מסמך משפטי: Yevr. II A 463/2

תיאור

Legal document concerning a real estate sale in the Karaite quarter. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 20 Av 5436 AM, which is 1676 CE (not 1646 CE, as stated in Ktiv metadata). The scribe is Ṣefanya Zerḥīya. Totaling to 91 lines, this is one of the longest legal documents from the early modern geniza. The first ~60 lines recount the succession of previous transactions and divisions of the property, with the earliest one dating back thirty years to 6 Iyyar 5404 AM (1644 CE) when the property passed between members of the Bagilyer (באג'ילייר) family to Khalifa Bagilyer and his wife Simḥa bt. David Bagilyer (likely paternal cousins). Simḥa sells part of the building to Ḥayyīm b. Yehuda ha-Levi Ṣevi, an upper-story apartment and small sitting area, and they all agree to terms of paying rent to their shared landlords (ll. 24-26). Ḥayyīm and his wife Jamīla bt. Moshe al-Ṭorṭos later divorced, and Jamīla received the property in question as part of her ketubba settlement. After Jamīla died, the apartment and sitting area were inherited by her daughter Ḥanūna bt. ʿImmanuel Oreja (evidently Jamīla remarried after her divorce). Ḥanūna eventually sold the property sublease in Sivan 5433 AM (1673 CE) but later repurchased it for 1,500 medin the day before this document was issued in 1676 CE. The purpose of this document becomes clear in l. 60, where Ḥanūna and her husband Yiṣḥaq Ḥalfon resell the apartment/seating area one day after purchasing them. The buyer is Moshe Shomer, who pays the married couple 1,500 medin (the same price as the previous day, surprisingly). For the appearance of Moshe Shomer in other late seventeenth-century documents, see: ENA NS 37.18 (PGPID 11482), BL OR 6356.1 record #2 (PGPID 40943), BL OR 5542.1 (PGPID 6205). The scribe Ṣefanya Zerḥīya also appears in ENA NS 37.18. MCD.