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| כתאבי +מולאי+ | Use a + sign before word to search for rows that contain all of them (in this case the words כתאבי and מולאי) |
| כתאבי AND מולאי כתאבי OR מולאי | The keyword AND indicates that both search terms must be present in the results. OR matches either search term. |
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| *כתאב ?כתאב |
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Join: ENA 2805.15 + Bodl. MS heb. b 13/38
ENA 2805.15
Recto/verso:
Section:
Deed of quittance. The firstborn Barakāt b. Salmān b. Avraham releases his brother Faraj and stepbrother ʿAbdallāh and the latter's father Abū ʿAbdallāh from any claim after he, Barakāt, had received his share in his father's inheritance. Dated: Wednesday, 28 Tishrei 1406 Seleucid, which is 1094 CE. Signed by: Yosef ha-Kohen b. Ḥal[fon] and Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Talmid; the teacher Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī; Nissim b. Nahray; and ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)
Ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6D.2.3%20ENA%20%282348-4010%29%20pt%202/ENA%202805.15_2%20%28PGPID%206702%29.pdf; also ed. S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions https://princetongenizalab.github.io/goitein-notes/6D.1.6%20ENA%202805/ENA%202805.15_1%20%28PGPID%206702%29.pdf.
Type: Legal document
Bodl. MS heb. b 13/38
Recto/verso:
Section:
Mutual release contract between a firstborn, his younger brother, a stepbrother and a stepmother, stressing three times the privilege of primogeniture. The parties declared that this was a free agreement, not imposed by a court, and had it also confirmed by a Muslim notary. In spite of the stress on primogeniture in this document the first-born, a son of a butcher, received only eleven dinars. Dated Tishri 1406/ October 1094 (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 279, 280, 489)
Type: Legal document
