ثيقة شرعيّة: CUL Add.3416

الوصف

India Book I, 18b: The settlement of the lawsuit between David ibn Sighmar/Sughmār, the representative of Moshe b. Labrat, and Yosef Lebdi. A draft of the settlement is preserved in the recto (I, 18a, PGPID 5386). This final version was signed by five prominent members of the community: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel, Avraham b. Natan, Nethanel b. Yefet, Hillel b. Eli and Avraham b. Shemaya. Goitein and Friedman (India Traders, 217) summarize the settlement as follows: The parties agreed that "Lebdi, or his representative, will deliver to David Ibn Sughmār in Alexandria two flasks of musk worth no less than 13 dinars." Second, David b. Sughmār agreed to "release Lebdi from further payments for the price of the corals." Finally, Lebdi's representative (Jacob al-Qalaʿī) will go to al-Mahdiyya and "clarify, by legal action, whether Judge Moses had sequestered 10 Murābiṭī and 10 al-Mahdiyya dinars." He will then send a certified document with the outcome back to Egypt. If such a document does not arrive, then David may impose an oath on Lebdi or accept another settlement. Goitein and Friedman add that from this settlement, it is clear that 13 dinars was a reasonable sum for the corals that David b. Sughmār had given to Lebdi.