Bodl. MS heb. a 2/3
Legal document. Location: Damietta. Dated: 7 Tishrei 4750 AM, which is 9 September 989 CE. Action concerning an estate in Nisibis [Naṣībīn], Mesopotamia, brought before the elders of Damietta (here called Ḥanes). Sahl and Ḥusayn, the sons of the late Yehuda, complain about Neṭira b. Toviyya ha-Kohen, with whom their late father had left 1,320 silver pieces. The sons now claim the estate of their father from Neṭira, who had “confessed before God and the elders,” whereupon each son received his share of the estate: 330 silver pieces each. It is difficult to tell from the digitized images, but it seems that this document was cut into pieces, the pieces were pasted into a long vertical strip, and the blank verso was reused for a Hebrew literary/liturgical text. (Information from Goitein’s attached notes and translation.)
Editor: Ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5C.2.3%20Wills_%20inventories_%20death/Bodl.%20MS%20Heb.%20a%202_3%20%28PGPID%209301%29.pdf.
