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[Memo of the court] : manuscript.
Library at the Katz Center - Genizah Fragments Halper 350
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Court records.
- Promissory notes.
- Witnesses (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 : losses along all edges; folded widthwise five times
- Paper 7.3 X 8.2 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: lines: 5 (recto), 7 (verso).
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection
- Other Title:
- Court record
- Parts of legal testimonies
- Record of testimony.
- Place of Publication:
- [Orient], [publisher not identified], [13th century-15th century?]
- Language Note:
- Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- Notes:
- Memo in Judeo-Arabic to the court scribe to write a promissory note on 96 dirhems, apparently the outcome of litigation in the court.
- This note has been written as a secondary inscription, on a piece from the right edge of the blank verso of a previous document. Of this primary inscription, only five partial lines are extant. They appear to be from a court record of testimony.
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- Halper, no. 350
- IMHM, no. F38400
- OCLC:
- 249590994
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