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Type: Legal document
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Report of death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is Fakhriyya bt. Abū l-Faraj b. Bū Saʿīd. Her father, Abū l-Faraj, will inherit her possessions. The document is witnessed and signed by Abū l-Ghamr b. Maʿālī and by Mufaḍḍal b. al-Dayyān al-Maskīl (or perhaps al-Rabbān al-Maskīl as Khan has it). Dated: Wednesday, 11 Jumādā II 697 AH, which is 26 March 1298 CE.
Legal fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-[...] b. Yehuda and a [ṣā]ḥib al-shurṭa.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The first 7 lines are preserved. Made by al-muʿallim Aḥmad(?) b. [...] b. ʿUthmān al-[...] the sugar seller (al-sukkarī) for another, Jewish sugar seller. Needs examination.
Memo in Arabic script. Apparently about a check (ruqʿa) from Abū Naṣr for 200 dirhams that has gone missing: كنت قد تسلمت... كان الشيخ ابو نصر كتب لي رقعة بمائتي درهما ... وقد ضاعت
Official (tax?) receipt for Bū ʿAlī. Dated. Needs examination.
Arabic legal deed - needs examination.
Rent receipt? Mentions someone al-Ḥanafī and someone al-Yahūdī, and rent for a house for Muḥarram and Ṣafar 1057 AH = February/March and March/April 1647 CE. There is a seal imprint in the margin.
Probably a bill of divorce, but possibly a deed of manumission. From the cantor Elʿazar b. Yehuda ha-Kohen. Contains the phrase שבוקין כדת משה וישראל. Almost nothing else is preserved.
End of a document, probably legal. Dating: Mamluk-era, based on paleography. Needs examination. (Info from FGP)
Verso: Receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī for a payment of 3 dirhams. Needs further examination.
Bottom of a legal deed in Arabic script. Dated: Rabīʿ I 49[.] AH (=1097–1105 CE). Three witness signatures preserved. Needs further examination.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. The two columns are written in two different hands. The text on the left is extremely similar to the text on the right, so it might be a learner's copying exercise. The text on the right seems to concern a debt to be repaid in installments starting at the end of the month of Rabīʿ II 537 AH, which is November 1142 CE. The text on the left may mention a will (waṣiyya). Needs further examination.
Fragment from the beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is [...] Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ghaniyy b. ʿAbd al-Malik.
Fragment from the top of a legal deed, probably a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Only the introductory blessing and part of the muqirr's physical description are preserved.
Fragment of a deed of sale for 12 out of 24 shares of a house. In Arabic script.
Legal note, probably for the drawing up of a proper document. In Arabic script. ʿAllun b. Ḥasan b. [...]ṭā al-Ṣayrafī owes 70 dinars to Mūsā b. Zikrī(?).
Legal deed. In Arabic script. Dated: Jumādā II 993 AH, which is 1585 CE. A landlord, called only al-Faqīr ilā Allāh, settles accounts with his tenant the Rabbanite Jew Mūsā قبا, for his dwelling in Darb Qaḍīb. Mūsā has unpaid arrears of 150 medins (called "halves of Murādī silver" here, referring to coins minted under Murad III). He pays 30 medins at this time and still owes 120. Henceforth, he will pay 20 medins/month, 14 for the ongoing rent and 6 toward paying off the debt. "The Jewish business partner Hārūn" was also present.
Possibly a certificate of conversion to Islam. In Arabic script. May be part of a will (says "bi-amri hādhihi l-waṣiyya" in the last preserved line). It is for a Sicilian named ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar al-Ṣiqillī/al-Siqillī al-Anṣārī (or al-Naṣārī?). Lines 6–15 consist of his profession of faith in the tenets of Islam. Much of the scholarship on legal certificates of conversion to Islam has focused on formularies rather than actual documents. E.g., see Linda Jones, "Notarial Forms for the Conversion of Non-Muslims to Islam, by Ibn al-ʿAttār (d. 399/1008)," in Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age (ed. Nimrod Hurvitz), University of California Press 2020. This document differs substantially from the formularies which have been published so far and merits further examination. The same ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar al-Ṣiqillī appears in T-S AS 177.607. ASE
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Very faded. There is writing on both sides. Part of a date and witness signatures are preserved on verso.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. One side has four lines preserved; the first line refers to someone named Yūsuf b. Muḥammad. The other side has a pair of witness statements.
