Legal document: DK 416 + T-S 12.783

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Recto, with the continuation on verso: Halakhic discussion or responsa regarding the laws of oaths. The hand resembles that of Avraham b. Natan Av (early 12th century). Cites a "responsum which I have seen by the same Gaʾon." The section on verso reads like the ending of a high register letter. Verso: In a different hand, legal records or drafts in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps from a court register. It looks like there are at least 4 different acknowledgments of debt. The dates are missing in some of the entries, but they all seem to be dated between Adar I 1459 Seleucid and Elul 1462 Seleucid, corresponding to 1147–51 CE: (1) Bū Saʿd will repay 0.5 dinars per month. (2) The brother-in-law of Ibn al-Shadīqī(?) owes 5 dinars + 1/3 dinar + 1/2 qirat. (3) Yiṣḥaq al-Maghribī owes the nephew of Abū Naṣr 10 (or 30?) dirhams. He will repay 3 dirhams a week. (4) The witnesses and the son of the cantor testify that Ibn al-Amshāṭī owes a certain amount. This entry appears to be quite long and involved, but is difficult to read due to the imprint of other text on top of it. On verso, in a third hand, there is also a Judaeo-Arabic philosophical commentary to Genesis 1. Join (via FGP) by Dr. Elyashiv Cherlow. AA/ASE