Legal document: BL OR 5542.3
Legal document BL OR 5542.3Description
Certificate in the hand of the judge Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Kislev 1473 Seleucid, which is December 1161 CE, under the authority of Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi. Stating that the perfumer Abū l-Fakhr Seʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī ("son of the comb-maker"), had acted as collector of mezonot, or money for bread for the poor, on the same date. Witnessed by Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen and Tiqva b. Simḥa b. Mevasser he-Ḥaver. The document is crossed out with a vertical stroke. See BL OR 5542.23 for a letter addressed to the same Abū l-Fakhr Seʿadya Ibn al-Amshāṭī. (Information from Goitein's index card and Med Soc II, Appendix C, #81.)