Legal document: T-S K25.140.2

Description

Bifolio from a court register, probably from the same pinqas as T-S K22.27 (the latter shelfmark contains five bifolios). Altogether, the six bifolios comprise as many as 38 documents, but the actual total is likely lower because some contiguous entries have yet to be identified in instances where they span multiple pages of the pinqas. Dating: the entries on T-S K25.140.2 are from Adar I and Adar II 5453, which is 1693 CE. Location: Cairo. The name Gabriel Conforte appears after many of the entries as the "second witness." MCD with edits/information from Alan Elbaum on documents 1-5. Right side of recto: (Document #1) Incomplete entry with the final lines of a partnership or an agreement involving three parties; (#2) Deathbed declaration of Yehuda DiRolo (דירולו) aka Danon involving a variety of debts and arrangements for his burial. (#3) Engagement of Reyna bt. Yiṣḥaq Portugez and Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿacov Meṣlīḥ. Left side of recto (Document #4): Psaq dīn involving a partnership dispute between Yiṣḥaq ʿImmanuʾel and Shemuʾel Salmūn(?). The opening lines detail the financial arrangements and recordkeeping procedures for the partners. The purpose of the entry becomes clear beginning in line 26 where a dispute between them is noted and later on the partner Shemuʾel claims that he has been "forced" (אנוס) in some way, breaking the volition terms of the partnership. The court then notes that it investigated the matter and found that no such violation of the partnership took place. The signatures of the three presiding dayyanīm were copied into the court register at the end of the psaq dīn entry: Yisrael Romano, David Ḥayyim Beit-Hal[..]s, and Moshe Viṭal. (#5) Copy of a kettuba that has been abbreviated in certain places to streamline the court register entry. Bride: Neḥama bt. Yiṣḥaq Navarro. Groom: Avraham b. Moshe Magoro/Majoro. Part of the ketubba and full dowry list continues on the right side of the verso with a vast array of items/clothing adorned with gold, silver, gemstones, and furs. Left side of verso: (Document #6) Incomplete inheritance document following the death of someone only listed with the first name Yisraʾel, but possibly the same Yisraʾel ha-Kohen who is mentioned in entry 7. Entry six details complex inheritance procedures between Yisraʾel's three children, Riqa (possibly his widow), Natan (a son of the deceased?), and Yosef (Natan's father-in-law). (#7) An investment partnership between Mordekhay and Aharon, sons of the deceased Yisraʾel ha-Kohen, with the other partners: Natan Ben-Efrayim, Yaʿaqov ha-Levi, and Moshe ha-Kohen. MCD.