Legal document: T-S 8.196

Legal document T-S 8.196

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T-S 8.196
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Acknowledgement of debt. A certain individual promises to make a payment of 298 dinars for precious items of textile merchandise (aʿlāq) which he had received in Damascus. He will pay off the debt in a single payment as soon as the seller/creditor arrives in Fustat. (Information from Goitein’s index card and Weiss's edition.)

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Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (uncertain)

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Damascus, Fustat

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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In PGP since 2017
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T-S 8.196 1r

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Gershon Weiss, "Legal Documents Written by the Court Clerk Halfon Ben Manasse (Dated 1100-1138)" (PhD diss., n.p., 1970).

Recto

  1. 1 [ ]
  2. 2 [ ] ולא גלט ולא עלה בי מן מרץ ול[ ]
  3. 3 [ ] ומן תמן אלאעלאק אלדי קבצתהא מנה בדמשק [ ]
  4. 4 [ ] בעד וצולה אלי מצר מאיתין דינארא ותמניה ותסע[ין ]
  5. 5 [ ]צריה גיאדא צחאחא דינא האלא ואגבא וחקא לאזמא [ ]
  6. 6 [ ] אסתיפאיה מני פי אלחאל פי נקדה ואחד[ה ]
  7. 7 [ ] מן דלך מן סאיר צנוף אלאימ[אן ]
  8. 8 [ ]פי גמיע הדא אל[ ]
  9. 9 [ ]ה מני וא[ ]

T-S 8.196 1v

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