Legal document: T-S 12.558

Description

Court notebook. This page contains a record of divorce and a trousseau list from Cairo in the 1180s. Each of the two columns was written by a different scribe and is a separate record. I (recto, right column and bottom of verso): A woman gives her daughter 1/2 a house on the occasion of her marriage. She promises to register it with an Islamic notary and stipulates that she should receive the rent for the first year. Signed by Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Mumḥe and Yosef b. Hillel. The note at the bottom of verso probably summarizes this record: the bride receives half a house in Fustat in partnership with her infant brother Bū Manṣūr. Her mother is Sitt al-Fakhr. The word al-Raqqāṣ appears, either part of the house's name or the mother's name. II (recto, left column and most of verso): see separate record (Information from Goitein's index card and from Amir Ashur's dissertation)