Legal document: T-S 12.777 + T-S 10J28.7

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Legal document. Location: New Cairo. Dated: middle decade of Ṭevet 145[5] Seleucid = December 1143 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. (This corresponds to Jumādā II 538 AH, several months prior to the end of the initial lease described in the document.) Abū Manṣūr Yakhin b. Elʿazar ha-Ḥazzān known as Ibn Thābit reaches a settlement with Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Berakhot Ibn al-Dayyān who had sued him and made him take an oath in court. Yakhin was renting a store (probably a sublease) from Yeshuʿa in the bazaar of the seed dealers (sūq al-abzāriyyīn) from Ramaḍān 537 to Ramaḍān 538 for 15 wariq dirhams a month. The original contract stipulated that after Ramaḍān 538 AH, Yeshuʿa would become responsible for the rent and all of the government taxes. With this document, they are changing that stipulation, and Yakhin will continue to pay the rent and be responsible for all the government dealings and taxes; he will also continue to pay the rent of 15 wariq dirhams and retain the right to live in the store. At the time of this document, a token sum of 5 dirhams was given by Yakhin to Yeshuʿa to seal the compromise. Witnesses: the cantor Moshe b. Yehuda; Natan b. Shemarya ha-Kohen; and Natan b. Meshullam ha-Levi. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.) Join: Alan Elbaum