מסמך משפטי: T-S Ar.42.174

מסמך משפטי T-S Ar.42.174

תגים

תיאור

Bill of sale of a slave. In Arabic script. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Ramaḍān 483 AH, which is October/November 1090 CE. Seller: Ḥanūn b. ʿAllūn, the Christian clerk (kātib) in the Dār al-Dībāj (‘residence of the viziers’). Buyer: ʿArūs b. Yosef, a wealthy cloth merchant, many of whose accounts and letters are preserved in the Geniza. The sale is for a Christian woman named Qiwām, who has smallpox scars on her back (though Khan read this as "she has a son," ابن جاري rather than اثر جدري ). Price: 21 dinars. There is a Judaeo-Arabic filing note on verso. (Information from CUDL, Khan, Aodeh, and Craig Perry.)

T-S Ar.42.174 1r

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תיעתוק

תרגום

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

Recto 

  1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  

  2. Ḥanūn ibn ʿAlūn, the Christian clerk in the Dār al-Dībāj, states that: I have sold  to the elder ʿArūs ibn Yūsuf, the Jew  

  3. from Fusṭāṭ, a Christian slave girl and her son Qiwām and I have guaranteed to him that whenever any claim is made against him on account of the price, and  nothing else,  

  4. it will be incumbent on me to free him from this or to pay it for him from my money, she being a carob coloured slave girl with a dependent son, who is a slave boy;  

  5. and (also states) that he has no complaint about her to me on account of a defect or anything else except his dispute with regard to the price. I have received 

  6. from him the price, this being twenty-one dīnārs, except for the commission included in this sum. He has granted me a quittance from that and from any oath  upon it or upon any part of it,  

  7. from any other person, whether a relative or a stranger. He wrote with his own hand in the first ten days of the month of Ramaḍān in the year  

  8. four-hundred and eighty-three. I called God, exalted is he, to be my witness concerning this. Judgement always belongs to God.  

 

T-S Ar.42.174 1v

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Verso 

  1. The note for (the boy) Qiwām of the maid-servant from Ibn Zurʿa.  

 

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