Legal document: Yevr.-Arab. II 1429

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Purchase of a half-share in a shop. Dated Thursday 7th Kislev, 5431 AM (1670 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography, scribe (Barukh Rofe), and surnames of parties involved. Aharon b. Elʿazar Rofe purchases "half a shop" in the "grand goldsmith market" of Cairo from the Saghīr brothers Avraham, Yosef, and Aharon, sons of the deceased Yaʿaqov Saghīr. The stated price is 20 guruş abū kalb (Dutch lion thalers), which are collectively worth 600 medin– yielding the valuation 1 thaler = 30 medin. On the right side of the shop, there is a property owned by Avraham Qudsī and, on the left side, a shop operated by Se. Murād the coppersmith (סי׳ = Senyor). All three brother sign as consenting parties and each individual signature appears to be by their own hand (each with its own idiosyncrasies). MCD.