Legal document: T-S 8J21.14 + T-S 8J8.12
Legal document T-S 8J21.14 + T-S 8J8.12What's in the PGP
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Copy of a deathbed will. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 4845 AM = 15 June 1085 CE. Testator: Moshe b. Aharon ha-Kohen, a well-known Qaraite dignitary. Mentions his wife Munā bt. Hiba; his partner Abū l-Khayr al-Ger; and Abū Zikrī. Abū al-Khayr will be the executor of the will. The testator's wife will get the price of codices to be sold. There are many additional details; see Goitein's index card for further information. Fully transcribed (and translated to Hebrew) in Yosef Rivlin, Inheritance and Wills in Jewish Law, (Bar Ilan: Ramat Gan, 1999), pp. 338–40. See also ENA 4100.15 (PGPID 11546). T-S 8J21.14 + T-S 8J8.12 (PGPID 7679) and T-S 12.606 (PGPID 3187) are a likely (noncontinuous) join; both refer to the same sum of 7.25 dinars owed by Yāqūt. ASE