ثيقة شرعيّة: T-S 13J3.27

Verso

1. We, the witnesses who have placed our signature at the end of this document, say that on Thursday the twenty-
2. fourth day of the month of Tammuz of the year four thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight since the creation of the world
3. //in Fusṭāṭ Egypt// Ḥayā bt. Makārim the S(cribe) b. Futūḥ, the wife of (our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Tobias al-Rūmī the belo(ved) scribe, (who) r(ests in) E(den),
4. whom her husband had appointed her his executrix at the time of his death concerning his two daughters, one named Leah and the other
5. Sarah—also called Sitt al-Kull—came before us, and we performed a qinyan with her //according to that which she agreed as his executrix.// We testified concerning her using all the appropriate
6. legal formulae and the most certain expressions of affirmation, that she has already sent the Torah scrolls and the codicies of Jewish law which wer[e]
7. placed with her aforementioned husband //according to that which she agreed as executrix for her husband// to (his) hon(or,) grea(tness, and) holi(ness, our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Abraham the Doctor, ha-Kohen, the Sa(ge)
8. and the wise one, glory of the Kohanim, b. (his) hon(or,) grea(tness, and) holi(ness, our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Simḥa ha-Kohen, the honored, the beloved Elder, Segan of the Kohanim,
9. and she has released him from all rights, claims, judgments, financial transactions (mu‘āmalāt), oaths,
10. vows, and rider oaths from the beginning of time until now, in a definitive, conclusive, definitive, fixed release, with nothing
11. weakening it, nor any condition nullifying it, a release through receipt and acceptance (of what was due), for him and his heirs after him, from her and from //her daughters//
12. after her //for whom she is executrix and from their heirs // and he owes nothing more to her nor to her daughters, neither a claim nor a demand nor an oath nor a vow nor a rider oath nor a
13. claim for something which one could define whatsoever, neither a deposit nor anything else, from the equivalent of a farthing
14. up to two hundred //gold// Fusṭāṭ dinars. She has guaranteed delivery (to) her aforemention//ed// daughters of the best of that which
15. shall be preserved from their claims on the aforementioned Mr. Abr(aham) out of that //which// their aforementioned father left, she guaranteed
16. delivery therein to them of the value of a farthing up to two hundred dinars which came
17. the …. in the aforementioned release and fulfillment of the qinyan completed with all that
18. …. with the soundness of her reason, etc., a complete qinyan, with item, etc.
19. and that which