Legal document: T-S 12.505

Legal document T-S 12.505

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Fol. 1: Legal document. Location: New Cairo. The bottom is missing, but it seems it was also left incomplete since the day of the week and day of the month were not filled in. Location: New Cairo. Dated: Elul 1405 Seleucid, which is 1094 CE. Banāt bt. Binyām known as "son of the Rav" gives power of attorney to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Mubārak to claim from her divorced husband Maḥāsin Ibn al-ʿInānī 24 dinars adjudicated to her by the court as well as alimonies and other expenses for their daughter since he had left the town. (Information from Goitein's index card.) Fol. 2: Upper right fragment of a legal document with an unusual opening: naqūl naḥnu al-qawm al-[...]. Mentions a "mufāwaḍa." Nothing else preserved. Distinctive hand. Unrelated to fol. 1.