T-S Ar.38.56
Recto/verso: recto
Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Location: Ibwān, al-Ashmūnayn. Dated: First decade of Ramaḍān 495 AH, which is June 1102 CE. Settlement between Durrī b. ʿAskar al-Qarītī and his wife Maghribiyya the freedwoman of Yaḥyā regarding the ownership of domestic animals. In the document it is stated that a red cow and its female offspring belong to Maghribiyya and her daughter Taʿīsh, a black cow and its male offspring belong to Maghribiyya alone, and that 25 white sheep and their followers are shared between Durrī b. ʿAskar al-Qarīṭī and his wife. The record is witnessed and signed by Naṣr b. Badr al-Salūlī, Jawwāb b. Naṣr al-Salūlī, Zaydūn b. Mahdī al-Salūlī, Rikāb b. Jawhar al-Salūlī, Futūḥ b. Qāsim and Sughlūl b. Mahdī. (Information from Khan, CUDL, and Goitein's index card.)
Editor: Ed. and trans. Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (1993).