Bodl. MS heb. a 2/23

Legal document concerning settlements among a family. Location: Qayrawān. Dated: Wednesday, 14 Iyyar 4810 AM, which is 1050 CE. Yosef b. Adoniyya ha-Kohen gave to his second wife, Ḍiyā' bt. Elḥanan, a complete ʿuluww (architectural term). The wife gave 1/2 of the ʿuluww to her daughter from a first marriage (Mawlāt bt. Yosef ha-Kohen) and 1/2 to the narrator of this testimony, her son from a second marriage, Abū l-Maʿālī b. Yefet; Abū l-Maʿālī now gives his half to his stepsister Mawlāt. This ʿuluww is located above the portico (sqīfa) of Zina bt. al-Fājū(?); its eastern boundary is the house of Yehuda b. ʿAmram; its southern boundary is the house of Yehuda b. Seʿadya b. Rawāda(?). Witnesses: Yosef b. Yehuda Rosh ha-Seder; Nissim b. Avraham Ḥarīrī; Avraham b. Yosef. Ed. Simha Assaf, "Old Genizah Documents from Palestine, Egypt and North Africa (conclusion)," Tarbiz 9 (1938), p. 215. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)
Library: Bodl.
Type: Legal document