מסמך משפטי: ENA 4010.7 + ENA NS 19.14
מסמך משפטי ENA 4010.7 + ENA NS 19.14What's in the PGP
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תיאור
Court deposition in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: 1406 Seleucid, which is 1094/95 CE. Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Menashshe accuses his wife Milāḥ b. Khayrūn of wishing to divorce him in order to marry Barakāt b. Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAṭṭār, who has "corrupted" (afsada) her. She takes mighty oaths, denying that she would ever marry Barakāt. Later, Abū ʿAlī verbally abuses Barakāt, "Yā fāʿil, yā ṣāniʿ, you corrupt my wife and tell her, 'Divorce him so that I can marry you!'" They have a great fight and hurl accusations at each other ("some serious, some trivial"). Barakāt takes a mighty oath that he will pay a fine of 50 dinars to the poor of Egypt if he ever proposed marriage or anything else to Milāḥ. Signed by Binyamin b. Avraham. NB: Three distinct fragments have been joined and are all photographed under the shelfmark ENA NS 19.14 (this is why there are no photographs under the shelfmarks ENA 4010.7 or ENA Misc. 17). The lower left fragment is still missing. Join by M. A. Friedman. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.) ASE
תגים
Translator: Friedman, Mordechai Akiva (in English)
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[Translation of all three fragments together]
- He who will affix his signature at the bottom of these lines declares: We
- were present during quarrels which took place between Abū ʿAli
- (our) master) Japheth b. (our) master) Manasseh r(est in) E(den) and his wife Milāḥ b. Xayrūn r(est in) E(den). He said to her, "Word has reached me that Barakat b.
- Abu Saʿid the perfumer has enticed you away (from me). And you want
- to divorce me to marry him." Then she said, "I would marry
- that one?!" She swore by great oaths that she would never marry him. Then we came with this Abu ʿAli
- as he met with this Barakāt b. Abū Saʿīd. Abū ʿAlī said to him, “You rascal!
- You scoundrel! You entice my wife away (from me) and tell her 'Divorce him so that I can marry you'." And there were m[any?] words between them
- and argument, blaming and attacks, some in earnest and some in jest. Then said this Barakāt b. [Abū Ṣaʿid,]
- [t]he perfumer... [... o]f the undersigned, of our fellows, "Serve as my
- witnesses in wh[at I shall say]
- [tear between fragments]
- to you. I bind myself with powerful oaths that were I to m[arry...]
- I undertake, as of now, to pay to the poor of Egypt fifty dinars [...]
- to her, and I have [no]t asked her to marry nor anything else [..."]
- this Japheth Abū ʿAli [...] to this. They reconciled and par[ted...]
- "Sign for me your signatures to what Barakā[t] has said [.....”]
- with his free will and his vol[ition]. And because it was permissible for
- us to accept [this testimony... We wrote]
- for him these lines and signed our testimony below [... We wrote]
- and signed and gave to this m(aster) Japheth b. m(aster) [Manasseh...]
- for a deed of right and evidence. Our signing was delayed until [...]
- year 1406 of the era [by which we are accustomed to count...]
- Which is situated on the river Nile. Strong and firm [...]
- Benjamin b. Abraham
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