Cairo Genizah : Letter; receipt; accounts

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Recto: acknowledgement (headed שהדותא) in which the writer confirms the dealings between Ibrahīm b. Joshua and Hilāl b. Šeʾerit. The writer states that Ibrahīm b. Joshua had informed him that he had some old Fusṭāṭ (Miṣrī) orders of payment at the value of 200 dirhams belonging to Hilāl b. Šeʾerit. Ibrahīm appears to have undertaken the repayment of the 200 dirhams to Hilāl in monthly instalments of ‘forty dirhams’, but when he broke the agreement in two consecutive months, it seems that the rest of the sum – ‘all of it’ – was demanded. The writer gives details of the arrangement; the first instalment (al-taqsīt) was due in the month of Iyyar, ‘and that aforementioned sum came out of the price of the house, which Hilāl had bought [from] Ibrahīm.’ Some ‘old Arabic letters (or books) which belong to the house’ are also mentioned. Verso: possibly a receipt in musalsal Arabic script. Accounts written in the left-hand margin, with Arabic words, under which are written Rūmī (Coptic) numerals. In the right-hand margin 'on the first day (i.e. Sunday)' is written.</p>