מסמך משפטי: NLI Ar. 724

תיאור

Deed of sale in Arabic script. Concerns a ruined house in Fustāt (Miṣr) in the neighborhood of Mamṣūṣa. The date, according to Richards, is 605 AH (1209 CE). The seller is the Coptic patriarch (al-batrik 'ala al-naṣāra al-ya'āquba), the buyer is one Nūr al-Dīn 'Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa. The plot is surrounded by empty plots on all sides, besides the west in which it borders the property of Ibn Mushanqiṣ the Jew (a dukkān of "sons of Mushanqiṣ" [בני אלמשנקץ] is mentioned in PGPID 4617, recto, line 18; also אולאד אלמשנקץ are mentioned in PGPID 4520). On the right margin a further conveyance, undated, in which the buyer from the main deed sells the ruined property to Ibrāhīm b. Ṣayyār "the Qaraite". A note on verso in later Judeo-Arabic script described the document as "חגה כראבה פי מצר אל עתיקה חרה (?) אלמצאצה" - a deed concerning a ruin in Old Cairo (miṣr al-'atīqa), al-Maṣāṣa neighborhood. The document was in the possesion of the Qaraite community of Cairo in the Dār Simḥa synagogue in Ḥārat Zuwayla and was documented there by D. S. Richards in 1969, who later published the description of all the documents he found there in his 1972 article (as document no. II). Today the document is at the National Library of Israel.