Legal document: AIU VII.E.236

Description

Late legal documents in Hebrew from Cairo, probably drafts of what resulted in a single legal deed. This seems to be the case because the names repeat across each entry, as does the reference to a "temessuk", and none of the documents are formally signed/dated. The names of those mentioned in entries on the recto and verso are Ḥayyīm Rīyūḥ, Shelomo Qabayero[?], and Avraham Abudarhem. During the early modern period the term "temessuk" was used widely in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic as a "debt acknowledgment" or "title deed." It is likely that these Jewish legal drafts mention a document that was issued outside the batei din system in Cairo, perhaps by a qadi court. The people mentioned in these drafts may be traceable in other geniza documents and these references could lead to a direct dating estimate. Based on the paleography this fragment is likely post-1600. MCD.