Documents
The fifteen documents, recorded in Fes, Morocco, contain several deeds verifying ownership of immovable properties.
The dates of each document refer to the range of dates in which the deeds were drawn up.
The deeds are sometimes copies or transcriptions from other documents. The relation between the deeds and their source documents is shown in the chart (click Chart).
The titles are written on the reverse side of most of the documents as a memo referring to the immovable property.
The photos of the vellum documents are taken under ultraviolet projection.
Title: Deeds for a house in Ibn Ḥayyūn alley
Title (Arabic): Rusūm dār darb Ibn Ḥayyūn
Size: 92×61cm
Number of Deeds: 10
Date: 957-986/1550-1578
Title: An orchard in Sayṭūṭ
Title (Arabic): Jinān Sayṭūṭ
Size: 80×30cm
Number of Deeds: 23
Date: 945-1087/1539-1676
Title: Contract on a house in al-Sabʿlūyāt
Title (Arabic): ʿAqd al-dār al-SabʿLūyāt
Size: 72×30cm
Number of Deeds: 5
Date: 990-1047/1583-1637
Title: Deed concerning an orchard in al-Ḥabālāt; the orchard in Ḥabālāt of Ibn ʿAzuz
Title (Arabic): Rasm Jinān al-Ḥabālāt; Jinān al-Ḥabālāt Ibn ʿAzuz
Size: 51×27cm
Number of Deeds: 11
Date: 1032-1254/1623-1838
Title: Contract of an oil press factory
Title (Arabic): ʿAqd al-maʿṣar
Size: 74×59cm
Number of Deeds: 15
Date: 1080-1134/1670-1722
Title: Land in the Māliḥ wadi
Title (Arabic): Bilād wād al-Māliḥ
Size: 39×42cm
Number of Deeds: 5
Date: 1124-1238/1712-1823
Title: Deed for a half share of an annex in Ibn Ḥayyūn alley
Title (Arabic): Rasm niṣf al-miṣrīya bi-darb Ibn Ḥayyūn
Size: 72×37cm
Number of Deeds: 5
Date: 1094-1153/1683-1741
Title: The orchard of Banū Musāfir in al-Ḥabālāt
Title (Arabic): Jinān Banī Musāfir al-Ḥabālāt
Size: 69×51cm
Number of Deeds: 15
Date: 1133-1254/1721-1838
Title: In al-Sāḥil / al-Kurdī
Title (Arabic): bil-Sāḥil; al-Kurdī
Size: 86×31cm
Number of Deeds: 19
Date: 1009-1046/1600-1636
Title: al-Ṣaḥīfa/al-Ṣaḥīfa / Land ––– at Tāzrūt; the price is ninety? five mithqāl, also seventy five below the deeds about al-Ṣaḥīfa / Land which had belonged to Naqmūs and was purchased by Sīdī Muḥammad b. Tuhāmī / Land of al-Ṣāḥīfa and royal? decrees / Account? which includes purchase of a share from al-Ṣaḥīfa by Sīdī Muḥammad b. Tuhāmī al-Wazzānī / Deed ––– Naghmūs?
Title (Arabic): al-Ṣaḥīfa / al-Ṣaḥīfa / bilād ––– bi-Tāzrūt, al-thaman khams wa-tisʿīna? mithqālan wa-ayḍan khams wa-sabʿīna asfal al-rusūm ʿalā al-ṣaḥīfa / bilād kānat li-Naqmūs wa-ishtarā-hā Sīdī Muḥammad b. al-Tuhāmī / bilād al-ṣaḥīfa wa-ẓawāhir al- mulūk? / qiṣṣa? bi-hi shirāʾ sīdī Muḥam- mad b. al-Tuhāmī al-Wazzānī li-wājib min al-Ṣaḥīfa / rasm ––– Naghmūs?
Size: 93×74cm
Number of Deeds: 12
Date: 1085-1139/1674-1727
Title: No title
Size: 61×34cm
Number of Deeds: 4
Date: 1110-1138/1698-1725
Title: No title
Size: 36×29cm
Number of Deeds: 3
Date: 1110-1138/1698-1725
Title: Land in al-Shubbarīya / Muḥammad Ibn Shaqrūn al-Lamṭī purchased [it] in 1006/1597 / concerning the Land of al-Ṣaḥīfa
Title (Arabic): bilād al-Shubbarīya / Muḥammad Ibn Shaqrūn al-Lamṭī mushtarā 1006 / la-hu taʿalluq bi-bilād al-Ṣaḥīfa
Size: 45×29cm
Number of Deeds: 8
Date: 981-1006/1573-1598
Title: Land for Banū Wakīl / concerning a piece of land in al-Ṣaḥīfa / deeds for al-Ṣaḥīfa / al-Ṣaḥīfa / Ṣaḥīfa
Title (Arabic): Bilād Banī Wakīl / la-hu taʿalluq bi-bilād al-Ṣaḥīfa / rusūm al-Ṣaḥīfa / al-Ṣaḥīfa / Ṣaḥīfa
Size: 38×22cm
Number of Deeds: 1
Date: 1112-1112/1700-1700