מסמך משפטי: Yevr.-Arab. I 328

תיאור

Legal record (#52) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 18r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Tishrei 5323 AM (1562 CE). Debt settlement and release between members of the Fayrūz family in Cairo: Yiṣḥaq b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Fayrūz, Shaykh al-Yahūd; Shelomo b. Netanʾel Fayrūz, al-dayyan; and their uncle Yosef Fayrūz. The first two relatives listed are paternal cousins and their fathers bear communal titles. The sum of money at the center of the document is 50 gold Cypriot coins (כמסין דהב קבארצה) that Yiṣḥaq had lent his cousin Netanʾel, who in turn gave the money to their uncle Yosef for purchasing pearls. The currency referenced in this court record must have been of Venetian mintage given that Cyprus was ruled by La Serenissima until the Ottoman conquest of 1570–1573 CE. MCD.