Legal document: T-S Ar.41.65

Legal document T-S Ar.41.65

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T-S Ar.41.65
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Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (1993).
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Arabic

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TS Arabic Box 41, f. 65; TS Arabic Box 41, fol. 65
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In PGP since 2017

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Power of attorney. Sāliḥ b. Yūsuf, a Sicilian Jew, gives power of attorney to another Jew in a qadi court. Dating: ca. 1102 CE, as the same Ṣāliḥ also appears in T-S NS J95a. On verso there is Hebrew literary text. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card and Khan.)

T-S Ar.41.65 1r

1r

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

Translation

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

T-S Ar.41.65 1v

1v

Top Verso

  1. [الحمـ]ـد لله و [حـ]ـده وصلواته على [سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلم تسليما]

  2. حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

 

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  1. نسخة كتاب الوكالة

  2. المذكور ثبوته كهيته

  3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على نبيه محمد واله وسلم تسلـــ[ـــيما]

  4. هذا كتاب وكالة الصالح بن يوسف اليهودي الصقلـــ[ــي]...[                ]

  5. اليهودي و اقرا له بجميع ما فيه و اشهدا له عـــ[ـــلـــ]ــى [انفسهما            ]

  6. عليه شهوده طوعا صحة منـــ[ـــهـــ]ـم وجواز امر حقا  . [              ]

  7. عنه في طلب حقوقه الواجبة له حيث كانت وحيث ٮكـــ[           ]

  8. [   ]ــا و عند من كانت من كاقة النـــ[ـــاس                ]

  9. [        ] بيع جميع ما ...[                     ]

 

Top Verso

  1. Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon [our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and his family and save them.]  
  2. Our sufficiency is God. What a fine keeper is he! 

Bottom Verso

  1. Copy of the power of attorney,  
  2. whose registration was mentioned, in its (complete) form:  
  3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless his prophet, Muḥammad, and his family and save them.  
  4. This is a power of attorney for Ṣāliḥ ibn Yiisuf, the Sicilian Jew, .... [                 ] 
  5. the Jew, and they both acknowledged for him everything herein and called people to be their witnesses [.                 ]  
  6. ... its (the document's) witnesses, willingly, .in sound health and their acts being legal, a [          ] right [                             ]  
  7. on his behalf, claiming the rights due to him, wherever they are, wherever they  [         ]  
  8. [            ] and with whomsoever of all the people they are [           ]  
  9. [                     ] the sale of everything that ... [                        ] 
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