Legal document: JRL Gaster ar. 79

Legal document JRL Gaster ar. 79

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Debenture bond / promissory note (ورقة سند). An adorned printed template states that this is "a debenture bond for the sum of less than 100 piaster (qirsh)," continued on the left side: "its value [is] 10 silver." Dated: 1264 AH, which is 1847/48 CE. Further information added in hand-writing: just beneath the title the equivalent of the sum in French (?) currency first in numerals: 62 ½ (?), and then in words. The signature of al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm Khalīl appears at the end, next to a stamp. (Information from JRL catalogue.)

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JRL Gaster ar. 79 1 / 1 leaf, recto

1 / 1 leaf, recto
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