Legal document: F 1908.44P

Legal document F 1908.44P

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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 2 Shawwāl 454 AH, which is 9 October 1062 CE. In which a Muslim acknowledges that he no longer has any claims on a particular Jew. Muḥammad b. Muṣṭafā b. ʿAbdallāh the baker (al-farrān) acknowledges that he has received from the Jew Isḥāq b. Abū Saʿd b. Maḥāsin the cake maker (al-kaʿkī) all the money owed by Isḥāq and by Ibrāhīm b. Barakāt. Witnesses: Aḥmad b. Sulaymān b. Aḥmad; Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. al-Manṣūr. On verso there are 3 lines in Arabic script from a document acknowledging a debt. Presumably a draft, as the scribe left the text of the document unfinished. (Information from Khan's edition.)