Legal document: T-S NS J459

Legal document T-S NS J459

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T-S NS J459
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Court record of a divorce settlement initiated by Ḥasana bt. Yiṣḥaq against her husband Perahya. (Information from Niessen and Shivtiel, p. 613.) EMS

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T-S NS J459 1v

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1v
S. D. Goitein's unpublished edition (1950–85).
  1. שהדותא דהות [
  2. לתחתא כן הוה [
  3. מר פרחיה הלו[
  4. חסנה בת ר יש[
  5. וחרצנא פי סד[
  6. חסנה דא מן פרחיה [
  7. אלפרקה מנה פקלנא [
  8. מנה פקאלת קד אברית [
  9. אפתדי מנה בגמי[
  10. וקלנא להא אן מ[
  11. וסקט גמיע [
  12. וגי[ר.]ל[
Mordechai Akiva Friedman, "The Ransom-Divorce: Divorce Proceedings Initiated by the Wife in Mediaeval Jewish Practice.," Israel Oriental Studies 6 (n.p., 1976), 288-307.
  1. Testimony which took place [...] 
  2. below. Thus happened [...] 
  3. (our) master Peraḥya Ha-Lev[i...] 
  4. Ḥasana daughter of (our) I(ord) Ysh[...] 
  5. and we... in/at ...[...]
  6. this Ḥasana from t[his] Peraḥya [...]
  7. separation from him. Then we said [to her...] 
  8. from him. Then she said, "I have already released [...] 
  9. 'ransom' from him with all [..."] 
  10. We said to her, "Now [...] 
  11.  and all [...] is dropped [...] 
  12. and oth[er]w[ise ...]

 

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