Scholarship on Legal document: Bodl. MS heb. d 68/100

The honorable elders declare that they 

settled the account of al-Nādīv, the result 

of the account being that there is a balance to his credit 

to the end of Shaʿbān for 

the repairs, 19 1⁄2 (dinars) in gold 

owed by the qōdesh. Of this, 

9 3/4 (dinars) in gold he owes the qōdesh. (Also) for the lease 

for 4 months, ending 

(9-10) Dhūʾl-ḥijja, he owes the qōdesh 3 dinars. (Balance,) 6 3⁄4 (dinars) in gold. 

So they agreed that he spend 

on his own for the repair  of his brewery 

10 1/2 dinars, the share of 

the qōdesh in it being 5 1/2 (dinars). Then 

the qōdesh will have to refund him 12 (dinars) in gold. 

(16-17) It was agreed also that he has another dinar to be divided in two, and it was agreed that he will purchase 

a pair of pillars for the room; 

whatever price he pays he will not charge 

the qōdesh more than 

a cost of 1 dinar. 

The marble of the balustrade 

of beneath the bādhanj 

will also have its total (cost) divided in two. 

He rented half 

of the compound for 3⁄4 

dinar a month. We will deduct 

from the 12 dinars 3⁄4 (dinar) 

for 16 months beginning Muḥarram 

of the year [5]51. We will write on this 

a deed of lease in a Muslim court.

Therefore we, who have signed 

at the bottom of this note, asked al-Nādīv 

about all these matters and he agreed (to it) 

before us entirely and made us witness 

for himself regarding all of it 

and instructed us to record it to his charge. 

Accordingly, we confirmed it during

the middle ten days of Adar riʾshōn 

1467. Ephraim b. R. Meshullām. 

Abraham ha-Kohen b. R. Aaron, of blessed memory.

Berākhōt ha-Kohen b. R. Shēlā ha-Kohen, of blessed memory.