Legal document: BL OR 12369.27

Legal document BL OR 12369.27

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Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5567 AM (התקסז), which is 1806 CE. Groom: Moshe Ẓvi. Bride: Simḥa bt. Barukh. Verso is a list of items and their values apparently relevant to the engagement (a dowry list?). A handful of the terms are in Ladino. The word "contante" (cash?) appears a few times. Mentioned in Ilana Tahan, "Judeo-Spanish Manuscripts in the British Library's Hebrew Collection," p. 152 (no. 37)