Legal document: BL OR 6356.1–16

Description

Legal record (#23) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 17 Adar 5443 AM, which is 1683 CE. (Document #23) Partnership dissolution following the deaths of multiple members. The partnership's original membership consisted of the brothers Moshe, Yehuda, David, and Yiṣḥaq Ben-Yaqar along with a certain Yaʿaqov Mūsāfīr (the latter may be the man who appears in patronymics of Document #17). The opening lines of the entry mention that the group's first partnership lasted from the years 5418–5422 AM (roughly 1657–1661). The entry provides clues that these were cloth merchants, in exclusionary clauses on the verso regarding clothing and here on the recto mentioning "ditas" merchandise that are left over from the group's business activities. This term can be found in the Kohen & Kohen-Gordon Ladino dictionary as "logo, insignia" but may have had a more generic meaning connected to cloth embroidery. For another appearance of the same term in a cloth merchant partnership from 1730 CE, see: AIU VII.D.49 (PGPID 30545). MCD.