Cairo Genizah : Letter; legal document

ʿEli b. ʿAmram

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Recto: partially rhymed letter signed by ʿEli b. ʿAmram. Verso has been reused for drafts of (1) a legal document concerning a woman called Mubāraka who had sold her maidservant for 20 and a half dinars and had given the money to her brother as capital for a business trip, but was then sued by her husband as only 10 of the 20 and a half dinars were her dowry, so she empowered her husband to sue her brother for the remaining 10 and a half dinars and profits; (2) a letter to a Ḥaver; and (3) an Arabic letter. </p>