Legal document: T-S 12.620
Legal document T-S 12.620What's in the PGP
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Kashrut certificate for a cheese shipment imported by Maymūn b. Nissim of Syracuse, Sicily. Location: Alexandria. Dated: last decade of Sivan 5001 AM = June 1241 CE. Signed by Eliyyahu the Judge and Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥalfon. A separate section at the top is signed by Yeshuʿa b. Shemuel and Ṭahor b. Zekharya.
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Translator: Motzkin (in English)
T-S 12.620 1r
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We have examined and testify that [
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a qint'a'r g'arawi' and a half of cheese [
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of the cheese which was our share [
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Yes'u'ah b. Samuel (may he) r(est in) p(aradise)
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T'a'ho'r b. Zekhariah (may he come to a) g(ood) e(nd).
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Some cheese arrived with Maimo'n b. Nissi'm of Syracuse
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Its share was sold to the people of the Port City now that
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we have established the religiosity of the above mentioned Mr. Maimo'n
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and those who have bought it from him: Khalaf and Ibn al-.…
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52 molds, as the witnesses present at the sale testified.
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Whoever has been buying any of the cheese may buy it in good
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conscience, for it is pure, and sold by a man obeying the laws of purity. We affix our signatures
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for the sake of those who have bought (this cheese) and for those who may buy from them, [ ] considering what
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(we know) of it, during the last decade of the month of Si'wa'n, of the year
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five thousand and one after the creation in No' A'mo'n on the shore of the great sea.
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May peace come to all of Israel forever and ever. Isaac b. H'alfo'n
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Elljah b. Zekhariah m(ay his) s(oul be) b(ound in the) b(undle of) t(he living).
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