Legal document: ENA NS 17.31

Legal document ENA NS 17.31

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ENA NS 17.31
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Court notebook containing several documents. Dated in the first document as 21 Av 1394 Seleucid, which is 1083 CE. The document entries include: (i) Marriage contract (ketubba), segment discussing the groom's promises to the bride regarding her exemption from oaths. (ii) Record of an adoption in which a man "sells" his newborn daughter, 16 days old, whose mother had just died after childbirth, to a prominent lady for five dinars and promises that he will not interfere with the girl's upbringing. (iii) Legal document dealing with a business partnership between Yefet b. Wadʿa and Abū Zikrī, and also with a man who was married and divorced before consummation in Tyre and remarried in al-Mahalla.

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al-Maḥalla, Tyre

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA NS 17, fol. 31; ENA NS 17, f. 31
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In PGP since 2017
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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA NS 17.31. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/11209/ (accessed October 8, 2025).