Legal document: Bodl. MS heb. c 28/3

Legal document Bodl. MS heb. c 28/3

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Bodl. MS heb. c 28/3
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Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic
Secondary Languages
Aramaic
Hebrew

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Debt contract. Location: Fustat. Dating: First decade of Kislev 1462 Seleucid, which is 1150 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. According to which a debt of 4 dinars, 19 qīrāṭs, and 454 dirhams, resulting from a sale, is to be repaid in weekly installment of 50 dirhams. beginning on Sunday 5 Kislev 1150 CE. The debtor seems to be Sayyid al-Kull b. Shabbetay ha-Shofeṭ ha-Mumḥe. The creditor is Abū Isḥāq. Witnesses: Yeshuʿa b. Aharon ha-Kohen; Yeshuʿa b. Ḥotam ha-Levi. On verso there are entries of repayments: 5 repayments of 1 dinar each and 11 repayments of 40 dirhams. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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Location
Fustat

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Collection
Bodleian Library
Historical shelfmarks
Bodl. MS Heb. c 28 (Cat. 2876), f. 3; Bodl. MS Heb. c 28, fol. 3
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In PGP since 2017
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Bodl. MS heb. c 28/3 3 recto

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3 recto

Bodl. MS heb. c 28/3 3 verso

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3 verso
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Bodleian Library, Bodl. MS heb. c 28/3. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6418/ (accessed June 3, 2026).