Legal document: BL OR 5554A.47 + BL OR 5554A.48

Legal document BL OR 5554A.47 + BL OR 5554A.48

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BL OR 5554A.47 + BL OR 5554A.48
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Primary Languages
Aramaic
Judaeo-Arabic

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Legal record. Location: Damietta [אי כפתור]. Dated: [2]7 Tishrei 1467 Seleucid = 25 September 1155 CE. Somebody testifies that as he was returning from the synagogue, he found the daughters of the sister of Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Ṣabbāgh in his house. One of them (the sister of the alte Abū l-Faḍl?) is quoted at length, reporting that the Dāʿī told her that her brother had left three notebooks in her house (belonging to him?). The next day, she went to the wife of Abū l-Riḍā, who told her, "my husband the Dāʿī is a good man, don't hide anything from." So she handed over the key, and the Dāʿī and Abū ʿAlī [b.] Ḥassūn went up and ransacked her library and made off with 17 notebooks. BL OR 5554A.48 is either the continuation of this document or a different document related to the same case (mentions several of the same names and is also dated the 27th of Tishrei 1155 CE).

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British Library
Historical shelfmarks
BM Or 5554A, f. 47; BM Or 5554A, fol. 47; BM Or 5554A, fol. 48; BM Or 5554A, f. 48
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In PGP since 2020
British Library, BL OR 5554A.47 + British Library, BL OR 5554A.48. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/19211/, accessed December 13, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/19211/