מסמך משפטי: ENA NS 29.9

תיאור

Legal. Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Dating: No earlier than 1703 CE, based on the mention of the coin (zer-i) maḥbūb (which was first minted in this year under Sultan Ahmed III). Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Najjār. Bride: Ḥanna bt. Hillel אלחירקו(?), a widow. There follows a trousseau list and conditions. Currency: maḥbūb. On the facing page there is another list (also a trousseau list?) in a different hand. Several of the items are written in Ladino. From the Coins of the Cairo Geniza digital exhibition (Exhibit 20): "The draft of the engagement contract between Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Najjār and Ḥannah bt. Hillel al-Ḥedef includes the stipulation in Hebrew that each party will pay a sum of zeri maḥbūb in the event that either breaks off the engagement. The bifolium was used by a different scribe to draft another engagement document, a trousseau list in Judaeo-Spanish, but neither is dated. Fortunately, the mention of maḥbūbīm/maḥbūbes makes it possible to estimate the earliest possible year of recording as 1703 CE– the year in which the coinage type was first produced in the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Aḥmed III."