Legal document: Yevr.-Arab. II 1555

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Karaite engagement agreement between Yahūda b. Yeshūʿa Levi aka Hīti and ʿAzīza bt. Yahuda Levi. Dated Friday 13 Tevet 5515 AM (1755 CE). Location: the residence of David b. Yeshuʿa Levi. The dowry is 30 gold maḥbūb, 20 of which are received by the groom that day and another ten will be paid on the holiday Shavuʿot. The payment will be provided by ʿAzīza's brother-in-law Shemuʾel b. Raḥamīm Feyruz aka אלשויך, who is serving as her legal representative because her father is deceased. ʿAzīza receives permission for a conditional divorce in the event that her future husband travels for more than a year without her approval. Only the scribe Eliyahu Rofe aka Ṣaʿīr signs but two other witnesses are mentioned in the closing lines: Moshe b. Yeshuʿa Ḥazan aka Miʿmār, Barūkh b. Shelomo Levi aka Qayyim. MCD.