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Bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Karīma, known as al-Wuḥsha al-Dallāla (l. 18), releases Sitt al-Ḥusn (l. 21) from any responsibility for a gift (l. 26) that she has granted her, and from any obligation resulting from previous connections between them. Karīma's son Abū Saʿd and her other heirs likewise release Sitt al-Ḥusn and her heirs. It is also stated that Karima, the grantor, is entitled to repossess the gift, and 1s allowed to sell it, in time of need, and therefore the term māḍiya (1. 26), complete, is intentionally omitted. No details of the gift and the release have been preserved. Witnesses: Menashshe ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov; Moshe b. ʿUlla; Yeshuʿa ha-Levi b. Ṣedaqa (who appears in T-S 20.87 as a builder and as a scholar, ll. 16–21); and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The qiyyum (validation) is signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya; Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi; and Ḥalfon b. Ghālib ha-Ḥazzan. The name of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe appears in the body of the validation (as one of the witnesses of the original document), and his validation marks (| חלפון הלוי ביר מנשה נע |) on both sides of his name appear too (1. 37). Goitein commented that he had never seen a scribe's identification marks in a validation, when the name is recorded and not signed. Thus, this phenomenon should be regarded as an innovation by Ḥalfon and perhaps he was the only one to do it. (Information from Gershon Weiss's edition.)
Editor: Ed. Gershon Weiss, "Legal Documents Written by the Court Clerk Halfon Ben Manasse (Dated 1100-1138)" (1970); also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6E.2.4%20AIU_%20Manchester_%20P.%20Heid_%20PER_%20Philadelphia/PER%20H%2031%20%28PGPID%207027%29.pdf.
