Legal document: AIU VII.D.46

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Verso: Legal document recorded on the back of an eighteenth-century letter. Dated 1727 CE (Kislev 5488 AM) in line 13. The document deals with the property of A[vraham] ha-Levi Skandarī, a qāʿa residence in the Karaite neighborhood of Cairo, that he is leaving to his daughters before traveling to Venice. The two sisters are Gentīl wife of S. Rosso/Russo and Sabaqīya wife of Y[ahuda?] Fasa/Pasa (the latter is the recipient of the letter on the verso). For another instance of the first name "Gentīl", see AIU VII.D.13 (PGPID 30511). The brothers of Gentīl and Sabaqīya, Eliyahu and Yaʿaqov, are also involved in the transaction beginning in ll. 8-10. Later on, the document lays out the rental terms for Avraham to take up residence again at the property, should he return to Cairo. The document was witnessed by R. Ḥayyīm Ṭawīl (whose status as a rabbi is indicated by הח׳=ha-Ḥakham). MCD.