[Court document] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

David ben Daniel, active 11th century.

ʻAli ben Yeḥiyah, ha-Kohen, witness.

Avraham ben Shemaʻyah, he-Ḥaver, witness, scribe.

Peraḥyah ben Yosef, witness.

Schwadron, Isak, witness.

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

Language:

Aramaic

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Court records.

Civil procedure (Jewish law).

Jewish law.

Penn Provenance:

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

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Amram.

Physical Description:

1 folio : nearly complete; losses from left edge; different hands

Paper 18.4 X 13.7 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 34 (recto), 11 (verso)

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Testimony for litigation

Place of Publication:

[Fustat], [publisher not identified], [Sept. 1093]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic. Hebrew

Notes:

One interlinear addendum on recto.

The document is issued under the auspices of David "the Nasi" (ben Daniel) (ll. 4-5 including many laudatory titles). See M. Cohen, Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt, Princeton, 1980, pp. 178-212.

A document in legal Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic, recording testimony submitted by Saʻadia ben Elʻazar, accusing his brother Shelaḥ of having removed shared goods from the secret store room, including books in Arabic on medicine, mercury, money and clothes.

This is signed by ʻAli ha-kohen ben Yaḥiya, and by Abraham ben Shemaʻya, who appears to be the scribe of the document. An index of documents with his signature can be found in Gershon Weiss, Legal documents written by the court clerk Halfon Ben Manasse, dated 1100-1138, a study in the diplomatics of the Cairo Geniza (Thesis (Ph.D.) in Oriental Studies--Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), University of Pennsylvania, 1970, p. iii.

Described by Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. IV p. 75.

The verso is written in a different hand, includes eight well-spaced lines with additional testimony of Saʻadia against Shelaḥ. Signed by R. Peraḥyah ben Joseph, Isaac ha-kohen and the same ʻAli ha-Kohen signed on the recto.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 340

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

249590449