Legal document: Bodl. MS heb. c 28/68

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Legal document. Memo about the actions taken by the rabbinical courts in Alexandria, in an unspecified place, in Fusṭāṭ, in Minyat Ziftā, and again in Fusṭāṭ. In Alexandria, al-Karīm b. ʿAlī had received ten dinars from Abū l-Munā Iṣḥāq b. Yehuda. Before, al-Karīm had declared that he agreed to that settlement (i.e., had made a mōdaʿ) only under duress and would not honor it. On examination, the court in Fusṭāṭ found that the mōdaʿ preceded the settlement in Alexandria and invalidated it, and instructed Avraham b. Shabbetay of Minyat Ziftā (where the case originated) accordingly. Thanks to the intervention of “righteous, upright, and peace-loving elders” of Minyat Zifta, Abū l-Munā agreed to pay six more dinars and Shelomo ha-Kohen ha-Zariz stood security. Finally, in Fusṭāṭ, Abū l-Munā paid the dinars, and three releases were issued: Karīm to Abū l-Munā, al-Karīm to Zariz, and Zariz to Abū l-Munā. Since this is only a memo, only two people signed it: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and the scribe, Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See also ENA 4101.16c. (Information from Gershon Weiss's edition and Goitein’s index card.)