Legal document: Bodl. MS heb. d 68/103

Description

A representative appointment deed. Deed in the hand of Ḥalfon ben Menashshe ha-Levi (there are documents in his hand from 1100-1138) in which the bride appoints her father as her representative for the arrangement of marriage. In other appointment deeds, such as T-S 13J25.20 + T-S AS 153.12, the wife appointed her father or another agent to choose for her any groom he sees fit. However, in this deed the bride appointed her father to arrange the marriage with a specific groom. The deed is without signature and might be a draft. Edited in Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine, 1:218-19.