Legal document: Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.23

Legal document Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.23

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Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.23
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Judaeo-Arabic

Description

Legal record (#59). Deathbed will. Dated: Tuesday, 26 Tammuz 1467 Seleucid. Testator: Abū l-Wafā Tamīm al-Kātib Ibn al-ʿAnbariyya. He wills to his younger sister, the widow of Abū ʿAlī al-Tājir ("the merchant in Dār al-Ṣarf") Ibn al-Ṭaziyya, the 1/2 house in which he lives. Address of the house: Fustat, Qaṣr al-Shamʿ, between the two synagogues, across from "the women's bath house, Ḥammām al-Dīk." He also wills her 1/2 of the adjacent ruins. He releases her from all claims. Witnesses: Mevorakh {b. Natan}; Seʿadya {b. Avraham?}. (Information in part from Goitein's notes.)

Related Places

Mentioned
Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (neighborhood)

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Collection
National Library of Russia, Firkovitch (Firk.); Antonin
Historical shelfmarks
Firk. II NS 1700.23b
Input date
In PGP since 2017
National Library of Russia, Firkovitch (Firk.); Antonin, Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.23. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/9408/ (accessed March 10, 2026).