Legal document: ENA 4009.9

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Legal document. Fragment of a deed, according to Gil, A history of Palestine, 634-1099, p. 270, from Mahdiyya and is written by the 'Rav'- Judah ha-Kohen b. Yosef b. Eleazar. However, al-Mahdiyya is not mentioned, and it is not his hand, as evident, for example, from T-S G1.5a (+ T-S 12.397 + T-S AS 155.329), where he signed (published by M.A. Friedman, "A Responsum by the 'Rav' Judah b. Yosef ha-Kohen Concerning a Child Bride who Committed Adultery", in: Diné Israel, 20-21 (2001) [Hebrew], pp. 329-351). The name Yosef b. Ya'aqov is corrected from Yahaboy or vice versa. The date is only partially preserved: 'Marheshvan […] thirty two to the date of the Arabs', which can be either 432 Hijri (= 1040) or 532 (= 1137). According to Ashur, ('On Rashi, Maimonides and a lost Talmudic commentator - Joseph ben Yahaboy', Cambridge University Library Fragment of the Month: May 2019) On l. 5: [... ראש ישי]בת גאון יעקב ביר אברהם This Head of the Yeshiva might be Nathan b. Abraham, whose rivalry with Solomon b. Judah took place between 1034-1042, so the year 1040 is more likely. Also signed by Moshe b. Zekharya. Judeo-Arabic. AA