Legal document: BL OR 5536.1

Legal document BL OR 5536.1

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Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). Dated: 18 Shevaṭ 1326 Seleucid, which is 1015 CE. Location: Fustat. For Farjiyya bt. Sahlān. Her husband Yehoshuaʿ b. Moshe died, and so the ceremony was conducted to release her from having to marry his brother Yehuda. No signatures. Square book hand with carefully justified margins. See Med Soc III, IX, C, 1 n. 223. (Information from Goitein's index card.)