Legal document: Bodl. MS heb. b 12/14

Legal document Bodl. MS heb. b 12/14

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Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: New Cairo. Dated: Monday, 28 Kislev 1370 Seleucid, which is 1058/59 CE. Groom: Yaʿir b. Mevasser. Bride: Mubāraka b. Khalaf. No trousseau. The marital status of the bride is not defined. She most probably was not a virgin, nor a widow or a divorcee. Therefore, the worst conditions. Marriage payments: 1 + 2 = 3 dinars. Witnesses: Ṣedaqa b. Aharon ha-Levi; Ṣedaqa b. Yosef; Faraḥ b. Yaʿqūb; Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; Shemuel b. Maṣliaḥ; ʿEli b. Yeshuʿa; Bishr b. [...]; and Aharon ha-Mumḥe b. Avraham. On verso there is a Hebrew panegyric to a Gaon. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

Bodl. MS heb. b 12/14 14 recto

14 recto

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Bodl. MS heb. b 12/14 14 verso

14 verso
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