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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Editor: Pfeiffer, Athina
Translator: Rustow, Marina (in English)
T-S Ar.53.19 1v
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Athina Pfeiffer's digital edition (2025).
Verso, top left
- اشهدني بذلك
- وكتب ...
Verso
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- اشترى بو الحسن بن حسن اليهودي العطار الساكن بمنية زفتى جواد بماله لنفسه صفقة واحدة عقد
- واحد من نظر ابنة ابو الحسين اليهودية المراة الكامل البارز الحاضرة بمنية زفتى جواد جزو(؟) الـ....
- وهو اربعة اسهم من جملة اربعة وعشرين سهما شائعا غير مقسوم من الدار التي ذكرت هدا نظر [ا]بنة [ابو الحسين
- الباىعة المذكورة انها لها وملكها القاىمة لها بمنية غمر القاىمة اليها [بـ]ـالجانب البحري مـ.
- منها وهي الدار ذات الباب المربع ويدخل منه الى ساحة فيها ثلثة بيوت احدهم [ ]
- بالخشب والـ[خـ]ـشب ... [ ] خشب مدورات والثاني بيت ولد البنا(؟) بالطرف اللـ..
- حاله من المرحاض وساحتها لها مسدد/اصل سدر(؟) ويشتمل على هذه الدار حدود اربع فاول حد لها وهو القبلي ينتهي [الـ]ـى
- طلحة ويلي دار الحاج الا.ـو.ط.ـي والحد الثاني وهو البحري ينتهي الى الشارع المسلوك وفيه سـ..[
- الحد الثالث وهو الغربي ينتهي الى دار المخامر النصراني والحد الرابع وهو الغربي [ينتهي الى
- محمود الد..... اشترى ابو الـ[حسن بن حسن]
Marina Rustow's digital translation.
Verso, top left
- I was called upon to witness
- and ... wrote
Verso
- In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
- 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
- contract, from Naẓr ibnat Abū l-Ḥusayn, the Jewish woman, a competent adult present in Minyat Ziftā Jawād, a portion of the ... ,
- 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],
- the aforementioned seller, states is hers, her property, located in Minyat Ghamr, situated on the northern side of ...
- from it. It is the house with the square door through which one enters into a courtyard containing three houses, one of them [ ]
- with wood, and the wood ... [...] rounded wood. The second house contains (is the house of the people of the building?) ... at the edge ...
- 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
- Ṭalḥa and adjoins the house of al-Hājj al-.... The second boundary, which is the northern one, reaches the thoroughfare street, and in it ...
- The third boundary, which is the western one, reaches the house of the Christian Mukhāmir. The fourth boundary, which is the western one, [reaches]
- Maḥmūd al-... Abū l-[Ḥasan ibn Ḥasan] purchased ...
T-S Ar.53.19 1r
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Note on the recto
- اشهداني بذالك
- وكتب بو... اليهودي
Note on the recto
- ...
- اشهداني بذالك
- وكتب عبد الـ... وعبد الـ...
- .... صح
- الذي ...
Note on the recto
- هذا ما اشترى ...
- ...
- ...
- ...
- ...