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  1. 851Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.18

    In the hand of Meovrakh b. Natan (like the rest of the notebook). Engagement agreement between a Qaraite man (Abū Saʿīd) and a Rabbanite woman (Sitt al-Naṣr bt.

    1. אלשרוט אלמסתקרה עלי אלשיך אבו סעיד
    2. אלחתן לזוגתה סת אלנצר בת נתנאל הכהן
    3. אנה לא יבדל עליהא שי מן אלאעיאד ואל
    4. מוכאיל ולא ידכל דארה שי ממא יחרמוה
    5. טאיפה …

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  2. 852Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.19

    Hiba al-Kaḥḥāl must pay 1.5 dirhams a day as maintenance for his wife and son starting on Friday, 25 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Witnesses: Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq; Efrayim b. Meshullam.

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  3. 853Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.19

    The house is in Fustat, Suwayqat al-Wazīr, Darb al-Nabbādhīn (Winesellers' Street). Bū Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm acted as agent for this purchase. In case Sitt al-Ḥasab dies unmarried, this property will return (ʿā'id) to her mother, after Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān takes whatever value has appreciated (al-perot) from the time of purchase to her death.

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  4. 854Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.20

    Deathbed will of Abū ʿImrān al-Ṣā'igh b. Yūsuf. He leaves the little that he owns to his wife Tujjār (=Sitt al-Tujjār) bt. […] He releases her from all oaths. Witnesses: Mevorakh b. Natan; Natan b. ʿUlla(?); Yosef ha-Kohen b.

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  5. 855Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.21

    Dated: Monday, 13 Tammuz 1467 Seleucid. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Skandarānī appeared before the court bearing a power of attorney from a woman named Munā bt. […] The court inquired about the matter, and it seems that the qumāsh was given to her (i.e., to her agent) before the court by Bū Saʿd al-ʿAṭṭār b. Abū l-ʿAlā Ibn al-Zayyātī. The next record clarifies that Bū Saʿd was the trustee of the court with whom the father deposited the items of the qumāsh in the name of his daughter.

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  6. 856Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.21r–21v

    The same situation as in #51 is explained in more detail, and there is a list of the items of the mother's dowry that were handed over by the trustee Bū Saʿd to the daughter's agent Avraham. Witnesses: Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq; Efrayim b. Meshullam.

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  7. 857Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.22

    Belongs with #57 (settlement of the dispute). Abū l-Makārim b. Bū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Kirmānī appoints Bū Manṣūr as his agent against the wife of Bū l-Riḍā Ibn al-Qarṭājī (?

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  8. 858Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.22

    Stating that a bill of sale (ʿuhda) shall be written for the sale of the female slave Nadd. Seller: Abū l-Faraj b. Ghilāth. Buyer: Sibāʿ b. Rajā. Price: 17.5 dinars (including market and broker fees). This is the same woman whom Abū l-Faraj b. Ghilāth bought from Abū l-Faḍl Mevorakh b. Shelomo Ibn Qamḥa for 15.5 dinars (not including fees). […] -Arab. I 1700.15, verso, b). (Information from Goitein's notes.)

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  9. 859Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.22

    , owes 8 dinars to Abū l-Makārim b. Bū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Kirmānī. The repayment will be 1 dinar per month starting in Av 1467 Seleucid.

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  10. 860Legal query or responsumYevr.-Arab. I 1700.22

    Entry in court notebook (#58). Legal query. Regarding a partnership in which one party has contributed all the capital and in which the ṣāḥib al-māl …

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  11. 861List or tableYevr.-Arab. I 1700.22

    Entry in court notebook (#53). List of expenditures. The occasion is not clear; Goitein's notes suggest that it could have been a funeral.

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  12. 862Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. I 1700.22

    Entry in court notebook (#54). Prescription. Recipe for preparation of an ointment consisting of powdered litharge (martak masḥūq); calf suet (shaḥm kulā ʿijl); aged, fine …

    [[יוכד שחם אלכלי]]

    1. מרהם גבלי [מרהם כלי? מרהם נכלי?]
    2. מרתק מסחוק נאעם ושחם כלי //עגל//
    3. מסלי וזית טייב עתיק מן כל
    4. ואחד גזו באלקטאר מח/רו/ק
    5. וזן רבע אלמר…

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  13. 863Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.23

    He releases her from all claims. Witnesses: Mevorakh {b. Natan}; Seʿadya {b. Avraham?}. (Information in part from Goitein's notes.)

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  14. 864Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.23v–24r

    The repayment will be 0.5 dinar per month. Witnesses: Mevorakh b. Natan; Seʿadya b. Avraham; Shelomo ha-Levi b.

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  15. 865Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.24

    Dated: End of Av, 1467 Seleucid. Makārim al-Abzārī b. Avraham owes 112 dirhams of overdue rent for his dwelling to Efrayim ha-Dayyan. […] If he misses two weeks of payments, the installments (it seems this refers to the 70-dirham debt but not to the ongoing rent) will become a debt to the qodesh (al-ʿaniyim). Witnesses: Mevorakh b. Natan; Shelomob. Yehuda ha-Kohen (this is Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān b.

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  16. 866Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.25r–26r

    Groom: Bū l-Makārim al-Ṣā'igh Yosef b. Shemuel. Bride: Sitt al-Riyāsa bt. Shela ha-Levi ("the sister of Sitt al-Ḥasab" - Goitein).

    תקוים אלשיך אבו אלכארם

    1. תקוים אלש בו אלמכארם אלצאיג
    2. יוסף בן שמואל אלכלה סת אלריאסה הבתולה בת שלה
    3. הלוי נעאלמקדם כמסין מתנה
    4. אלמוכר מאיה דינאר מחקקה
    5. ושר…

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  17. 867Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.26v–27v

    Trousseau list (taqwīm). Groom: Yosef b. Netan'el ha-Kohen. Bride: Sitt al-Kafā'a bt. Bū l-Faḍā'il ʿOvadya b. Shemuel. "Another marriage agreement composed in Fustat thirty years later reads very differently. […] Here the pledges all extend the other way, strengthening the bride’s legal position rather than eroding it. The groom, Yosef b. Netan’el ha-Kohen, promises his future wife, Sitt al-Kafā’a bt.

    אלתקוים אלמבארך אלסעיד אלחתן: יוסף בר נתנאל הכהן

    סת אלכפאה הבתולה אבנה אלשיך בו אלפצאיל

    עובדיה בן שמואל אלמקדם נ אלמוכר ק

    אלשרוט אלמעלומא אלנאמנות במ…

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  18. 868Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.28

    Trousseau list (taqwīm). Groom: Peraḥya b. Yosef Yiju. Bride: Sitt al-Dār ('Mistress of the House'), the daughter of Peraḥya's paternal uncle, Avraham Yiju.

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    1. [. כו]אתים דהב         ו'
    2. [כ]אתמין פצה ומרגאן מקמע         ב' 
    3. [. מ]כאחל בלור     ג' 
    4. [...]ר יאקות אביץ ופצוץ >'       י''א> 
    5. [...]תין ד' ותלת…

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    1. {[X] gold [ri]ngs     6
    2. Two [r]ings, silver and budding coral     2
    3. [X] crystal kohl tubes     3
    4. [. . .] leuco-sapphire and semiprecious stone…

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  19. 869Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.29

    Dated: Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Faḍā'il b. Abū l-Faraj b. Maʿrūf owes 1 dinar and 26.5 dirhams to Sālim al-Ṣayrafī b. […] If he does not pay in time, he owes the same sum to the qodesh of Fustat. Witnesses: Yosef b. Yehuda; Nadiv b. Seʿadya. This is the only item in the notebook that is not in the hand of Mevorakh b.

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  20. 870Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.29

    "One of a series of documents from 1156 about an inheritance dispute between Abū l-Rabī‘ Sulaymān b. and his two half-sisters (see Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.3), notes that Abū l-Rabī‘ will pay the two girls two and a half dinars a month as maintenance, 'in line with what their father willed them at the time of his death'" (Krakowski, Coming of Age, p. 169).

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  21. 871Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1701

    The scribe has the unusual name Neḥam'el b. Mevorakh b. Yehuda b. Aharon. The document is a fascinating report on the Qaraite court of Cairo's investigation into the years-long rumors about the relationship between Abū Naṣr b. Qayūma and an unnamed woman who is alternately referred to as "the daughter of Abū l-Maʿālī b. Tāmār," "the wife of Abū Saʿd b. Ṣadaqa al-Labbān," and "the woman." […] The scribe records the date and his name, and several witnesses sign: Netan'el ha-Kohen b. ʿAmram; Yefet ha-Melammed b. Ḥalfon(?), Avraham b.

    1. חבשם יודע תעלומות
    2. סלמא כתרת אלשנאעאת ען אבו נצר בן קיומא
    3. מנד עדה סנין באבנה אבו אלמעאלי בן תאמאר אלתי הי
    4. זוגה אבו סעד בן צדקה אללבאן ואעתמד אלמגון מ…

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  22. 872Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1701

    Legal document in a gathering of the Karaites in Cairo, mentioning the instrument of the herem to elicit information concerning a rumor some women had …

    1. באגתמאע טאיפה אלקראיין באלקאהרה ואחרם חרם אכיד
    2. על כל מי שיודע
    3. אבו סעד בן אבו אלפרג אלטחאן
    4. אבו סעד ראה אלמזאח אלרצי ואל מגון אלקריח
    5. ואלאלפאט אלפאחשה …

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  23. 873State documentYevr.-Arab. I 1986

    A visit that the author made to the aforementioned adopted son of the Sharīf, Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusayn, at his estate (which is named, but there is a lacuna); there, he ran into Ḥusay[n] and Ḥasan b. Mahdī and […] b. Jābir the captain (khardar). […] ʿAlī b. Sulaymān included two colophons with his name (fols. 5r and 17r), but neither is dated or mentions a place of writing. […] Where and how did ʿAlī b. Sulaymān acquire the letter? Was he active in state circles in Egypt in the late eleventh century?

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  24. 874Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. I 2207

    The scribe is Barukh Rofe b. (or grandson of?) Elʿazar Ḥazzan known as Rofe.

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  25. 875Literary textYevr.-Arab. I 2357

    Masoretic notes. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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  26. 876Literary textYevr.-Arab. I 2398

    Masoretic notes. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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  27. 877List or tableYevr.-Arab. I 2974

    List of Qaraite Nasis.

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  28. 878Literary textYevr.-Arab. I 4027

    The story of Esther in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  29. 879LetterYevr.-Arab. I 4575

    The main documentary item under this shelfmark is a copy of a letter from Rav Hayya Gaon to Avraham b. ʿAṭā' the Nagid of Qayrawān. Needs examination.

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  30. 880Literary textYevr.-Arab. I 4832

    Literary. Introduction to a literary work in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew.

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  31. 881LetterYevr.-Arab. I 4907

    Letter from an unknown writer in Egypt to Moshe Kohen in an unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably 16th century at the earliest. Mentions …

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  32. 882Literary textYevr.-Arab. I 4911

    Literary. Eshkol ha-Kofer by Yehuda Hadasi. Dating: Possibly 15th or 16th c. Information from NLI.

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  33. 883Literary textYevr.-Arab. I 4912

    Literary. Eshkol ha-Kofer by Yehuda Hadasi. Dating: Possibly 15th or 16th c. Information from NLI.

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  34. 884Literary textYevr.-Arab. I 4913

    Literary. Eshkol ha-Kofer by Yehuda Hadasi. Dating: Possibly 15th or 16th c. Information from NLI.

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  35. 885Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 7

    Liturgical. List of sedarim for the books of Samuel, Ezekiel, and the Minor Prophets.

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  36. 886Literary textYevr.-Arab. II 8

    Liturgical. List of sedarim for the books of Samuel and Kings.

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  37. 887Legal documentENA 2741.2

    Letter from an unknown sender, in Jerusalem, to Samḥūn b. Yaḥyā al-Maghribī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Mentions Damascus, a scary situation, Nāblus, Shelomo Ibn Ḥabīb, and various business matters. Also mentions Shelomob.

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  38. 888LetterT-S 8J36.10

    Recto: Letter addressed to Shelomob. Yehuda, the Gaʾon of the Palestinian yeshiva. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE based on th years when Shelomob. Yehuda served as Gaʾon. This is a fragment containing 12 lines from the beginning of the letter.

    1. אגדי השלומות להצ[עיד] ומגדי הנעימות להתמיד
    2. חמדי נחמדים להחמיד ונכדי עם ניני להעמיד
    3. לאיש הראש ושר ואמיר ומחכים גם משכיל ומלמיד
    4. לכל חכם ושכל ותלמיד בח…

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  39. 889LetterT-S 12.399

    Letter fragment (upper part of recto, address on verso). From the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to Shelomob. Shela ha-Sar" On recto, the only part of the body of the letter that remains is the end of the right margin and the entirety of the upper margin, in which Yefet excuses himself for not having accompanied Shelomo somwhere.

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  40. 890LetterT-S 13J21.30

    Letter from Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū l-Ḥasan, in Alexandria, to Shelomob. Eliyyahu, in Fustat. […] Dating: Early 13th century. The letter informs Shelomo about the passing away of the local judge, R. Shemuel. Shelomo's father, Eliyyahu the judge, is asked to come and serve as judge in Alexandria.

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    1. ב'ר'
    2. אלי אלמגלס אלסאמי אלאגלי אלמולוי אלעאלמי אלריסי
    3. אלפאצלי אלמפצלי הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת
    4. כ' ג' ק' מ' ור' שלמה החכם והנבון ירום הודו ויגדל
    5. כב…

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  41. 891List or tableT-S AS 148.14a-b

    Important list of beneficiaries, containing names and sums of money. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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    1. . . . . . . [ . . . . . . . . . . עלי]ה באלע .
    2. לוציה . [ . . . ]ס[ . . ]אבו אלרטי אלסקי טו
    3. אבר[ה]ם אלכפ[ . . . . ]אלג רום טו
    4. מעאלי אלמבתל…

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  42. 892Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/1

    Copy of a power of attorney in the name of David b. ʿAmmār b. ʿAzrūn Madīnī. Location: the document itself was drawn up in Fustat, concerning an appointment made in al-Mahdiyya. […] David appoints Avraham b. Moshe, i.e., Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, as his agent to collect the money that belongs to the sons of ʿAmmār from the inheritance of Ḥesed b.

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    1. נחן אלשהוד אלמסמון אספל הד'א אלכתאב חצר אלינא ר' דויד
    2. בר עמאר נ'ע' בן עזרון נ'ע' וקאל לנא והו פי צחה' עקלה ובדנה
    3. וגואז אמרה אשהדו עלי ואקנו מנ…

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    1. ....אנחנו, העדים החתומים למטה בכתב זה, (אומרים כי) בא אלינו ר' דויד
    2. בר עמאר נ"ע בן עזרון נ"ע ואמר לנו, והוא בריא בשכלו ובגופו
    3. ובגמר דעתו: היו …

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  43. 893Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/2

    Two court depositions concerning a debt, allegedly paid, and "a load of Ḥalabī" (Aleppan textiles) drowned in the ship of Abū ʿAlī al-Shāmī. The parties are Sason b. Natan and Ḥesed b. Shela; one of them makes a statement mentioning "before I traveled to Tripoli." […] The first deposition is signed by Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq; Yehuda b. Menashshe, and Yosef b. Shemuel. The second deposition is signed by Avraham b. Yiṣhaq, Yehuda b. Menashshe, and Ṣedaqa b. Menaḥem.

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  44. 894Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/3

    Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Illuminated in various colors and decorated with flowers. […] Dated: Adar 1430 Seleucid = February/March 1119 CE. Groom: Natan b. Peraḥya. Bride: Malīḥa bt. Yefet. Mentions 25 gold dinars as part of the dowry.

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  45. 895Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/4

    A confirmation of the Beit Din that there were no obstacles to the marriage between Sālim al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣabbāgh and Sitt al-Kuttāb b. Yefet. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar I 1464 Seleucid = January/February 1153 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b.

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  46. 896Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/5

    Dated: 20 Tishrei 1469 Seleucid, which is 1157 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Denouncing a man named Yūsuf al-Rūmī (the Byzantine) who arrived in Damietta late in the afternoon one Friday, the eve of the first day of Sukkot, bearing a letter (of recommendation for charity) from the Nagid. On Sunday, the second day of Sukkot, he took the money raised on his behalf (more than a dinar) and a letter addressed to the perfumers' market in Sammanūd and a sewn basket (quffa makhtūṭa) and he embarked on the boat and traveled, violating the holiday. Witnesses: Yefet b. Shemuel; Shemuel b. Mevasser ha-Kohen

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  47. 897Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/6

    Verso is a separate document (draft) involving Abū ʿImrān Moshe b. Abū l-Baqāʾ Sheʾerit al-Tājir b. Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet al-Dalātī al-Naḥḥāl al-Kohen, who releases his paternal uncle Abū l-Bahāʾ Meʾir b.

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  48. 898Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/9

    ʿAbdallāh received a geṭ from her husband Nāṣir b. Hārūn. Verso: Record of an betrothal (qiddushin).

    1. בתאריך סאבע מרחשון
    2. שנת אתרמג לשטרות
    3. קדש מוסי מופקה ואתפקא
    4. עלי מוקדם כמס דנאניר
    5. ומאוחר עשר דנאניר
    6. וסנהא בידה פי אי מוצע
    7. אראד
    1. בתאריך סאבע מרחשון שנת…

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  49. 899Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/10

    Dated: 1[.]61 Seleucid, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE. Zayn b. A[...] gives a release to Abū l-Barakāt Hibat Allāh b. […] The story somehow involves Zayn's wife Sitt al-Kull bt. Abū ʿImrān b. Yūsuf, and Qaṣr al-Shamʿ aka Qaṣr al-Rūm, and [...] b.

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  50. 900Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 3/11

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