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  1. 801Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Shemuʾel Kohen Shuqayr rents the "entire sesame oil production (al-sīrja) [building?][…] This lease is for a property held within the pious endowment of the Karaite community and the production building is referenced in the early pages of the same court register in a full list of waqf properties (record #18 -- PGPID 41042). Some of the final words in each line of this entry are illegible because subsequent pages in the court register appear to have been cut out intentionally and the remaining paper is covering the inner edge of f. 38v.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 38v

    1. ...] באחד נהאר אלכמיס מצ'נה חדש אב
    2. ...]. מצרים חצ'ר אד׳ הנ׳ הג׳ אהרן יצ׳׳ו ואשהד
    3. ...]גל שלמה יצ׳׳ו אבן אלמולי אלאגל מר׳…

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  2. 802Legal documentAIU VII.D.10

    Legal document of engagement (shiddukhīn, l. 6) for Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and Esther bt. […] The wedding date is set for next Hanukkah, thus the duration of the engagement was just over three months (25 Kislev 5589 AM = December 1 1828 CE).

    1. בסט׳׳ו בעושר ובנים והצלחה והרוחה
    2. שידך הבחור ונחמד החתן המפואר חמד
    3. בחורים יצחק הלוי יצ׳׳ו את הכלה הכלולה
    4. יעלת חן וכלילת יופי הבתולה הבוגרת
    5. מב׳׳ת אסתר…

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  3. 803Legal documentBodl. MS Arab. c 56.9

    Acknowledgment for the pawning of an enslaved woman by Bū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb (or Wuhayb), ḍāmin for dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm, for a period of six months to the qāḍī Fakhr al-Dawla Abū l-Qāsim Saʿīd ibn al-qāḍī Bū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿAmr.

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  4. 804Literary textENA 2700.10

    One side appears to be entirely Hebrew. The poem on the other side alternates between Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic from one hemistich to the next, inverting the order of the languages from verse to verse: ABBAABBAABBA, where A = Hebrew hemistich and B = Judaeo-Arabic hemistich. Every verse, whether ending in Judaeo-Arabic or in Hebrew, rhymes on חו.

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  5. 805Legal documentENA 3492.15

    Fragment of a legal document. The terms sāiʾba (endowment/waqf property more generally ) and mūwāqafa (safeguarding waqf/endowment properties) are suggestive that the document could be related to a matter pertaining to waqf.

    1. و حفظ سائبة ولا زالت

    2. وموافقة ولا مواقفة

    3. من الادعية الصالحة له والشا……

    4. الفاضل الاجل الاسعد

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  6. 806List or tableENA 3727.6

    The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. At least two entries mention iron, the more detailed instance is in the first entry on the left side of the recto: עפרית חדיד מיזבי, possibly an iron downspout (=ميزاب?)

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  7. 807Paraliterary textENA NS 5.12

    This fragment is written in rhymed Hebrew and contains some autobiographical information. ENA NS 5.13–24 are leaves of the work he composed, it seems a collection of kabbalistic sermons. Khiḍr's elaborate signature may be found on ENA NS 5.20.

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  8. 808Legal documentENA NS 29.26

    Concerning the ransoming of female Jewish captives enslaved by the Franks at ʿAkkā (Acre), also mentioning Haifa.

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    1. מא יקול מרנו ורבנו אדוננו נגידנו אברהם הרב המובהק
    2. הפטיש החזק הנגיד הגדול ירום הודו ויגדל כבודו
    3. פי אשכאץ כאן להם כדמה [ואל]נסאא ילודו בהם פסביו

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  9. 809Legal documentJRL A 220

    Deed of sale of an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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  10. 810Legal documentL-G Misc. 33

    Some of the same parties appear in ENA NS 33.17, which enables us to fill in the name Shelomo and which may relate to the same case.

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  11. 811Legal documentT-S 8J12.3

    Abū l-Riḍā the parnas — emancipate an enslaved woman, Wafāʾ. No signatures. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:436; 2:449) EMS/AA

    1. בתלתא בשבה דהוא תרי יומי לירח שבט דשנת אלפא
    2. וארבע מאה ותרתין ותשעין שנין לשטרות בפסטאט
    3. מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה איך אנחנא נסב ופרס
    4. וסאדה בנאת זין …

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  12. 812LetterT-S 12.325

    Describes imagery or exaggerated event, of an attack against the ship, which the writer was traveling, before the ship entered the port of Tripoli. The attack, according to the story, ended when the attackers were defeated.

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    1.                    על שמך
    2. כתאבי אכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך וצאנך ווקאך וכאן לך
    3. ומעך פי גמיע אמורך וליה וחאפצ'ה מן אטראבלס לי' כלון מן

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  13. 813LetterT-S Ar.38.56

    He inquires about a servant (khādim) and then goes on to report the price of an enslaved woman (jāriya) as 13 dīnārs.

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  14. 814Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.39.187

    The set of similar documents: ENA 3957.5 T-S Ar.35.128 T-S Ar.35.269 T-S Ar.39.187 T-S AS 184.265 ENA 3957.11 (for Nahray b.

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  15. 815Legal documentT-S AS 164.218 + T-S NS J490

    Among other things, the husband undertakes to leave an enslaved woman to his first wife when he dies.

    1. ב[ ]ת
    2. [ ] ואן דנת ופאתי כאנת אלגאריה מעכשו להא דון [ ]
    3. //[ ]מערקתין ונצף רדא וחזה וקדם שית אכסו //אלמרה אלדי אתזוג[הא ]// אלאכרי או לא אכסו[הא ]//
    4. […

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  16. 816State documentT-S AS 177.268

    The sender's name probably appears at the end of the tarjama, but it difficult to read. Only the upper left corner of the original, large document is preserved. Mentions "the decree from al-ḥaḍra al-muqaddasa" (cf. ENA NS 12.15). Recto (secondary use): Recipe for compounding (luxury) kohl.

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  17. 817List or tableT-S AS 180.100 + T-S NS 297.66

    In Arabic script. Most entries are crossed out. Entries are separated by a circle with a dot in it.

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  18. 818List or tableT-S AS 183.43

    Mentions the unit raṭl numerous times. The bottom entry of recto states that the balance owed to al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir is 2.5 raṭls and 1 2/3 raṭls. Verso contains a Judaeo-Arabic entry possibly concerning debts owed to Abū Yamīn (or Yumn?)

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  19. 819List or tableT-S AS 188.44

    Dated 29 February 1747 CE. The entry under this date states: "oggi mi presto [sic?] […] The name "Abde rahman" appears in some of entries on the verso. MCD.

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  20. 820List or tableT-S AS 208.178

    Mentions quantities of gold dinar throughout the entries. At least one of the accounts is dated according to days of the week. An entry on the right side of the bifolio mentions the weight of a good with the unit ʿidl, along with its corresponding price.

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  21. 821Paraliterary textT-S K1.17

    Leaf 1: end of a discussion of the cycles of each planet and their astrological importance, followed by a description of each of the planets. Leaf 2: end of a discussion of the influence of the zodiac signs on people born in them, followed by calendrical-astrological discussions, a discussion of the planets and their servants (בול, סין, אריס, כון, בילתיי, etc) and their influence on people born in them, and a horologion with angelic names.

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  22. 822LetterT-S NS 304.1

    On the sender, see also ENA NS I.17 (PGPID 12278) and ENA 2607.25 (PGPID 12400).

    1. הנבונים ומעולים וחשובים הממונים באוצר יצו     הנה לא נעלם מכבודכם כי הוכאלה
    2. הקטנה אשר קנינו //החזקה// לשותפות מר שמואל אל גד בסך שלשים זהב ומאז דבר …

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  23. 823LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1575

    This seems to have been the beginning of a lot of trouble ("eating and drinking, drinking wine and arak"), and the writer reports on the harassment that ensued from the Muslim authorities (shāṭir, sanjak).

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  24. 824LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1614

    The writer describes being sent to examine the aviv (barley) crop and what ensued. He discusses other agricultural matters, mentions "the port" and Ashqelon, and describes the rainfall this year.

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  25. 825LetterT-S 13J9.2

    Yehuda (r. 1025–51) to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: end of 1025–26 (Gil). Written in a high register of Hebrew sajʿ (rhymed prose), as Shelomo b. […] In passing, the letter mentions that the Fatimid army is encamped against an enemy "from the east," presumably the Jarrāḥids.

    1. אל אהובנו וחברנו ונכבדנו ויקרינו כגק מ ורב אפרים החבר במעוז ומחסה
    2. מתגבר בצל שדי יתלונן ויתאבר ביראי אל ידבק ויתחבר ברוחו להיות מושל
    3. להתגבר לקרב כל מ…

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    1. To our beloved, our companion, our honored and precious one, (his) h(onor), g(reatness, and) h(oliness), our teacher and master Efrayim the Ḥav…

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  26. 826List or tableAIU VII.F.58

    List of donations Maghrebi congregation collected for the year 5590 = 1829/30 CE. The entries include recurring mention of "the little [daughter] of various community members: for example, צוגיירת משה גריאני (the little [daughter] of Moshe Griyani). Given that these children are not listed as orphans, these entries may represent some other form of charitable support, perhaps a dowry fund for poor community members who would later marry.

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  27. 827List or tableENA 1822a.83 + ENA NS 39.2 + ENA 1822a.82 + ENA 1822a.83a + ENA NS 27.7

    The same name Moshe Ḥason "חסון" listed here (l. 5r) appears in the join ENA NS 27.7. On the recto, a variety of Ottoman coinage types are mentioned such as funduqli, medin, and cinzirli. On the verso, the lower entry includes Shabtai Alpalas in the heading which is followed by a variety of numerical figures.

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  28. 828List or tableENA 2330.9

    The rest of the folder (literary fragments) is very possibly of Iranian origin as well. At least ENA 2330.10 and ENA 2330.15 have Judaeo-Persian.

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  29. 829Legal documentENA 4011.27

    (Information in part from Goitein's index card.) NB: Goitein refers to ENA 4011.27 as ENA 4011.26.

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  30. 830List or tableJRL C 21

    Below each name there are entries with corresponding numbers such as "דוכאן / shop", "סופר / scribe", and "מסעי / letter carrier". The nature of these entries suggests that the numerical figures may be costs associated with each.

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  31. 831LetterMoss. VII,150.2

    Same writer and addressee: Moss. VII,152.1, ENA 4020.1, ENA 4011.32. He expresses hope that someone will make a complete convalescence (yanqah naqah kullī) and asks the addressee to send a letter on his behalf to the son of the faqīh Manṣūr, it seems to ask for a prescription.

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  32. 832Legal documentT-S 8J8.4

    Deed of sale for a Persian (ʿajamiyya) enslaved woman named ʿAbīr ("Perfume"). Written in the hand of Mevorakh b.

    1. אקנינא אנן חתומי מטה מן אלשיך אבי [אלחסן בן אבי] אלימן הזקן היקר נע'
    2. קנין גמור חמור בכלי הכשר לקנות בו [ ] ברצונו בלי אונס כלל
    3. בביטול כל מודעין ותנא…

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  33. 833Legal documentT-S Ar.39.476

    Verso: Court records (shimmush). Three entries. In the hand of (and signed by) Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. […] Goitein summarizes the entry in the lefthand column as "a woman makes payments to a Samaritan under duress."

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  34. 834List or tableT-S AS 183.199

    Tall bifolio. The upper left entry of recto may refer to "the kārdār" in which case this might relate to the commercial activities of Avraham ben Yiju. But this is very tentative, and the potential kāf does not look much like a kāf. Below, another entry is headed "yawm al-khamīs" and various goods with quantities of raṭls are listed underneath, including costus.

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  35. 835Legal documentT-S K25.147

    Fragment (bottom part only). Rudimentary hand. Entries include Dustarī/Tustarī fabric, other garments, and a female slave valued at 30 dinars. […] Dowry items listed are worth 188 dinars (but note that all jewelry items are missing and only the end of the clothing list is preserved). RR

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  36. 836Legal documentT-S Misc.11.36

    It seems that one of them takes an oath that he will work for the other, either beginning or ending at the end of Nisan 13[..] Seleucid. A sum of 40 dirhams is named.

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  37. 837LetterT-S Misc.25.20

    In Judaeo-Arabic, with a ḥamdala in Arabic script at the end. He sends enclosed 1 1/8 dirhams as payment for a half raṭl of syrup (sharāb).

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    1. בר
    2. אעלם מולאי אלשיך אבו יעקוב
    3. יוסף אדאם אללה תאידה
    4. אנני קד אנפדת צחבה
    5. מוצלהא דרהם ותמן תתפצל
    6. תנפד לי בה נצף רטל שראב
    7. נצפה נימוי(?) ונצפה ורד

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  38. 838Legal documentT-S NS 184.68

    Fragment of an engagement contract in the handwriting of Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. […] (Information from A. Ashur, "Engagement Documents from the Cairo Geniza,"Thesis submitted for the MA degree, Tel-Aviv University, under the Supervision of Prof.

    . . . . . 1 שידך בפנינו אנ[ןִ בית דין דחתימין לתחתא ...]

    . .2 בר כגק מר[ור ]

    3 אלמנתא בת כגק מ[רור]

    4 ועשרין ואלתזם עלי נ[פסה שתהא ... נאמנת בדיבור…

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  39. 839Legal documentT-S NS 327.2c

    Ismaʿīl is certified as a Khaybarī Jew originally from al-Jawf, and therefore entitled to privileges granted to this tribe by Muḥammad, including exemption from the capitation tax. […] Aḥmad b. Ḥusayn. See also ENA 3963.4 (PGPID 10591). (Information from Khan, ALAD, and Rustow)

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. شهد من اثبت شهادته اخر هذا المحضر الـ[        انهم يعرفون         ]
    3. بابراهيم بن اسمعيل معرفة صحيحة \\ثابتة\\ لعينه واسم…
    1.  In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  

    2. The people recording their testimony at the end of this court record testified [that they …

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  40. 840List or tableYevr. III B 639

    The first lists the quantities. In the second each entry begins "balagha", and in the third each entry begins "al-thamn" and gives a price in dinars.

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  41. 841Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1373

    Karaite engagement document. Dated: 14 Adar (Purim) 5525 AM, which is 7 March 1765 CE. […] ʿEzra Rofe known as Fayrūz. The engagement is set to last for one year until the wedding.

    1. סבב תצטיר הדא אלאחרף ומוגב תחרירהא באן חצרו בעץ' מן אלקהל ברו׳
    2. יהי׳ פי מנזל החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר שלמה כהן יצ׳׳ו נין המנוח החכם כמה׳׳ר
    3. אהרן כהן ידיע שאמ…

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  42. 842LetterT-S 13J25.23

    Cairo: "Esta sera fazer vos saber komo esto aka en Misrayim. Ke por korer tanto la mi fortuna despues ke de vos me aparte . . . ." […] If she does not understand she is not to worry: "vuestro hermano R. Ishaq YSU el vos enkaminaraen todo esto y mira lo ke fazes no vos partais sin dinero . . . ." He ends by sending his "enkomiendas a vuestro hermano y su mujer a mi nina la bezares de mi parte el ke desea vervos mas ke eskrivirvos."

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  43. 843Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16

    . (#7) Rental agreement between Elʿazar Porekh aka Shuqayr and his brothers for properties mentioned in the preceding inheritance case. The entry also mentions renovations to some of the properties, to "bars (of gates)/bolts (of locks)" (ברחי) and "שייל אלגזאלה"–a renovation procedure whose exact meaning is unclear but attested in other early modern documents with the alternate spellings "סיל" and "שיל" (ُT-S Misc.8.3 PGPID 1399; ENA NS 27.5 PGPID 9952). The final lines of the entry mention that a portion of the financial arrangement is connected to funds from the "ṣarf bölük al-Çavuşiya", a moneychanging or accounting operation connected to the Çavuşan regiment of the Ottoman military garrison in Cairo.

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    1. הערער ההוא כל חלקו ונוגע לו בבתים ובחובות הנז׳׳ל על פרעון הנזק וההפסד ההוא שיגרום לאחיו
    2. שעבוד גמור מעכשו כדין וכהלכה…

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  44. 844Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 11/23

    He will pay back one-half by the end of Av (i.e., after one month has passed) and the other half by the end of Elul. […] Avraham (who may have written the entire document) and three others: Yefet b. Yosef ha-Melammed; Elʿazar b.

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  45. 845LetterCUL Or.1080 J171

    The letter reports that Maḍmūn was engaged in the building or outfitting of jāshujiyāt (military transport ships). […] Yosef also reports on a military venture of Bilāl and the sultan by land 'in the area of the mountain' in which they took over many villages and excellent fortresses of their enemies, praise be to God. Al-Fawfalī (ʿAlī b. Manṣūr?)

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  46. 846List or tableENA 2715.19 + ENA 2715.20 + ENA 2715.21

    Western Arabic numerals are in use with one entry on the recto dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE. This dated entry also mentions S[eñor] Yiṣḥaq Menashshe and lists a variety of coinage types such as "old one ducats / דוקאדו ישן אונו" and "new ducats / דוקאדוס מואיבוס".

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  47. 847State documentT-S K8.102

    This segment describes how an unidentified enemy gained control of (iḥtawat ʿalā) ʿAsqalān and had ambitions to conquer ʿAkkā. […] Someone believed that "the sultan of Egypt has no power" but this was mere envy. Reused for Hebrew dirges on verso (different scribe and Hebrew content than the other report from Tyre).

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  48. 848Legal documentT-S Misc.25.107

    Deathbed will in which Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Ḥananel (n’e) endows the enslaved woman who took care of her through illness with freedom (and likely other objects/property in the missing half of this document).

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  49. 849Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Dated 20 Shevat [5326 AM] (1566 CE), three days after the previous entry. Brief document stating that Trkīye bt. Farjallah b. […] Yosef al-Levi married each other before two witnesses, but this is clearly not a ketubba nor does it follow common formulae in other entries from the same court register (except the neighboring record #109). […] The closing lines note that the ʿāqid (rabbi officiant) was Shemuʾel ha-Dayyan, one of the Karaite judges known from other entries, and that the wedding took place in the residence of Shemuʾel al-Fūlādī.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 36r

    1. תאהל פרגא׳ אבן ע׳אלרחים //כהן// שקיר עלי אלבנת אלבכר .[...
    2. בנת יצחק [[פירוזן]] פירוז בכמסין דרהם פצה [[מוקד]] מהר בתצ.[…

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  50. 850Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328

    Dated: 2 Elul 5329 AM (1569 CE), the same day as the previous entry which constitutes a brief record of the marriage between Khaṣṣ bt. […] This condition is rare enough that it points to the possibility the groom was also a minor but not listed as such. For the bride's legal status as a minor (קאצר), see the previous entry in the court register. Travel-related stipulations are normally laid out according to spousal consent in early modern Karaite marital documents.

    Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 41v (fol. 50 according to RNL pagination)

    1. ... ...]ה בדין תורה תם אשהד עליה ע׳אלמגית
    2. ... ... ...]בש׳ ית׳ אנה לם יטאלב אברהים…

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