T-S Ar.38.117
Recto: Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Dating: ca. 530 AH (= 1135/36 CE). (However, Goitein read the year 55[.] AH somewhere, which would be 1155–64 CE.) Makārim b. Abū l-Faraj b. Yūsuf purchases 1/3 of a house. There is a lengthy physical description of the seller (whose name is lost): ‘a smooth forehead in which are wrinkles […] widely spaced incisors. On his right cheek there are two moles’. Also mentions the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū Saʿd, Abū l-Ḥasan the Samaritan, and Abū l-Ḥasan the financier (quṣṭāl). Verso: undeciphered document in Arabic script, probably relating to the sale detailed on recto. (Information from Goitein’s index card and CUDL.)
Editor: Ed. and trans. Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (1993).
