Legal document: T-S Ar.30.42

Legal document T-S Ar.30.42

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T-S Ar.30.42
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Draft of a court record dated 623 (1226) written on a very small piece of paper (4 x 2.5 in) regarding the testimony of Abū Saʿīd al-Levi b. Abū l-Maʿānī that Abu ʾl-Faḍl b. Mukhtār al-Iskandarī had died while in Kalah (Goitein: on the west coast of present-day Malaysia). The document establishes that India traders ventured to Southeast Asia. Goitein didn't supply a reading for the place-name after Kalah ("the lands of ..."); Marina Rustow and Michael Laffan (March 2021) read "Java" (al-jāwa). The document gives dates according to the Jewish (Seleucid) calendar and the hijrī calendar. Old IB Number: 322. New IB Number: VII, 32. In the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Dating: 10 Tammuz 1537 (Seleucid)

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS Arabic Box 30, f. 42; TS Arabic Box 30, fol. 42
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T-S Ar.30.42 1r

1r
Marina Rustow's digital edition.

recto

  1. חצר אלינא אנו בית דין
  2. החתומים למטה פי
  3. מושב בית דין במצר
  4. יום אלתלתא עאשר
  5. תמוז אתקלז לשטרות
  6. אלמואפק לעאשר רגב
  7. סנה תלת ועשרין וסת
  8. מאיה 〚אבו אלחסין〛אבו סעיד אללוי
  9. בן אלשיך אבי אלמעאני

recto, right margin

  1. אתבתאהא לזכו ולראיה
Marina Rustow's digital translation.

recto

  1. There came before us, we, the members of the court
  2. who have signed below, 
  3. (in) a session of the court in Fustat
  4. on Tuesday, 10
  5. Tammuz 1537 of the (era of) documents,
  6. corresponding to 10 Rajab
  7. of the year six hundred twenty-three,
  8. 〚Abū l-Ḥusayn〛Abū Saʿīd al-Levi,
  9. son of the elder Abū l-Maʿānī

recto, right margin

  1. we registered it as a right and a proof.

T-S Ar.30.42 1v

1v

verso

  1. אללוי אלתאגר אלמערוף
  2. אלדגאגי ושהד ענדנא
  3. אן אבו אלפצל בן מכתאר
  4. אלאסכנדרי אלמערוף באבן
  5. מ…ה תופי פי
  6. כלה מן בלאד אלגאוה
  7. תחקק דלך ותיקנה חין
  8. דכולה אלי אלמעבר מן
  9. בלאד אלהנד ולמא אדא
  10. שהאדתה במחצרנא

verso

  1. al-Levi the merchant, known as
  2. al-Dajjājī, and testified before us
  3. that Abū l-Faḍl b. Mukhtār
  4. al-Iskandarī, known as Ibn
  5. M [ ... ] h, died in
  6. Kalah, in the lands of al-jāwah (Southeast Asia).
  7. He checked this and verified it when
  8. he arrived in the Malabar, in
  9. the lands of al-hind (the Indian Ocean basin). After he had deposited
  10. his testimony in our presence,
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