ثيقة شرعيّة: NLI Ms. Ar. 276.5

الوصف

Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Shaʿbān 1104 AH = 14 April 1693 CE (Gregorian). Judge: ʿAbd al-Muḥsin b. ʿAlī al-Ḥanafī. In which the Rabbanite Jewish man Salmūn b. Mūsā b. Salmūn al-Skandarī (the same as in NLI Ms. Ar. 276.15 (PGPID 40142)) purchases from the Rabbanite Jewish man Yūsuf b. Shūʿa b. Naḥmān a property in Cairo, Ḥārat al-Yahūd, Darb Qaḍīb. The property rights were previously established in a document from the neighborhood court of al-Ṣāliḥiyya al-Najmiyya dated 16 Muḥarram 1084 AH = 3 May 1673 CE. There follows a ~10 line description of the property and its boundaries. The southern boundary is the alley where the door is; the northern boundary is "the hospital of the Maghribī Jews" (māristān al-yahūd al-maghāriba); the eastern boundary is a property belonging the waqf of the Egyptian Jews; and the western boundary is a property belonging to the waqf of the Jewish man Mūsā al-Shāmī. A new party is introduced, apparently an agent for either the seller or buyer: Zayn b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥayyim al-Qalʿī. The document then provides a list of prior ownership transfers of this property spanning a period of > 100 years. First is Aḍlān (presumably an error for Turkish Aslan ("lion")) Yahūdhā (Yehuda) b. Masʿūd b. Nissim known as زكزون(?), whose involvement has to do with another prior legal document from the Ṣāliḥiyya court dated 2 Muḥarram 1072 AH = 28 August 1661 CE. It seems that this Aslan/Yehuda was a prior owner of the property, who in turn had purchased it from Mūsā b. Saʿīd b. Yaʿqūb known as شبونة(?) as documented in another prior legal document from the Ṣāliḥiyya court dated 10 Jumādā I 1071 AH = 11 January 1661 CE. This Mūsā in turn acquired the property from his mother Sulṭāna bt. Mūsā b. Saʿīd b. Yaʿqūb also known as شبونة(?) (she must have been a relative of her husband given the similarity of the names). In turn, she had obtained it from her father Mūsā, whose own ownership of the property was established in a legal document from the Ṣāliḥiyya court dated 27 Shawwāl 987 AH = 17 December 1579 CE (Julian). The document concludes with legal formulae. Six witnesses sign at the bottom. On verso there are filing notes in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Interestingly, the Judaeo-Arabic one refers to the property as a "synagogue" (kanīs) for the first time: - כניס דרב קציב - حجة بسطان(؟) بدرب قضيب بحارة اليهود باسم المعلم سلمون For document images and information on provenance, see the 2009 NLI catalogue entry by Ephraim Wust: https://www.nli.org.il/ar/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990029250640205171/NLI#$FL188116337 NLI Ms. Ar. 276.5 corresponds to images 5–6 at the link above.