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Join: Bodl. MS heb. b 3/8 + Bodl. MS heb. b 3/7
Bodl. MS heb. b 3/8
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Draft(?) of a court record. Dated: 29 Nisan 1543 Seleucid, which is April 1232 CE. The widow (Sitt al-)Tujjār bt. Manṣūr claims that 10 shares in a house in Bilbays belong to her children as heirs of her husband. Tujjār's sister-in-law's husband, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Yosef ha-Kohen, produces Arabic deeds, not confirmed by a Jewish court, showing that the children's grandmother had sold him those shares. He asserted that in Bilbays such confirmations are not customary. Tujjār produces a Hebrew document witnessed, but not validated by a court. At the advice of experts, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ agrees to pay his nephews 300 dirhams. (Information from Goitein, Med Soc, vol. 4, p. 276, and Goitein notes and index card linked below.)
Ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6C.2.2%20Bodleian%20%28b3-c27%29/Bodl.%20MS%20Heb.%20b%203_7_2%20%28PGPID%202521%29.pdf; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6C.2.2%20Bodleian%20%28b3-c27%29/Bodl.%20MS%20Heb.%20b%203_8_2%20%28PGPID%206340%29.pdf; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6C.2.2%20Bodleian%20%28b3-c27%29/Bodl.%20MS%20Heb.%20b%203_8_1%20%28PGPID%206340%29.pdf; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6C.2.2%20Bodleian%20%28b3-c27%29/Bodl.%20MS%20Heb.%20b%203_7_1%20%28PGPID%202521%29.pdf.
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