Legal document: T-S Ar.39.189

Legal document T-S Ar.39.189

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T-S Ar.39.189
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Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is ʿAlāʾ bt. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Saʿīd (Khan suggests this is the same Bū Saʿīd as in T-S NS 297.1, another report of the death of a Jewish woman). Dated: Thursday, 20 Dhū l-Qaʿda 682 AH, which is 18 February 1284 CE. She left a father and two sons. (Information from Goitein’s index card and Khan.) On verso and the margins of recto, there are business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS Arabic Box 39, fol. 189; TS Arabic Box 39, f. 189
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T-S Ar.39.189 1r

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

Recto

  1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
  2. المماليك ينهوا وفاة علا بنت بو العلا بن بو سعـ[ـيد فى]
  3. يوم الخميس تاسع وعشرين ذو القعدة سنة اثنتين وثمانين وستمائة
  4. وتركت من الورثة ابوها بو العلا المذكور واخوتها
  5. هبة وبو سعد اولاد بو العلا المذكور وبذلك
  6. كتبوا خطوطهم فى التاريخ المـ[ـذ]كو[ر]
  7. والحمد لله الدائم الـ[ـبقا]

Recto, witness clauses

  1. [المملو]ك يعلم صحة ذلك
  2. [وكتب                ] ....
  3. المملـ[ـوك يعلم صحة ذلك]
  4. [                       ]
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
  2. The slaves report the death of ʿAlāʾ, daughter of Bū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Bū Saʿd [on]
  3. Thursday, the twenty-ninth of Dhū al-Qaʿda, in the year six-hundred and thirty-two.
  4. She left the following heirs: Her aforementioned father, Bū al-ʿAlāʾ, and herbrothers,
  5. Hiba and Bū Saʿd, the Sons of the aforementioned Bū al-ʿAlāʾ.
  6. They wrote their signatures in (testimony of) this on the aforementioned date.
  7. Praise be to God, the eternal. Witness clauses

Recto, witness clauses

  1. The slave recognizes the validity of that.
  2. [Written by      ]
  3. The slave [recognizes the validity of that].
  4. [Written by      ]  

T-S Ar.39.189 1v

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