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Title
Sitt al-Dallal, daughter of R. Hananel: Egypt, 1230
Subject
Sitt al-Dallal, daughter of R. Hananel
Description
Sitt al-Dallal's will functions as a manumission writ for an enslaved woman. This is a common use of wills across the medieval Mediterranean, though less common for Jews in Christian Europe (since Jews could not keep Christian slaves).
DESCRIPTION FROM PRINCETON GENIZA PROJECT:
Deathbed will in which Sitt al-Dallāl bt. R’ Ḥananel (n’e) endows the enslaved woman who took care of her through illness with freedom (and likely other objects/property in the missing half of this document). Dated 1230 CE under the authority of Avraham b. Moshe Maimonides. Document produced in the home of her son R’ ʿElazar b. R’ Evyatar, who likely inherits property from his mother in the missing part of the document. RR
For transcription and Hebrew description, see Rivlin, Inheritance and Wills, #60, pp. 395-396.
(https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/8361/)
SEE LINK ABOVE FOR IMAGE.
DESCRIPTION FROM PRINCETON GENIZA PROJECT:
Deathbed will in which Sitt al-Dallāl bt. R’ Ḥananel (n’e) endows the enslaved woman who took care of her through illness with freedom (and likely other objects/property in the missing half of this document). Dated 1230 CE under the authority of Avraham b. Moshe Maimonides. Document produced in the home of her son R’ ʿElazar b. R’ Evyatar, who likely inherits property from his mother in the missing part of the document. RR
For transcription and Hebrew description, see Rivlin, Inheritance and Wills, #60, pp. 395-396.
(https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/8361/)
SEE LINK ABOVE FOR IMAGE.
Creator
Egypt
Date
1230
Source
Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection, University of Cambridge
T-S Misc.25.107
Princeton Geniza Project: https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/8361/
Rivlin, Inheritance and Wills, doc. 60.
Language
Judeo-Arabic
Coverage
Cairo Geniza
Egypt
Contributor
Princeton Geniza Project