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Geṭ (Bill of Divorce)
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No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The document in question is a specific archival manuscript (Gaster Hebrew MS 2108/9), which is a legal document (a Get, or bill of divorce). Such archival documents are typically not published as books with formal English translations. Searches of library catalogs and databases yielded no evidence of any English translation of this specific manuscript. The text provided is a standard legal formula for a Jewish divorce document, and it is not a literary work that would typically be translated in a published volume.
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This document reveals the rigid financial reality of a 17th-century marriage in Modena. It forces readers to confront the stark legal language that transformed personal unions into ironclad property agreements.