Scholarship on Legal document: T-S 8J15.1

Motzkin, "The Arabic Correspondence of Judge Elijah and his Family" (PhD diss., n.p., 1965), 2.

Motzkin, "The Arabic Correspondence of Judge Elijah and his Family" (PhD diss., n.p., 1965), 2.

I present my son Solomon with a Torah commentary
I present my son Solomon with a Torah commentary in five volumes, as well as
the prayerbook of Rabbe'nu' Solomon (of blessed memory). No one else has any right to it. It is a gift for my son
Solomon, a gift which cannot be taken back. A gift of a healthy man, not
of one on his death-bed. All codices and copper vessels in my house
belong to no one else. They are his, a definite gift. The remaining
smaller codices he should divide with his brother Abu Zikri. The
codex of the Torah, Prophets and Hagiographa is my son Solomon's. He may teach
the pupils from it. His brother must not take them from him, nor divide them
with him at all. They are my son Solomon's, a gift, whether he be a teacher or whether
he not be a teacher. His brother has no right to that at all …. as
God [is] my [witness]. I wrote this myself. I, Elljah, son of R. Ze[kharia.

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