Legal document: T-S 24.75

Description

Prenuptial agreement between Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Levi and Turfa bt. Elʿazar. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1428 Seleucid, but signed mid-Kislev (November 1116 CE). Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, who also wrote the document. The agreement accompanied a ketubba written in the hand of Halfon b. Manasseh from the year 1117. The demand not to take objects from the trousseau outside Fustat came from the family of the bride, and the bride’s representative presented it to the court. The family worried that the husband would lose them on the road, but they may equally have been worried that he would invest them badly or give them to someone else. There is an added condition that even if the brides allows the husband to transport the objects, he shouldn't do it. (Information from Ashur, "Engagement and Betrothal")