Legal document: Yevr. II A 1249

Description

Gift deed draft with an addendum on the verso. Location: Istanbul (קושטנדינה). Dated: Nisan 5401 AM, which is March/April 1641 CE. The citation of ha-Rashb''a, the Sephardi Talmudist, in l. 23 confirms that these documents were issued by a Rabbanite venue in Istanbul. David b. Avraham Levi and his brother Yosef b. Avraham Levi and their wives Irinia (אירינייא) bt. Kalev Cuchino/Cugino (קוג'ינו) and Senyerola (? שיניירולה) bt. Yiṣḥaq Mazal Ṭov attest that they are giving to their sister Rika bt. Avraham Levi all their rights to the shop inherited from their late father in Ankara (מדינת אנגורה) in the market of Mahmut Pasha in the section of the "jewelers" (לצד הקויימגיש). This rendering from Turkish "kuyumcu," may represent Ladino pluralization "kuyumcis". This document was folded in half, and one one of the halves on verso (at 90 degrees to the text on recto) there is a draft addendum in the same handwriting, concerning the marriage conditions of Rika and Moshe, with the dowry and payments adding up to 500 gurush. The addendum gives the impression that, at in point, the shop was intended to be listed as part of Rika's dowry (but neither document was ever completed). MCD.