מסמך משפטי: ENA NS 47.24

תיאור

Court register fragment containing the remnants of 13 documents, most of which are fully intact. Dated Tevet-Kislev 5460 AM which is 1699-1700 CE. The scribal hand and many of the surnames are uncommon for Cairo, pointing to the likelihood that this fragment is from a Jewish community elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire (the Ottoman silver medin is mentioned throughout the entries). It is also possible that this court register fragment is from a beit din and/or a congregation in Cairo whose documents have not survived in large quantities from the turn of the eighteenth century CE. A possible reference to the "Karaite quarter" of Cairo appears in document 9 on the verso. The document entries on the recto include (1) An isqa partnership between Suleymān Ṭrabulusī and Yehuda Bikhī(?). (2) A general partnership in the coral trade for the duration of one year: במלאכת אלמרגאן לזמן י׳ב חדשים (l.18). The other court entries on the recto recount engagements that include pledges of marital gifts from grooms to brides and bridal dowries: (3) Engagement of Moshe b. Yosef ha-Kohen and a prospective bride who appears by two different names: Saʾūdī aka Raḥma bt. Shemuʾel Rashī/Dashī(?); (4) Engagement of Yaʿaqov b. Raḥamīm ha-Kohen Qmāṭ and Masʿūda bt. Yosef ha-Levi Bar-Bīkha(?); (5) Engagement of Moshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Levi and Reyna bt. Eliyahu Rmūkh(?); (6) Engagement of Avraham Talmīd and Sitt al-Bayt bt. Benyamin Franṣiya. The verso includes the following document entries: (7) An incomplete entry stating that a certain Yiṣḥaq Ashenazi receives a sum of money from Leah bt. ____(?) ʿAtarūtī. (8) An incomplete entry stating that Saʿadīya Angel commits to study the "מלאכת הסירמקג'י" with Shemuʾel Mānūpla/Mānūfla. Based on the suffix, the professional term here is probably Turkish "sırmakçı" (a maker or embroiderer of gold or silver thread), synonymous with the term "sırmakeş" in the Redhouse dictionary (p. 1014). (8) Abbreviated ketubba copy for the marriage of Moshe b. Yeḥiʾel Meyūḥas and Perla bt. Gabriʾel Fransez (פראנשיז). (9) Rental agreement for various properties, some of which are listed in the "Karaite quarter." The two transacting parties are Barūkh b. Aharon Yoʾav and Yosef b. Yeshūʿa ha-Levi. The first property listed "הכמארה" is unclear in its intended meaning. It may be the Latinate architectural term "camera" (room, vaulted chamber). (10) Engagement of the dayyan Yaʿaqov b. David ha-Levi and the previously divorced/gerusha Sahūr(?) bt. Abraham Ḥamūzī. (11) Debt acknowledgment between Yaʿaqov b. Shem Ṭov Melamed and Avraham b. Shelomo Benṭora/Binṭora. For another instance of the latter surname, see: AIU VII.D.65 - PGPID 30561. (12) Partnership between Mordekhay Ashkenazi and Shemuʾel b. Yiṣḥaq ____ (surname lost to damage). The partnership is in the "במלאכת אלכואגייה/אלכואנייה", which requires further research to determine the exact professional context. MCD.