מסמך משפטי: T-S NS 320.50c

תיאור

Deed of sale for a female slave (jāriya waṣīfa). Location: New Cairo. Dated: 14 Ḥeshvan 1455 Seleucid, which is 24 October 1143 CE. Buyer: Pinḥas b. Elʿazar. Seller: the cantor Shabbetay b. Yosef ha-Mumḥe. The slave's name does not appear to be given. The price is 15 dinars. The buyer will not hold the seller accountable for any blemishes or diseases. After the document was completed, an extra clause was squeezed in, specifying which of the parties (the name is torn away) will be obligated to pay any "government duty" (ḥaqq al-sulṭān). Signed: Ḥalfon b. Seʿadya; Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi (this document is cited in India Book IV1, p. 347). On verso there are Hebrew piyyutim and marginal notes. (Information in part from Shivtiel/Niessen catalogue.)