[Court document (draft)] : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matsliaḥ, ha-Kohen, 12th century.

Halfon ben Manasse, active 1100-1138, scribe.

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

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Turfa bat ʹAmram--Trials, litigation, etc.

Turfa bat ʹAmram.

Shabetai ben Yosef, he-Ḥazan--Trials, litigation, etc.

Shabetai ben Yosef.

Naʹim.

Court records.

Actions and defenses.

Jewish law.

Genre:

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

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

Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).

Adler.

Physical Description:

1 folio : connected to edge of another folio, as if bifolium from court codex; damaged, faded, losses at bottom, torn

Paper 19 X 12.9 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: 1 lines: 25 extant.

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

Other Title:

Court record book

Litigation settlement

Place of Publication:

[Fustat], [publisher not identified], [1127-1138?]

Language Note:

Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

Written on both sides; diagonal scratch marks, signifying invalidation of the document.

A Judeo-Arabic draft from the record book of the Court of Matsliaḥ ha-Kohen Gaʾon, (l. 1: בית דין הגדול של אדוננו מצליח הכהן ראש [...]ע) who served in this capacity between 1127-1138.

The hand is recognized as that of the court scribe Ḥalfon ha-Levi ben Menashe. Over 250 such documents have been collected by 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.

The draft records in Judeo-Arabic, a litigation settlement between Shabetai ha-Ḥazzan ben Joseph and his wife, Turfa daughter of ʹAmram. The object of the litigation includes clothes, house wares and a slave girl named Naʻim.

Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 342

IMHM, no. F38400

OCLC:

1366219054