The Business of Identity by Ackerman-Lieberman Phillip I.;

Author:Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip I.; [Ackerman-Lieberman, Phillip I.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2013-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Reference Matter

Appendix

Fifteen Legal Documents Concerning Partnership

List of Geniza Documents

Agency Agreements—Document 1: ENA NS 50.32

Agency Agreements—Document 2: TS NS J 11

Partnership Agreements—Document 3: Mosseri VII 17

Partnership Agreements—Document 4: Bodl Ms Heb e 98.63, Left Upper Corner

Partnership Agreements—Document 5: ENA NS 17.35

Partnership Agreements—Document 6: INA D 55.8

Partnership Agreements—Document 7: TS 8 J 32.3

Commenda Agreements—Document 8: Bodl Ms Heb b 11.2

Commenda Agreements—Document 9: Firkovitch II 1700 12 a II

Commenda Agreements—Document 10: TS K 25.153 Verso

Release Documents—Document 11: ENA NS 1.90

Release Documents—Documents 12a and 12b: TS 16.23 (12a) and TS 10 J 5.2 (12b)

Release Documents—Document 13: TS 24.20

Release Documents—Documents 14a, 14b, and 14c: TS 10 J 4.16 (14a), TS 16.158 (14b), and TS 10 J 4.17 (14c)

Release Documents—Document 15: ULC Or 1080 J 290

Although I introduced each section of Chapter 2 with an incipit exposing the reader to a section of a particular Geniza document, those brief sections were brought in order to highlight one or another element of commercial cooperation. In order to give the reader a broader exposure to the nature and variety of legal documents from the Geniza concerned with commercial cooperation, I have included here more complete transcriptions and translations of a few such documents. Accompanying each transcription and translation is a brief introduction outlining some of the economic and legal issues brought to light by that particular document; where possible, I have included a few details concerning the dramatis personae discussed in the document as well.

Of the fifteen documents I have included here, two are agency appointments (Docs. 1 and 2); five are ordinary partnerships (Docs. 3–7; Doc. 6 is a “work partnership,” for which the partners invest no capital); three are investment partnerships or commenda (Docs. 8–10); and five are release documents (Docs. 11–15).

The transcription conventions I employ here are those typical for Geniza studies:

( ) round brackets indicate my completing an abbreviation used by the writer

[ ] square brackets indicate a lacuna in the fragment itself, generally because of a tear in the paper

x underdots indicate letters that are partially legible, generally because of a lacuna or a smudge. In this appendix, the number of dots does not correspond to the estimated number of letters in the lacuna.

//x// slash marks indicate text written above the line

[[x]] double square brackets indicate text that has been stricken out in the document

Note that I employ these conventions for the transcriptions of the documents here and the translations here alone; throughout the rest of the book, I indicate my own insertions with square brackets [ ].

I have not reproduced diacritical marks in the documents that are written to disambiguate letters in the Judeo-Arabic, such as to indicate and not .

Agency Agreements—Document 1: ENA NS 50.32

Introduction

This document is an unsigned assignment of a power of attorney from Eleazar Manṣūr “Head of the Congregations” b. Menahem of Aleppo to Hillel b. Abraham dated November 1050 CE.1 In the document, the former waives all right to the claim that the latter subverted his agency (l. 16), suggesting that this is an unlimited power of attorney.

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