Legal document: T-S 8.208

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Legal notes for the preparation of documents. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The first contains details for the wedding contract for a particularly poor couple. The groom is [...] al-Iṭrābulsī (from Tripoli). The wedding (dukhūl) is set for Sivan 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. The early marriage payment is 12.5 dirhams and the late marriage payment is 25 dirhams, altogether worth about 1 gold dinar. The second note may or may not refer to the same couple. The bride is […]hdiyya bt. Aharon ha-Kohen. She is the widow of Hillel ha-Levi b. Seʿadya, and has a child from this previous marriage (or rather, Hillel ha-Levi seems to be her son, and Seʿadya is her late husband). A "son of the spindlemaker" (Ibn al-Maghāzilī) is mentioned. (Information in part from CUDL and Weiss's edition. See also Goitein's index card.)