Legal document: T-S Ar.18(1).136

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F. 1: various (drafts of) legal documents in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, including a trousseau list, power of attorney and witness statements. (1) The trousseau list is of a marriage between Ḥalfon b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Milāḥ b. Abū Saʿīd, at the top the name Khalaf Abū Saʿīd al-Kohen from Cairo (the bride’s father) is mentioned. (2) A second statement refers to Khalaf Abū Saʿīd who will trade with a sum of money paid to him for the orphan Abū Ḥasan (b. Bayān b. Ḥashīsh?) for a 50% share of the profits, dated Elul 1470 of the Seleucid Era (= 1159 CE). (3) The copy of a power of attorney dated to the first decade of Tammuz 1469 of the Seleucid Era (= 1158 CE) in Damīra under authority of the Nagid Shemuʾel is given by Sitt al-Niʿam bt. Yeshuʿa b. ʿAmram to Yosef b. ʿOvadya ha-Levi concerning dealings with her father’s estate, as well as mentioning names such as Hillel known as al-Abzārī and Damietta. (4) Another witness statement concerning a partnership in a shop and dated Marḥeshvan 1471 of the Seleucid Era (= 1160 CE) is signed by Shemarya b. Avraham, Yefet ha-Levi b. Yaʿaqov and Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver. F. 2r: legal document dated 29th Tishri 1471 of the Seleucid Era (= 1160 CE) in Fusṭāṭ concerning the betrothal of Yefet b. Yiṣḥaq and Karam bat Yeshuʿa. Signed by Ṣedaqa b. Elʿazar and […] b. Yeshuʿa. On verso mirrored script in the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan. (Information from CUDL)