Legal document: T-S NS 320.141

Legal document T-S NS 320.141

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Recto: Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 17 [...] 1359 Seleucid, which is 1047/48 CE. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Certifying that [...] b. Khalaf ha-Levi has paid a portion of the early marriage payment to Dalāl bt. Faraj, and that he will come to Fustat and marry her before Purim of the coming year, and if not he will give her a bill of divorce. Mentions the cantor Ḥusayn b. [...] and the parnas Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen. Written and signed by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Also signed by [...] b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein's index card #11876.)

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Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).

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  1. …for two days, 4 dir. 

  2. …. from him, originally 

  3. .... and other (things), 6 dir. 

  4. …. and (she) opened a shop, they are known 

  5. …. owed to the carpenter, 4 1⁄2 dir. 

  6. ........ and a carpenter, 1 1/4 dir. Spent at 

  7. .... as detailed further, 9 

  8. …. 34 dir. and the meals 

  9. …. 14 1⁄2 dir. Paid for water 

  10. …. ½ + 1/4. Paid for red and white gypsum

  11. .... Kohen, of the sum he collected, 17 dir. 

  12. .... dinar less 2 qīrāts. I collected from Abū Yūsuf a sum 

  13. …. 31 3⁄4 dir., handed over to al-Shaykh 

  14. . may God preserve His Honor, to pay off those who were his colleagues at the time of 

  15. .... dinars which he gave from his money to the synagogue, may God perpetuate 

  16. .... to the Raʾs al-kull, may  God support him. The total is 

  17. .... together with the acquittal of the said debt, in gold, 4 

  18. .... 669 dir. 

  19. …. (the year [4]34, ending on the month of Rabīʿ al-ākhir of the year [4]35 

  20. …. regarding the said staircase, which is to 

  21. .... rubāʿīs. Of it, from the daughter of Sulaym, 2 rubāʿīs 

  22. .... and in waraq 40 dir. from others 

  23. .... to deduct of it: The sums paid for stones and for 

  24. …. the wages of the sawyers for 260 threads 

  25. .... and 3⁄4.

  26. …. the Synagogue of the Palestinians in Fustat and its needs 

  27. …. (Jumādā) al-ʾūlā of the year [4]35 

  28. …. 433 

  29. .... 14 dir. Paid for small candlesticks 

  30. .... 2 dir. Paid for 5 chains 

  31. .... the guardian of the Estate for Purim, 5 dir. 

  32. .... by Isaac al-Ṣaghīr, 7 dir. 

  33. .... the synagogue for Pesaḥ by b. al-Zamin 

  34. (the guardian of) the Estate for Pesaḥ, 5 dir. The balance 

  35. at the time of the opening of the synagogue, 7 dir. Given by 

  36. .... Pesaḥ, 5 dir. Transported by the sister of Sahlan 

  37. …. Waḥīsh, at the time of the transportation, 3/4. Paid to b. 

  38. oakum, water, lime, 2 1⁄2 dir. Paid to him .... 

 

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