מסמך משפטי: Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.14

מסמך משפטי Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.14

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Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.14
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שפה עיקרית
Judaeo-Arabic

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Legal document. Dated: 1156. Partnership agreement. Abū al-Makārim b. Bishr and Abū al-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd partner in tax collection in three towns in the Fayyūm, with a total obligation of 5.5 dinars per month for eight months. The tax revenues from Būsh are allocated to Abū al-Makārim and those from Maydūm are allocated to Abū al-Ḥasan, while revenues from Wanā are allocated to each of the partners for two-month alternating periods. Profits from the tax collection are to be evenly split between the two parties. The parties are have exclusive rights to sell (what?) in Wanā while managing the concession there. (Information in part from Lieberman, and from Heinz Halm, TAVO for the location and names of the villages). Rustow's translation departs from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 91-92, especially on ḍamān terminology and structure, and she also renders ויקמט (line 16) as to pack or to bale, from q-m-ṭ "to bind, tie up," plausible if the two partners are dealers in flax, madder, or grain. But it could also bear a more general sense of "collect." NB: Goitein refers to this document as folio 13; Lieberman refers to it as Firkovitch II 1700 13 a III. See also PGPID 2718.

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al-Fayyūm, Būsh, Maydūm

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National Library of Russia, Firkovitch (Firk.); Antonin
Historical shelfmarks
Firk. II NS 1700.13; Firk. II NS 1700.14
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Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.14 recto

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recto
S. D. Goitein's unpublished edition (1950–85), with minor emendations by Alan Elbaum, 2019.
  1. יכתב עקד שרכה בין אלשיך בו אלמכארם בן
  2. בשר ואבו אלחסן בן סעיד פי אלבלאד אלדי
  3. מכארם צאמנהא מן אלצמאן מדה ח שהור
  4. אולהא תמוז פי ג בלאד בוש וונא
  5. ומידום עלי שרט אן יכון מבלג אלצמאן
  6. והו ה דנא ונצף פי כל שהר עלי כל מנהמא
  7. דינארין ונצף ורבע ואלשרט בינהמא
  8. אן תכון מידום ללש בו אלחסן ובוש למכארם
  9. וונא בינהמא יסתעמלהא כל מנהמא ד
  10. שהור שהרין בעד שהרין ואלשרט בינהמא
  11. אן אי שי תאתא עליה מא מן כסארה וגעל
  12. מן אלצמאן וגירה מא כאן בינהמא נצפין באלסויה
  13. וכדלך כל פאידה תתגה //פי אלצמאן// פהי בינהמא נצפין באלסויה
  14. ואלשרט עלי כל מנהמא אן כל וקת אן תכון ונא
  15. מע אחדהמא לא ישארך פיהא אחד בל לה
  16. אן יביע פיהא ויקמט ויפעל מא אכתאר
Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture: Jewish Economic and Social Life Seen Through the Legal Documents of the Cairo Geniza" (PhD diss., Princeton University, 2007).

Recto

  1. A partnership (shirka) agreement was written between the Elder (A)bū al-Makārim b.
  2. Bishr and Abū al-Ḥasan b. Sa‘īd concerning the settlements in which
  3. Makārim collected taxes, and the collection was for a period of 8 months,
  4. the first of which was Tammuz, in three towns: Būsh, Wanā
  5. and Mīdūm, with the condition that the am[ount] (to be paid for the right) to collect taxes
  6. to be five and a half dina(rs) each month, each of them being obligated for two
  7. and a half and a quarter dinars. The stipulation between the two of them
  8. is that the E(lder) (A)bu al-Ḥasan will have Mīdūm, and Makārim will have Būsh
  9. and Wanā will be (divided) between the two of them; each of them will make use of it (Wanā) for 4
  10. months, two months after two months, and the stipulation between the two of them
  12. was for two equal halves,
  13. likewise with the profit: it will go //in the tax collection// in equal parts to the two of them.
  14. The stipulation is upon each of them that at all times when Wanā is
  15. with one of them, that one will not partner in it, rather, he may
  16. sell therein and to resell and to do what he chooses.

14a recto

  1. A partnership agreement has been written between the elder Bū l-Makārim ibn
  2. Bishr and Abū l-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd regarding the localities for which 
  3. Makārim is the ḍāmin for a concession (ḍamān) of a period of 8 months,
  4. the first of which is Tammuz, in three localities, Būsh, Wanā, 
  5. and Maydūm, on condition that the amount of the concession,
  6. 5 dīnā(rs) and one-half per month, be (split), each of them (paying)
  7. two dīnārs and one-half and one-quarter. The stipulation between the two of them 
  8. is that Maydūm shall be for the elder Bū l-Ḥasan and Būsh for Makārim,
  9. while Wanā is to be (shared) between the two of them, with each of them exploiting it for 4
  10. months, two months at a time (alternating two months each). The stipulation between the two of them
  11. is that whatever befalls (the venture), whether loss or fee (juʿl — expenses?)
  12. on the concession or anything else, it will be shared between the two of them in equal halves.
  13. Likewise, any profit that accrues \\on the concession// will be shared beween the two of them in equal halves. 
  14. The stipulation upon each of them is that whenever Wanā is
  15. in the hands of one of them, no one shall share it with him, but rather, he may
  16. sell in it, pack/bale in it, or do what he chooses. 
National Library of Russia, Firkovitch (Firk.); Antonin, Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.14. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/2719/ (accessed August 7, 2026).