Scholarship on Legal document: ENA 2738.35

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1. [...] one thousand four hundred and eighty (years) …
2. [(of the Era) of Documents, in Fusṭāṭ Egypt,] situated [on the Nile Rive]r, in the jurisdiction of our lord …
3. […] we, the witnesses who have affixed our signature
4. [at the bottom of this document. Thus: Abū] al-Faraj ha-Levi (our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Yeshu‘a ha-Levi, the beloved, …. [came before us]
5. […] Eleazar the beloved youth b. M(r.) Amram
6. […] the partnership (shirka) which
7. was between us … […] ... was medicine in the market … and each of us received every claim and demand
8. which he had upon the other, and no claim or demand remained for either of us with the other, neither a claim nor a demand, neither a debt,
9. nor a pledge, nor a consignment, neither a bill of exchange nor a surety, neither a claim upon a partnership (shirka) nor a joint enterprise (mu‘āmala),
10. nor a loan nor a commenda (qirāḍ), neither a claim for an item of trade nor for merchandise, neither a claim for profit
11. nor for loss, neither for capital nor for profit, nor for any of the other types of
12. its differences of opinion, or of differences in its types or circumstances. Each of us has released
13. the other from the obligatory “oath of partners,” incumbent upon one to the other, in this partnership (shirka), as well as other (partnerships),
14. and from all the claims and demands, and from the rest of the connections and responsibilities for which each
15. of us has (a claim) upon the other, in this partnership (shirka) or in another, from the beginning of time up until now, a
16. total, complete, conclusive, correct release, upon each of us and upon our heirs after us, for the other and for his heirs
17. after him, with the most certain and perfect stipulations of release. Each of us has released the other from all
18. types of oaths, vows and rider oaths which (Jewish) law might require for each
19. of us with respect to the other concerning that which has been mentioned above, or in other matters, and even rider oaths
20. and even ḥerem setam. Each of us has forgiven the other any claim which (Jewish) law would place upon him,
21. with com[plete] forgiveness, and each of us has nullified any determination or interpretation before us
22. [… from that which this release includes, or secret dispositions concerning secret dispositions
23. […] to the end of all secret dispositions. We performed a qinyan with Abū al-Riḍā al Levi, and with Abū (al-Faraj)
24. […] the two of them for all that which this document includes
25. […] with an item suitable for doing so, effective immediately, in accordance with our intent
26. […] and that which happened before us, we wrote and signed
27. […] Everything is proper and clear and enduring.
28. [... b.] Jacob the Teacher (who) r(ests in) E(den)