Legal document: JRL Gaster heb. ms 1771/8

Legal document JRL Gaster heb. ms 1771/8

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JRL Gaster heb. ms 1771/8
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

Description

Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Large and fairly well-preserved, but missing the beginning. Possibly a conditional divorce if the event that the husband does not return to Egypt/Fustat within 2 years from the date of this document. The husband is named ʿAmram ha-Levi and the wife is named Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Moshe. Several different sums of money are named, including 56 1/6 dinars plus a qirat. Signed: Yosef b. Neḥemya b. Binyamin; Yeshʿya b. Elʿazar(?); Sulaymān Ibn Yūsuf; Meshullam b. Yefet.

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Collection
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Input date
In PGP since 2021
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, JRL Gaster heb. ms 1771/8. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/32337/ (accessed June 7, 2026).