Legal document: AIU XII.44

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Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Late Mamluk or early Ottoman (paleographic dating). Acknowledgement of debt in the name of Muḥammad b. Qāsim b. ʿAlī known as al-Ḥamawi, the mudawlib (perhaps the technical assistant, or the one who maintains the balance and other equipment) in the ṣarf (the money-changing house; the mint would probably be al-ḍarb), and the teacher Khiḍr b. [...] al-Yahūdī al-Rabbānī known as Ibn ʿAbduh. Verso (and margin of recto): Drafts for piyyutim in Hebrew. (ASE and MR)