Legal document: T-S Ar.53.66

Legal document T-S Ar.53.66

Description

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)

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Transcription

Translation

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

  1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be [to God alone.]  

  2. This is what Abū al-Bayān ibn Barakāt the Jew [  … ] bought [  … with her money]  

  3. and her authority, from her full brother (the son of) her parents, Abū al-Faraj ibn  Yūsuf [ … ]  

  4. wrinkles, with joined eyebrows, dark-brown eyes and a hooked nose [ …  ]  

  5. the portion [amounting to] one half share out of twenty-four [shares        ]  

  6. concerning which this seller stated that this portion of it belonged to him [ … ]  

  7. from his ownership to the ownership of this [ … ] his sister, the buyer  [ ]  

  8.  in al-Rāya, in the district known as Maḥbas Banāna, ....  

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