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Legal document: betrothal deed

Title	Legal document: betrothal deed
Author	CUL
Subject	Cairo Genizah
Type	Document
Language	arc,heb,jrb
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	2
Physical Dimensions	1 leaf. Leaf height: 15.2 cm, width: 12.4 cm.
Library:	Cambridge Digital Library
Record ID	MS-TS-00008-J-00009-00013
Library Location	Cambridge University Library — T-S 8J9.13
Date	1221 CE; 1218 CE-1221-01-01-1218-12-31
Notes	Two legal documents concerning the betrothal of a nine year old orphan girl. Recto: legal document dated Bilbays 1532 of the Seleucid Era (= 1221 CE). The maternal grandmother of the bride Sutayt refuses to provide the full dowry after the groom Abraham b. Yefet did not fulfil his financial promises stipulated in the engagement document on verso. Verso: the original betrothal deed, dated 1529 of the Seleucid Era (= 1218 CE). It is stipulated that the groom Abraham b. Yefet will marry the bride Sutayt three years later.
İlişkili Ad(lar)	Abraham b. Yefet; Sutayt, fiance of Abraham b. Yefet
Durum	torn, holes, rubbed
Bağışçı(lar)	Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915; Taylor, Charles, 1840-1908
Fonlama	The digitisation of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection has been sponsored by the Jewish Manuscript Preservation Society, the Friedberg Genizah Project Inc., and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
Mizanpaj	15 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)
Materyal	Paper
Menşei Yeri	Bilbays
Köken (Provenance)	Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and his patron Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection
Yüzyıl 1	1200s C.E.
Oluşturma Tarihi (Bağlantı Türü)	keyword search
Oluşturma Türü	creation
Yıl (Bitiş)	1221
Yıl (Başlangıç)	1218
Görüntü Hakları (Görüntüleme)	Zooming image © Cambridge University Library, All rights reserved.
Görüntü Hakları (İndirme)	This image may be used in accord with fair use and fair dealing provisions, including teaching and research. If you wish to reproduce it within publications or on the public web, please contact [email protected].
Dil Kodu 1	jrb
Dil 1	Judeo-Arabic
Metadata Hakları	This metadata is published free of restrictions, under the terms of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Küçük Resim Yönü	portrait
Filigran Beyanı	Cambridge University Library

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Legal document: betrothal deed

Author CUL

Subject Cairo Genizah

Type Document

Language arc,heb,jrb

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 2

Physical Dimensions 1 leaf. Leaf height: 15.2 cm, width: 12.4 cm.

Library Cambridge Digital Library

Record ID MS-TS-00008-J-00009-00013

Library Location Cambridge University Library — T-S 8J9.13

Date 1221 CE; 1218 CE-1221-01-01-1218-12-31

Notes Two legal documents concerning the betrothal of a nine year old orphan girl. Recto: legal document dated Bilbays 1532 of the Seleucid Era (= 1221 CE). The maternal grandmother of the bride Sutayt refuses to provide the full dowry after the groom Abraham b. Yefet did not fulfil his financial promises stipulated in the engagement document on verso. Verso: the original betrothal deed, dated 1529 of the Seleucid Era (= 1218 CE). It is stipulated that the groom Abraham b. Yefet will marry the bride Sutayt three years later.

İlişkili Ad(lar) Abraham b. Yefet; Sutayt, fiance of Abraham b. Yefet

Durum torn, holes, rubbed

Bağışçı(lar) Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915; Taylor, Charles, 1840-1908

Fonlama The digitisation of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection has been sponsored by the Jewish Manuscript Preservation Society, the Friedberg Genizah Project Inc., and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.

Mizanpaj 15 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)

Materyal Paper

Menşei Yeri Bilbays

Köken (Provenance) Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and his patron Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Yüzyıl 1 1200s C.E.

Oluşturma Tarihi (Bağlantı Türü) keyword search

Oluşturma Türü creation

Yıl (Bitiş) 1221

Yıl (Başlangıç) 1218

Görüntü Hakları (İndirme) This image may be used in accord with fair use and fair dealing provisions, including teaching and research. If you wish to reproduce it within publications or on the public web, please contact [email protected].

Dil Kodu 1 jrb

Dil 1 Judeo-Arabic

Metadata Hakları This metadata is published free of restrictions, under the terms of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

Küçük Resim Yönü portrait

Filigran Beyanı Cambridge University Library