منحة في ثيقة شرعيّة: BL OR 5566B.29

Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).

Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).

(1-2) . . . . previously… service to the heqdēsh, will bring many advantages…
(3-4) mentioned, to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr after having recognized . . . . (that) nothing is owed to him from its estates except these 10 dinars . . .
with the parnāsim, may God, may He be praised, preserve them, that ....
But they did not find any way to do it except by leasing .... (the compound. . .which is in)
the lane known as the lane of b. Khabīṣa, that is…
5 dinars a year. So out of these considerations . . . .
to the four parnāsim, may God preserve them, namely our Master Joseph ha-Dayyān . . . . (10) b. R. Abraham and our Master Hillēl b. Sahl that they rent this…
24 months, beginning on the first of Shevat… (420 and ending
on the last of . . . corresponding to)
al-Muḥarram of the year 422 … (Isaac)
ha-Kohen b. Ḥaggay, of blessed memory, during these above-mentioned two years
to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr, this being the acquittal of the debt .
(this) was mentioned and described and the community were witnesses of the lease . . .
He released it from the (debt of) . . .
and the ḥikr ....

] وجوه واﻻ سباب كلها [ ] الخمس [ ] جمعها
]ه قليلها وﻻ كثيرها حق وﻻ طلب وكتب خطه مستهل ربيع اﻻ خرسنه اثنين و عشرين و اربعمائه
]ק נר בר חגי נע //וקאל\\ אנא קד נקלת הדה
] וגעלתהא לר חוסין בר הלל הי לה דוני
] שמואל הכהן ראש הקהל ברבי אבטליון
י]צחק

. . . under any conditions or circumstances . . . the five (dinars) that he collected
. . . (and he does not claim anything of it), big nor small, no debt nor claim and he signed, on the first of Rabīʿ al-ākhir of the year 422
. . . (Isaac ha-Kohen) b. R. Ḥaggay, of blessed memory. And he said:
I transfered it and delivered to R. Ḥusayn, b. R. Hillēl. It is now his and not mine
…Samuel ha-Kohen the head of the community, b. R. Avṭalyōn
…Isaac…

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