ثيقة شرعيّة: BL OR 5542.3
ثيقة شرعيّة BL OR 5542.3What's in the PGP
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الوصف
Certificate in the hand of the judge Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Kislev 1473 Seleucid, which is December 1161 CE, under the authority of Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi. Stating that the perfumer Abū l-Fakhr Seʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī ("son of the comb-maker"), had acted as collector of mezonot, or money for bread for the poor, on the same date. Witnessed by Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen and Tiqva b. Simḥa b. Mevasser he-Ḥaver. The document is crossed out with a vertical stroke. See BL OR 5542.23 for a letter addressed to the same Abū l-Fakhr Seʿadya Ibn al-Amshāṭī. (Information from Goitein's index card and Med Soc II, Appendix C, #81.)
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Translator: Cohen, Mark R. (in English)
BL OR 5542.3 recto
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Mark R. Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2005).
- We witnesses whose signatures are placed at the end of this document
- state that we know and attest that the elder Abuʾl-Fakhr the perfumer, who is known as Ibn
- al-Amshāṭī, (our ) ma(ster) and t(eacher) Saʿadya the elder son of (our) m(aster) and t(eacher) Avraham the precious elder (who) r(ests in) E(den)
- served as collector of the mezonot during the middle third of the month of Kislev of the year 1473
- of (the Era of) Contracts in Fustat, Egypt,
- which sits on the Nile River, under the a[uthority] of his excellency, the precious,
- the garland, the splendor, his honor, greatnes[s], and hol[iness] our (master) and teacher, the uniqu[e] in his generation,
- our prince, prince of God in our midst, our lord Nethanel ha-Levi,
- “Israel’s chariots and horsemen” (2 Kings 2:12), may his name live forever. Accordingly we wrote our signatures on the
- abovementioned date. All confirmed. Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Yehuda ha-Kohen of b(lessed) m(emory)
- Tiqva b. Shemarya b. Mevasser
- the ḥaver (who) r(ests in) E(den)