وثيقة شرعيّة: T-S K15.65

الوصف

Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dating: ca. 1150 CE. These pages are a register of marriage contracts. On recto, left side, lines 1–6, a freedman stipulates that his wife should live with him in the house of his former master, Ibn Jamāhir. Goitein assumes that this is the same Abū Saʿīd b. Jamāhir known from other documents (Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders, 335–36). Perry suggests that the freedman’s bride could have been one of the two orphan girls who lived in Ibn Jamāhir’s household. The freedman’s name is mostly obliterated, but could possibly read [Ṣ]ā[fī], a possibility Perry proposes in a footnote very tentatively since it "would suggest the possibility of a truth stranger than fiction given the conflict between the ghulām of the same name and Ibn Jamāhir in ʿAydhāb" in T-S 12.582 (PGPID 1684). Information from Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, 274n35. The dowry evaluation (taqwīm) is listed as 5+20, and woman's dowry 60. On the right side of the page, there is a dowry evaluation (taqwīm) for Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar and Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Hillel ha-Levi (10+30, and woman's dowry 97.5, though it's listed as 100). (Information in part from Goitein's index card and Med. Soc. III, appendix, p. 368)