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[Court document] : manuscript.
Library at the Katz Center - Genizah Fragments Halper 351
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Court records.
- Taxes, Farming of.
- 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 : damaged, losses along all edges, folded widthwise into at least five equal parts; verso is blank
- Paper 28 X 26 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: left rule justified by stretching last character columns: lines: 16 extant (13 text, 2 signature, 1 postscript[?]) (recto).
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection
- Other Title:
- Official record of legal declaration
- Place of Publication:
- [Fustat, 1098-1114?].
- Language Note:
- Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
- Notes:
- A legal declaration in Judeo-Arabic. Signed in autograph by the court of Mevasser ha-kohen ben Abraham, Abraham ben Moses, who appears to be the scribe of this document, Abraham ben Nathan ("Av ha-Yeshiva", see the list of judges assembled by S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society vol. II Appendix D, no. 14) whose signature appears on documents dated 1098-1114.
- A young man, Khatsab ben Abu Natsr, claims goods that he gave as a pledge on a loan from Moses Sharaji, who had died. The tax farmers of the market protested, as Khatsab owed them taxes. In this declaration, Khatsab agrees to pay them 2 dinar in cash and 5 and five sixth dinar in installments.
- These payment orders were transferred to al-Ḥakīm (אלחכים), the representative of the merchants, who would pay the taxes when he payed the orphans of Moses, enabling the delivery of the goods to Khatsab.
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- Halper, no. 351
- IMHM, no. F38400
- OCLC:
- 249591023
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