.13), jointly owned undivided, should be more elaborated. Houses, usually, are described as being held in joint, undivided ownership. This means that the parts of a house, which normally formed the object of a contract, were units of account, not real segments of a building. A house was divided into 24 nominal shares, a division modeled on the 24 qirats, or parts of the dinar. The shares transferred by sale or gift (a sixth in our document) could be very small. (Information from Weiss's edition.)
Editor: Ed. Gershon Weiss, "Legal Documents Written by the Court Clerk Halfon Ben Manasse (Dated 1100-1138)" (1970).