Legal document: ENA NS 59.10

Legal document ENA NS 59.10

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Recto (secondary use): An inventory of legal deeds in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the heirs of Barakāt; a woman and Baqāʾ the orphan girl of Bunyām al-Malījī; the widow of Abū l-Surūr the brother of al-[...]; the orphan girl of Abū l-Maʿā[...]; a relative of Ibn al-Shelishi, the wife of Abū [...]; the ketubba of Malīḥa bt. [Maʿ?]ālī Ibn al-Dihqān the wife of [...]; a deed in which someone gives a gift to his wife and daughters; the will of Yaʿqūb; a governmental rescript (tawqīʿ) perhaps regarding the Jews' right to administrate their own inheritance laws (תוקיע בחמל אליהוד עלי מוא[ר]יתהם); a fatwā from [...]; something involving al-Dhabbāḥ and 14 dinars; a deed for "my paternal aunt" against her husband Abū M[...]; one involving Ibn Khaṣīb and Maʿālī Ibn Asad (this may be the prominent merchant Shemuel b. Yehuda active in the mid-12th century, cf. Bodl. MS heb. b 11/36 (PGPID 6350)); and the will of Mubārak al-Dimashqī (cf. T-S 10J7.6 (PGPID 7856)). On verso there is a legal document in Arabic script (see separate record).

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