Legal document: T-S Ar.38.99

Legal document T-S Ar.38.99

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T-S Ar.38.99
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Arabic

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Part of a deed of sale for part of a house in Fusṭāṭ. Two of the parties are women: […] bint Saʿīd (‘the Jewish builder’) and […] bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yaḥyā. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from CUDL)

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS Arabic Box 38, f. 99; TS Arabic Box 38, fol. 99
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T-S Ar.38.99 1r

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

 

  1. [In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.]  

  2. [ … ] the daughter of Saʿīd, the Jewish builder,  

  3. [ … ] the daughter of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā  

  4. [ … ] the worker in brass. They both bought from the two of them together  

  5. [ … ]these two sellers that it 

  6. [ …. a half] and a quarter, eighteen shares from 

  7. [twenty-four shares … from twenty four] shares, held in common. 

  8. [ … ] previously in the ownership of [ … ] .......... 

  9. [ … ]  they cumulatively acquired through their prior  ownership 

  10. [ … ] what is in it with all its existing rights  

  11. [ … ] with a decorative ceiling, the entire upper floor of which was not connected with any part of it, and they  

  12. [ … ] that this ground floor mentioned in it 

  13. [ … ] ... in Fusṭāṭ, over the water of which there is a tank  

  14. [ … ] ... […] this lane facing anyone who enters  

  15. [ … ] four boundaries enclose it. The first boundary, which is the southern,  

  16. [ … ] known as the Fortress of the Greeks, and to the square of the aforementioned lane, which is joined to it  

  17. [ … ] known as the Fortress of the Candles. The third boundary, which is the eastern,  

  18. [ … ] ............... and the [fourth] boundary,  

  19. [which is the western, … ] its rights, its land, its building, its door,  

  20. [ … ] every right attached to it, within  

  21. [and without … ] mentioned in this document  

  22. [ … ] which is currency in Fusṭāṭ, free from commission ... 

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