ثيقة شرعيّة: T-S Ar.38.123

ثيقة شرعيّة T-S Ar.38.123

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علامة الرف
T-S Ar.38.123
Inferred Date
اللغة الأساسية
Arabic

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الوصف

Recto: deed of sale for part of a house. One of the parties is Abū Naṣr Manṣūr Ibn al-ʿAynzarbī, "one of the entourage of al-Ḥāfiẓ" (the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ who reigned 1131–49 CE). This is a famous physician: see https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/reader/urn:cts:arabicLit:0668IbnAbiUsaibia.Tabaqatalatibba.lhom-tr-eng1:14.29. (See also T-S NS 264.22, which mentions a volume in the handwriting of Ibn al-ʿAynzarbī. It's possible that fragments in his handwriting have been preserved in the Geniza—Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa emphasizes that Ibn al-ʿAynzarbī was an excellent and prolific scribe.) This document also mentions Karīm al-Dawla ʿAytham, "one of the great amirs of al-Ḥāfiẓ." The verso document also concerns the purchase of the property on the recto, and mentions the Amīr Athīr al-Mulk Sharaf al-Dawla wa-Fārisuhā, Abū Saʿd b. Abū ʿImrān ‘the Jewish moneychanger’, Sitt al-Jamāl bt. Abū Saʿd b. Abū ʿImrān, Abū l-Faḍāʾil Muḥammad Ibn al-Qāḍī, and Maḥmūd, and was witnessed by ʿAbd al-Salām. (Information in part from CUDL.) ASE

Related People

Mentioned
Karīm al-Dawla ʿAytham

Additional metadata

Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 38, fol. 123; TS Arabic Box 38, f. 123
تاريخ الإدخال
In PGP since 2018
صورة
النصوص المفرّغة
الترجمة

T-S Ar.38.123 1r

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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. [In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad], his prophet, and his pure family.

  2. [ … ] from Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn al-Ghabn Zurbī, one of the entourage of al-Ḥāfiẓ [ … ] 

  3. [ … ] Karīm al-Dawla ʿAytham, one of the great amīrs of al-Ḥāfiẓ, may God crush [his enemies] through them [ … ] 

  4. [ … ] from twenty-four shares, held in common, not separated, from all of the house [ … ] 

  5. [ …] looking over the blessed prayer house, they are between the two houses, one of which is known [by (the name of) … ] 

  6. [ … ] …. shaped [ … ] which is in its aforementioned corridor on the left of anyone entering [ … ] 

  7. [ … ] and the arched stone staircase [ … ] to its end, by which one reaches its upper floor. There is a loggia in it [ … ] 

  8. [ …] gazebos. Above this is the upper roof, upon which four huts have been erected. One enters [ … ] 

  9. [ … two …] with connecting roofs, amenities and rights, a door belonging to it (i.e. the house) communicates with them and a borrowed staircase [ … ] 

  10. [ … ] the first and second residences form part of the northern storeys [ … ] upon the northern (boundary) and the street. Likewise the two [ … ] residences [ … ] 

  11. [ … ] Rāshid and the site of the lotus tree … [ … ] 

  12. [ … ] known as the square, then (subsequently) known as … [ … ] 

  13. [ … ] the fourth [boundary], which is the western, extends to [ … ] 

  14. [ … mentioned in this document] (was sold) for fifty [ … ] 

  15.  [ … ]ibn Ghabn Zurbī, one of the entourage of al-Ḥāfiẓ … ] 

  16.  [ … complete and ] consecutive [years], the first of them being [ … ] 

  17. [ … ] the father [ … ] 

  18. [ …] this house [ … ] 

T-S Ar.38.123 1v

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Verso

  1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad and his pure family. 

  2. Both the auspicious Amīr al-Mulk Sharaf al-Dawla wa-Fārisuhā [ … ] 

  3. And Bū Saʿd ibn Bū ʿImrān, the Jewish moneychanger, the representative of his wife regarding the property of his daughter Sitt al-Jamāl [ … ] 

  4. The eleventh of Shaʿbān, in the year five-hundred and fifty-two and at its end ….. [ … ] 

  5. Thiqat al-Mulk Fakhr al-Dawla [ … ]. Abū al-Faḍāʾil Muḥammad, the son of the most auspicious and prosperous qāḍī [ … ] 

  6. [ … ] regarding it and the beginning of it [ … ] 

  7. [ … ] to [ … ]in the presence [ of witnesses … ] 

  8. [ … ] to the aforementioned sitt al-Jamāl, the daughter of Bū [Saʿd ibn Bū ʿImrān … ] 

  9. [ … ] Maḥmūd, the one buying from her [ … ]

  10. [ … ] … [ … ] 

  11. [ … ] and its four boundaries [ … ] 

  12. [ … ] written in its last ten days [ … ] 

Witness Clause 

  1.  [ … ʿAbd] al-Salām [ … testified … ]

 

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Ar.38.123. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/16246/ (accessed June 3, 2026).