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.)
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
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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 [ ]
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This is what Abū Zikrī ibn Yūsuf, the Aaronide Jew, the merchant, leased from Salāma ibn Yūsuf [ ]
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[ ] 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]
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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,
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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 [ ]
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this being the house that these three lessors stated belonged to them and was in their ownership, as a valid asset, [ ]
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Yūsuf, known as Ibn al-Shopeṭ, a quarter, six shares from twenty-four shares [ ]
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[ ] what is in it [ Maḥfūẓa] ibnat Yūsuf, known as ‘adornment of the merchants’, the free use of [ ]
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[ not] separated nor [ ] mentioned in this lease .. [ ]
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[ ] which adjoins the courtyard [ ]
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[ ] leading from it [ ]
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[ ] …. [ ]
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[ ] of it in [ ]
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[ ] ….[ ]
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