Legal document: T-S Ar.53.66
Legal document T-S Ar.53.66What's in the PGP
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Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Bayān b. Barakāt buys for his wife (name not preserved) one-half out of twenty-four shares of a house, from her brother Abū l-Faraj b. Yūsuf, in Khiṭṭat al-Rāya in the district known as Maḥbas Banāna. Most of the text preserved here is a description of the buyer. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Translator: Khan, Geoffrey (in English)
T-S Ar.53.66 1r
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In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be [to God alone.]
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This is what Abū al-Bayān ibn Barakāt the Jew [ … ] bought [ … with her money]
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and her authority, from her full brother (the son of) her parents, Abū al-Faraj ibn Yūsuf [ … ]
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wrinkles, with joined eyebrows, dark-brown eyes and a hooked nose [ … ]
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the portion [amounting to] one half share out of twenty-four [shares ]
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concerning which this seller stated that this portion of it belonged to him [ … ]
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from his ownership to the ownership of this [ … ] his sister, the buyer [ ]
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in al-Rāya, in the district known as Maḥbas Banāna, ....
T-S Ar.53.66 1v
