Legal document: T-S Ar.53.19

Legal document T-S Ar.53.19

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Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥasan, the Jewish druggist, bought four shares of a house in Minyat Ghamr, consisting of a rectangular gate, a court, a ṣāḥa, and three buyūt, partly made of timber, from the Jewish woman Naẓar bt. Abū l-Ḥusayn. The transaction took place in Minyat Zifta. The courtyard is described as containing a water closet (mirḥāḍ) and the root (? aṣl) of a ziziphus tree (sidr). The house borders on those of 3 Muslims and 1 Christian. On verso there are additional notes in Arabic script. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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T-S Ar.53.19 1v

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1v
Athina Pfeiffer's digital edition (2025).

Verso, top left

  1. اشهدني بذلك
  2. وكتب ...

Verso

  1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
  2. اشترى بو الحسن بن حسن اليهودي العطار الساكن بمنية زفتى جواد بماله لنفسه صفقة واحدة عقد
  3. واحد من نظر ابنة ابو الحسين اليهودية المراة الكامل البارز الحاضرة بمنية زفتى جواد جزو(؟) الـ....
  4. وهو اربعة اسهم من جملة اربعة وعشرين سهما شائعا غير مقسوم من الدار التي ذكرت هدا نظر [ا]بنة [ابو الحسين
  5. الباىعة المذكورة انها لها وملكها القاىمة لها بمنية غمر القاىمة اليها [بـ]ـالجانب البحري مـ.
  6.   منها وهي الدار ذات الباب المربع ويدخل منه الى ساحة فيها ثلثة بيوت احدهم [         ]
  7. بالخشب والـ[خـ]ـشب ... [      ] خشب مدورات والثاني بيت ولد البنا(؟) بالطرف اللـ..
  8. حاله من المرحاض وساحتها لها مسدد/اصل سدر(؟) ويشتمل على هذه الدار حدود اربع فاول حد لها وهو القبلي ينتهي [الـ]ـى
  9. طلحة ويلي دار الحاج الا.ـو.ط.ـي والحد الثاني وهو البحري ينتهي الى الشارع المسلوك وفيه سـ..[
  10. الحد الثالث وهو الغربي ينتهي الى دار المخامر النصراني والحد الرابع وهو الغربي [ينتهي الى 
  11. محمود الد..... اشترى ابو الـ[حسن بن حسن]
Marina Rustow's digital translation.

Verso, top left

  1. I was called upon to witness
  2. and ... wrote

Verso

  1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
  2. Bū l-Ḥasan ibn Ḥasan, the Jewish pharmacist residing in Minyat Ziftā Jawād, purchased with his own money, for himself, in a single transaction (and) a single
  3. contract, from Naẓr ibnat Abū l-Ḥusayn, the Jewish woman, a competent adult present in Minyat Ziftā Jawād, a portion of the ... ,
  4. which is four shares out of a total of twenty-four shares, undivided common property of the house that this Naẓr ibnat [Abū l-Ḥusayn],
  5. the aforementioned seller, states is hers, her property, located in Minyat Ghamr, situated on the northern side of ...
  6. from it. It is the house with the square door through which one enters into a courtyard containing three houses, one of them [ ]
  7. with wood, and the wood ... [...] rounded wood. The second house contains (is the house of the people of the building?) ... at the edge ...
  8. Its situation from the latrine and its courtyard is obstructed/has a root of ziziphus tree (?). This house is encompassed by four boundaries. The first boundary, which is the southern one, reaches
  9. Ṭalḥa and adjoins the house of al-Hājj al-.... The second boundary, which is the northern one, reaches the thoroughfare street, and in it ...
  10. The third boundary, which is the western one, reaches the house of the Christian Mukhāmir. The fourth boundary, which is the western one, [reaches]
  11. Maḥmūd al-... Abū l-[Ḥasan ibn Ḥasan] purchased ...

T-S Ar.53.19 1r

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1r

Note on the recto

  1. اشهداني بذالك 
  2. وكتب بو... اليهودي

Note on the recto

  1. ...
  2. اشهداني بذالك
  3. وكتب عبد الـ... وعبد الـ...
  4. .... صح
  5. الذي ...

Note on the recto

  1. هذا ما اشترى ...
  2. ...
  3. ...
  4. ...
  5. ...
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