Legal document: T-S 8J17.9

Legal document T-S 8J17.9

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T-S 8J17.9
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Court notebook. Location: Fustat. Betrothal (erusin) contract. Fiancé: Yosef b. ʿEli Ibn Qashqūsh. Fiancée: [Sitt al-]Jamīʿ bt. Shelomo, a virgin. Dated: middle decade of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon. Marriage payments: 1 + 10 = 11. This means that Sitt al-Jamīʿ was extremely poor. Written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Also signed by Ḥiyya b. Meshullam. The postscript states that he divorced her and she received the geṭ (before the consummation of the wedding?). T-S AS 148.16 [PGPID 4156] is their bill of divorce. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Maṣlīaḥ b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (Gaʾon)

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Fustat

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Geniza
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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS Box 8 J 17, f. 9; TS 8 J 17, f. 9; TS 8 J 17, fol. 9; TS Box 8 J 17, fol. 9
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Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (Yale University Press, 2026), vol. 3: Encountering Christianity and Islam.

Translated by Dora Zsom.

Joseph ben Eli, who is known as Ibn Qashqūsh, betrothed Jamī‘ bat Solomon, virgin, for the sake of a complete betrothal. Her deputy received the silver wedding ring, and he affirmed that he would pay her one dinar in advance, and twenty-five dinars bride price. The sum that he would pay later is ten . . . , and they would enter [the wedding canopy] before the Passover festival of this year.

And we, the undersigned witnesses, performed the qinyan [binding agreement] ceremony with this Joseph ben Eli, [obligating him] to comply with everything that is written above, using an object that is appropriate for a complete and strict qinyan ceremony. And this was in the middle of the month Tevet, [in the year] [1]‌443 according to the Era of the Documents, in Fustāt-Misr, which lies on the banks of the Nile. [Under the] authority of our master, Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen, head of the academy of the “Pride of Jacob,” may his name persist forever!

Nathan ha-Kohen ben Solomon ha-Kohen

Hiyya ben Meshulam

Tevet, 1444

[Postscript:] He divorced her, and she received the get [bill of divorce] from him in front of those who witnessed the delivering [of the get].

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