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Moshe Reʾuven

מטא-דאטא

Gender
Male
מסמכים
Active dates
30 יולי 1577–27 יולי 1626 CE
Posthumous mentions
2 אוקטובר 1655–28 נובמבר 1677 CE
Social roles
  • Jewish communal official
  • Jewish community member
Other name
משה ראובן

Description / Bio

Scribe whose autographed legal documents from Cairo are only extant from the 1570s and 1620s. A legal scribe by this name, possibly the same person, is referenced indirectly in: T-S 13J25.22, ll. 9, 27 (c. 1656 CE) and BL OR 5542.1, l. 27 (c. 1677). Both of these latter documents deal with real estate transactions and therefore cite a chain of deeds from previous property owners, three of which list a "Moshe Reʾuven" as scribe in the following years: 1642, 1643, and 1653 CE. If these three latter deeds were penned by the same person, then Moshe Reʾuven had an exceptionally long scribal career of at least 76 years.

Matthew Dudley, "Moshe Reʾuven," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/moshe-reuven/, accessed June 3, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/moshe-reuven/