Legal document: ENA NS I.90

Legal document ENA NS I.90

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ENA NS I.90
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Partnership release. Dated: 1091. Location: Fustat. Verso: Avraham b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen irreversibly releases Abū l-Faḍl/Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel b. Yefet from any obligations concerning a partnership. Avraham had purchased two baskets of indigo and silk as an investment on behalf of his Alexandrian partners – the silk was damaged on its initial journey to Fusṭāṭ and Avraham liquidated it completely, settling the balance with Nathaniel and terminating the partnership. Abraham’s partners include Nathaniel’s mother and sister (see lines 23 and 27-31). The recto is another partnership agreement (for which the verso is possibly a draft), which reveals Abraham to be an investor (not the active partner), investing funds with Faraḥ/Peraḥya ha-Kohen, who also adds funds and takes the total to Damascus to import goods to Fusṭāṭ. The partnership is to last the duration of a single trip to Damascus, and Faraḥ is to receive half of the profits to Abraham’s capital as well as all profits to his own capital. Faraḥ is liable for losses, as with the isqra(?). (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", 65-66)

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library
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ENA NS I, f. 90; ENA NS I, fol. 90
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