Legal document: CUL Add.3412

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One folio from a court ledger. Recto: Court record in the hand of Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Dated: End of Nisan, probably 1410 Seleucid, which is 1099 CE. Abū (l-)Surūr (Sason) b. Natan says that he previously sued Abū ʿImrān Moshe b. Moshe Ibn Majjān about various business disputes (maybe this is the lawsuit recorded in L-G Misc. 50), but now that he has found the relevant accounts, they can settle. He lists the commodities/values that he thinks he is still owed. Moshe b. Moshe says that they split up a long time ago and that he doesn't owe a penny, but if Abū l-Surūr takes an oath, he will pay. Verso: Court record in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 10 Sivan 1410 Seleucid, which is June 1099 CE. Sason b. Natan appears before the court and asks them to summon Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Sahlān al-Arjawānī. The court summons Abū ʿAlī, who acknowledges that his business partner Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Arjawānī had given him a vessel (fuqqāʿa) containing mercury (zaybaq) intended for Abū l-Surūr Sason b. Natan. Abū ʿAlī states that if Sason pays him the 12 dirhams which he paid for the mercury, he will give it to him. On the next page after this document, there is a fragment of a third court record, with the name Nissim b. Nah[ray?] at the bottom. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.) Both entries are signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el.