Legal document: NLI 577.4/41
Legal document NLI 577.4/41Tags
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Verso: Drafts of legal notes from a court. Some of the text may have been erased. The entries do not appear to be related to each other. #1: Record of the payment of an early marriage gift (muqaddam) of 15 dinars in an engagement (shiddukhin). Dated: Sunday, 4 Nisan 1552 Seleucid, which is 1241 CE. Fiancé: Surūr b. Yiṣḥaq al-Iskandarānī. Fiancée: Karam bt. Yefet. #2: Abū Manṣūr b. Faḍāʾil declares that he owes Ṣadiq b. Moshe [the entry ends here]. #3 (at 180 degrees): Something concerning Rashīda bt. Abū l-ʿIzz ha-Levi ("al-Rayyis al-Ajall") and monthly payments of 20 wariq dirhams. There follows what may be another entry, mainly in Arabic script. (Information in part from Ashur's edition of #1.)
Edition: Ashur, Amir
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Amir Ashur, "Engagement and Betrothal Documents from the Cairo Geniza" (in Hebrew) (PhD diss., n.p., 2006).- סרור כרם בת
- בן יצחק יִפִתִ
- למא כאן יום אלאחד אלראבע אלחודש ניסן דשנת אלפא וחמש מאה
- וחמשין ותרתין שנין למניאן שטרות ח̇צרא סרור בן
- אלאסכנדראני ואלדי וכלתה בנת אכיה פי קבץֹ מא אנפצל
- אלכמסה עשר דינאר אלמוקדם פי פצל אלשידוכין