Unnamed Manumitted Person 64
Description / Bio
Manumitted woman who was the subject of a legal query from Moshe b. Peraḥya, the muqaddam of Minyat Ghamr, to Avraham Maimonides regarding her estate and bequests to a group of women in the town of Minyat Ghamr. The query/responsum dates to 1205–1237 CE, the period of Avraham Maimonides' tenure as Rayyis al-Yahūd. This date range also provides the earliest and latest years in which Unnamed Manumitted Person 64 could have died. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 2, no. 52)