Legal document: T-S NS J469
Legal document T-S NS J469Tags
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Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased was an adult (kāmil) woman Ḥusn bt. Mūsā, and she was survived by her three sons and heirs, Futūḥ, Ibrāhīm and Makīn. Dated: Thursday, 23 Rabīʿ II 655 AH, which is 10 May 1257 CE.
Translation: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S NS J469 recto
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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).-
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
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The slaves report the death of Ḥusn, the Jewess, an adult woman, the daughter of Mūsā,
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the Jew. She left by way of heirs having a right to her inheritance three malechildren,
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these being Futūḥ, ’Ibrāhīm, and Makīn. This was on Thursday, the twenty-third
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of Rabī‘ II, in the year six-hundred and fifty-five. When
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they recognized the validity of this they attached their signatures on the aforementioned date. Praise be to God,
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the eternal.