Legal document: T-S Ar.38.102

Legal document T-S Ar.38.102

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T-S Ar.38.102
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Arabic

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Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragment from the right side of huge and beautiful deed. A father gives to his two sons a house (it seems a big and a small house belonging together), some as common property and some assigned to one of the brothers. Bordered on one side by the property of Ibn Baqāʾ al-Isrāʾīlī. Contains some interesting architectural details. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS Arabic Box 38, f. 102; TS Arabic Box 38, fol. 102
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T-S Ar.38.102 1r

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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. .[                                                                                           ]
  2. الى بعض[                                                                               ]
  3. الارض والحد ا [                                                                     ]
  4. وابوابهما منقوشة[                                                                     ]
  5. ويتوصل من ابواب هذا الد[ار                                                   ]
  6. مسترقة ايضا فيما بين طبقتيهـ[ـا                                                   ]
  7. الصغري وهي بفسطاط مـ[ـصر                                        المعروفة]
  8. بابن بقا ( ؟ ) الاسرائيلي ثم عرفت با[بن                             المعروفة]
  9. [قـ]ـديما بتنور المبيضين وهو يومئذ معـ[ـروف                                 ]
  10. وهو الغربي ينتهى الى الدار المعروف [                                         ]
  11. نصفين بالسوية بينهما جميع الدا[ر                                                ]
  12. سفل ذات مجلس حيرى بكمين على[                                           ]
  13. الى طبقة كبيرة ذات عمد رخام [                                              ]
  14. ينتهى الى العرصة ذات القصرين [اللذين                                      ]
  15. وعلى الجانب الغربي من هذه السـ[                                              ]
  16. فاقر به لولديه المذكورين بما [                                                      ]
  17. لولده يوسف من ذلـ[ـك                                                           ]
  18. الـ[      ]  .عنه   .[                                                                    ]

Recto, margin

  1. [                  ] ................ وكتب عبدالله بن فضل بن مسلم
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. . [ …]   
  2. to some [ …]   
  3. the ground. The [ …]  boundary [ …]   
  4. and their doors are carved [ …]  
  5. one reaches from the doors of this house [ …] 
  6. also a loggia between its two floors [ …]  
  7. the small [ …], it being in Fusṭāṭ - Miṣr [ …]
  8. by (the name of) Ibn Baqāʾ the Jew, then subsequently was known by (the name of) Ibn [ … known] 
  9. formerly as the oven of whitewashers, and is nowadays knows [ … ] 
  10. which is the western, extends to the house known [ … ] 
  11. in two halves equally between them all the house [ … ] 
  12.  a lower floor having an enclosed living room with two vestibules … [ … ] 
  13. to a large floor having marble columns [ … ] 
  14. extends to the courtyard containing the two out-house [ that … ] 
  15. on the western side of this … [ … ] 
  16. and acknowledged that it belonged to his two aforementioned sons … [ … ] 
  17.  to his son Yūsuf of that [ … ] 
  18.  … [ … ]

Recto, margin

  1. [                     ]......... written by ʿAbdallah ibn Faḍl ibn Muslim

T-S Ar.38.102 1v

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