Legal document: ENA 4011.60
Legal document ENA 4011.60Tags
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Legal document. Record of a deposition in court (maḥḍar). Dated: Sunday, 21 Av/Rabīʿ I 442 AH = 12 August 1050 CE. Unsigned draft, written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Musāfir b. ʿAmram sues Saʿīd b. ʿAllūn al-Qudsī concerning a diadem which Musāfir had given to Saʿīd to transport to Tyre but never arrived. Saʿīd takes several oaths that if Musāfir shows the court a letter from Tyre (presumably attesting that the diadem never arrived), he will pay a fine of 10 dinars to the qodesh for the poor of Jerusalem. Musāfir then produces exactly such a letter. Saʿīd then claims that his oath was only about a letter from Tyre from his father-in-law. Musāfir then shows the court letters from the father-in-law. (Ed. Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations, doc. 31; Gil's translation confuses some of the procedure.)
Edition: Gil, Moshe
Translation: Gil, Moshe (in English)
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Transcription
Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).- של
- חצר מן אתבת שהאדתה אכר הדא אלמחצר מטאלבה
- מסאפר אבן עמרם לסעיד אבן עלון אלמערוף באלקדסי בעצאבה
- דכר מסאפר אבן עמרם אנה אנפדהא מעה אלי צור ואנה לם
- יוצלהא וגרי בינהם לאגל דלך כטאב תרדד מן גמלתה
- קאל סעיד אבן עלון אלקדסי אנה מתי אטהר מסאפר כתאב ורד
- [אל]יה מן צור תידכר(!) פיה הדה אלעצאב(!) כאן עליה קודש עשרה
- דינאניר לעניי ירושלים ואכד דלך בימין דפעאת ואחצר מסאפר
- עדה כתב מן צור פדכר אן ימינה כאנת ען כתאב חמוה
- פאחצר כתאב חמוה וימינה כאנת עלי אנה אן אחצר כתאב
- מן כאן ואי כתאב אחצרה מן צור כאן עליה קודש עשרה
- דנאניר ולמא אלתמס מסאפר בן עמרם כתבהם שהאדתהם
- בדלך שהדו וכתבו כטוטהם תחת הדה אל/א/סטר פי יום אלאחד
- אלתאמן ואלעשרין מן אב אלמואפק לשהר רביע אלאול סנה אתניתין
- וארבעין וארבע מאיה ------------------------------------------------
Translation
Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).Recto
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In Thy Name, oh Merciful:
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The undersigned whose testimony was recorded on this court record were present on the spot when the lawsuit was brought
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by Musāfir b. ʿAmrām against Saʿīd b. ʿAllūn, known as al-Qudsī regarding a tiara
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which Musāfir b. ʿAmrām said that he had sent with him to Tyre, but he (i.e. Saʿīd b. ʿAllūn) did not
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deliver it. For this reason there was a discussion among them, consisting in short of the following:
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Sa'id b. ʿAllūn al-Qudsī said that if he presented to Musāfir a letter coming
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to him from Tyre in which this tiara would be mentioned, he (i.e. Musāfir) would have to pay as qōdesh 10
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dinars to the poor of Jerusalem. He took an oath from him on this several times. Then Musāfir was presented with
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several letters from Tyre, and said that his oath referred to a letter from his father-in-law;
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so he was presented with a letter from his father-in-law; but(?) his oath had been that if he was presented with any letter
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whatsoever, from anybody in Tyre, he would have to pay as qōdesh 10
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dinars. So since Musāfir b. ʿAmrām requested them to write down their attestation
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of it, they attested and affixed their signatures beneath these deeds, on Sunday,
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(14-15) 28 Av, corresponding to the month Rabīʿ al-awwal of the year 442.
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