Legal document: Bodl. MS heb. a 3/40

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Verso: Legal document, on the back of the ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Last third of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is 1131/32 CE. In which ʿAmāʾim receives control over her dowry (nidūnya) (except for three precious items (aʿlāq), namely, the lamp and cushion and pail) and frees her husband of all obligations except the me'uḥar. He promises not to beat her and to treat her well, but no fine is fixed for contravention. There is also someone named Faḍā'il b. Abū Saʿīd b. Yakhin ha-Ḥazzan somehow involved (representing her? "al-muʿarrif lanā bihā"). Witnesses: Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; Meshullam b. Menashshe; Natan b. Shemuel. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card)