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Library at the Katz Center - Genizah Fragments Halper 353
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Court records.
- Sales (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 : fragment, damaged losses from all edges, faded; verso is blank
- Parchment 15.2 X 17.8 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: only left rule is extant; justified by stretching last character columns: lines: 14 extant (recto).
- Contained In:
- Cairo Genizah Collection
- Other Title:
- Official declaration
- Part of a legal declaration
- Place of Publication:
- [Fustat], [publisher not identified], [997?]
- Language Note:
- Hebrew. Hebrew
- Notes:
- A fragment from a document, most of the details are missing. The writer declares that he has sold a quarter of his court which he inherited.
- Mention is made of the Erets Israeli synagogue, probably the one in Fustat that housed the Genizah: במבוי בית הכנסת שלשמיין. The gold coins gained from this sale are to repay a loan, whose time is mentioned as beginning in Ab of the year (Selucid) [1]308 (=997).
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Cited in:
- Halper, no. 353
- IMHM, no. F38400
- OCLC:
- 249590232
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