T-S Ar.53.60
Bill of sale in Arabic script. Dating: late 5th century AH/11th century CE. Abū ʿAlī Ḥassan b. Ibrahīm b. Azhar al-Ṣayrafī buys two ruins near al-Mamṣuṣa, on the east side of Qaṣr al-Shamʿ, and donates them (or a part of them) to Yūsuf b. Daʾūd. Roughly 1100 CE. Contains a note of registration in a court archive. The buyer, Ḥassan ibn 'Ibrāhīm b. Azhar, is also the buyer in T-S Misc. 29.21 (Khan, ALAD, doc. 8), which is dated 480H on verso. There are also documents of partnership referring to him by his Hebrew name, Yefet b. Avraham b. Yaʾir, which also indicate that he worked in the government mint in the second half of the 5th/11th c; cf. Goitein, Med. Soc. I, 362; IV, 354, n. 104. (Information from Goitein’s index card and from Khan)
Editor: Ed. and trans. Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (1993).