[Court document] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seʹadyah ben Efrayim, he-Ḥaver, 11th century, witness.

Yosef ben Yaʻaḳov, active 11th century, witness.

Baḳa ben Mukhṭar, ha-Kohen, witness.

Sahlān ben Abraham, active 11th century, witness.

Efraim ben Shemarya, approximately 980-approximately 1060, witness.

Yeshuʻah ben Shelomoh, ha-Leṿi, witness.

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

Aramaic

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Court records.

Depositions.

Civil procedure (Jewish law).

Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Jewish law).

Jewish law.

Penn Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Sulzberger.

Physical Description:

1 folio : Damaged, losses in left edge and lower left corner, faded; verso is blank

Paper 23 X 22 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: lines: 18 (recto).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Record of a deposition and its validation.

Place of Publication:

[Fustat], [publisher not identified], [May 2, 1047]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic. Hebrew

Notes:

A record in Judeo-Arabic regarding a compound in the Qatsr al-Sham quarter of Fustat, one sixth of which has been dedicated (waqf) to the two Rabbanite Synagogues of Fustat, the Babylonian and the Erets Israeli. Issued by Saʻadia ben R. Ephraim he-ḥaver.

The lower half of the document is the court validation of the above, in legal Aramaic, written by a different hand. Here, in addition to Saʻadia, more witnesses are listed, Joseph ben Jacob (ʻAwkal?); Baqaʻ ha-kohen ben Mukhtar; Yeshuah ha-Levi ben Solomon.

The validation is signed with the autographs of representatives of both synagogues, Sahlan ben Abraham (Babylonian, see the list of judges, Goitein: A Mediterranean Society / S.D Goitein. Berkeley : Univ Calif Press, 1967-1993, vol. 2 Appendix D, no. 6; E. Bareket: Shafrir Mitsraim / Elinoar Bareḳet. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1995, p. 172-188 = Fustat on the Nile, Leiden, 1999, pp. 233-255) and Ephraim (Zeʻiara) ben Shemarya (Erets Israeli, Goitein, ibid., no. 4; Bareket, ibid. pp. 100-121, idem. pp. 129-160).

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 336

IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

Published, with introduction, notes and translation, by M. Gil, Documents of the Jewish pious foundations from the Cairo Geniza / Moshe Gil [ed.]. Leiden : Brill, 1976, p. 151-154.

OCLC:

249590232