מסמך משפטי: AIU VII.D.9

תיאור

Bifolium from a court register. Dated in several entries as Kislev 5496 AM (1735 CE). This reading of the final ligature as צו is confirmed by the scribe's rendering of the common honorific יצ׳׳ו. A total of eleven complete or partial document entries appear on the recto and verso. (1) A ketubba valuation/payout for a widow, whose name is lost to damage. The widow may have been living in Būlāq based on the damaged reference to the Nile port in the first line. This also seems likely based on the fact that the entry itself is from a document that was originally recorded in Būlāq, but it is unclear whether the entire court register itself was drawn up there. (2) Raḥamīm Zayn receives an ʿisqa partnership investment from Yiṣḥaq Pinṭos(?) (פנטש) for a total of 45 gold cinzirli. (3) A debt acknowledgement between Shelomo Peso and Nissīm Provensal with Avraham Serrano for 600 gold cinzirli. (4) A damaged entry relating to a transaction whereby a certain Yisraʾel Maymūn recevied a sum of gold fındıklı from someone whose name is missing. (5) Engagement of Yaʿaqov b. Mordekhay Orṭas and Raḥma bt. Ḥayyim Mizraḥi. (6) Raḥamīm Shababo aka Zayn receives a another ʿisqa partnership investment, this time from a certain Moshe Meyuḥas for 80 gold fındıklı. (7) Badly damaged entry for a marital document, perhaps an engagement between b. Nissīm Maʿtūq and Hermoza bt. David Garbūʿ. (8) Debt acknowledgment and agreement between Moshe Qasṭlān and his mother Rivqa regarding the latter's living arrangements. (9) Investment partnership in the coral trade between Nissīm Nuḥ and the brothers Raḥamīm and ...m(?) ʿAlūsh. (10) A complex dispute between the divorcée Senyora bt. Yedidya Ben-Yadaʿ and her ex-husband Yosef Barūkh. The entry goes onto describe quantities of clothing, sometimes referenced as "panyo" and "ropa" in Ladino, that Senyora gains the right to sell of her own volition. The entry also involves the influential merchant Avraham Serrano. (11) Proceedings related to the recent widowhood of Simḥa aka Merqada bt. Yosef Falcon who takes an oath as part of the ketubba valuation/payout process. Her recently deceased husband surprisingly carried the same name as his father (Shimʿon b. Shimʿon Kohen). Perhaps the man's father had died before he was born. This final entry may comprise the opening lines of Document #1, yet, is too damaged to be certain. The signatories, specifically "second witnesses" (ע׳׳ב), for these entries include David Samḥūn, Avraham ha-Levi, Aharon Ḥanūn, and Yosef Beirav. MCD.