Legal document: betrothal deed T-S 8J9.13
- Date:
- 1221 CE; 1218 CE
- Description:
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Two legal documents concerning the betrothal of a nine year old orphan girl. Recto: legal document dated Bilbays 1532 of the Seleucid Era (= 1221 CE). The maternal grandmother of the bride Sutayt refuses to provide the full dowry after the groom Abraham b. Yefet did not fulfil his financial promises stipulated in the engagement document on verso. Verso: the original betrothal deed, dated 1529 of the Seleucid Era (= 1218 CE). It is stipulated that the groom Abraham b. Yefet will marry the bride Sutayt three years later.
Condition: torn, holes, rubbed
Layout: 15 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
Hebrew
Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE) - Item contributor:
- Cambridge University Library
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Library
- Data contributor:
- Cambridge University Library
- Extent:
- Leaf: (height: 15.2 cm, width: 12.4 cm)
- Medium:
- Paper
- Geographic region:
- Bilbays
- Rights:
- This image may be used in accord with fair use and fair dealing provisions, including teaching and research. If you wish to reproduce it within publications or on the public web, please contact genizah@lib.cam.ac.uk.
This metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. - Identifier:
- T-S 8J9.13
- Is part of:
- The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection