[Court document (draft)] : manuscript.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Efraim ben Shemarya, approximately 980-approximately 1060, scribe.
• Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Language:

• Hebrew
• Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

• Witnesses (Jewish law).
• Geonim.
• 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, upper portion of folio, left edge lacking; titular inscription in left margin recto
• Paper 18.1 X 13.2 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: columns: lines: 18 (recto), ? (verso).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection.

Other Title:

• Official declaration
• Charter of the authority of the Gaon of the Erets Israeli Community (draft copy).

Place of Publication:

[Fustat], [publisher not identified], [1020-1047?]

Language Note:

Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Arabic. Hebrew

Notes:

• The hand of the scribe who wrote this document is recognized as that of Ephraim ben Shemaryah, who presided as a court judge in ʻAzza and Fustat. A list of his documents was assembled by E. Bareket, Shafrir Mitsrayim, 1995, p. 257-259.
• See also, above no. 337. He served as the head of the Erets Israeli community of Fustat, in documents between 1020-1047 (see Bareket, ibid., pp. 100-121).
• Two sons of the deceased Naḥman the Doctor (הרופה sic!) from Aleppo declare to the court that they have received from Ephraim the Ḥaver ben [Shemarya], what their father deposited with him.
• In the left margin is a title זכרון עדות, apparently added to the document for the purpose of indexing or filing among court documents. The correction, uneven rule, shorthand abbreviations, and relatively cursive hand, indicate that this is a draft copy.
• On the verso is a different inscription, in Arabic characters, which was also written before the destruction of the folio. This document, probably also a draft, is a charter designating the authority and functions of the court of the Gaonate (here "Rais al-Metivta") of the Erets Israeli Jewish community.
• Comparable to a charter drawn by Ephraim ben Shemarya upon his reappointment in 1028, found in Cambridge TS 13J 7 fol. 25 (published by Goitein, ibid. pp. 84-86). This may have been the primary inscription.
• Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Cited in:

• Halper, no. 354
• IMHM, no. F38400

Publications about:

• Published, with notes, fascsimile and introduction by S. D. Goitein: ha-Yishuv be-Erets-Yiśraʹel be-reshit ha-Islam uvi-teḳufat ha-Tsalbanim le-or kitve ha-Genizah / Shelomoh Dov Goiṭain. Yerushalayim : Yad Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Tsevi, 1980, p. 54.
• Published, with translation, facsimile, and extensive notes, by Goitein, ibid, pp. 56-60; Moshe Gil: Erets Yiśraʹel ba-teḳufat ha-Muslemit ha-rishonah / Mosheh Gil. Tel Aviv : University of Tel Aviv, 1983, v. 2, p. 567-569.

OCLC:

1366218736