ثيقة شرعيّة: T-S Ar.38.115

ثيقة شرعيّة T-S Ar.38.115

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Legal document. In Arabic script. Small fragment from the top. Dating: ca. 1135 CE, based on the appearance of Maḥfūẓa bt. Yosef Zayn al-Tujjār. Abū Zikrī b. Yūsuf al-Hārūnī al-Yahūdī rents a house from three individuals: Salāma b. Yūsuf, his wife Maḥfūẓa bt. Yūsuf Zayn al-Tujjār (see T-S NS 225.25j), and a third whose name is not preserved. No further details (date and place not preserved). (Information in part from Goitein’s index card and Khan.)

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T-S Ar.38.115 1r

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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone and  his blessings be upon Muḥammad, his prophet, and his pure family [ ]  

  2. This is what Abū Zikrī ibn Yūsuf, the Aaronide Jew, the merchant, leased from  Salāma ibn Yūsuf [ ]  

  3. [ ] who on this day is under his protection, Maḥfūẓa ibnat Yūsuf,  known as ‘adornment of the merchants’, the Jew [ with a smooth  forehead, in which there are]  

  4. some wrinkles, with joined eyebrows, dark brown eyes, a hooked nose and a  round beard. The physical description of Abū Kathīr, the second one mentioned,  

  5. inclining to blue, with a hooked nose and a round beard. He leased it from them all, with one clapping of the hands and one contract [ ] 

  6.  this being the house that these three lessors stated belonged to them and was in their ownership, as a valid asset, [ ]  

  7. Yūsuf, known as Ibn al-Shopeṭ, a quarter, six shares from twenty-four shares  [ ]

  8. [ ] what is in it [ Maḥfūẓa] ibnat Yūsuf, known as ‘adornment of the merchants’, the free use of [ ] 

  9. [ not] separated nor [ ] mentioned in this lease .. [ ]

  10. [ ] which adjoins the courtyard [ ] 

  11. [ ] leading from it [ ]

  12. [ ] …. [ ]

  13. [ ] of it in [ ] 

  14. [ ] ….[ ] 

  15. [ ] 

T-S Ar.38.115 1v

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