Legal document: T-S 16.1

Description

Bill of release in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 19 Elul 1400 Seleucid = 28 August 1089 CE. Release given by the physician (rofeʾ) Aharon b. Ṣedaqa b. Aharon known as al-ʿAmmānī to the carpenter (najjār) David b. Yaʿaqov. A lot of legal verbiage but no detail about the circumstances. Signed by seven, including Shelomo b. Yosef ha-Kohen (descendant of Shelomo Gaʾon), Ṣedaqa b. Moshe ha-Levi, Yehuda b. Ḥayyim, Menashshe b. Yehuda, Mevorakh b. Avraham, and ʿEli b. Yaḥya ha-Kohen. Verso: jottings, including a calligraphically written alphabet. (Information in part from CUDL, Weiss, and Goitein's index card.)