Legal document: T-S Ar.30.30
Legal document T-S Ar.30.30Description
Fol. 2v: Legal document in Arabic script. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Khalaf, a Jew from Tyre, renounces all of his monetary claims against Isḥaq b. Sahl b. Bishr b. Nāḥūm and Abū Naṣr. Dating: 12th century CE. Fol. 1r: Arabic document of lease (needs further examination). On fols. 1v–2r and margins, there is a medical text dealing with parts of the human body. (Information from Khan and CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)
Translation: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S Ar.30.30 1r
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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).T-S Ar.30.30 1v
T-S Ar.30.30 2r
T-S Ar.30.30 2v
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In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and his family and save them.
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Ḥasan, called Abū ʿAlī, ibn Khalaf, the Jew from Tyre, calling people to be his witnesses, acting voluntarily, [not forced, nor]
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coerced, acknowledged that no debt is owed to him by Isḥāq ibn Sahl ibn Bishr ibn Nāḥūm and Bū Naṣr [ … ]
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nor (is there any debt) incumbent upon them, nor in their possession, nor in their custody, nor incumbent upon anyone in connection with them [ … ]
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gold, silver, a debt, a loan, a deposit, rent, [ … ]
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clothing, ornament, habiliment, fashioned or broken jewellery [ … ]
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settling of an account, rescinding of an account, nor what is administered as a deposit [ …]
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the value of which has been specified, nor a fine of any type of possession or goods [ …]
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nor anything that has not been mentioned herein, small or large, old or new, nor a claim [ …]
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nor argument, nor litigation, nor dispute in any way whatsoever. He released them with [a valid quittance … ] .
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as a ratification for them and a proof, today and afterwards. Whenever he claims repayment of a debt from them or [ …]
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or in connection with him after his death, or presents evidence, or deposits a testimony or attaches an oath [ …]
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or its rescission or withdrawing from it, all that is false, void, unjust ... [ … ]
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in any way whatsoever. They accepted his acknowledgement from him with a valid acceptance. [The acknowledgement of Ḥasan]
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ibn Khalaf, the Jew from Tyre, and of the two men to whom the acknowledgement was made and who were granted a quittance, Isḥāq ibn Sahl and [ Bū Naṣr, named in this]
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document, was witnessed, after it had been read to them and they had acknowledged that they had understood it, while acting voluntarily, in sound health, and their acts being legal [ … ]
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[ … ] ........ [ … ]
