Legal document: Yevr. II A 1255

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Acknowledgment of payment following the loss of a prior debt acknowledgment document. Dated Tuesday 3 Nissan 5443 AM (1683 CE). ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Yaʿaqov al-Ṣaghīr, a Karaite Jew (מבני מקרא), was indebted to Yaʿaqov b. Ḥayya Ben-Ṭāṭā for a total of 600 medin. When ʿAbd al-Karīm asked that Yaʿaqov tear up the previous debt acknowledgment following his repayment of the sum, Yaʿaqov could not locate the sheṭar. Yaʿaqov now testifies that ʿAbd al-Karīm succesfully repaid the sum and he thus relinquishes any further claim to the 600 medin. Based on the paleography, formulae, and scribe this is a Rabbanite legal document that was preserved by ʿAbd al-Karīm, a member of the Karaite community, from whom it must have passed into the Dār Simḥa geniza. Yaʿaqov b. Ḥayya Ben-Ṭāṭā was presumably a Rabbanite Jew given that his nomenclature/honorifics do not specify otherwise (a norm for intra-communal court appearances). For another document by the same scribe, Avraham b. Daniel, see: ENA NS 49.23 (PGPID 11427). MCD.