Cairo Genizah : Legal document

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'> Leaf with three different legal texts on it. Recto contains a draft, with many additions and deletions, relating to the case of a man who is undertaking to support his father with food, drink and half the money towards his poll-tax (ואזן ענה נצף גאליתה). At the top of verso – in the same hand – is a declaration from the Fusṭāṭ Bet Din, dated Monday the first of Av 1543 Sel. (= July 1232 CE), under the authority of the Nagid, Abraham Maimonides. The declaration is made by Abū l-Bahā al-Š[ ]b ibn Abī l-Baqā known as the indigo trader (his father, Abū l-Baqā b. Hillel, features in a court record of 1192 CE, T-S AS 150.24.). Underneath, and upside-down in relation to this text, is another draft document, which seems to be related to the case on recto, as it's similarly a declaration of support in food, drink, and half of the value of the poll-tax (referred to as both גאליתה and גזיתה). The man involved is called Abū Saʿīd al-Levi, and he will support Samuel ha-Levi. The sum of two Egyptian dinars is specified.</p>