ثيقة شرعيّة: JRL SERIES B 4434

الوصف

This very fragmentary legal document mentions a community leader with the Hebrew honorific 'Sar ha-Sarim' ('Prince of Princes'); on the application of this title, first in the 11th century, and most prominently to the Egyptian Jewish leader Mevorakh b. Saadya, and its later more common use, see Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, esp. pp. 220-221 and note 32): someone with the title 'Behir ha-Yeshiva,' possibly the merchant Yehuda ben Moshe ibn Sighmar (see Cohen, ibid., pp. 116-117): and finally, a certain Rabbi Efrayim. The settlement involves a payment to the poor. The verso is blank.