Legal document: Bodl. MS heb. b 13/38

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Mutual release contract between a firstborn, his younger brother, a stepbrother and a stepmother, stressing three times the privilege of primogeniture. The parties declared that this was a free agreement, not imposed by a court, and had it also confirmed by a Muslim notary. In spite of the stress on primogeniture in this document the first-born, a son of a butcher, received only eleven dinars. Dated Tishri 1406/ October 1094 (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 279, 280, 489)