Legal document: Cod.Heid.Or.79

Legal document Cod.Heid.Or.79

Shelfmark: Cod.Heid.Or.79

Document Date: First decade of Sivan 1438 Seleucid (13 May, 1127 – 22 May, 1127 CE)
Primary Language: Judaeo-Arabic

Input date: In PGP since 2021

Description

Legal document. Deed of sale for a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ that Levi b. Namer sells to the banker (al-ṣayrafī) Abū l-Ḥasan Shelomo b. Menashshe ha-Kohen for 20 dinars. Dated: First 10 days of Sivan 1438 Seleucid = May 1127 CE. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel ha-Sefaradi, Netanʿel b. ʿAmram. Cod.Heid.Or.78–80 were purchased from a dealer in Cairo by Adalbert Merx, who published them in 1894 and donated them to the University of Heidelberg Library after his death. (Marina Rustow)