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Type: Legal document
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: Mentions a period of 6 years beginning in Shawwāl 512 AH and ending in Ramaḍān 518 AH. As Shawwāl 512 AH began on 14 January 1119 CE, this document must have been drawn up shortly before that. Yehuda b. Yisra'el b. Efrayim al-Isrā'īlī al-Tājir known as Ibn Abī Kathīr apparently owes 100 dinars to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Isrā'īlī (l. 3). His collateral is a little house (duwayra) located in Fustat; there follows a description of the property. Many other names are given, because the reference is to a property bordering on Muslim properties. (Information in part from Goitein's note card.) ASE
Legal document, it seems a power of attorney. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Netanʾel/Hibatallāh al-Mawṣilī appoints Abū l-Bishr as his agent. The case concerns [...] b. Yisraʾel, a dinar, [Bera?]khot ha-Rofeʾ b. [...], and "[the device] called 'catheter'" (qāthāṭīr/קאתאטיר/ قاثاطير/καθετήρ) (used for treating urinary retention and for the removal or dislodging of stones, mentioned by al-Rāzī and Avicenna among others). "If he does not return it to me, I will make...." On the term qāthāṭīr, see Marwan Ibn Janah, On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs, ed. Gerrit Bos et al, p. 1030 (entry 898). ASE
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves Abū l-Faraj al-Jabīlī (or al-Jubaylī); the estate of his father; and his sister Sitt al-Nasab.
Legal document, small fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves Bū l-Faḍl Shela ha-Levi.
Legal document. Possibly a will. Only the lower left corner is preserved.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. May be a declaration made by the merchant Benaya b. Mūsā (line 6). Mentions "all that my son left" (when he died?) (line 4) and Upper Egypt and Yemen and another geographical location that begins with אלאס. Another trader, al-Nafūsī, is involved.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small fragment containing only legalese.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Probably a deed of sale. Describing the borders and neighbors of a property. Yehoshuaʿ ha-Sar b. [...] ha-Ḥasid is named. Also Abū Najāḥ al-Naṣrānī (the Christian).
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document, small fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document, small fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document(s). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
