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Maybe Lucena; July 1, 1138 A section from the middle of another partnership deed between the two, in which Yosef agrees to hand over the profits by Passover of the year 1139. If he violates the agreement, Yosef must pay twenty mitkals 'to the poor of Almeria and the captives'. Apparently, the passage is from the beginning of the note. The deed was written by a professional scribe, but the truncated addition at the end of the 12th is by Ḥalfon himself. Just as document 826 opens with the statement of the active partner, Yūsuf b. Shuʿayb Ibn al-Naghira, who received money from Ḥalfon to trade in, so it is told at the beginning of this page that Ḥalfon gave money to Yosef to trade in. If so, we have before us two partnership deeds that were written in the West between Ḥalfon, the investor, and a 'dealer' named Yosef, and it turns out that this refers to the same partner. Since it was agreed that if Yosef broke the agreement, he will give twenty mitkals 'to the poor of Almeria and to the captives', it turns out that certificate ח29 was written in Spain, and there was presumably at the time when Ibn Al-Naghira visited Ḥalfon, presumably in Lucena, at the beginning of July 1138. (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book IV)