ثيقة شرعيّة: BL OR 5561B.17

الوصف

Recto: Legal document(s). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Sivan 5547 AM, which is 1787 CE. ʿIsqa agreement in the "negotiation/brokerage business" = עסק המשא ומתן (ll. 17-18). The investors are members of the beit din before whom the document was recorded (שקיבל מיד מעלת הב׳׳ד י׳׳ב שבפה מצרים). Beyond this opening clause, the involvement of multiple members of the beit din in the investment is confirmed in line 22 : בעלי העיסקא הנז׳ הב׳׳ד י׳׳ב. The active partner is Yosef b. ʿOvadya ha-Levi known as Khayyāṭ, who receives 50 Abū Ṭāqa (=baṭāqa) reals, 1 real pegged to 90 medins. The period of the partnership is 14 Sivan through the end of Elul. The scribe Yeḥezqel Ḥefeṣ signs both as witness and on behalf of Yosef (the consenting party). There is an addendum in the same scribal hand, but likely unrelated. It refers to brothers who had to pay a woman 1 real a week, but this obligation was nullified by the sale of the 'vessels,' and now the document called a תמוסוך (temessük) is null and void; the woman says she doesn't know where it is, so it can't be torn up, so it is annulled in writing here instead. There are no witness signatures underneath this section.