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Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.15
Recto/verso: recto
Legal record (#31). Liquidation of a trust. There appears to be at least one page of the notebook missing at this point, as there are one or two lines missing from the beginning of this document. Concerning a deposit of 238 dinars, which were held by Abū l-Faraj al-Tājir known as Ibn al-Kallām, a trustee of the court, in the name of the minor orphan Sitt al-Kafā'a bt. Abū l-Faḍā'il al-Tājir known as Ibn al-Baqā. (Abū l-Faraj had originally received this deposit from Abū l-Ḥasan Nānū al-Tājir.) Sitt al-Kafā'a's brother Abū l-Majd and her grandmother request that the deposit be released so that they can furnish her with a trousseau (jihāz). Witnesses: Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq; Efrayim b. Meshullam. "Sitt al-Kafā’a’s betrothal contract, drawn up just two months later, but which no longer identifies her as a minor, includes a record of the 'precious items' that they had purchased for her with this money" (Krakowski, Coming of Age, p. 155). See Yevr. Arab. I 1700.16 (#36) for a slightly revised copy of this document, and see Yevr. Arab. I 1700.26–27 (#63) for Sitt al-Kafā'a's betrothal document. NB: Goitein and Krakowski referred to this document as folio 14 (Firk. II NS 1700.14a and Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.14a respectively, with the 'a' indicating recto) in accordance with the foliation written in pen; but the correct folio is 15, as written in pencil (the librarian with the pen gave two folios the number 8). ASE.
Library: NLR
Type: Legal document