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T-S NS J383

Leaf from a court notebook. Recto: Legal record. Dated: Tammuz 1549 Seleucid, which is 1238 CE. There are no reshut clauses invoking a Head of the Jews. A house was inherited in equal shares by [ʿAbd al-]Bāqī Sheʾerit ha-Ḥazzan, Abū l-Karam, Abū [...] Khalaf, Ibrāhīm, and Sālim, some or all of whom are brothers. Signed: ʿUziʾel b. Ṭahor ha-Nazir. Verso: Legal record. Location: Fustat. Dated: First decade of Tammuz 1550 Seleucid, which is 1239 CE. ʿAlam bt. Maḥfūẓ gives her husband Abū l-Munā b. Sābiq all the rights relating to a claim of Hibatallāh b. Khalaf relating to the house that is her inheritance from her mother. She appoints him as attorney. Signed by: Mishaʾel b. ʿUziʾel. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

Library: CUL

Type: Legal document

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