מסמך משפטי: Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.11

מסמך משפטי Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.11

תיאור

Legal record (#19). Engagement contract. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Goitein notes that both fiance and fiancee must be very poor; neither has a living father and the fiancee's mother must be deceased as well. Salāma b. Ibrāhīm engages (khaṭaba) Sitt al-Kull bt. Hiba al-ʿAṭṭār. Early marriage payment: 2 dinars. Delayed marriage payment: 15 dinars. The fiance deposits with the fiancee's maternal aunt Sitt al-Nās bt. ʿAbdallāh a silver seal/ring until the time of the milāk (which can mean either engagement/shiddukhin or betrothal/erusin/qiddushin). (Information in part from Goitein's notes.)