Legal document: T-S 20.129

Description

Power of attorney. Location: probably al-Mahdiyya. Dated: 486[.] AM (Goitein read 4861). A certain Efrayim (probably b. Yaʿaqov — see related document cited at end of this description) appoints Abūn as his agent (wakīl) for settling his affairs in Egypt (diyār Miṣr), specifically the claims of his late father against Abū Naṣr Musāfir b. [...]. Witnesses: Avraham b. Ḥiyya and Barukh b. Yaʿaqov (for the main document); Barukh b. Yaʿaqov and Palṭiyya b. Avraham (for the addendum). It is possible that all three witnesses signed both sections. The names Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham and Yiṣḥaq b. [...] also appear in the validation. First validation: Signed by Yosef b. Yisraʾel along with (according to the next validation) Moshe b. Labrāṭ, Raḥamim b. ʿAmram, Avraham b. Yaʿ[aqov], and [...] b. ʿEli. These figures are known to have been active in al-Mahdiyya. Second validation (validation of the first validation): Signed by Shela b. Mevasser, Ayyūb b. David ha-Levi and Merayot b. Yosef ha-Kohen Av. These figures comprised the court of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya in Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) See also T-S 13J7.11 (PGPID 1186).