Legal document: Bodl. MS heb. b 12/24
Legal document Bodl. MS heb. b 12/24Tags
Description
Legal contract in Judaeo-Persian. Location: Hormshīr (Ahwāz). Dated: Shevat 1332 Seleucid (1020 CE). Signed by ʿAzarya b. Avraham b. ʿAmmār and Saʿdān b. Daniel b. Saʿdān. Ḥana bat Yisrael b. Yaʿaqov received a payment of 25 dinars (described as qawāmī sulṭānī) in exchange for six pairs of pearls which her husband, Daniel b. Reuven b. ʿAzarya, had illegally appropriated. The pearls belonged to Ḥana and her three brothers, the Tustarī brothers Sahl, Yosef and Saʿīd. Verso is blank. (Information from Olszowy-Schlanger, Karaite Marriage Documents, p. 41. See also Goitein notes and index card linked below.) The letter is labeled "L14" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification of Early Judeo-Persian texts. OH
Translation:
Bodl. MS heb. b 12/24 24 recto
![24 recto 24 recto](https://puliiif.princeton.edu/iiif/2/MS_HEB_b_12_24a/full/500,/0/default.jpg)
Transcription
Translation
Bodl. MS heb. b 12/24 24 verso
![24 verso 24 verso](https://puliiif.princeton.edu/iiif/2/MS_HEB_b_12_24b/full/500,/0/default.jpg)