Legal document: BL OR 10588.2

Legal document BL OR 10588.2

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BL OR 10588.2
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Deed of release (ibrāʾ) written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe concerning the repairs and rent of a house. Mentions a certain Abū l-Muna. Also signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver and [...] b. Shelomo ha-Kohen among others. (Information in part from Goitein notes and index card linked below.) On verso, in elegant Arabic script, there is the beginning of Kitāb al-Faṣīḥ by Abū l-ʿAbbās Thaʿlab (d. 904): هذا كتاب اختيار فصيح الكلام مما يجري في كلام الناس وكتبهم فمنه ما فيه لغة واحدة والناس على خلافها فأخبرنا بصواب ذلك . . . باب (فعَلت) بفتح العين تقول نمى المال وغيره ينمى وذَوَى العود يذوى . . . وينشد هذا البيت. (Source: https://shamela.ws/book/96608/2.)

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