Legal document: Moss. VII,6.1

Legal document Moss. VII,6.1

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Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Fragment (lower right corner). Involving Abū l-Faraj who acknowledges receiving 10 dinars from "our lord Moshe (Maimonides)." Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. The case is related to a testimony about the death of Abū Zikrī, probably the brother of Abū l-Faraj. Signed by Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (the father of the scribe). (Information in part from Catalogue of the Jack Mosseri Collection, p.189.)

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Moss. VII,6.1 1r

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S. D. Goitein's unpublished edition (1950–85).

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  1. ולמא [ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . אבו] זכרי אלמד[כור
  2. שקיקי . . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . . . ]יהם אבו אלפ[רג
  3. אבו [ . . . . ] אלמדכור [ . . ]ם פי אן י[ד]פע לה נאי[
  4. פל[ם] יתהיא [דא]לך ל[אנה ל]ם יתבת מות אבו ז[כרי
  5. עלי אן תסלם אבו אלפרג אלמדכור מן הדרת [אדונינו משה ירום הודו
  6. עשרה דנאניר מצרייה פי דמתה חיני[ד . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . אשהדו
  7. עלי ואקנו מני אנני מעתרף ענדכם אע[
  8. מן הדרת אדונינו משה ירום הודו הנזכר ע[שרה דנאניר
  9. פי דמתי לה בתורת חוב והודאה גמורה מע[כשיו
  10. בבינה תתבת פי בית דין אן אבו זכרי [אלמ]דכ[ור
  11. הדרת אדונינו משה הנזכר ירום הודו ואקנו [מני . . . . . . . . . . . קנין
  12. גמור חמור בכלי הכשר לקנות בו בלשון מעכשיו [
  13. וכ]ל מודעין ותנאין על כל מה דכתיב ומפרש לעילא מן [
  14. שריר ובריר ומוחזק [וקיים
  15. שמואל הלוי ביר סעדיה נע
Amir Ashur and Alan Elbaum, "New Maimonidean Documents," in From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit (Brill, 2024), 10–20.

Recto

  1. Whereas [... the aforementioned Abū] Zikrī [...]
  2. my brother [...] Abū l-Fa[raj ...]
  3. Abū [...] the aforementioned [...] that he should pay him [...]
  4. And that was not possible, because the death of Abū Z[ikrī] had not been confirmed [...]
  5. that the aforementioned Abū l-Faraj had received from his honour [our master Moshe, may (God) raise up his glory and enhance his honour],
  6. ten Egyptian dinars to his possession after [... testify]
  7. upon me and perform a legal acquisition from me that I acknowledge to you [... that I have received]
  8. from the aforementioned, his glory, our master Moshe, may (God) raise up his glory and enhance his honour, t[en dinars ...]
  9. in my possession for him, by way of debt and a complete and definitive declaration [...]
  10. with a proof to be approved in court, that the aforementioned Abū Zikrī [...]
  11. his glory, our master, the aforementioned Moshe, may (God) raise up his glory and enhance his honour, and perform a legal acquisition [ from me ...]
  12. a complete and weighty legal acquisition with an implement fit for doing so, effective immediately [...]
  13. nullifying all secret dispositions and conditions, regarding everything that is written above from [...]
  14. [All this] is strong, firm [and valid].
  15. Shemuʾel ha-Levi b. Saʿadya (may his) r(est be in) E(den).

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