Legal document: T-S Ar.39.237

Legal document T-S Ar.39.237

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T-S Ar.39.237
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Primary Language
Arabic

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Attestation written by Ṭalāʾīʿ b. Ṣāliḥ b. Yaḥyā in the name of Yārūkh (or possibly Bārūkh) b. Jawshan and mentioning the eastern neighborhood (al-ḥāra al-sharqiyya) in the district (nāḥiya) of Sinnūris. Dated 15 Shawwāl 545 (4 February 1151). Written on verso of a tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ dated 2 or 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 (April 1015) (see separate entry), suggesting that tax receipts may have been archived and retained for more than a century.

Related People

Scribe
Ṭalāʾīʿ b. Ṣāliḥ b. Yaḥyā

Related Places

Mentioned
Sinnūris

Additional metadata

Collection
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 39, f. 237; TS Arabic Box 39, fol. 237
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In PGP since 2024
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T-S Ar.39.237 verso

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verso
Lorenzo Bondioli, Stephanie Luescher, Marina Rustow and Naïm Vanthieghem's digital edition.

Verso

  1. بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم

  2. اشهدني ياروخ بن جوشن

  3.  … … انه ال

  4.   بالناحية المعروفة بسنورس

  5.  بالـ     الشرقية الاستعمال 

  6. الحادي عشر من شوال سنة خمس واربعين وخمسمىة 

  7. كتب طلاىع بن صالح بن يحيى

Verso, left column

  1. وليلة الشهر
Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S Ar.39.237. Description by Marina Rustow available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/39447/ (accessed March 10, 2026).