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Join: L-G Misc. 113 + L-G Misc. 115
L-G Misc. 113
Recto/verso: recto and verso
Section:
Two merchants setting out from Alexandria on a voyage to the Muslim West appoint their wives as executors and guardians of their children: (1) Yosef b. Isḥāq al-Fasi gives his daughter Sitt al-Ḥusn 200 dinars and appoints his wife Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. Barhūn as guardian of his daughter. He asserts that the amount of the principal and profit of a partnership included in the estate has to be accepted according to the word of his partner, because the partner was known for his trustworthiness and religiosity. Dated: Tammuz 4857 AM, which is 1097 CE. (2) Abū l-Faraḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef entrusts Sitt al-Kull bt. Avraham b. Ṭībān, his wife and mother of his boy, with all his affairs and possessions and makes her his heir, as well as guardian of their boy. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 252; V, 133, 205, 333; and from Goitein's index cards; and from Goitein's hand list.) See also detailed description on CUDL.
Ed. S. D. Goitein, India Book 7 (in Hebrew); also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/5B.1.3%20India%20Book-%20Trade%20docs%20197-290/L-G%20Misc.%20113%20%28PGPID%209020%29.pdf.
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