Legal document: BL OR 5542.4

Legal document BL OR 5542.4

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BL OR 5542.4
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Legal document. Dated: Monday, 2 Iyyar 1398 Seleucid, which is 1087 CE. Location: Fustat. Moshe b. Elḥanan comes before the court and declares that he has appointed Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Shelomo ha-Levi ("known as Ibn Levi") as his agent for his affairs while he is Yemen. The agent is to look after his compound (rabʿ) in Fustat in Sūq al-Baṭṭāṭin, which consists of two houses. There are a few words in Arabic script on verso referring to a deposit (wadīʿa). (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)

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British Library
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BM Or 5542, fol. 4; BM; BM Or 5542, f. 4
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In PGP since 2017
British Library, BL OR 5542.4. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6208/, accessed November 23, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6208/