ثيقة شرعيّة: T-S Misc.27.3.2 + ENA 4020.41

الوصف

Legal query to Avraham Maimonides about a trader who travelled to India (Bilād al-Hind), remained there for fifteen years, and reportedly drowned in Fanṣūr, a Sumatran port famous for exporting camphor (Heyd, Commerce du Levant, ii, 592). The question facing Avraham Maimonides was whether or not this woman was allowed to remarry based on the testimony of the Jewish trader who reported the merchant’s death upon his return from Aden. A portion of his autograph responsum is preserved underneath, in which he rules that she can remarry. On verso there are additional jottings, including the names Eliyya b. Zekharya and Shelomo b. Natan. (Information mainly from Goitein and Friedman, India Traders, via Nathaniel Moses.) Old IB number: 233. New IB number: VII, 33