Legal document: BL OR 4684.14

1. Admission of this was made before me. It was written by
2. Ḥasan ibn ʾIbrāhīm ibn Rizq in his (own) handwriting.
3. In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
4. This is what Marqūrah and his brother, Buṭrus, the sons of Rabābīl ibn Mīnā, have bought from Usṭūrhīwa, daughter of Qūrīl ibn Kayl. They are all (numbered) among the inhabitants of the village known as Ṭuṭūn, one of the villages
5. in the district of Fayyūm. They bought from her the living room known as the living room of ʾAbū Thaydar to its limits and boundaries, with its entrance and exit. The door of this living room opens from west to the portico
6. on the second floor. (They also bought) the second living room that is the upper living room which is enclosed from the south. The door of this living room opens to the mentioned rooftop. The entrance and exit are through this (rooftop). The door
7. of this rooftop [faces] west. The passageway from the (entrance) of the house to these two living rooms will also be theirs as well as the storehouse which is over the upper open space with the open space which is under this storehouse. Also belonging to Marqūrah
8. And Buṭrus, the sons of Rabābīl ibn Mīnā, is the passageway leading from bashṭām’s door to the mentioned areas of the house known as the house of Qūrīl ibn Kayl in the […] quarter. They bought all of this
9. to its limits and boundaries, with its timbers, its doors, its bricks, its stones, and every small or big item that is within or out of it for fourteen dīnārs of full weight and of good alloy
10. which are used as currency in Egypt and its administrative districts the half of which is seven dīnārs, in gold coins. ʾUsṭur Ḥīwa bint Qūrīl ibn Kayl, the wife of Rabābīl the tailor, received this
11. Price completely and in full and she released herself from the (ownership of this) property by means of a receipt (acknowledging that she has) received it and taken over the full (price) and she has handed over this property to Marqūrah and Buṭrus, sons of Rabābīl ibn Mīnā, and they received it and acquired it and owned it and
12. It passed into their holdings as their property and in their possession. If they wish they may sell and if they wish they may give it away as gift and if they wish they may dwell in it. There is no claim for ʾUstūr Hīwa bint Kayl ibn Qūrīl or any of his family over this property after this conveyance
13. little nor big, nor is there any cause for an action or claim. Whatever arises by way of an attachment, legal claim, or if someone should suddenly appear with a debt or make a claim on the basis of any inheritance, its clearing is incumbent upon ʾUsṭur Ḥīwa bint Qūrīl ibn Kayl from her own
14. Money whatever it may amount to. They bought this according to the condition of sale of Islam and its contract being in sound mind and body legally capable of conducting their affairs, acting voluntarily, not forced or coerced. God and his angels testified, and God is sufficient as a witness.
15. This was written in Muḥarram of the year four hundred and fifty-four.
16. [They also bought] her share from the surrounding walls and the inhabited house known as dār al-Ṭāḥūnah (‘mill’) and the spacious house and the passageway that leads to this house.

Witness clauses

1. ʾAbū al-Ṭayyib ibn ‘Umar testified to the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer of all that is contained in this document. This has been written by Ṭāhir ibn ʿIlyān on his behalf by his instruction and in his presence on its date.
2. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn ʿUbayd testified to the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer of all that is contained in this document. This was written by his son, Ṣāliḥ, on his behalf by his instruction and in his presence on its date.
3. Saʿīd ibn ʿAlyān testified to the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer of all that is contained in this document. He wrote in his (own) handwriting.
4. ʿAbdul Ṣamad ibn ʿUbayd testified to the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer all that is contained in this document. This has been written by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʾIsmāʿīl on his behalf by his instruction and in his presence.
5. Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn ʿUbayd testified to the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer of all that is contained in this document. He wrote in his (own) handwriting on its date.
6. Ṭāhir ibn ʿAlyān testified to the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer of all that is contained in this document. He wrote in his (own) handwriting on its date.
7. The [person] bearing the patronymic ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Isā testified to the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer of all that is contained in this document. This has been written by ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Ubayd on his behalf by his instruction and in his presence on its date.
8. ʾIsmāʿīl ibn Dāwūd testified to all that is contained in this document. This was written by his son, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, on his behalf by his instruction and in his presence on its date.
9. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʾIsmāʿīl testified to the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer of all that is contained in this document. He wrote in his (own) handwriting on its date.