Lease of a Compound (Ascalon)

This is an excerpt from an extremely lengthy account of rents received for the lease of a compound from the charitable foundation in Ascalon to Solomon ben Ḥalfōn, also referred to here as Solomon ha-Zārīz. The compound was rented at the cost of a quarter dinar per year, generally paid months after the end of the year. This document was used to record payments over almost two decades; in passages not included here, ten payments are recorded at irregular intervals between 1131 and 1147. The precise contours of the rented space are, unfortunately, not preserved. Ellipses indicate lacunae in the manuscript.