Legal document: BL OR 5551.1

Legal document BL OR 5551.1

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BL OR 5551.1
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Aramaic
Judaeo-Arabic

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Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: Shevaṭ 1462 Seleucid, which is 1151 CE, under the authority of Shemuel ha-Nagid. A woman named ʿAmāʾim bt. Abū l-Faraj Menahem ha-Levi al-Shammāʿ b. Shemarya ha-Levi, who is the widow of the clothier (bazzāz) Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Munajjā, acknowledges that she has received in full the 40 dinars of her delayed marriage gift (muʾakhkhar) from the ʿAsqalānī perfumer Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Tiqva, "Beḥīr ha-yeshīva". Witnesses: Berakhot b. Yefet and Natan b. Shemarya ha-Kohen. The qiyyum (validation) is written in a different hand and is signed by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham, Efrayim b. Meshullam, and Mevorakh b. Natan.

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British Library
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BM Or 5551, fol. 1; BM Or 5551, f. 1
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In PGP since 2017
British Library, BL OR 5551.1. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/19203/, accessed December 21, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/19203/