Legal document: T-S Ar.39.16

Legal document T-S Ar.39.16

Metadata

Shelfmark
T-S Ar.39.16
Editor
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (1993).
Primary Language
Arabic

Additional metadata

Historical shelfmarks
TS Arabic Box 39, f. 16; TS Arabic Box 39, fol. 16
Input date
In PGP since 2017

Description

Power of attorney. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. A woman appoints the Jewish dyer Abū Saʿd b. Nājī b. Bū Naṣr as her agent. (Information from Goitein’s index card and Khan.)

T-S Ar.39.16 1r

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Transcription

Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. ابو سعد اليهودي بن ناجي بن بو نصر اليهودي الصباغ و حليته

  2. دون الاعتدال رقيق السمــــ[ــــــر]ة واضح الجبــــ[ــــهـــــ]ــــة بها اسارير خفية و شامة بموضع

  3. سجوده مقرون الحاجبين صاف شهلة العـــ[ـــــينيــ]ــــــن اقنا الانف مستدير اللحية

  4. واشهدت له على نفسها بما تضمنه واشتمل عليه في صحة منها وجواز

  5. امر طوعا انها جعلته و كيلها و حزبها و نائبا عنها وقائما مقامها

  6. في طلب حقوقها كلها و قبضها [       ] اجهزة و اثبات

  7. حججها و اقامة شهاداتها  .[              ]

  8. و تخريجها [                            ]

 

Translation

Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto

  1. 'Abū Saʿd, the Jew, son of Nājī ibn Bū Naṣr, the Jewish dyer, who has the  following physical features:  
  2. less than average stature, pure brown in complexion, with a smooth forehead, in  which there are some inconspicuous lines and a mole on the place 
  3. (that touches the ground) when prostrating in prayer, with linked eyebrows, with  eyes pure dark-brown in colour, hook-nosed and with a round beard. 
  4. She called people to be her witnesses for his sake, with regard to what is contained and included herein, while in sound health, her actions  
  5. being legal and voluntary, that she has made him her representative, her party, her deputy and her proxy  
  6. in claiming and receiving all her rights [              ] trousseaux, registering  
  7. her documents, undertaking her testimonies,  
  8. her upbringing [                                             ]

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