Legal document: ENA 1822a.18

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Legal document(s) n the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (Date: 1100–38 CE). The main text (not in the margins) on both sides may just be formulary. No names seem to be mentioned, and there are many elaborate formulae of release. The marginal text was written with a different pen, one with a smaller tip. Recto: refers to the Gaon (Maṣliaḥ), Naḥman, someone suing his late paternal uncle, and another paternal uncle Yosef ha-Kohen. Verso: Refers to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ (1127–39 CE); a woman making someone take an oath; "the court has no connection to this case, and your paternal uncle until now has been responding to..."; more about an oath and repaying something; it being discovered that someone had no right to anything belonging to his or her paternal uncle's; and then a brief narrative of someone abasing(?) themselves by putting their head between someone's arms and/or legs and begging for forgiveness; but the paternal uncle was ashamed to ask those present to do something. Very cryptic—needs further examination.