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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: [53]52 AM, which is 1591/92 CE. Concerning the division of an inheritance between a dead man's widow and four sons, as well as the ketubba payment for the widow (24,000 medins). Quite damaged. Two copies were made. The original signatories include Binyamin Kajiji and Elʿazar Maṣliaḥ. This copy of the document has the signature of Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Berav (d. 1599), a former pupil of Yosef Karo and a leading rabbi of Safed from 1593 until his death. A. David suggests that this copy of the document was sent to Safed, where he (and another Avraham b. [...] added their endorsements). (Information from A. David, "Berav Family in the Land of Israel and Egypt after the Spanish Expulsion.")