Legal document: CUL Or.1080 J53

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Legal document. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Shevaṭ 4872 AM = January 1112 CE. Large and well written fragment of a large document in which Daniel b. Yiṣḥaq accepts 12 out of 20 dinars due to him from one Musallam b. Efrayim. The sum was paid by the latter's brother Abū l-Ḥusayn Yosef b. Efrayim, acting as agent (wakīl). Also mentions dealings in the villages Būra and Ibwān, near Damietta (called Kaftor); Abū l-Surūr and his father; government officials including the wālī and 'the protectors of the districts' (ḥumāt al-nawāḥī); Ibrāhīm and Abū l-Faraj; Avraham b. Ḥalfon; Ṭayyib b. ʿAlī; Abū Saʿd b. Yaḥyā; Abū l-Faraj b. Efrayim. There are eight signatures, all written in rudimentary handwriting: Elʿazar b. Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen; Avraham b. Yefet; Mevorakh b. ʿAmram; Yaʿaqov b. Natan; Saʿady{a} b. Natan; Avraham b. Yaʿaqov(?); Yefet b. Ḥalfon; Yehuda b. Faraḥ. Merits further examination. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)